tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82122843323209500112023-11-16T19:38:15.927+13:00365: A Photo A DayA year-long photography challengeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-47451232579336127342012-01-15T12:09:00.001+13:002012-08-05T23:19:54.273+12:00Day 365I made this origami butterfly for today's final shot.<br />
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It's only six weeks until I fly away myself, back home to the UK,
after spending seven years in New Zealand. Although I know it's the right
decision, it's going to be heart-wrenching to leave behind the sweet little
feline soul who's been my constant companion for the last six years, the home
that Iain and I spent over two years building, and all the wonderful friends
I've made since I've lived here.<br />
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This project has
meant so much more to me than simply a way to make myself take more photos. I
started the project in December 2010, around the same time that Iain began the
affair with the colleague he would eventually leave me for. Of course, I didn't
know this at the time, but looking back now, I realise that one of the main
reasons I started the project was because I was feeling lonely. I was stuck out
in the middle of nowhere on my own, without a car, and starved of attention
from a husband who was 'working' longer and longer hours. Keeping a daily blog
was a way of connecting with other people. And I'm so glad I did, because I got
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If you've ever
visited this blog before, I'd like to say 'thank you'. If you've ever commented
on one of my posts, then thanks a million. If you're a regular commenter, well,
what can I say? I honestly couldn't have made it through the last thirteen
months without you. I mean it. You're friggin' awesome! :-)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love from Helen x<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-55783454280108358942012-01-14T15:05:00.000+13:002012-01-14T15:05:02.925+13:00Day 364 & Retrospective: tilt shiftMy neighbours put some calves on my land a couple of days ago. It's nice to have some bovine company again.<br />
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Today's retrospective is tilt shift shots. All the shots below are my own work, and I gave them the tilt shift treatment during my 365 project, but only one of the originals was taken during the project. I'm sure I don't need to tell you which one!<br />
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Miniature Colosseum<br />
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Miniature wool shed<br />
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Miniature San Gimignano<br />
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Miniature St. Mark's Square, Venice<br />
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Miniature Wellington cable car<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-71859921175016989552012-01-13T17:20:00.000+13:002012-01-13T17:22:17.676+13:00Day 363 & Retrospective: peopleI'll let you into a little secret: today's shot is a bit of a cheat. I took it yesterday, but I didn't get round to processing it until today. I've been so snowed under today with work and organising my move, that I've not managed to find the time to go out for a photo shoot.<br />
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There's a traditional Māori proverb that goes:<br />
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<i>He aha te mea nui o te ao? </i><i>He tangata! </i><i>He tangata! He tangata!</i></blockquote>
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I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment, but so far my photography hasn't reflected it. Taking photos of people is scary. If you don't know the person it feels uncomfortable, and it can be just as awkward if you do know the person. After all, no-one wants to annoy their friends by constantly snapping away. Most people don't particularly like having their photo taken. Of course, it's different if someone wants you to take their portrait, but that's not happened to me yet!<br />
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Inevitably, quite a few of the 'people' shots I took during this project feature Iain. It's painful to see a photograph of him, but it would be even more painful for me to deliberately ignore the shots I've taken of him, as if he was never a part of my life.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-11925022803816720672012-01-12T21:16:00.002+13:002012-01-12T21:17:09.772+13:00Day 362 & Retrospective: abstractI've got two shots from today.<br />
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This one is of an agapanthus flower, whose flowerlets are just about to open. What initially attracted me to these flowers was their gorgeous blue colour, and yet I think this shot works best in black and white.<br />
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Some Californian thistles. They're a really troublesome weed, but their flowers are such a lovely colour.<br />
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For today's retrospective I've chosen abstract shots. I've not taken many of them during this project, but I do like abstract art, so perhaps I should start experimenting with them more.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-28022292513962499192012-01-11T17:31:00.001+13:002012-01-11T17:34:42.599+13:00Day 361 & Retrospective: ScullyWonderful news: the contract on the house became unconditional today. The settlement date is set for six weeks' time. I can't tell you how relieved I feel. Such a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders, I'm sure that if I went outside right now, I'd float away like a helium balloon.<br />
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I've decided to take a leisurely route back to the UK, via San Francisco and New York (two cities which I've always wanted to visit, but never have). As I'm going to be spending a lot of money travelling halfway across the world, I figured I might as well see something of it, apart from just the interior of airports. I'm really excited about my upcoming trip. I haven't been on holiday in over four years, so I reckon it's about time I did!<br />
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With today's shot I was trying to create the look of a watercolour painting. I think I may have overdone it with the bright purple, but what the heck!</div>
