Author Archives: Guthlac

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About Guthlac

An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can

Always remember to bring the weather

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Guthlac

There is an old joke about the weather in northern Scotland – if don’t like what you’ve got then wait five minutes and it will change …(of something like that).   I guess that applies to me at the moment. … Continue reading →

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Blowing Shannon’s JPEG

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Guthlac

‘…Once more unto the halftone breach my friend’s once more…’as Shakespeare would have written – well at least in my mind.   I have found an interesting side effect of this – it blows Shannon’s Entropy totally off course.   … Continue reading →

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Just a little bit …

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Guthlac

CReativity running dangerously close to empty…a blank pages and these are the result.

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One Day Older

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Guthlac

The other week Facebook asked me to update my date of birth so that friends could wish me happy birthday – the implication of this is that Facebook knows my birthday and so why don’t I let everyone know.  Well I … Continue reading →

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Thinkin’ Indy

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Guthlac

Oh the time when there was nothing like high res inkjets – instead there was very cheap printing…so this inspired me to take another look at some recent images.  Interesting the effect seems to work on certain types of images

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No energy for anything – Bad Day

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Guthlac

Its the end of the world as we know it!

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Things to watch over the next seven weeks

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Guthlac

So the vote has been held and the motion has passed and the General Election 2017 is up and running, pending the Queen’s consent.   Over the last 24 hours there has been a lot of speculation as to what … Continue reading →

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Here we go…Here we go…Here we go…

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Guthlac

Back in September 2016 I sketched out a possible path towards Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next Prime Minister.  I have to say it was just a little bit of fun and quite honestly I can’t see it happening any time … Continue reading →

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Lets all walk away now

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Guthlac

Thankfully things seem to have calmed down just a little on the Korean peninsula.   It is reasonable to assume that if the Americans were serious about taking military action against the North then they wouldn’t have sent the Vice … Continue reading →

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Where did you go?

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Guthlac

Don’t know what I’m going to do?

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