Well, I haven’t posted for ages, but I though I would post about a really annoying “feature” of Windows 10 that was driving me up the wall. My Windows 10 machine is now running with no extra CPU load and everything seems to be running normally. I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1 and […]
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Uttoxeter Flame Off 2014
Ha ha… OK so I don’t post very often, I really must set myself a target of posting some things up more regulally. Anyway it’s now been two years since we last went to a Flame off having missed last year’s at Silverstone due Sarah exhibiting at the Big Bead Show. Below are 151 new […]
Towcester Flame Off 2012
I can’t believe it’s been a year since I posted… Oh well. Below are 208 of the 956 pictures that I took during the flame off weekend, as before this annual event organised by Tuffnell Glass and Totally Beads is held at Towcester racecourse in the Midlands. It’s a great opportunity to meet like minded […]
Towcester Flame Off 2011
I only visited the 2011 Flame Off this year on the Saturday, but still managed to take 556 pictures. Below are a selection of those pictures that I took during the day This annual event organised by Tuffnell Glass and Totally Beads is held at Towcester racecourse in the Midlands. It’s a great opportunity to meet like minded people, have a curry, […]
International Festival of Glass
Below are some of the pictures I took during the International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge. Including the Lampwork glass bead fair, British Glass Biennale 2010, and the excellent time Sarah and I had during a glass blowing taster course… Enjoy
All over again
Well hopefully this post will not reside on my blog like a bad smell. (the last Journal post was there for 2 and a half years, all on its lonesome) So anyway We have finally completed the 2009 Journal… a bit late I know, but life got in the way (these things happen) We just […]
GBUK Journal 2009
After rather a long time in the blogging wilderness I though I ought to update everyone on the state of the 2009 GBUK Journal. Well all the pictures were in during December 2009 and I started on the main layout… All was going well, then Christmas hit! and January was a complete washout from an […]
It’s all over…
It’s done at last, the GBUK Journal (which I have been working on for the last 3 weeks) will be released at the GBUK beadfair on Sunday 26th August.
Rather useful photo search
I have just found something while having browse about, and thought it was worthy of my first blog post in a long time. Have you every tried in vain to find a photo that matches your new layout theme… or just needed to find a picture in a particular colour? Well now you can with […]
JavaScript Windows
While browsing around looking for AJAX examples I found a rather interesting JavaScript class to show embedded windows within a browser. http://blogus.xilinus.com/pages/javawin Now this might come in useful for something I’m working on at work !!! Also Found this one moofx from mad4milk Plus some help here