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I've chosen my 'pet' sheep's skull, Scully, for today's retrospective. Scully is currently lost somewhere at the back of my extremely full shed, which is why I've not taken a photo of her for a while, but I'll be taking her with me when I leave. She'll be a very fitting memento of my time living in the middle of a field.</div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-78378273635511595332012-01-10T13:33:00.001+13:002012-01-10T13:34:14.621+13:00Day 360 & Retrospective: selective colourI spotted this weird little mini rainbow this morning. I'm not sure where the rest of it was!<br />
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I've chosen selective colour for today's retrospective. To people who know about photography, selective colour is the cheesiest of cheesy techniques, but I'm still clueless enough to think it's pretty cool. :-)<br />
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I'm keeping three daily blogs going at the moment, which is a bit of challenge, particularly with my current heavy work load, so my posts this week won't be very wordy. But I will definitely try to write something a bit longer for Day 365.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-78536850060477596632012-01-09T21:41:00.001+13:002012-01-09T21:41:59.567+13:00Day 359 & Retrospective: land and skyI've been incredibly busy today, and I did today's photo shoot in the middle of cooking the evening meal, which is not the smartest idea, and is probably one of the reasons why the finished shot is not very good. The others are poor lighting and not having a macro lens. It's a shot I'll definitely try again if I ever upgrade my kit.<br />
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Today's retrospective is land and sky. Here are my favourite landscape and skyscape shots that haven't already featured in a retrospective.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-73112222544081174442012-01-08T18:12:00.000+13:002012-01-08T18:12:52.131+13:00Day 358 & Retrospective: silhouettesWhat a wet weekend it's been! It's poured down all day today. I've even had to put the heat pump on, and it's the middle of summer.<br />
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Limited to doing a photo shoot inside, I looked around for an interesting subject to photograph, and was just giving up when I happened to look down and spotted my purple tights. I love wearing them with my new red shoes. I know people say that red and purple clash, but I think they look great together!<br />
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For this shot I reused the texture from Sharon at <a href="http://skcphotos.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SKC photography</a> that I used on the Gerbera last week, but it's produced a very different effect, because I used a different blend mode and added a vignette.<br />
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I've chosen silhouettes for today's retrospective. I'll admit to having a bit of a thing for silhouettes, and these shots are some of my favourites from the whole project.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-29767869707469109372012-01-07T19:20:00.001+13:002012-01-07T19:29:36.846+13:00Day 357 & Retrospective: flowersToday's photo was inspired by the 'small stone' I wrote this morning for the River of Stones project:<br />
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I step on the bathroom scales. The electronic display reads 0.0 kg. Note to self: Must work on becoming more grounded.</blockquote>
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The subject of today's retrospective is flowers. I've taken a lot of flower shots during this project, and I'm gradually getting better at them, but I haven't produced many that I'm really happy with. The ones below come closest.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-82297635265187101202012-01-06T14:52:00.000+13:002012-01-06T14:52:28.321+13:00Day 356 & Retrospective: black and whiteOnly nine more days to go...oh my!<br />
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Here's today's shot: the dilapidated fence at the back of my property. This is actually one of its more intact sections.<br />
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When Iain and I first moved in we talked to the neighbours who share that particular boundary with us about getting the fence fixed. We offered to sort out getting the fencing contractors in, if the neighbours would agree to go halves with us on the cost. They refused. 'There's another twenty years left in that fence yet!' they said. Very soon (hopefully), it will be Somebody Else's Problem.<br />
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And so to today's retrospective: black and white. There's a whole art to black and white photography which I've not even begun to explore yet. There's some intangible way in which a black and white image that's been created from a colour image isn't quite the same as an image that has only ever been monochrome. Maybe it's as simple as the difference between film and digital. Anyway, I'm rambling. On with the pics!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-32217744382637207192012-01-05T19:45:00.003+13:002012-01-05T19:45:52.044+13:00Day 355 & Retrospective: still lifeThis morning I spotted these two insects copulating on the ceiling of my veranda. They stayed like this for at least half an hour, perfectly immobile. They couldn't have been having much fun!<br />
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As I've not got any other shots of insects having sex -- ;-) -- today's retrospective will have to be on another subject. I've chosen still life. I find still life shots very challenging to take; I don't know why. I've been less than happy with most of the still life shots I've taken during this project, so I was pleasantly surprised when I found quite a few of them that were good enough to include here.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-72257498365436399372012-01-04T08:30:00.000+13:002012-01-04T19:43:55.261+13:00Day 354 & Retrospective: self portraitsI don't often have a lie in, but when I woke up this morning I felt like staying in bed for a while, so I did. I keep my iPhone on the bedside table at night to use as an alarm clock, so I decided to play around with Hipstamatic and record my decadence.<br />
