Remember, remember the 5th of November. . .

In 1605, a man named Guy Fawkes was part of a plot to blow up the houses of parliament and the king. However, the plot was discovered and Guy Fawkes was captured and executed.

This event is commemorated every year with traditional fireworks and the lighting of a bonfire with a 'guy' on top. Here's a website with more infomation:


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Guy.html


Here's the traditional lighting of fireworks
















Unfortunately, our bonfire didn't have a 'Guy' on top but instead had a model which looked strangely like the houses of parliament. Not quite in keeping with the usual tradition then.

I didn't manage to grow any green peppers or cherry tomatoes this year, but here are some grapes which grew all on their own.

Where have all the flowers gone?

See my healthy glow - probably all that fruit and veg I eat!

I'm loving my photoshop course: more gorgeous photos to follow soon . . .

The weather is changing.

As I walked to the gym this morning (oops - am I showing off?), I noticed that the leaves are finally starting to change.

This weather seems more like late Sept than late October. I looked up some geeky weather statistics here . . .

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/

. . . and it's been the warmest, sunniest September for ages. Probably the warmest Oct too.

Climate change is definitely happening. I wonder how long I'll be able to keep on hoping for a 'White Christmas' each year? The snow last year was fab - but only about two inches actually fell anywhere near me. Not really enough to make a snow angel is it?

I found this cool free software . . .

It's for web design (huzzah!) and appears to be fab. You can find out all about it and download it here:

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

I haven't tried it myself yet.

Woo hoo!

I'm doing a Photoshop course and another on web design! Gorgeous Photoshopped pictures will be appearing on this blog soon . . . be afraid!

I took this photo of burnt trees in California. I wonder how it would look if I made it black and white? Maybe kinda scary?

The best cake ever?

No - don't get excited - I haven't been cooking!

I'm learning more about blogging and I had a look at BoingBoing which is a famously fabulous blog.

They had an article about this utterly splendid Discworld cake and there was even a link to a detailed page about how it was made.

It reminded me of just how much I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld books and how I really must start reading them again very soon.