- ? @johnleach: my dog just barked at my rumbling tummy. Take that digestion! #
- @Scampering: eeep! good luck with it! #
- .@johnleach and @strowger78 are comparing dongles and i'm being asked to pick my favourite. #
- Dreamt I was living in Madrid and there was a market stall selling really nice breakfast pastries outside our building. Rock and roll. #
- First night of my drama group's play last night – amazingly, they did a great job. I mean, as expected, they did a great job. *cough* #
- @davidsmalley: no, the people of the internet should be buying my albeit not-so-nice house that is for sale http://www.is.gd/armley ;) #
- Listening to Son Cubano music, got mad cravings for tapas. #
- Got a canine visitor – it's his 1st birthday so he's come over rather than sitting home alone this afternoon :) http://twitpic.com/4iavrn #
- Kids getting into the swing of this performance stuff now; last night tonight – should be a great one. :) #
- @katethejuggler did you go to the place off burley road behind ytv? that place is awesome :) #
- Hurrah, show went well and was lots of fun, but now I get my life back – day in the garden today :) #
- Am sat on the balcony "supervising" @johnleach hard at work with the pressure cleaner in the garden below. #notaeuphemism #
- Have had a lovely day off :D #
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- Anyone in #bd10 want to help the Green party be eligible to have a national TV political broadcast? DM me if you do :) #
- .@strowger78 just farted on the dog and now she's coughing. #
- After weeks of trying, dog finally caught a fly. Doesn't seem to think it was worth the effort – lots of "iiiiick" tongue licking & huffing. #
- @strowger78: then you too will no longer be let upstairs and will have to go out the back door, up the steps & through the cat flap. #
- Sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, filing is THE BEST THING ON EARTH. #
- Oh *goody*, @johnleach is learning a new 80s power ballad on his guitar. #
- The cat is on top of a cushion, on top of the giant beanbag. One level of comfort clearly isn't enough. #
- @IdleSi: not sure it's the same all day but certainly later in the day, the dayrider on the 760 is considerably cheaper than the 670. #
- @IdleSi: thanks for posting that – I've been wondering about the ending of Snare for the C64 for 20+ years :) #
- ? @really_good: New: A cracking start to Spring http://www.thereallygoodlife.com/2778/ [silly chicken pics, i got pooed on… ;)] #
- Cor, another gorgeous day in the #bd10 Probably should not be eating mini toblerones for breakfast though. #
- I think #notaeuphemism is quite possibly my most favourite hashtag ever. Many giggles. I have the sense of humour of an immature 12 year old #
- @strowger78: i thought it would be a cat when i clicked on it. i was disappointed. #
- ? @really_good: New: Tiered plant stand made from scrap wood http://www.thereallygoodlife.com/2806/tiered-plant-stand-made-from-scrap-wood/ #
- @davidsmalley: hopefully not the *exact* same house though ;) hope it went for gazillions of pounds :) #
- Love it when the kids at drama stand around debating politics rather than Hollyoaks, even if some of them are Tories. Just love the talking. #
- that @strowger78 is both a generous and evil man. *eats yet another mini toblerone* #
- Does anyone have any old hats they no longer use/want? I need some for a drama exercise so any type at all is fine :) #
- Ate some of @thattommyhall's brie and there wasn't anything he could do about it. Ha! #
- Inadvertently had a Kristen Stewart double bill this evening. It did not include Twilight. #
- Old house now up for sale with new estate agent. It's a great house, just needs some love. Someone buy it please ;) http://is.gd/armley #
- @101ofawolf: yay! great idea – sounds like it'll be a lot of fun – hope you get plenty of business. Have RTed :) #
- @Caius: http://fuckyeahnouns.com/john%20leach isn't what you'd expect either #
- Went to @SalvosLeeds last night with @johnleach – gorgeous food. Possibly the 1st time in 10yrs we've not had to wait ages for a table too! #
- @ksandw a friend just mentioned your classes – I can't believe I haven't heard of you guys earlier, hope to try something soon! #
- @thattommyhall: gosh! i knew you were living with petra but it hadn't occurred to me that you're also living with a cat now too. how ace! ;) #
- Coming up with a list of things that are easier to do than say, to annoy @johnleach. ;) #
- I think I've been sleeping better these last few weeks – going to bed & getting up earlier. Am I going to continue once I don't have to? No. #
- Forgot how wonderful and disgusting it is to have a keyboard you can tip upside down and bang. Skin, food, fluff everywhere. #
- @strowger78: not a broker but FIY for landlord insurance for unoccupied property, i used just landlords. #
- That @johnleach is taking his sweet time with my dinner so I'm eating toast: marmalade on some & lemon curd on rest: citrus taste explosion! #
- @comicnrrd: hurrah! have loved the comics, hope I get to buy one before they are all sold out :) #
John and I have wanted to learn how to screenprint for a while but couldn’t commit to an evening-a-week class – so Factory4‘s day course on Saturday was ideal for us — and great fun.
John had screenprinted before at school but the techniques we used on Saturday were far more advanced than he had used before. Rather than having to laboriously cut out stencils by hand, Factory4 use photo emulsion which transfers any grey scale image onto a screen – hand drawn sketch, clipart, a photo anything. I was delighted to here this as I find it easier to design stuff on the computer than draw it by hand – and cutting things out by hand is more difficult again. Using the photo emulsion method, I can just print out my work, “develop” it onto the screen then print away.
Our first test prints were just using clipart provided by the tutor, Gina – to learn the process, the basics of printing and introducing different colours – but in the afternoon, we got to design (or at least print out) our own images. I wanted to do a Really Good Life chicken but couldn’t modify the image on their computer so ended up getting another chicken to print instead – and found this fine skeletal specimen. After mixing a darker purple ink than the standard purple provided, I was really happy with print.
I tried colour blending with a bit of green too – wish I’d tried some more of those.
But, most excitingly, we got to print our designs onto cotton bags – I did my chicken on one side (which I think came out beautifully, although the ink is a lot darker than on paper) and John’s horse diagram on the other.
- Sometimes when the dog wags her tail, it squeezes out a series of half-farts. She is a delight. Wrapped in a stink cloud. #
- Back from a woodland walk with Lily and the neighbours' mental but gentle year old springer, Benny. Lots of fun. Lovely in the sunshine too. #
- @strowger78: you need to polish him to make him shinier. #
- I've currently got 99 followers for @really_good – my growing/cooking/making/chickening feed&blog – who wants to be the 100th one? ;) #
- Been to Armley to let new estate agent take pics of the old house. Every time we do work here, I'm reminded how well built that one was… #
- @iphigenie: gorgeous red! the white cabinets look lovely & fresh too. is pip responsible for the broken plate on the table? ;) #
- Feeling generally uninspired workwise at the moment – probably, hopefully, just a result of household chaos. But still, sigh. #
- After 2wks of having either one, the other or neither, we currently have both a bathroom floor & a plumbed-in toilet. I feel like the queen. #
- Watching the cats rolling around in the sun. :) #
- @jeremyjarvis: which lucky brightboxer gets the pallet? ;) #
- Doing an intro to screenprinting course at @factory4wrkshop tomorrow, can't wait :) #
- Had a super fun day learning how to screenprint. Have many ideas – will definitely be doing it again soon. #
- @Scampering with the equipment we were using, it had lots of different stages process but much easier than I thought. Lots of room for play. #
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