Moan Moan Moan

I've been a bit out of sorts this week, having had a yucky dentist visit on Monday with drastic things done to two molars. Blah. Painkillers and much whinging have followed but things are starting to improve a bit. I have been, in short, a grump.

Steve has gone on a fishing adventure this weekend with 3 of his work mates. They were so excited leading up to it, like small boys. :-) They of course plan to buy food from the pub fill their stomachs with their abundant catch ;-)

I've been having a play with Photoshop this week, what do you think? I've seen a few examples of this lovely effect on Flickr, having a coloured focal point and the rest of the photo desaturated, so I had a go myself. The hardest part was drawing around this flower with the laptop touchpad mouse - not the best for precision use so it's a bit wonky round the edges. If anyone is interested I could try and do a Blog post on how I did it - leave a comment if you want me to.


I finished reading "Girl With A Pearl Earring" and enjoyed it very much - recommended.

Oh yes, and speaking of blog comments, I was mortified today to discover blog comments that I knew nothing about. I presumed that all comments were emailed to me automatically by Blogger but I found at least 4 comments left recently that didn't get emailed. I feel awful that that people have gone to the trouble to comment and I didn't know - I'm very sorry. I'll have to read the comments directly from my blog I think.

Well, I'm going to spend the evening trying to finish my ripple cushion I think. Or read maybe. I indulged myself in Elizabeth Zimmerman's "Knitting Without Tears" after reading many positive reviews - I wanted a book to try and help me understand knitting a bit more, so I'm not so scared of it. Do you know what I mean?

Well, that's it from grouchy old me, I promise to be happy happy joy joy next week ok. :-)