Month: August 2016

• August 25, 2016

  Grandma’s Blackberry Jam Recipe

  So I made blackberry jam, and I canned it, which I’ll talk more about at the bottom of this post. Here’s the recipe I used (it was very simple). This is a standard jam recipe but it’s vegan and gluten free: 1. Go pick some blackberries. I got 300g. Blackberries grow wild on brambles. 2. […]
• August 23, 2016

  Oops Button: Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare.

  This is for the weekly photo challenge: Rare So I found this actual key on a keyboard from an old computer at the Jim Austin Collection: Let me know if you’ve ever seen this before or worked with a keyboard like this; I’d love to know more about it!!
• August 17, 2016

  First harvest of the summer

  I just had a stressful 4-day visit from the housework police in-laws (mother-in-law’s line of questioning included such gems as “why don’t you knock a wall down between your toilet and your kitchen?” and “why did you do an archaeology degree?” and “can I rip out all the brambles, you don’t want those brambles!” oh, and my favorite, […]
• August 15, 2016

  How to shoot photos indoors

    “John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.” – Joe McNally, The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World’s Top Shooters As part of my ongoing series about photography, I wanted to talk about how to take […]
• August 13, 2016

  What happens after a publisher accepts your work?

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• August 9, 2016

  This is Flystrike in Rabbits (graphic content)

  

  This article is about how one of our rabbits got the worst case of flystrike our vet had ever seen. Last night, about half an hour after I posted my last article, I got called outside by my husband. One of our rabbits, Sebastian, was lying on his side in his run, his eyes looked […]
• August 6, 2016

  York’s Computer Museum

  When people say “best kept secret” they usually mean “tourist hotspot,” but the computer museum (called The Jim Austin Computer Collection, or the Computer Sheds) in Fimber, about 40 minutes out of York, is York’s best kept secret, and it’s anything but busy. In fact, we should keep it between you and I. I would […]
• August 4, 2016

  Why you shouldn’t wash wheat packs

  Do you use wheat packs?  I got introduced to them a few years ago and I love them! I microwave them, they get warm, it’s a nice way to calm aching muscles or something to snuggle when I’m lonely. I also like using them to open up my pores to clean my face out before I use a […]
• August 2, 2016

  I lost my password!!!

  So my old laptop was being held together by Sellotape (colourless, sticky on one side, plastic on the other) for quite a while, after it fell in half a few months ago, and towards the end of last week, my Dearest got an amazing four figure tax refund, and since my income all comes from […]