Inspirational Pablo Picasso Quote

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should [...]

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Cancelling hard drive format in Windows

I was formatting a USB external hard drive with NTFS (same thing would apply to FAT I believe). I unchecked quick format which meant it took an age on the large 750GB hard drive, so I thought I would cancel it. The drive was then not recognised my Windows (I am using Windows 7). So [...]

Terry Pratchett Opening the new RICE Building

I have finally had time to upload some of the photos that I took during the official opening of the new building for RICE Mr Sheppard, Chairman of Trustees with his opening speech. Terry talking about RICE: The unveiling of the plaque (most important bit)… The audience… Terry being presented with some gifts from Roy [...]

Keep Britain Tidy

I have started a little photo project as of the other day. My photos for this are basically “interesting” documentary shots of litter/rubbish/trash which has been dropped or otherwise made its way into the world. Oh yeah, also once you are done taking photos, pick it up and bin it if you are able. I [...]

St Agnes Carnival 2008

Spent some of the day in Truro. The clouds didn’t look good for the Carnival in the evening. Some flowers :) Back to St Agnes, I am sure these signs would have confused any visitor! The carnival itself… We decided to go to the field where all the entrants were preparing and being judged. The [...]

Courgettes trying to be Marrows

Camera Phone shot of Mike shooting himself with an oversized Courgette Some shots of the marrow Courgette right before being prepared for cooking: P.S. Thanks to Clive T for the Courgette! …

Sony Ericsson W580i (Insert Sim error)

Over the past few weeks my phone was getting more and more temperamental. It would now-and-again keep locking up then do what looked like a soft restart, then recently it just would not work, it kept saying insert SIM. It took me a little while to realise that the SIM card actually needs to be [...]

Falling off your bike going downhill hurts…

Going down my hill to work, slipped going round corner at about 20mph scrapped right hand (even though I fell onto left side). Smashed face on the floor n cracked almost half of a front tooth off! :’(