Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Holiday in Japan August 2007

Ok here are my overdue pictures from my holiday too Japan in August, you should be able to click on them to enlarge them, hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them:)


















Friday, July 13, 2007

Jinbei

After seeing Tony wearing jinbei on his site I decided to hunt out a picture of me in Jinbei, I love them they are cool and very comfortable and they look like pajamas so walking around the streets in them is really rather amusing for me, its like going shopping in slippers or something.

As you can see mine is of a slightly different design to Tony's, mine comes with extra padding in the abdomen area, a strange shielding device for the eyes and two fine young ladies attatched, now thats what I call Jinbei.

Saturday, July 07, 2007

The Seven Faces Of....

Found a cool avatar site so I decided to make one of me, though I look nothing like this it would be cool if I did (I once had hair similar but now I haven't got much at all (check the second one on the top row for my current expression). Check out the site Doppelme.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

More Origami


Heres another of my wifes origami pieces I love this one Stegosaurs rock :)

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Origami



Here is a little piece that my wife did, she tinkered with the design slightly to make this Unicorn, she used textured paper which made the folds more difficult, excellent job I hope you agree:)

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

I Was Tagged

Well I have been tagged by Tony and now I have to give 7 random facts about myself, the rules are as follows (and they appear to be being changed along the chain). Ok so rule one is obvious 7 facts about yourself, rule 2 is to tag another 7 people and name them in your blog, there is a problem here. I don't know 7 people with blogs, I can only think of 3 off hand, and 2 of those I can't read because they are Japanese ;) I do know a few more but they are on msn spaces and I am not joining that just to play tag, so here goes,


1 I died when I was a baby (my mother dropped me down a flight of stairs and I landed on my head, and then my mother landed on top of me, explains alot about me now me thinks:) ).


2 I never travelled abroad until I was 31, my first foreign holiday was to Thailand.


3 The more I fly the more scared I get.


4 Up until the age of 27 I could do full splits.


5 I was once bumped by a large shark like looking creature whilst swimming in the sea in Thailand, I ws about 200 metres from the beach and I have never been so panicked in my life, I did the slowest doggie paddle in the world in fear of attracting it back, I had to wade through a shoal of jelly fish to reach the safety of the beach, my legs stung like hell but the relief I felt was amazing, I turned towards the sea to see dolphins in the bay.


6 I lived in a tent for a year.


7 I occasionally dress in a strange manner (in the good cause of various charities). Here is some of the photographic evidence.


PICTURES REMOVED DUE TO INDECENCY


Ok there you go, sorry the facts are boring but thats all I have, and now the part of passing on this game of TAG to someone else, and for those I mention you are not forced to take part, Ok I TAG Obachan, Kamosika and Priscilla sorry girls hope you don't mind to much.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Cute(Kawaii)

Here are my Gerbils Emi (the dark one) and Doris, they are amazing and cute:)



Saturday, April 14, 2007

Roundhouse and Gerbil

As I mentioned previously I have been making a scale model of an Iron Age Roundhouse (Celtic), after alot of research I realized that there was no standard design, so I took parts from different styles and came up with what follows.
Initial construction, this involved drilling 19 holes and fitting pegs into place to act as wall structure, these pegs were then weaved with thin pieces of willow.

The next stage was using glue soaked newspaper(paper-mache) to replicate the use of Daub (which was a material made of dung, straw, mud, clay: you can see why I didn't want to use the authentic method) as you can see above I left a section un-daubed so that you can see the wood weaving.

Hmmm I didn't take an accurate photo graphic record, so what has happened is i painted the walls, then created the roof, this was the most time consuming part of the project. I had to make a temporary insert for the roof from paper (obviously not how the ancients did it) put the main frame poles in , add some support rings and voila, one conical shaped wooden construction. I then got a hanging basket liner and covered my roof beams with it, this was sewn into place with the obligatory missing section, then on top of this was sewn long dry grass to represent thatching, again my way is not the correct way but actually thatching the roof would of taken months, and I think my version looks relatively good.

On a completely different note here is Emi one of my gerbils, she's gorgeous :)