I found a small elephant in the December sales. Trust me: it'll look just fine in the garden.
Posted by Richard at 12:03 PM-
Hmmm
Mate - are you really sure ?
Posted by Jason on 2003-01-02 15:05:41
December 30, 2002
I found a small elephant in the December sales. Trust me: it'll look just fine in the garden.
Posted by Richard at 12:03 PM
- Hmmm
Mate - are you really sure ?
Posted by Jason on 2003-01-02 15:05:41
I managed to read a newspaper over the holiday (gasp) and there was a story about the the results of the International Rock Paper Scissors Championships. Yup, there's a championship out there. Although the World RPS Society talks about "wits, craft and ingenuity", I'm thinking it boils down to luck and a bit of speed. However, you might want to check out the advanced guide, study the gambits and maybe look at the FAQ for advice on handling a "RPS match against a perceived psychic".
Posted by Richard at 7:23 PM
December 29, 2002
Today we managed to get down to take a look at the West Pier and see how much had collapsed. It was a perfect opportunity for me to play with my new camera, and so there are a set of photos.
I've actually had the time to play with a few of the images, following instructions found on Eric Jeschke's site specifically for The Gimp (the image manipulation application I use) - and so I've used a different technique for making colour images black and white, and have also added a bit of grain to one. Top Marks to Eric for making really easy to understand instructions.
Posted by Jane at 6:30 PM
I got a new camera for Christmas (a Canon G3), and I've been busy taking heaps of photos in the last few days - so here are photos from Christmas Day (including photos of the annual Brighton sea swimming), Boxing Day and the 27th December
Posted by Jane at 9:54 PM
- merry xmas
how's the new toy?
Posted by SpUnKyTh3MoNk3Y on 2002-12-30 19:29:30
- New toy (Canon G3)
is great thank you. Need to work on avoiding red-eye with the built-in flash (apparently a common problem), but the ability to change the depth of focus is great. Enjoying playing with it, but still got lots to learn (must read the instructions!).
Posted by Jane on 2002-12-30 19:39:30
December 23, 2002
West Pier Collapses
This morning, at around 9am, some of the West Pier collapsed into the sea. We didn't know anything about it until it was mentioned on the 5pm news so we've not been down to see it. Probably will do tomorrow though armed with the camera. There has been a lot of discussion about the future of the West Pier, this looks like it might do away with the restoration plans which is a real shame as I think it's a beautiful building.
Posted by Jane at 5:35 PM
December 22, 2002
We went to the "Burning the Clocks" celebration here in Brighton last night. It's got a very pagan feel to it, even though it was actually only thought up 6 years ago. Two processions of hand made paper clock lanterns, and other imagery set off from the Marina and from the Pavillion meeting up on Marine Parade for a bonfire and fireworks. See the rest of the photos.
Posted by Jane at 1:17 PM
December 18, 2002
Well, all presents are bought and wrapped, our fridge and freezer are stacked with food and our Christmas tree is up and making our living room look festive. Hurrah! Time to gorge ourselves on fine wine and mince pies and enjoy ourselves!
Posted by Jane at 5:40 PM
I got a copy of November's Saveur magazine in the post today, and if you look on page 16, you'll see this picture, and at the bottom of the column, it says "courtesy Jane Fothergill". One of my photos is in print
Posted by Jane at 8:06 PM
- Congrats, Jane.
Posted by Scott on 2002-12-18 21:48:01
- woooohooo!
Posted by SpUnKyTh3MoNk3Y on 2002-12-19 09:27:49
- Congrats!
That is so great!! :-) You are very talented!
Posted by Karen on 2002-12-22 00:33:43
December 17, 2002
I found a perfect Christmas present for Jono today - it was a cuddly moose in our local Safeway, with a Christmas hat saying "Merry X-Moose" on it's jumper. But seeing as how a) we brought him a moose finger puppet back from our honeymoon, and b) he's leaving the country on the 28th for good
Posted by Jane at 1:25 PMit didn't seem worth buying for him. So, instead, he'll have to make do with this.
December 11, 2002
Last Monday (9th) I thought I could finally say goodbye to the cough that had been plaguing me for the past few weeks. Hurrah! All was great until Thursday, when I started coughing again. By Friday I had a temperature of 101.5 and by Saturday I was a snot monster with a nasty cough again. I'm on the road to recovery again and have just been to see the Doctor and got some penicillin to shift the cough away from my chest. So, one week before Christmas and I'm on antibiotics. Lovely! Oh, and Christmas is running late in our house cos I spent all the weekend in bed - so no Christmas tree yet, (in fact our wonderful idea of going and digging our own at Wilderness Wood has bitten the dust as we're going to have so many other things to do this weekend
Posted by Jane at 11:19 AM
Our Christmas cards arrived from CharityCards.co.uk arrived today, so we can now get on with writing them. It seems like we've only just finished writing Thank You cards for all our very generous friends after the wedding. Maybe we should have gone for the Personalised Christmas Cards so we didn't have to write anything - somehow though at the time that seemed just too impersonal, now I'm beginning to think it would have been a great idea!
Posted by Jane at 10:25 PM
Sometimes I just love the BBC News site. Today they've posted this - a statement from Santa explaining that he does exist despite what Reverend Lee Rayfield said in a carol service. And better still there are distinct wording similaries to Cherie's statement. Nice one Beeb!
