Bramble glut

For the last 3 weeks I've been picking the blighters at the rate of half a pound a day (that's an absolute daily minimum, sometimes it's been a pound and a half). I've eaten them raw, added them to yoghurt, made them into jams, jellies and crumbles, frozen them, pickled them in alcohol and vinegar, given them away....I'm running out of ideas. Would a bramble curry work?

Oh, if only they were real!

because I'd buy a pair....and the whole family would know what to expect for Christmas!
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PS...."Kipper Slippers" would work too!

Play BBC TV programmes for longer on iPlayer from 13th September

Good news from the BBC for folks like me that have problems watching programmes at a regular time each week, or even once a week for that matter. From 13th of September programmes available on iPlayer will be 'stacked' (up to a maximum of 13 episodes or for the length of the series) Read the press release here for more details

NB....service only available in the UK, but BBC radio "listen again" is availailable worldwide.

Who are YOU looking at?.......

Build your own papercraft CCTV camera. Download the plans here

Home Truths Archives

Every now and then I get nostalgic for Saturday mornings, a large pot of coffee and Home Truths with John Peel. To cut a long story short, I was looking for a reference to Pottingers Law (possibly more about that later!) when I found there was more than 3 years worth of archived programmes (March 2003 - June 2006) available as 'listen again' here.....so that's this weekend's listening sorted then! I'd post a sample.....but what to choose?

Physics game

Shamelessly lifted from The PRESURFER (take a click!)

"Fantastic Contraption is a fun online physics puzzle game. The objective is to move the pink wheel into the pink square. Your workspace is a blue rectangular building area and you can use different materials to build your device.However, every now and then there are obstacles standing in your way and although at first the game seems easy, it is not! "

I missed the Olympics but....

.....here's the edited highlights, Monty Python style.

Blog alert

Old pictures with new captions at Fengtastic!

Experiment

Soarport offers a free place to host large images (max 10mb) which can be embedded on a website rather like a google map.....apparently you can zoom and pan. This one's a mere 1.5mb to try it out.



Hey....it works, I'm impressed!!

NB...I had difficulties registering, so this one's an anonymous upload (and you need to register to manage your uploads and find them easily, if you're not registered you have to remember the tags you assigned when you uploaded....and my memory being what it is....!)

Time lapse video of slime mold and mushrooms

10 gnomes.....Episode 8:Water Forge

Spot the gnomes.....episode 8

Vintage product placement

Things were a lot simpler in the 40's and 50's.....I love this up-front advertising spiel for Clippercraft Clothes.... they sold them hard at the beginning of the programme then left you alone. Picture of 50's clippercraft coat at left...now it looks well worth the $40 quoted (but if I was a bloke I'd possibly add a pair of trousers to the ensemble), however it will now set you back $125...though no doubt the moths' quarantine charges are included in the shipping costs. Soundclip lasts about 3 mins


But what the hell is a "Tom and Jerry" I wondered...good old Google came up with the cocktail recipe. (you're just going to have to listen to the soundclip to understand the reference!)

Recipe

A fortnight of soft living has piled on the pounds....

.....I'm off to work on my supercilious sneer.
From ModernMechanix

Art Deco Interiors

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

wor::site is 2 today, but......

Early visual media

EARLY VISUAL MEDIA "is an online Media_Museum explaining intriguing and mostly forgotten Early Vintage Visual Media and their history." Worth a click!

Free tiling images....

....and other eyecandy at Patterns of Reflection

Saturday mornings in the 70's

....that's the 1970's not the 18's I hasten to add. Though, as far as I remember, the shop front wasn't a whole lot different from the picture above...the guy behind the counter probably had the same moustache but maybe had shortened his apron and ditched the jacket in favour of a tie-dyed t-shirt. Bullock's the Bakers was conveniently placed at the end of the street (Albany Gdns) on Station Rd....and they still baked their own bread and did a mean bacon sandwich.....so the perfect excuse not to learn the intricacies of the frying pan when there was plastering and hanging of radiators to be done. Long gone and not sure what it is these days, it's not on my way home from the station....but I have a sneaking feeling it's a tattoo parlour.

Very short game (?) interactive artwork

....but quite nice for all that

Somnium Orbis "an exploration of alternative means to progress through a surreal, otherworldly scene." In other words, you must figure out how to progress through each scene of the piece. The gorgeous and mesmerizing (and only slightly disturbing) work of art was created by Nate Horstmann and Peter Schmalfeldt.

Never mind the seaside rock.......

....because in 1896 you could smell like the sea round here. But around the same time there were letters to the self-same newspaper where this advert appeared (Whitley Seaside Chronicle and Visitors Gazette....a riveting read.....no really!) about the disgusting, presumed drain/sewer-related aromas that pervaded the town when the wind was in the wrong direction. Image quality not the best, someone was hogging the decent microfilm reader.