Mmm... lunch. The Eagle and Child pub, Oxford, May 2005. 

The latest Monday Meme - picture this

Monday Meme 18 : 2005-09-19 : Picture This

1. Do you own a camera (or multiple cameras)? What kind(s)?

One is a Canon Powershot A200... digital camera. The other is a Panasonic digital video camera... not sure of model but it's got 3CCD so I like it :D

2. Do you prefer digital or film cameras?

Digital is nice and handy for travelling, posting on internet etc. A nice film SLR is fun. Now a digital SLR... that'd be nice.

3. How often do you take pictures?

When I'm sightseeing, seeing friends, partying, travelling, often. Everyday... not a whole lot. But I do like taking shots of anything out of the ordinary... or ordinary things from out-of-the-ordinary angles... ;)

4. Do you like having your picture taken? Have you ever modeled or considered modeling?

I don't mind having my photo taken. And yes, I have had modelling shots done. Didn't get any work out of it though. :)

5. What is your most treasured photo?

My most treasured photo... good question. There's a nice one of me in a samurai costume...

I was the 59th person to take this week's Monday Meme!

We Have A Winner :D

Congratulations to Sarah for her guess of "penguin"... 'twas indeed correct.


Keep an eye on http://glenn-jammin.blogspot.com for a future audience-participation-type thingy...

Competition - Second Clue!

OK, it’s Wednesday. You know what that means.

It’s time for Clue #2!

Here’s the rundown on the competition so far...

After the first two weeks, I had fifteen entries from Angela, Angie, Sarah, EmmaJ and Alastair. At this point, I gave the first clue: the closest entries were “platypus”, “llama” and “giraffe”. Congrats to those of you who twigged I was looking for an animal of some kind.

This week, Justin, Devona, SirLok and Jason have entered the fray, and the total number of entries has reached 40. WOW.

Here are the entries, with new entries in bold:
Angela: Sarsparilla
Angie: Damn, booger, macaroni
Sarah: Punk, Jesus, platypus, llama, chocolate, fishlips, koala, wallaby, wombat, kangaroo, bilby, emu
EmmaJ: Giraffe, rabbit, elephant
Alastair: Coffee, time, spatula, turnip
Justin: Duck, ass, barbie, God, love, creator, creation, evolution, snuckledorf, the “f-word”, glomp
Devona: Beaver, squirrel
SirLok: Sphygmomanometer, halleluia, water-buffalo
Jason: Jackass

The closest people in the race now are Sarah with “emu” and Justin with “duck”...

Keep those guesses coming, people!

Job Interview

Well, I just came back from the interview. It went really well, and they told me I'm one of 5 they are interviewing today. So I've got a pretty good chance, I think.

I should find out either this evening or tomorrow, I think...

:)

Competition - First Clue!

Well, it's been two weeks since I started my little guess-the-missing-word-in-the-lyrics competition. Here are the 15 entries so far.

Angela: sarsparilla
Angie: damn, booger, macaroni
Sarah: punk, Jesus, platypus, llama, chocolate, fishlips
EmmaJ: giraffe
Alastair: coffee, time, spatula, turnip

First entry: Angela, with "sarsparilla"
Funniest (to Glenn) entry: Alastair, with "spatula"

HERE IS YOUR FIRST CLUE...
The closest entries to the real answer: Sarah, with "platypus" and "llama", and EmmaJ, with "giraffe".

Keep posting... I'll keep chuckling... and next week there will be another clue.

Watch this...

OK, while you're waiting for me to update all the links in my Scotland stories, check this out...

http://www.ksbj.org/tdflash/cryout.cfm

Pictures from Scotland!

Hi everyone, now that I've put up my Scotland pics, I'm going to go back into my archives and add links to my stories from June and July. So if you look under those months in the Archive section of the sidebar, you can read about my adventures and see the pictures in context.

Off I go... diving back into cyberspace.

Postcard, "Leaving Colonsay". 

Leaving Colonsay. 

Kiloran Bay looking south, together with a postcard in progress. 

Weather-worn cruciform slab, Cill Chaitriona. 

Ruins of the main sanctuary, Cill Chaitriona. 

Altar remains, Cill Chaitriona. I found the church! 

According to the Ordnance Survey map, there's a dun around here... oh look... there's a flat-topped hill. I'd say that's where the fort used to be. 

Foggy beach, southwestern side of Colonsay. 

Follow - but - follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage, or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth. 

Remains of an Iron Age fort, or dun, on the southwest side of Colonsay. To the left is a small sheltered beach. There are medieval ruins below the grass on the isthmus in the foreground. At the back, an obviously man-made ramp goes up from the beach to the flat grassy top of the rocky outcrop, where many centuries ago, a large fortified dwelling used to stand. 

Sheep (the little grey bumps) in the fog (the grey blur) grazing near a Bronze Age standing stone (the big grey bump) 

Rock beach, western side of Colonsay. 

Keeping the golf course neat and tidy. 

Dun Eibhinn postcard in progress... 

Cairn. 

View northwards over Colonsay. Kiloran Bay can be seen in the distance. Just to the lower left of the bay is the Backpacker's Lodge. 

The MacDuffie burial aisle, alongside Oronsay Priory. 

The altar inside the Priory remains. 

Burial slab of Malcolm MacDuffie. I saw a replica of this later, in the museum in Edinburgh. 

Oronsay Cross on a postcard. Drawn with HB pencil and black biro. Background wash using light blue watercolour pencil. 

Oronsay Cross. 

Oronsay Priory. 

Low tide between Colonsay and Oronsay. 

Tractor heading to Oronsay Farm.