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Ruth has been keeping me busy photographing her dyeing and optimising the images for her blog and for sending to the Quilt University recently. She’s picked up enough HTML to be able to format her posts on her own now, so I’m aiming to teach her a bit about Photoshop next I also . . . → Read More: Too busy If you read the comments to my previous post, you’ll have seen that Volker invited us round to look at the Sonos set-up which he’s testing at the moment. A demo really is the best way to appreciate the kit, the hand controller is a little larger than an iPod and makes it easy . . . → Read More: The ultimate WAF (2) With some reluctance, I have to admit that Volker is almost certainly right to say that the Sonos music system that he’s been testing recently has an excellent WAF (wife acceptance factor): I pay a lot of attention to the way she adopts technology. There are a number of things that clicked immediately. One . . . → Read More: The ultimate WAF Well, you may be surprised, as Ruth very rarely contributes to this blog, but over the last 3-4 weeks we have been setting up a new blog and gallery for Ruth. It’s called Sew2Speak and is where she will be publishing photos of her patchwork and quilting and providing information on how she achieves . . . → Read More: Ruth has her own blog The cellar is getting full. We have two normal rooms as well the boiler-room, a wash-room and the oil-tank-room in our cellar, it’s getting crowded down there. Ruth has always used the smaller room as sewing room, and the larger room was used as an occasional office (the Windows PC is banished there) and . . . → Read More: We’re running out of space Just in case you were wondering (which, of course, you weren’t) – the ground here still hasn’t had a snow-free day since Christmas. And guess what, it is snowing at the moment – again. (No “Santa’s Little Helper” this time: she’s in the cellar still, Marc) Colors in the cellar Ruth is taking a dyeing course at the Quilt University this weekend, so our cellar is full of buckets of dye and cloth. Ruth has a total of thirteen buckets for her dyeing, but they’re not all in use today. The patterns that develop depend on the actual process . . . → Read More: Dyeing day We’ve had snow on the ground since Christmas. So we’d quite like it to melt, but it snowed again on Wednesday and Thursday this week (just as the previous lot had nearly melted completely). So now we have it stacked up everywhere again… Some time ago, we hooked up an iPod to the stereo, with the goal of moving the CDs into storage in the cellar and freeing up some space for the increasing number of DVDs that we seem to be acquiring. The CDs are in fact still in the lounge, although mainly because we haven’t cleared space to store them elsewhere. However, whether the iPod is a viable alternative depends on your listening habits. I like to have background music on when I’m doing other things, so I use playlists a lot, which works well for me. Ruth likes to be able to pick a particular album to listen to. So Ruth wasn’t completely convinced that the iPod is the right way to go – you can wear your finger out on the scroll wheel before you can hear a piece by Yo-Yo-Ma. |
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