Posted by Jane at 3:41 PM
December 10, 2002
I listened to Cherie Blair's statement on Radio 5 on the way back from Chesterfield last night about the whole Peter Foster and flat buying thing. It left me with a couple of questions - why are there 2 flats in Bristol - what is the other one for?, and why isn't student accommodation good enough for their son? With a government policy that seems to be making it increasingly hard for students to survive without debt, why should he get such a helping hand? I also hadn't realised that he had government officials helping him with his homework this time last year! Nice!
Posted by Jane at 11:19 AM
December 06, 2002
I use Yahoo! email when I'm not at home/in the office, and today the eDiets banner was displayed telling me to "lose 10lbs by Dec 25th". Interesting concept... going on a diet BEFORE Christmas!
Posted by Jane at 12:32 PM
It must be winter because we've mentioned TV twice in todays blogs....
The Web Review isn't a particularly interesting web site but it makes strangely compelling TV (ITV, no idea when... probably the very small hours of the morning). They give a quick review of a web site and then chat about it. Sounds dull, but the presenters make it something I'd watch again.
Posted by Richard at 12:17 PM
December 04, 2002
We were catching up on our tv watching last night and watched a Horizon from last week - about homeopathy. It was interesting, and the experiments were interesting. But, the experiments they were doing was to test the "Memory of Water". Now, this relates to the fact that a homepathy concentration has no molecules in it - so how can it work? The theory was that the water has a memory of what active ingredients it had in before it was diluted. Now, the experiments they did were very controlled. They took one drop of histimine and put it into 99 drops of water. Then they repeated this process (1 drop of the new solution to 99 drops of water) until they'd got it to the equivalent of less than one drop in the entire seas in the world. So pretty concentrated then! They tested this solution against a control solution - just water. The results came out that there was no proof that it worked - some control solutions worked, some concentrated solutions worked. So they couldn't say that the homeopathy principal worked.
Interesting, but... this is what got me. If you're testing whether water has a memory, then how can your control solution be water? Surely, all water will have a memory won't it?
Posted by Jane at 11:07 AM
- homeopathy water memory test
re yr article question at bottom;
or it all won't have memory or course. What got me was that some (pure) water samples affected the histamine as well as only some hi dilutions. surely strange that science accepts, no expects, these positive results from the control sample in practically every expt? As a homoeopath (correct old spelling) i was interested but not surprised to see the results. i found the programme fair and balanced in its lead up to the denoument - animals vs placebo etc as well as Randi's reasonable sceptisism. But i am a believer of course because i have seen hom work quickly and effectively with return of old symptoms etc and other hom expected and repeatable but otherwise seemingly unrelated effects on people and animals. these are all in our training which takes a holistic and 'longer term thro time' view of health which just doesn't compare with the piecemeal system by system way of orthodoxy looking at things.
In a short programme getting into this paradigm just isn't feasible, so i regret that the public never gets a chance to consider the real signs of returning health and balance that an organism tends to go through. These involve changes like; centrifugal moving out of symptoms,often including cleaning out old catarrhs and broken down byproducts through the skin, lungs, bladder etc. Of course, orthodoxy would at that point consider the person has a cold and better think about taking a/bs in case of secondary bacterial infection, which often aborts and suppresses the climb back to health. by contrast, a hom would leave well alone dleighted at the stimulated vital force of their patient.
None of this assessment of what seems to happen to successful hom patients and os in the complimentary field like acupunture, ever can be compared to people just taking water and waiting around for a few weeks because it isn't noticed or thought relevant (despite being the key thing in most healing responses.) Science is obsessed with how something has a physical mechanism to work rather than taking as part of the evidence that certain repeatable, or frequently occurring in similar circumstances, patterns of changes towards heath might be happening.oh i think i'm ranting.
Final comment, of course i regard people as individual and in a fairly unique health situation, just like the Similimum hom remedy we are supposed to try and match them with classically. So what suits one person's 'allergic' reaction (hence the test using histimine for inflammatory response to ig cells) would not necessarily be the remedy to match another patient with apparently similar hayfevery/inflammed responses at that time. We match the whole person, modalities, personality and all. Perhaps hitamine at that potency just wasn't those ig cells Similimum.
Camilla Martin (not yet on internet at home - but trying to set up Camillamartin@Hotmail.)
Posted by Camilla Martin on 2002-12-19 18:14:17
December 01, 2002
The wedding photos we'd chosen to be enlarged arrived yesterday - so now we have to find some way to store them. We're looking for plastic covers and then possibly a box. We've also ended up buying the samples from Pete so these, with the table cameras and other people's photos will be put together into a couple of albums to record the day. A job for over Christmas I think.
Posted by Jane at 9:52 PM
- Beautiful pictures! What a lovely couple you are....I love the black/whites. The Group Pic is great! I think that would make a great wall picture for anyone. It just says so much. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Shelby on 2002-12-17 00:10:13
I've been dragging the last bits of life out of my current phone, holding off on a replacement until the P800 becomes available (originally due in September, now January). Anyway, apparently it appears in the new Bond movie, Die Another Day. I've not seen the film yet, but I'm told the Bad Guy has one.
Posted by Richard at 7:39 AM
