Following our recent discussions on Tigers and Leopards (previous post: comments) I see that Waterstone's are selling models of them.
I don't know which is which; in fact I don't think there's any way to tell the two species apart for sure, but they are both beautiful creatures anyway.
A classic from Alan R:
In our early days together UniM and I did this all the time but since we got married we've hardly found time for it at all:
But now it's the Xmas holidays we can devote the whole 2 weeks to....
Jigsaws!
Well, one jigsaw actually. It's 3000 pieces and a real tough one. Look at all those white bits:
I emailed Alan to tell him about our new project and he replied:
3,000 piece jigsaw! The two weeks will be gone in a flash of hazy excitement.
And this got me thinking about how I could share the fun with 4AoSers so I've decided not to show you the picture on the box, but to post up photos of our progress so you can watch the image appearing over the coming days.
Watch this space!
Ah, what a lovely time of year it is as late Autumn slowly turns into Winter. I took a walk round Enfield Park yesterday and saw that the last of the bags on the trees has finally turned orange.
I've been looking back at some of my hobbies over the years. When I lived in Poland, I used to make miniature models of all the birds I saw. It's an impressive talent, as you can see.
My Bearded Tit (Photo 3) was quite a talking point at parties.
This is great!
Well spotted Tom.
As if your mother doesn’t have enough cash pouring in from her projects, perhaps this would interest her:
http://boingboing.net/2011/08/18/hubble-telescope-hand-stitched-in-felt-is-awesome.html
This from Alan R:
Hi Iain
My son has designed a new Olympic logo.
Alan sent this in; the Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival!
Tom over in America was very impressed by the knitted Royal Wedding; I wonder what he will make of Royal Wedding scarecrows:
The village of Kettlewell has a scarecrow competition every year, and they really are fantastic. Alan's favourite this year is number 7 in the slideshow, for me it has to be number 6.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-14521444
Also see the gallery on their website:
I must write to that mad woman who thinks she can see angels in clouds (previous post) because this one clearly IS an angel. Or possibly Buzz Lightyear. Either way, it's supernatural.
Actually now I look at it again, it really does look uncannily like Buzz Lightyear.
...and we'd been on the road a long time. But this hotel just didn't inspire us!
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