August 2010

Chunky Monkey

Friday, 20 August 2010

I don’t receive many presents (awww) but when I do, they’re memorable, Sometimes quite literally. Yesterday I was given a small box of sweets that whisked me back to my childhood. They’re the pineapple chunks that I’ve posed in a jar on the left. Fifty years ago they were a treat from Mrs Taylor’s toffee [...]

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E is for Elephant

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Here is a photo of an elephant in our garden. I’ve cheated by knocking back the colour to make it less like grass and more savannah-like, but I’m kidding no-one. The elephant statue actually stands about six inches tall and belongs to my son. I’m not sure where it was made, possibly China, but whoever [...]

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Fat Chance

Saturday, 14 August 2010

Phone-in producers are usually scratching around for subject matter at this time of year — the silly season. You only have to have listened to the amount of airtime to the ‘controversy’ over Fabio Capello’s pronouncement that David Beckham’s England days are over. The latter’s absence from the World Cup squad was a bit of [...]

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D is for Duck

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Or rather the ducks plural that gave the town of Dukinfield its name and where I grew up, or as grown up as I’ve ever managed to get. Dukinfield means the ‘open land of the ducks‘ from the Old English duce and feld. There is another theory that it translates as ‘field of the raven‘ [...]

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Widgets, Plugins and Headers

Monday, 9 August 2010

The reason I’ve been very quiet lately is because I’ve been up to my eyes with my new work website. I use Artisteer to create the basis for the theme and the first version of their WordPress 3.0 upgrade was released on Friday. It’s very good, but the file structure is very different to the [...]

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Extreme Behaviour

Thursday, 5 August 2010

There was an article in the Sunday Times about the increasing reluctance of insurance companies to provide cover for people enjoying extreme sports. I haven’t provided a link because you have to pay to subscribe these days. The gist of it was that more and more people are looking for thrills in more and more [...]

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C is for Cos

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Which is a bit of a cheat as it is generally spelt with a K not a C. But the Greek island of Kos can be spelt Cos, as in Cos Lettuce, and it gives me an excuse to showcase a Cincopa collection of ‘C is for’ photos taken there or thereabouts. Click any image [...]

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Like Lazarus

Monday, 2 August 2010

I had quite a scare at the weekend when my blog first disappeared and then appeared again, but as a back to step one, “Hello World” WordPress site. For quite some time it looked as if I might have lost seven year’s worth of posts down the digital drain. It started with an invitation on [...]

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