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Wrist rest is bost!

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14°C, clouds.

Bost:
Actually it’s not, but it was- I fixed it about an hour ago. I like the sound of that Brummie word, it deserves wider use. In comparison to its origin, it is more omomatoepeic.
*Thinks* that doesn’t look rightly spelt.
 

Finches

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15°C, rain then

Cycling: 61 miles. rain on & off but light. Finches, a buzzard and maybe a kestrel today. Spring is very very late this year.
Otherwise a web-designing day for school.

Mostly harmless

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15°C, damn thermometer isn’t working,

England is….
It comes from the Rough guide
as does:"overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex-and-celebrity obsessed television addicts"
Don’t know about the alopop…but 25% of UK children are overweight. The rest seems right, including all the nice stuff they said about us. Why Stonehenge gets so much attention I don’t know. I don’t think anyone who’s visited the place can fail to be at least a bit dissappointed. I am uncomfortable about English people being judged on londoners- surely the most unfriendly community in the world.

Cherie’s hair

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Here is a picture of hair that cost £7,700 a month,(read the link).

 
The Labour Party’s justification:
"So what?..we won the election."
OK so let’s play a wordgame, I’ll start off with
Decadent, corrupt, self-indulgent, wasteful, conceited, vain.
your turn…

Nightwork rail

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13.4°( the thermometer is stuck again), rain.

Network rail are keeping us awake at night. They start work on the line at about 11.30, and run a machine on the tracks that runs a noisy desiel engine in a train thing. It moves up and down the track in a pendulum motion, each time tichanges direction it enits a double blast of a horn. this goes on for hour after hour all night.
I’m tired of it now, but apparently they are doing this for a further month. Night after night.
Anyway- saw some interesting sculptures in Birmingham art gallery today. They are old, but back in those days no-one was ashamed of skill in making things.
Finally…

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I love the soulders in that last one. Hmm. I wonder what I can do with that….
*wanders off thinking*

Going to try…

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rain, 13°C

Flash: should be good to make an online software tutorial. Not sure how to set it up, but it’s worth a try.
more later…
 
 
…later   it’s taken a while, but I have a workable slide show ready, which just needs captions adding. the image quality seems poor as Flash converts bitmaps to jpegs, set with enough compressoin makes for obvious Jpeg artifacts.
 
Below is a scan of a demonstration picture I did in-class for a year 10 lesson. I decided to keep this one because often they are rather rough and incomplete. It was finished off after the grou phad gone.
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Videos online

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13°C, clouds- mostly

More cycling today.
Photobucket: have made a massive upgrade to their free accounts. It’s shot up from the origonal 25Mb to 1 gigabyte. Aaannnnd, it will accept video now. the video clips are converted to the Flash format ( *.flv). I suppose it’s a shrewd marketing move on their part, they can sell DVD compilations to users.
Nevermind, I can still make use of it to side-step my own isp’s refusal to provide more web-space. shame on you Claranet.

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Hamstrung tight

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13°C, +

Ouch: my hamstrings hurt. They have toghtened up and gone all achey. It’ll be Ok if I do lots of toe touching (mine that is). It’s Sunday, so as any past visitors will know, it’s cycling-day. Only did 56 miles today but that’s on top of quite a cumilative distance last week. Holidays are good aren’t they? Good times are upon us: I have a new camera- which I’m still excited about. It’s now got enough internal memory to store 6,375 pictures if they are really tiny ones.
thanks to PicStop.
Walrus: Opened up an old model to add a few finisheing ddetails to the 3D. It’s about ready for mapping and texturing. As I’ve said before, this plane was designed by Mitchell – the same bloke who did the Spitfire for Supermarine. It’s a more recent design that the Spit’. but has a canopy that looks like it’s from a holiday caravan.

“in the shed”

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8+°C, clearing & light winds.
Dog trouble: Rosie is a dog that barks a lot; it’s loud too. She likes to bark at the nieghbour’s cat the most, it’s so exciting that she jumps up at the window while making that terrible racket. She has the technique of opening the door to the living room making it hard th keep her out of there, the room where she barks most. She thinks that barking at that cat is the best fun you have have with your coat on.
We’ve tried many things to restrain her, the latest being "to the shed!". That is shut her in the outside loo for five minutes then let her out. She always comes out looking a bit sheepish- which, if you had a poodle you’d understand.
I wonder though, what she thinks when I go to that loo and shut myself in. Does she roll her eyes while I’m in there?

A long hungry wait

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10°C

Eat out at a restaurant last night; Joe Delucci’s in Lichfield. Our table was booked for 20.15 for 12 of us celebrating a friend’s birthday. We placed out orders at about 20.40. The starter arrived an hour later, though it was delicious. The main course was another hour after that. By then I was dizzy with hunger, when it did arrive I had to ask for cutlery a few times before I got it and was so hungry I started eating risotto with a steak knife.
We coluld have gone over the road to a pizza takaway while we waited,  eaten and digested that without spoiling my apetite for the sit-down meal.
 
Never again.