Month: February, 2010

Catching up

28 February, 2010 (00:52) | Books, Dance! | By: Ian Burdon

OK; so where was I?
As happens every so often, time has no time to spare and before you know it two weeks have gone by and no blogging.
In my last entry I talked about the visit of Snark Rapper to Edinburgh: last Saturday Mons Meg went off to enjoy one of our intermittent trips to [...]

On the Town

14 February, 2010 (19:58) | Uncategorized | By: Ian Burdon

Snark Rapper were in town this weekend and we joined them for a tour down Leith Walk yesterday.  We started out by dancing in alernative pubs (that is Mons Meg in one then Snark in the next) but for the last three we each danced in each pub.
Although there was a novelty for us in [...]

Buzz

11 February, 2010 (23:01) | Uncategorized | By: Ian Burdon

Those of you who use gmail or googlemail will have encountered Buzz and those of you who have found yourselves linked to my Buzz feed will recognise chunks of this blog post!.  It’s very early to say but I am not sure what to make of Buzz. I don’t use Twitter (I did for a [...]

The Ferryman

7 February, 2010 (23:16) | Uncategorized | By: Ian Burdon

Last July I mentioned that I had been in the departure lounge of Edinburgh Airport and had been struck by the futility of the exercise – taking an early flight to London to meet a couple of people and then flying all the way back home again.
I was in the departure lounge again this afternoon, [...]

End of the week

5 February, 2010 (22:59) | Uncategorized | By: Ian Burdon

Just to keep honours even, after the previous set of prints of Amy, here’s one of Lindsay deeply engrossed in something or other.
It’s been a funny week and I’m in a funny mood.   I was sorely tempted by an early retirement offer which came round the office in the past couple of days although when [...]

It’s All There in Black and White

3 February, 2010 (00:37) | Uncategorized | By: Ian Burdon

Meet Amy and Gizmo!
I mentioned a few months ago that I was taking more shots in Black and White on the digital camera.  Just recently I’ve been taking them as TIF images (ie without jpeg compression in the camera).  If the camera was more up to date I’d use raw, but it isn’t so I [...]