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Early Friday Photography Blog No.121

by In Wales
Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 04:10:03 AM EST

The heavy weather edition:

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This week's blog will be "Weather" and "Photos As Usual".

As usual, "Ask the Expert" about anything you like, composition, technical things and so on.

Please try to keep to 600 pixels width and 100kb to 150kb max in file size and take a look at Wednesday Photography Blog No.2 for the technical bits on how to post.

Someone's new technology automatically limits width of photos shown to 600pixels. But it allows you to click and hold on the photos to see the larger version if the file is greater than 600 pixels in width.

Please do not click on post a comment but reply under one of the headers instead.

Have fun, and throw anything in, we want to see your photos!

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Early Friday Photography Blog No.121 | 80 comments (80 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Weather (none / 0)

"Weather"

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:27:39 PM EST

Re: Weather (4.00 / 6)

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:31:03 PM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 5)

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:44:31 PM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 9)

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:45:00 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Nice wintery effects with the ice, sun low on the horizon, long shadows, seemingly isolated locale, etc.

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears

by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 07:44:36 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

Cool! Expert question in the wrong folder: did you protect your camera's CCD somehow against direct Sunlight? (My own fresh experience: just the mirrored Sun at the edge of the lense was enough for the next picture to be noisy.)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 07:31:37 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

The lens is coated with something that helps to reduce the glare but I also focused on a part of the scene where the sunlight wasn't too strong. I've not noticed any effect like you describe to be honest.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 10:46:01 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 6)

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:45:38 PM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 6)

Oops that one wasn't meant to be in 'weather' but it was taken at the same time as this one and the two above.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:46:35 PM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 10)

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 04:41:56 PM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 3)

My granddaughter cannot quit laughing when she looks at this. Heh, I'm starting to chuckle myself.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

by NearlyNormal on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 06:51:08 PM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 7)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 04:24:58 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 6)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 04:26:11 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 5)

Heaps more snow today. Is this an abstract?

Beneath the spreading chestnut tree:

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 10:24:12 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 4)

Fabulous shots.
I love the first one.

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.

by Knucklehead on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 08:27:14 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Thanks, Knucklehead.

I took quite a lot like that first shot on yesterday morning's walk.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jan 10th, 2010 at 03:30:07 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

That is loads of snow, I can't believe how much snow a twig can hold! I hope you don't get trapped in it for too long?

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Jan 10th, 2010 at 02:25:54 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

It's stopped snowing, but no sign of a thaw.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jan 10th, 2010 at 03:30:37 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 6)

Bad night for some lost English DFH travellers.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 04:28:18 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 8)

by Sven on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:00:59 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 3)

Welcome to ET, Sven.

Tell us a little about yourself.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:08:58 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 3)

That means about seven pages; bad suggestion ;)

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:40:58 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

Since when is soliciting a diary a bad suggestion?

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 06:40:34 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

This is Sven, not the Helsinki Sven Triloqvist below!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 06:45:20 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Oops, Sven Triloqvist isn't below, but he priobably will be.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 06:49:35 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 2)

Sadly I am without the Olympus 510 at the moment. It's closer to you than me, having been taken by my eldest to Aix. I'm thinking of acquiring a new digital SLR, so I'll probably have to reread the ET photonerd comments of the last years ;-)

Whatever it is, its performance with an outboard flash will be crucial. Though having played with DC LED lights, I am quite intrigued.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 11:10:25 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Sven Triloqvist:

taken by my eldest to Aix

I think there are snow pic opportunities there at the moment...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 12:09:58 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

I have to ask for local coverage when we skype tomorrow.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 03:22:08 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Coverage (snow-wise) is fairly thick I think. Down to the Mediterranean beaches.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 03:52:03 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

I shall get the news tomorrow. As an habitué of outdoor cafés and an expert on under-awning gas heaters, this is a subject on which she will have plenty to say.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 03:57:33 PM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 2)

Welcome, Sven!

