Elegance and timelessness are what spring to mind about black and white photographs. They have a depth of view that colour photographs often don’t convey. Converting colour photographs from colour to black and white digitally can often bring a crispness and brightness to an otherwise dull photograph. So why given all the pluses of black [...]
On damp weekends in the UK on occasion we used to take comfort in one of our favourite home stores. Not only could I salivate over tiles, paints and bathrooms I could dream about owning the Rolls Royce of cookers – an Aga. I fantasised about baking bread, cakes and casseroles. I have to confess [...]
Many of my holiday memories revolve around food. What I ate and drank where linger longer for me that some of the sights we saw. Sometimes it’s the sheer pleasure of dining at leisure or sampling a local delight. A few weeks ago we ventured to replicate one of hour holiday memories inspired by our [...]
Colder than your fridge was the weather warning for the overnight frosts. They were wrong. It was colder than a freezer. The gates were frozen tight and the car completely frosted. No self respecting person lingered outside too long. So imagine my annoyance when the neighbours kept catching my eye as the sun came up [...]
Mason is very much an indoor dog. He’d rather hang around indoors whatever the weather than venture off the veranda and explore. Big Basset prefers to be outdoors always wandering off on his own to check out new smells. But neither bassets are that fond of rain. We managed to get most of the way [...]
I almost broke my neck falling over the bassets who were sprinting with me to fetch my camera. They had no idea why I was running. It’s such a rare occurrence that they were excited and just wanted to run with me. I simply had to grab a snap of the fiery start to one [...]
With the wind howling around the verandas and the rain lashing down it’s hard to remember when the sun beat down on the kitchen garden. Even when we didn’t get much sun this summer I would pick those days over what winter is starting to throw at us right now. Even if I did end [...]
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