Hello.

Well, this is the first time you've heard from me this year. So let me start by wishing you all a blessed 2010. Actually, I should probably wish you a belated Happy Christmas too.

I'm still alive, obviously.

Sorry for being such an irregular blogger. I keep resolving to do better but... that takes time and time is something which I seem to be in short supply of these days. I know I've said this ohh so many times before but I really am going to try a little harder now. I forgive you if you don't believe me. But watch this space!

So, tell me, how are you? Leave me a comment and say hi!

My Mary Poppins Bag

I recently did a project on bags. As part of my experimenting, my younger brother and I had some fun making a sequence of images showing him pulling a lamp out of my bag, a lamp which was in fact far too big to fit in the bag. Mary Poppins was the inspiration, obviously! Anyone want to guess how we did it?

Look on the Sun of Righteousness

"He who gazes long at the sun becomes unsusceptible of impressions from inferior luminaries; and he who looks much at the Sun of Righteousness will be little affected by any alluring object which the world can exhibit"

Octavius Winslow, Spiritual Life

Early Hearing Aids

Sorry, my blog really has been neglected these past couple of months! I have a few weeks holiday at the moment though so hopefully I'll get round to sharing a few things with you.

I found something interesting today I thought you may like to see. These acoustic listening devices were developed for the Dutch army as part of air defence systems research between World Wars 1 and 2.

Aren't they cool?


More here.

Animals on the Underground

Click here - this is fun

For those of you who aren't from the UK, it's based on the London underground rail network.

My Wordle

I stole this idea from Tori's blog. Below you can see a word cloud of my recent blog posts.


Create your own here: www.wordle.net

Oooh I love words! And maybe I'm just weird but I get a warm, fuzzy feeling when I see words in beautiful, colourful clouds like this.

Loafers

Genius or what?

Buy yours here: http://www.dadadastudio.eu/shop/?i=41

Yep, it's a load of dead flies.

But wow, what a genius idea. These images were created by Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr. And I love them!

("Horni... I need to sneeze!")