Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
Snap, Chatter And Pop
by admin - 22:18 on 17 August 2014
It's more than a week since Hurricane Bertha scythed through The Rural Retreat's garden but nothing has changed, apart from the grass growing longer; the shattered lilac still lies toppled on the lawn surrounded by willow and birch debris.
I do have an excuse. The Autumn edition of Chatterbox is set to be a record-breaking forty-eight pages of Black Isle news and features so I've been chained to the Mac with breaks only to cook Matchgirl's tea and tend to cats.
There was a day off on Thursday when I attended St Boniface Fair in Fortrose where my time was divided between assisting at the Black Isle Writers stall and prowling with the Pentax. PhotoActive Philip has accused me in the past of taking too few snaps so he would have been impressed by the haul of one hundred and seventy-six with which I returned to the Retreat. Around fifty survived quality control; eleven will feature in a fine two-page spread in Chatterbox and another one on its cover.
I've uploaded three of my favourites to Flickr, and a couple more might join them later, but I've no plans to put the rest there. Instead, in the fullness of time, you'll find them on the Chatterbox website. I'll post a link when they're there.
Music Update: The Strays reconvene on Tuesday evening when we'll make music together for the first time in more than two months. Some time between now and then I'll have set aside my journalistic labours to learn three new songs. Life is busy.
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