Don't worry about the seven-pages comment, it was directed at user Sven Triloqvist...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 06:48:12 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 7)

all those replies were surely very entertaining. I've been lurking for quite a few years and mostly been reading eurotrib during elections. I'm from Germany but have blogged in the past mostly about US politics and have mostly frequent US blogs.

by Sven on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 10:20:00 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

Good to see you leaving lurkerdom, so welcome again!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 10:23:48 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

And don't forget to update your user info.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 10:44:25 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Sorry. I confused you with that ne'er-do-well Sven Triloquest ;)

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 11:48:38 AM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Correction: "Triloqvist."

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 11:50:43 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 2)

Sven Galaxyqvest

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 12:29:48 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 0)

Its the rubber head that gives it away.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:24:25 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

never give up

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:49:04 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 08:18:35 PM EST
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Re: Weather (none / 1)

Sven, welcome, and where in Deutschland are you?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 04:51:19 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 10)

by Sven on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:01:40 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 9)

by Sven on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:02:30 AM EST
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Yesterday (4.00 / 9)

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:54:41 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 10)

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 07:02:02 AM EST
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Is the second from the bottom (none / 0)

taken from a moving car?

paul spencer

by paul spencer (spencerinthegorge AT yahoo DOT com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 04:07:58 PM EST
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Re: Is the second from the bottom (none / 0)

Partly at least.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 05:16:42 PM EST
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Snow Britain (4.00 / 5)

Photo from NEODAAS/University of Dundee.

by Magnifico on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 04:28:45 PM EST
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More Snow (4.00 / 6)

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 01:58:11 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 7)

Summerlike mid-September weather is weather, too...

(Lake Bánk)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 07:54:22 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 6)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 07:54:51 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 7)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 07:55:26 AM EST
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Re: Weather (4.00 / 7)

39C today, 41C Monday. Unseasonably warm weather for early Jan in Melbourne. Picture taken from my parent's balcony on Christmas day at about 9pm.

by njh on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 08:00:26 AM EST
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Snowman edition... (4.00 / 6)

by PeWi on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 01:59:25 PM EST
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Re: Snowman edition... (none / 1)

Just perfect.
I like the mini snowperson waving.

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.

by Knucklehead on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 at 08:28:54 PM EST
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Photos as Usual (none / 0)

"Photos as Usual"

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:29:16 PM EST

Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 8)

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:32:00 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 2)

In Wales,
Fabulous shot with the mirrored stylus in the sky.

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.

by Knucklehead on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 02:16:57 AM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 4)

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:32:49 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 7)

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 03:33:22 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 6)

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 04:27:48 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 10)

I'd been reading Equus, which has (among other things) "abstracts" of horses, disturbingly like the "abstracts" of women's bodies you see in posters aimed at the arty teenage market. I've never understood the "abstract" term. They look like details to me, close enough that you only see part of the subject. I presume this is due to my deficient artistic education.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 04:34:05 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 2)

Ah yes, the ever sensuous curves of a horse's back.

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears

by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 07:47:42 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 7)

It's hard to make a red (cranberry and apple) chutney not look completely disgusting in a photo. I think this works.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 04:46:33 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 2)

I'm glad you've told us what it is.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 05:06:26 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (none / 1)

It still needs context then?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 05:14:55 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (none / 1)

Bwainz!

Yes, it does.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 07:45:13 AM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (none / 0)

Not as successful as I hoped then. Though you should see it adjusted otherwise. Scary even when you know what it is.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 07:49:04 AM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 6)

Food photography is hard. The professionals use flat wide light, narrow depth of field, and they literally pay other professionals to come in and sculpt the food before they shoot it.

A magazine shot would probably have some bread or something else to add context. A tub of stuff on its own doesn't hold enough information to parse the contents without extra hints.

And it's easy to make food shots look disgusting without trying.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 08:19:55 AM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (none / 0)

looks delicious!

Sam make that at home?

recipe please?

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 05:11:06 PM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 5)

No. Since we refuse to be bound by your patriarchal gender stereotyping, Sam isn't allowed cook. That would be my job. For political and ideological reasons, not for fear of the consequences. Honest.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 07:59:18 AM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 2)

Recipe was from one of Nigella Lawson's books, but sort of played by ear - I had more cranberries and less apple than suggested so the sugar needed tweaking rather a lot. Cinnamon, ginger and clove spicing.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 8th, 2010 at 08:00:44 AM EST
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Re: Photos as Usual (4.00 / 9)