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Category: General

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Young Herring Gull

Humans Vs Herring Gulls

Posted: July 10th, 2015 | Posted in: General

I was out in Llandudno for the day and a sea gull swooped down, hit me on the head and flew off with the remains of my ice cream. They don’t need a PR expert, they need an extermination expert to rid us of this filthy and violent …
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SNP: Stronger for Scotland

#SNPbecause …

Posted: May 6th, 2015 | Posted in: General

In recent weeks it has become very clear to me that Labour, The Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have focussed themselves on condescension and an attempted delegitimisation of Scotland’s voice within the United Kingdom government, rather than forming a progressive pro-union voice, informing people of Scotland about how they …
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Bay of Sannick, Canisbay

Curating your own photography

Posted: March 14th, 2014 | Tags: | Posted in: General, Photography, Tutorials

Curating your own photography is a difficult thing. You take your entire collection of “keepers”, potentially thousands of images, and condense it down into a very small collection of around 15 that say the most about you, and more importantly, about you as a photographer. In my opinion …
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Tannoy Mercury V1i in Dark Walnut

Building a “budget” music system

Posted: January 13th, 2014 | Posted in: General, Music, Tutorials

Up until last week I’d been using an old set of JBL On-Tour speakers connected to an Apple Airport Express to play music from my laptop. This was a great setup, and had served me well enough for as long as I’ve had the Airport Express. The Airport …
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