Archive | October, 2011

It dusted us over…

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.

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Harvey at sunset

A Harvelicious moment

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 [...]

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Blue is the mood and the music

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:

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The sky fades to black behind the Stonehead Circle

Writing outwith the box

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:

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Cloud patterns above the croft.

Atmospherics

Cloud patterns over the croft.

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