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The Tiled Owl
My late mother loved owls. And here's one she painted on a tile. We just found it while sorting though some of her old stuff.
It's quite lovely.
Born to be...
Mugs in Mousehole targeted at fans of Doctor Who, Spooks or Robin Hood. (Are there any fans of Robin Hood?)
QotD: Houseguest Etiquette
What's one thing a houseguest should always do?
Leave.
Having people to stay is great, great fun. But so is the moment they leave and you have the house to yourselves again. :)
The Most Fun You Can Have at St Michael's Mount
So, we visited St Michael's Mount yesterday, and very enjoyable it was too. And we discovered the most fun you can have there:
- Wait for the tide to come in
- At the point the causeway starts to get covered in water, get a good vantage point on the hill
- With binoculars or a decent telephoto lens, enjoy the sufferings of the those who tried to beat the tide:
The boat across, incidentally, is a grand total of £1.50, and a great ride.
QotD: Thirst-Quenching Beverage
How do you like to quench your thirst on a hot summer day?
This was working rather well for me earlier:
Yes, it's beer! In this case, a beer from the Wooden Hand Brewery here in Cornwall. They're a lovely bunch of ales, easy drinking with some interesting flavour, and equally good at room temperature or slightly chilled. Good for a summer's afternoon.
QotD: Email vs. Telephone
If you had to give up either email or the telephone for the rest of your life, which one would your forgo?
No contest: the telephone.
I barely use my phone any more. E-mail is more efficient and useful about 70% of the time.
From Comics to Screen
I have a long-held theory: that for comics to successfully adapt to the screen, they need to keep the key visual elements of the comic with them, especially when those elements have been developed and refined over decades. You can bee too slavish about this (cf: Ang Lee's Hulk), but on the whole, comics are a visual medium, and they're very, very good at doing images.
So, whenever a new comics adaptation approaches, I always start my judgement with a look at how well the imagery matches those from the comics. Iron Man impressed from the start, with both armour and a Tony Stark that looked like they'd leapt straight from the pages of the comic, and certainly didn't disappoint on screen.
Now, the first wave of material on the sequel is coming, including the first photos of the movie version of the Black Widow.
How well does she match up to the iconic image test? Here goes:
QotD: Only in My Dreams
What life dream or goal have you given up on?
Oooh! Good one.
I've given up on my dream of being a magazine editor.
Why? Well, I did achieve it briefly, when I was editor of a short-lived magazine called GRID. It was shut down when a new publisher decided to cut a lot of new projects.
However, about the same time, I realised that the whole world was changing, and the arrival of blogs and other early forms of social media were completely reshaping the media landscape. The energy I was putting into GRID got pushed into my personal blogging projects instead, thereby setting the scene for the last three years of my career…
Time overtook the dream, and I don't miss it.
