Feeling Polaroid
My new favourite app for the iPhone is ShakeItPhoto which allows you to turn your photos into splendidly crappy and brilliantly retro Polaroid images. I mean, look at these (click for bigger images at Picasa):
Aren’t they cool. You can convert images already on your iPhone or, more likely, you [...]
Christmas Past
As the wind hurls its more miserable and wetter brother, the rain, against my attic windows, I sit and consider the Christmas season just passed. All in all, it wasn’t too bad.
A rather splendid Christmas dinner at my in-laws began the Christmas Waist Expansion in earnest. Over the next few days, much beer was consumed [...]
Delicious? Darn tootin’, it’s delicious
Last week, I made some chutney. Just a simple type of affair with some red peppers and a bundle of chillies and stuff. It was the first time I made it but I was pretty sure I’d like it. Stewed it up in a big pot and dipped in with a spoon every now and [...]
Amélie
How truly beautiful is this film? Just found it again, showing on one of the C/E/More 4’s. There are not enough good things to say about it. I believe there are those that dislike the film. I can only assume they are morons.
How truly beautiful is Audrey Tautou as Amélie? All innocence and prurient [...]
Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and debase my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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