Category: Photography
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How to choose the Colours for your walls
It is time to start thinking about the walls in The Coupe. The backdrop. The canvas. The first step is the fun step. Make a chart of your favourite colours. Using everything you see that takes your fancy. In the old days I would pin all these pictures on a board, or glue them into…
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TonTon remains stoic
Ton has been the best behaved dog in the history of dogdom since Blue was unexpectedly foisted upon him. He is not thrilled especially when Blue has picked his tail up in his mouth and chewed on it. He is stoic but unsmiling. On more that one occasion and too often for it to be…
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Guess which one is Little Boy Blue
The Matriarch and Our John were very right to feel dubious about taking me along on their outing to the Bantam Swap Market at the Fairgrounds. Because right there in a cage in the middle of market madness was Little Boy Blue. I knew he was out there somewhere. So I brought him home. Now…
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Red door
This is what the kiwi builder was up to. He and John put in the first of the red doors (there are three)… the inside of the door is red too so when it stands open all summer the colour is still present. The Goldilocks windows.. these are the most extravagant of the windows but…
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Looking after our canopy of trees
On the North side of the barn is a smallish field. A loafing field really. It is directly behind the pig sty. We rolled the last two bales of mississippi grass hay through the pig sty and out to the North side, positioning them with difficulty at either end, then built a fence down the…
The Kitchen's Garden 