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I suppose today's shot counts as a self portrait, and as I haven't done a self portrait retrospective yet, here goes. These are my favourite selfies from the project.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-43456119530837561372012-01-03T15:37:00.002+13:002012-01-03T15:37:57.809+13:00Day 353 & Retrospective: iPhoneThe house needed brightening up, so when I went to check the mailbox I picked some wild flowers from the verge.<br />
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The subject of the retrospective won't always match the category of the day's new photo, but today's retrospective, as it happens, is of my favourite iPhone shots. Which do you like the most?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-71001154893420416332012-01-02T13:05:00.001+13:002012-01-03T07:18:12.333+13:00Day 352 & Retrospective: animalsI've only got a fortnight to go now on this project, and I thought it might be interesting to do a series of retrospectives, looking at some of my favourite shots over the course of the project in different categories.<br />
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Here's today's shot: the family of martins seem to hang around the house a lot when the weather's wet. I should imagine there are fewer insects in the air when it's raining, so maybe the martins spend less time on the wing, feeding.<br />
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Here are my favourite animal shots from the project:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-71538996311859659242012-01-01T20:17:00.001+13:002012-01-01T20:17:35.605+13:00Day 351<div style="text-align: center;">
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The weather has been so dark and wet today, I wasn't able to get outside for a photo shoot. So I stayed indoors and played with my food instead.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-2359716374944210762011-12-31T21:29:00.003+13:002011-12-31T21:29:59.445+13:00Top pic(k)s for DecemberGood grief - it's the end of December already! Here are my five favourite photos from this month. Which do you reckon is the best? Please take a couple of seconds to vote for your favourite in the poll in the sidebar. Thanks!<div>
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2. Gerbera<br />
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One of my friends, Kirsty, is planning on starting a photo-a-day project in the New Year, and she asked me for some tips. I think this blog is probably the best place to share them, as some of you lot might be considering starting a similar project. If you do, let me know, and I'll follow you and cheer you on. Anyway, here are the tips I've come up with.<br />
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<b>Have a clear idea about what you want to get out of the project.</b><br />
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When I started I had two main intentions: to take up photography as a regular hobby instead of just dabbling at it occasionally, and to develop my technical skills. You may have very different intentions to mine - you may want to chronicle a year in your life, or use your photography as part of a mindfulness practice, or explore a particular subject, or develop a signature artistic style. But as long as you understand why you're embarking on the project, you'll always have a sense of purpose driving you on, and you'll have a greater sense of satisfaction at the end of the project, because you'll have achieved a goal you set for yourself.<br />
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<b>Accept that you will encounter difficulties.</b><br />
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Some days you won't feel like touching your camera at all. Some days you won't be able to find a single subject that interests you. Some days you'll have great fun taking loads of shots and none of them will be any good. Some days you'll have a particular end result in mind and you'll feel frustrated because you can't create an image that's even remotely close to what you can see in your mind's eye. Some days real life will get in the way and make your project seem like the silliest, most unimportant thing you could possibly be doing. Don't sweat it. Experiencing these difficulties and then figuring out a way to work through them is all part of what makes the project so exciting and rewarding. So just do your best and hang on in there, and you'll be fine.<br />
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<b>Don't panic if you miss a day. </b><br />
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I know, I know - we'd all like to achieve the 'perfect score' - completing a 365 project in 365 days, but if you accept at the start that this is an unrealistic expectation, then you'll cope better on those days when life conspires to make you miss making that blog post. If you panic about missing a day, you're way more likely to give up on the project before you've completed it, than if you learn to take missed days in your stride. By the time I finish my project it will have taken me over 13 months, but if I hadn't given myself leeway over the timing, I'd have become disheartened and would never have finished it.<br />
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<b>Take a camera with you everywhere.</b><br />
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Some of the best shots are not planned, but come from unexpected situations. I know it's a cliche, but it's true. So if you want to take advantage of what life throws your way, it's important to have a camera with you at all times, even if it's just a camera phone.<br />
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<b>Tell EVERYBODY about your project. </b><br />
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The more people who know about your project, the more people there will be who will take an interest in it, and the more impetus you will have to keep the project going. Just knowing that there are other people apart from yourself looking at your photos makes you want to raise your game, and gives you a sense of obligation about making that daily blog post. And on difficult days, that sense of obligation may be the only thing that keeps you going! Also, people are amazingly generous, and will offer you support, advice and feedback -- all of which are essential food for the artist's soul!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-53286956750973635252011-12-30T10:47:00.000+13:002011-12-30T16:58:37.245+13:00Day 349As this project winds to a close, I feel like it's time to push the envelope, and do something brave.<br />
