Weekly Photograph

This is Hockney-esque joiner I did of the middle of Rochester, Kent back in 2007. The gateway leads towards the cathedral (behind the gate to the left) and the castle. The road running across the view is the High Street. The finished photo is made up of at least six solarised images montaged together.

Rochester Joiner 1

Word: Yaffle.

Yaffle

  1. (n) The green woodpecker or it’s call. (Onomatopoeic from its call.)
  2. hence …

  3. (n & v) The call of the green woodpecker
  4. and also ..

  5. (n & v) A bark, a yelp.
  6. (n) (Newfoundland dialect) A handful; an armful, esp. of dried fish or kindling.
  7. hence …

  8. (v) To gather up (a load of fish, etc.) in one’s arms.
  9. (v) To eat or drink, esp. noisily or greedily.

Who remembers Bagpuss and Prof. Yaffle?

Five Questions, Series 3, #1

The last week or so has be rather busy again, so I’ve not had a chance to think about writing decent posts here. Hopefully the coming week will be a bit saner, although there is a bundle of things happening again after that.

Anyway I promised my answers to the Five Questions I posed almost two weeks ago.


Question 1. Please describe yourself in 25 words or less.

There are two ways to do this: in 25 words of descriptive text or as a series of keywords. I can’t do the former as there is just too much I want to get in, so it will have to be a series of keywords. Try these for size:

Londoner; working thinker; retired; catalyst; facilitator; controversialist; former research chemist; scientist; photographer; organiser; project manager; ailurophile; ichthyophile; grey; meganedanshi; foodie; beer-drinker; obese; intelligent; idiot.

So what about you?