Monthly Archives: March 2010

Some of you might know that we had the garden revamped last year. On of the problems of having a garden designer in is that the plants are all new and so tend to be on the small side. They are also planted with the next five years in mind rather t… Continue reading →

Well I think I have done it – I have selected the four prints I am going to submit to the RPS International Print Exhibition. (well almost – I will sleep on it and see how I feel in the morning.) They are the strongest set I have ever submitted – … Continue reading →

I’m on line at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guthlac http://simonmarchini.blogspot.com http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk I hope you enjoy Continue reading →

With apologise to Rogers and Hammerstein it is a lovely morning. I have finally shaken my bug off and feel in full fettle and raring to go – but go where? well I was going to visit the Simon Roberts exhibition at Bradford with my friend David, but… Continue reading →

Day 6 of the stomach bug/virus/generally yuck feeling. I have now got a sore throat and so have resorted to taking Benylin cough medicine. I have to say I really didn’t realise that these things were so appealing. In truth I feel fine in myself bu… Continue reading →

So all yesterday wasn’t spent watching zombie movies – no I actually managed to do a little photography. I caught these two stock doves in the garden. Of the Columbidae that visit our garden these are the prettiest. Now I now this is a hopeless an… Continue reading →

Well I am going to patent this as the therapy that works. The way to get over a stomach bug Watch Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead. Simply the best.It doesn’t matter that in virtually every point that matters they are the same movie – they are jus… Continue reading →

A damp a drizzly day outside so what to do with myself? Well catch up on work that I have put on the back burner for the past few days since my virus/stomach/cold episode. So I have started to print out this years submission for the RPS Internatio… Continue reading →

Well I had root canal work done yesterday on a touch and it appears to have gone very well. The only problem was that I was still suffering from my stomach upset which has made me feel quite weak. However, I seem to be on the mend from both. Simon… Continue reading →

To people of a certain age the babel fish is one of the many wonderful inventions of Douglas Adams to a younger generation it probably is the service that you use to translate different languages. In computing the device driver is a the babel fish… Continue reading →