Despite the rain it has been warm and I have enjoyed our walks today. It has now started thundering, not seen any lightning yet but it does sound far away.
Sunday morning and it's raining, Horace still gets his walks along the canal side, We took some bread for the ducks and the swans, Been careful not to tread on the hundreds of snails on the path as we walk. On our way we go under a bridge and as we just got under a train went past and I heard a fluttering sound coming from the top of the bridge, so I looked up and saw a load of feathers floating down, It was like a scene in a cartoon when a bird gets shot or something. Poor pigeon. I didn't think of taking a photo until after but here is a picture of the bridge. On our evening walk we fed the swans and we heard a frog in the canal we also saw a heron stood in the weir.
Despite the rain it has been warm and I have enjoyed our walks today. It has now started thundering, not seen any lightning yet but it does sound far away. I have re done the website to incorporate a blog as the first page. I did this because I couldn't think of what to put on the first page. I have also changed the way the pictures are displayed to make it easier for you the viewer and for me to update. Any update will be displayed in the blog and you will be able to navigate to the relevant sections on the right.
Well I just tried out Blogger, What a nightmare that turned out to be.
The editing feature didn't work correctly in Safari so I turned to Firefox, That went ok but adding pictures was a pain and slow, The pictures kept going to the front of the text and not where the cursor was so I had to move them into position. When I eventually got my pictures in the right place and viewed my blog it did look good but I don't want to go through that every time I post. I soon gave up and came back to RapidWeaver. I had to walk Horace today my girlfriend (Louise) has gone to a circus with a friend and her 2 kids. Walking a dog is all new to me, I've always been a dog hater (it was well know amongst my friends and family), I've never had the time for them, Always thought they stunk and shat everywhere, I could never understand why anyone would want a dog, Then I got a girlfriend and she had a dog (Horace), I didn't like him and I wouldn't even touch him, She knew I didn't like dogs so she always called him away. Then one day Louise ended up moving in and the dog had to come with her, It was very strange at first, I didn't like it but I thought he comes with her so I have to give him a chance, 7 months on and I wouldn't be without him now, He is so good and friendly, Having Horace and Louise here has changed me for the better, I get out a lot more than I ever did, Hence the reason for this blog, I thought it would be good to record what we have been up to. Well this is the first time I've attempted to do a blog, Not sure where to start, Do I start with things I did months ago or start with things that are happening from today? I suppose I could start with things today and just put in things that have happened before as I go along. have just started doing a bit of woodturning. Back in February I got a small lathe for about £100 and some tools for about £60. Its a good little lathe capable of making things up to 330mm long by 200mm in diameter, or so I'm led to believe, In reality the tool rest bar gets in the way of the wood at this size so you have to do things at a shorter length, That's not a real problem as me and my girlfriend will be making bowls, dibbers and mushrooms amongst other things. We started off doing mushrooms, here are our first ones as well as my attempt at an egg. Then we had ago at some dibbers... We made a few of these and some more mushrooms so that we could get used to the tools. A few weeks later we went to a wood merchants called John Boddy's in Boroughbridge. We bought some bargain bits of wood and some Banksia nuts, In the picture left you can see the nut before and after I turned it. I then made this little bowl out of the bargain wood, This is my first bowl. I have made another bowl but not got a photo of that yet. |
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