easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in inspiration on May 3rd, 2012
This is everything I uploaded to Tumblr in April. You can see the archive in more detail, here. Sometimes Tumblr takes me by surprise. I use the queue functionality to collect images that I like, and then allow the site to automatically post a certain number of images each day. This means that I never [...]
Posted in inspiration, nature on May 1st, 2012
Yay, my shiny new Conker shoes have arrived! They were delivered on Friday, while I was out at work. Paul very kindly went to pick them up from the sorting office for me while I was out at work on Saturday. He was somewhat startled to find that the postman knew me, and was not [...]
Posted in bags, culture, inspiration, shopping on Apr 18th, 2012
Posted in inspiration, photos, shoes, shopping on Apr 16th, 2012
It was a beautiful sunny morning, so I thought I’d go for a little walk and see what I could find. Flashes of gold were everywhere! This Darwin Barberry was covered with the most amazing flowers… …as was this Kerria Japonica. The primroses outside the church were beautiful… …and I found a peacock butterfly having [...]
Posted in exhibitions, inspiration, museums, nature on Mar 7th, 2012
Somebody at the Grant Museum of Zoology definitely has a sense of humour. These four skeletons are perfectly placed to watch over the whole museum from their vantage point in the first floor gallery! Those of a sensitive disposition should probably look away now, because the Grant Museum is filled with skeletons and things in jars. [...]
Posted in costume, inspiration on Feb 24th, 2012
Which reminds me, I must get on with editing all of my photos!
Posted in inspiration on Jan 5th, 2012
Happy New Year! Very much a work in progress at the moment, but there are a few things that I want to resolve for the New Year: 1) Stop Messing With My Hair As you can see, at the beginning of last month I shaved off all my hair down to a grade 8, [...]
Posted in culture, inspiration on Dec 30th, 2011
Somewhat unexpectedly, this was one of my Christmas presents this year. A box set of all eleven Doctor Who figures. They were held into their TARDIS-shaped box (it had doors! with velcro!) with forty-four little twisty ties, which gave me plenty of time to contemplate the little Doctors as I was wrestling them out of [...]
Posted in inspiration, writing on Dec 19th, 2011
Talent is what they say you have after the novel is published and favorably reviewed. Beforehand what you have is a tedious delusion, a hobby like knitting. Work is what you have done after the play is produced and the audience claps. Before that friends keep asking when you are planning to go out and [...]
Posted in inspiration, museums, nature, photos, volunteering on Oct 13th, 2011
Four corvid skulls, waiting to be put away in a little box. The skulls had been part of a temporary exhibition to illustrate the functionality of differing beak shapes in various species of bird. It was an absolute joy to get out the boxes of bird skulls again, and to have another little look through [...]