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Archive | October, 2011

It dusted us over…

31 October, 2011 by Stonehead 12 Comments

It dusted us over, an’ it dusted us under. No, it wasn’t a dust storm on the American prairies. It was me, with my angle grinder.

Do it yourself

Concrete, Construction and Maintenance, DIY, Dust storm, Granite, Stone

A Harvelicious moment

30 October, 2011 by Stonehead 7 Comments

One frame. That’s it despite spending a long time, on my belly, in wet grass and squelchy sheep dung trying to get a decent photo of Harvey, our Border Terrier, against the sunset. He’d face the wrong way (as he is here), he move so there was grass between me and him, he’d go off [...]

Dogs, Photography

Border Terrier, Dogs, Photography, postaweek2011, Sunset

Blue is the mood and the music

29 October, 2011 by Stonehead 3 Comments

After the hiccup that was Activity 1.7 of the Open University’s A174 Start Writing Fiction course, when I ended up with poetry not prose, I decided to move on to Activity 1.8 and see if I could hit squeeze myself into the course confines a little better than I did previously. The activity’s guidelines read:

Creative writing

A174 Start Writing Fiction, Creative writing, Lyrics, Open University, postaweek2011

The sky fades to black behind the Stonehead Circle

Writing outwith the box

29 October, 2011 by Stonehead 7 Comments

I’m not in crofting mode for my blogging tonight. I’m in creative writing mode as I’ve spent the past hour or so working on an activity for the Open University course A174 Starting Writing Fiction. The activity appeared straightforward:

Creative writing

A174 Start Writing Fiction, Creative writing, Open University, Poetry, postaweek2011