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Canal Boat Trip in tester strips
…of the fun to be had with a pocket full of tester strips on the North Oxford Canal.
Staying at Mel’s
…of a very pretty cat, some of my favourite folk, and the healing powerz of Edinburgh.
22 Gift Bag of Biscuits
…of rules and regulations concerning the complimentary bag of biscuits available on a weekly basis to employees of the Huntley & Palmer Huyton Factory, 1958.
The demise of the Pentax Optio
Readers of this blog will know how much I depend on and love my technology. The Edirol R09 which has been the foundation of my sound-recording practice for 4 years or so now is worn on all the edges; the buttons are smooth; and the complex battery/SD card mechanism at its base has lost some […]
Biscuitopolis & The Mad March Hare…
A couple of Sundays back, the Sticks’n’String knitters plus some Bluestockings came over for a yarn-swap and a tasty feast. The rules were simply that everyone should bring some kind of local fare for the table plus some yarn to swap. Everyone bought amazing things to eat – pies, sausages, cheeses, cakes, chutneys etc. – […]
FUNLIST!
Here’s what’s on my FUNLIST this week; a mostly-ticked off list, which is full of the sounds I need to record whilst here in Wales, staying with Brenda and Tonia and their adorable animals. The sounds relate to the project Brenda talked about in her last podcast; Jasper in Brenda’s knitting basket; keeping busy and […]
Liz’s Hen Do
Mikal, doing some knitting amidst our afternoon tea! I immensely enjoyed organising Liz’s Hen Do. I have never been to a Hen Do before, so I was slightly unsure as to what would be de rigueur. The Internet cafe where I worked in my early twenties was frequently assailed on weekend nights by drunken women […]
What I have been doing online…
…when I haven’t been writing here. 1. Organising a brand new Sonic Advent Calendar for the sound-diaries website. The calendar launched today with a fun recording by Anton Mobin featuring the sounds that are produced by dismantling and twiddling with a musical greetings card. Bugged Posctard, by Anton Mobin, featured on 1st December on the […]
Tantallon
The instant I saw Kate’s amazing hat – Tantallon (Rav pattern link) – I knew I had to make it! When I read the A.D.D. knitter’s post on the subject I am ashamed to admit that I immediately began to badger Kate about when the pattern would be available, when I could begin knitting it, […]
Where October went.
It feels like ages and ages since I wrote here. But really, it’s only been a month. However, it has been a pretty big month. From left to right: Teg, Pops, me, Ferg, Sian, Bam, Ned. Firstly, one of my three brothers – Fergus – got married. I am overjoyed for him and Sian. I […]
The Sonic Tuck Shop Book at SoundFjord – EDITED
On Friday I put the finishing touches on the first 21 editions (of 40) of The Sonic Tuck Shop book. On Saturday, I packed them all into a suitcase along with some other hand-made goodies and made my way to Seven Sisters for the SoundFjord gallery launch, which was taking place in Unit 3b, Studio […]
The time capsule
Last week I received an email from an extremely kind man in Ireland who had found what he termed ‘my art school folio’ at a car boot sale in Dublin. I was flattered to read that he had picked it up thinking he could actually sell some of the drawings in it on ebay, and […]
First phone post…
ETA: it is much harder to blog from the phone than I thought, so itinerant broadcasting creativity will have to be confined to audioboo and posterous for now. Still, I decided to add in the photos and sort out this post from the easy interface of my laptop… much simpler all round and still contains […]
Sonic updates
There is an rss feed which connects ONLY to the sounds in my posts here, so if you read at work or elsewhere where you can’t turn on speakers, and then can’t find the sounds later, you can always subscribe seperately to the RSS feed for this site’s podpress. I will sort out a permalink […]
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