When the quiet carriage finally turned quiet and the free WiFi was once again accessible, I made a planned attack on my read/review file. A few interesting articles in there – personal branding, getting people reading your content other than just viewing your page, alternative income streams. All sorts of stuff.
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After a productive morning’s work and my friend’s physiotherapy appointment, we drove out to Abroath where we had a spectacular afternoon tea at Sugar and Spice – a teapot full of tea, little sandwiches (I had chicken, my friend had ham), simply enormous and amazing scones with superb raspberry jam and cream, plus a small strawberry tart, a raspberry/white chocolate/caramel slice and two shortbread biscuits. We finished our scones and then declared ourselves stuffed to puss’s bow so we had to ask for a doggy bag for the cakes – they looked too good to waste!
And of course a walk was in order to deal with the aftermath, so after buying a few small treats from the sweetshop section for djelibeybi, we wandered along the seafront and up into Arbroath before buying some Arbroath smokies (smoked fish – mackeral maybe? very tasty) for tea and heading home. Lovely!
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We’ve made a good start, working out how the content will be distributed throughout the project and I’ve been working on some ideas for the music. Feels good to be thinking creatively again.
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It doesn’t look like much, but it’s enough
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I went down to the Firth of Tay to see the Discovery, Scott of the Antarctic’s ship, which was amazingly awesome and interesting. They had an harmonium on board! I was most impressed. Freakin’ freezing outside though so I didn’t linger in inspecting the ship itself.
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Blogged here. In brief, there’s a reason why I feel a desperate need for light and space and hate looking at a wall. Thank God.
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I’m staying with a friend and collaborator of mine and she was going to this seminar, Who’s Afraid of Artistic Research?, on practice-based research, at Dundee Contemporary Arts, so I decided to tag along. Some interesting presentations, lots of notes taken. Brain is now some sort of soft, smelly cheese.
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At long last. I’ve been trying to visit my friend up here for a couple of years and at last I’ve done it. Yay! Now for a week of working on our mobile web art/music project. More yay!
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Carrying on quite well really – I’ve now finished the thumb gusset and am powering up towards the fingers, which I’ll probably be doing tomorrow. I can’t believe how quickly it’s going!
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Took an SD card up to Jessops and played around with some cameras. The Canon G10 is still the clear leader – the Nikon P90 has an amazing 24x zoom and is incredibly light, but on closer inspection the pictures lack zing and are quite noisy. The Canon SX10 IS I felt was a bit heavy, but it seemed to be taking nice photos! Very wierd. The chap in the shop is going to recharge one of the other Nikons so I can test that tomorrow, but I suspect the G10 may be the winner. Jessops have it for £414 but Amazon have it for £357… and PC World has it for £449.99. I can’t believe the price differences! And none of them seem to be offering anything different really – just the basic camera pack. So it’s back there tomorrow to test the other Nikon and probably to recheck the G10 for a couple of test shots I didn’t get and recheck the weight of the SX10. Then it’ll be decision-time…
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