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I have a scoliosis (curvature of the spine). It's not a severe one, but it gives me constant discomfort. It's the reason why I took up yoga twelve years ago, and one of the many, many reasons why I'll continue to have a daily yoga practice for the rest of my life.<br />
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I was diagnosed with scoliosis thirty years ago, but I've never looked at my back in all that time, so I thought it was time to confront the truth by taking a photograph.<br />
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Finally acknowledging the truth of what my back looks like felt like enough medicine for one day, so I decided to help the medicine go down with a spoonful of sugar. So I created a 'kinder' shot of my back. I'm not sure whether it's my way of telling my back 'It's okay, I love you really', or whether it's simply a way of massaging my ego. If I'm being honest, I think it's more of the latter than the former.<br />
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I put the 'vase' on the kitchen counter, as it provides a plain, close-to-white background. I set up the camera on the tripod with my 50 mm lens and used a reflector to bounce daylight from the window onto the flower. I then took a series of identical shots with varying apertures. I liked the depth of focus that I got with f/7.1 best. I did most of the processing in Photoshop, adjusting brightness, contrast, levels, curves, hue/saturation, and then applying an unsharp mask. Finally I added a texture layer and played around with blend modes, opacity and fill until I got a result I liked. The texture is a freebie created by Sharon Collins at SKC Photography. See the link to her site in my blog roll in the side bar.<br />
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I restarted work yesterday after the Christmas break. I've got a new contract to write two two-hundred page maths books. I'm aiming to get them both finished before the end of February, so that I can take a leisurely route home when I go back to the UK. It seems like a wasted opportunity to travel across half the globe and not see anything apart from the interior of airports! So I'm going to be pretty busy over the next couple of months. Not the best time to take on a commitment to *three* daily blogs! 'Cos that's what I'll be doing during the first fortnight in January. I'll have this blog, which will be in its final two weeks, I've got my new Ryan Gosling Hey Girl blog that I want to keep going because I'm having so much fun doing it, and I'm also going to be starting a River of Stones blog. Phew! Wish me luck!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-70795111310743936612011-12-28T13:36:00.001+13:002011-12-28T13:36:44.731+13:00Day 347<div>
Meet Marty. Or it might be Martine, Martin, Martina or Marta. Marty and his family know how to stretch my zoom lens to its limits. In this way they're good at teaching the lesson of being content with what you've got. (They're good at teaching it, but I'm not so good at learning it!)</div>
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Those of you who've been following this blog for a while will know that this is my first Christmas on my own since my husband left me. In fact, it's the first Christmas I've ever spent away from family. I was dreading getting through today, but I needn't have worried; I had a really enjoyable time. I spent this morning doing yoga and surfing (the internet, not the ocean), and then I went to a friend's house in town for lunch. There were sixteen of us, including five children, and after lunch we went into the garden and had a water fight using water pistols, sponges, buckets and hoses. We all got soaked to the skin. Luckily, I'd been forewarned, and had taken a change of clothes. This evening I went round to a neighbour's house for the evening meal. Both hostesses are excellent cooks, so the food was top-notch. I've got a lot be thankful for in my gratitude practice tonight!<br />
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Yesterday I started another blog. Amy, one of my Facebook friends, has been posting links to a load of Ryan Gosling 'Hey Girl' blogs, and like her, I found them very funny. If you haven't come across the phenomenon yet (and I hadn't until Amy started posting her links), then try googling 'ryan gosling hey girl internet meme'. Heck, not only had I not heard of the phenomenon, but I hadn't even heard of Ryan Gosling! I'm just some old fart who lives in the back of beyond in a country on the other side of the world, and who doesn't own a television. Anyway, I decided to start my own 'Hey girl' blog, and I've had immense amounts of fun and wasted inordinate amounts of time creating the mash-ups. I realise that this is behaviour more appropriate for a teenager than a mature woman, but frankly, I don't give a damn. No doubt Freud would have made much of its significance, and I'd probably have to agree with him. It's amazing what four months without sex can do to a normally sane woman. In another couple of months' time I'll be baying at the moon and sprouting hair on the back of my hands, so I'd better make the most of my lucidity before it's gone. ;-)<br />
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I'm an ex-teacher, so naturally, my blog is called 'Ryan Gosling, Teaching Assistant'. Please indulge me and check it out. Thanks, girl! Here's the link: <a href="http://ryangoslingteachingassistant.blogspot.com/">http://ryangoslingteachingassistant.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212284332320950011.post-41577796011577291572011-12-23T15:30:00.003+13:002011-12-23T15:30:52.600+13:00Day 342This morning I spotted a spider hanging by a thread from the veranda roof. She was hauling herself upwards, grabbing onto the taut thread above her with two of her front legs, and holding onto the loose thread with a couple of her back legs.<br />
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I'm delighted to have got a shot this good with my mediocre kit lens. I'm looking forward to playing around with that macro lens I'm going to buy once the house sale has gone through! :-)<br />
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