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Before I get onto anything check out this link. My uncle's photos are absolutely amazing. Seriously they rock my socks =]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71492355@N00/

So Far its been Paul's nonsense thats been put up on this website. As soon as I can make a page that will be changed. But at the moment I will have to make do with annoying him over these blog things. (Which are quite boring too.)

Anyway, first off. Happy New Year. Hope everyone has a good 2009.

And second, hope you all had a great Christmas.

 

 

(I'm an angel really!) Besides this place needs jazzing up a bit! =]

BECKY

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For a few years now we have been inspired to grow a few simple things ourselves. Although we have a moderate garden for a modern house it is not ready to grow a full assortment of vegetables. However, after seeing Gardener's World (I must be getting really old) we have tried growing potatoes in a plastic dustbin. We just drilled a few holes in the bottom to make sure the water can escape then filled the inside bottom 2" with stones and broken pots to act as drainage.

The soil this year was a mix of the garden soil which is Weald Clay and our own compost from a couple of bins that have been on the go for about a year. The seed potatoes came from Thompson & Morgan (sorry can't remember the variety) and were planted by Christopher in March.

 

A long time ago when I was a youthful teenager I was quite into photography and had a 35mm SLR Praktica camera that I learnt to use. Manual exposure with the in-built light meter, varying the depth of field and shutter speed to get effects. I even dabbled at devloping the film.

That was quite some time ago now and since then I have tended to use compact digital cameras. My last camera was an improvement and was a Fuji S5000 which allowed control of exposure, shutter speed, etc. However, it still had a non-changeable lens but took some pretty good pictures. The picture on the top of the family web page was taken with it and is a shot of Eastbourne from Beachy Head. With the arrival of Lucy both Ali, Becky and I have been snapping pictures and I decided to revitalise the old hobby.

Once again the website has had a makeover and this is mainly because the old one was too difficult to maintain with a short amount of freetime. The new version is based around Blog software called Nucleus. I am hoping it will be easier to maintain and add content.

Hmm August seems such a long time ago! Updating the website unfortunately takes a low priority over other things mainly work and household projects. But now we are in the depths of winter just maybe I’ll get back to sorting out the website. Well we live in hope!

As with all the best laid plans my statement in May about updating the website has taken a little longer than first planned. I have been spending a lot of time at work which has been even more hectic than usual. When I do have time at home I have been trying to finish off the refurbishment of the kitchen which has dragged on for far too long. More details to follow once I have completely finished.