Fridgecam

Eek. We have a refrigerator emergency. Although there appears to be content, it is mainly non useful artifacts stealing space. To zoom on the contents, click the picture.

Sainsbury's beckons.

**Stop Press** Fridge partially re-stocked!!

See comments for details!
And do add your own icebox content to the comments!

Tag: fridge

podding

Available since the dawn of digital electronic times, the Pod is a great way to make an electric guitar adopt other voices. You have to use it to understand the different sounds from different amplifiers and speaker cabinets. The Pod 2 is a little red bean providing simulations all of the main amplifier types as well as chorus, flange and other effects. Because it works by twiddling a few controls on the front, it is very easy to operate and doesnt need lots of careful programming to get great sounds. Check out guitargas to witness the systematic examination of all of the effects provided. I connect it to my Fender G-DEC when I have the 'Clean' setting on the G-DEC and use it to create even more effects.

Tag: music, guitar, pod

Which Led Zeppelin song are you?

More guitar playing led me to ramble on to this zeppelin quiz. It shook me, babe, when I read the conclusions, but then its been a long time, and there may have been some communications breakdown.

You Are Fool In The Rain

You are a very bizarre person, to say the least. You don't think the way most other people do. And you probably don't really care.

You defy convention, and probably really like burritos. And you're very content with your life. You're a ray of sunshine. Piercing, bizarre end-of-the-world sunshine, but sunshine nonetheless. While most people do college to be lawyers or accountants or something, you'd be just as happy working at Tippy's Taco Stand in San Dimas, CA.

You probably have a really interesting car. You definitely do not drive a Honda Civic. There's a good chance that you smoke weed. There's a good chance you sell it.

Everybody worth anything likes you a lot.

So which Led Zeppelin song are you, then? I am not sure whether the song remains the same...

Tag: music, guitar, Led Zeppelin, quiz

Folksongs are your friends

In addition to learning to play the guitar, it's useful to check out a few music genres. I've always liked folk songs and so what more natural than to look for a few in C F and G. However, there are a few warnings to deal with in folk songs.

For example, portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who is not currently chatting up a country maid, are always worth heeding as is the advice to avoid navigable waterways.

Don't let yourself be talked into going down by the wild rippling water, the wan water, the salt sea shore, the strand, the lowlands low, the Burning Thames, and any area where the grass grows green on the banks of some pool. The cliffs overlooking navigable waterways aren't safe either.

Broom, as in the plant, should be given a wide berth. Stay away from the greenwood side, too.

A fuller explanation is available from Making Light- Folksongs are your friends.

Tag: Music, Guitar, folksongs

Astronomy Domine

Lime and limpid green
the second scene
the fights between
the blue you once knew
floating down the sound resounds
around the icy waters underground

Jupiter and Saturn,
Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten

Winding signs flap
flicker flicker flicker flack;
Pow wow stairway scare
Dan dare who's there?

Lime and limpid green the sound
surrounds the icy waters on the
lime and limpid green the sound
surrounds the icy waters underground.

Tag: music, pink floyd

Michele sent me

Michele Agnew's site includes a great comment exchange. You post a comment, and get one back. On each comment you post to someone else, you say 'Michele sent me'. At the weekends (Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) you can enter as much as you like, but on other days you can only do it a maximum of once daily.

So - you add a comment to Michele and then comment to the person above you in Michele's blog. Easy Peasy, and fun.

The Needles

Trip to Alum Bay to say Hi to the Needles before heading for the Rex Bar. Then back to the Ferry. A great fun weekend.
Tag: Isle of Wight

Julia Margaret Cameron's Photography

And so to Dimbola Lodge for cream tea and a look at works from one of the great photographic pioneers. The gift of a camera in 1863 sparked an enthusiasm in Julia Margaret Cameron for this new art form. Within a year she had begun to present her friends with albums of her work and was elected a member of the photographic society in London. Dimbola Lodge served as both her home and, more importantly, her studio. It was here that the greatest of the Cameron photographs were made.

From Dimbola Lodge Cameron welcomed - and photographed - the cream of Victorian society. Tennyson, Darwin, Watts and Thackeray lived locally, and guests often included Lewis Carroll, Robert Browning, Holman Hunt, Palgrave, Edward Lear and - as here - the actress Ellen Terry.
Tag: photo, Isle of Wight

a rum conclusion

The evening finished back at Gotten Manor, with a few additional supplies including Mount Gay rum thoughtfully assembled on the table. Earlier we had met Michael and Judy at the Wight Horse and heard all about Michael's new business endeavours.

We'd also found a way to buy beer and legitimately get great free beer glasses to keep and amassed a useful stock in boxes during the evening.

Ventnor

Julie loves the beach at Ventnor.

And who can disagree, on a bright sunny day?

Tag: Isle of Wight

Wight Mouse and Badger

By this time it was around twenty minutes to nine in the evening. Our nearest local pub was the Wight Mouse. In a spring and a bound, we had ordered steak and badger pie, amongst other things. Suffice to say the badger is a local beer!


Tag: Isle of Wight

Gotten Lost

The next stage was to find Gotten Manor. Caroline's instructions were good, but we still had a minor navigational error which left us in a small lane next to a farmhouse. The friendly local farmer smiled as we said we were lost and gave us directions to another improbably small lane around 400 meters away. We bumped our way along this to the point where we thought it had become a footpath and then suddenly the sign for our destination appeared.

A slight problem; Caroline was out. However, we amused ourselves wandering around, listening to the wildlife until some headlights appeared and Caroline showed us to our charming rooms.

The Living Room

A bedroom with cookies.

A view into our breakfast area.