That's quite a trip to go to Skye for a game of shinty! Was it part of a championship series?
It'll be a lot better too no longer falling in a gap. Yeah, I should be getting a new mattress too to go with my new bed frame - but I dread going round the shops for it. Had enough of buying for awhile. =]
heh heh @ locals. What's the name of the hotel? My brother used to work up at Forrest Hills.
Oh yeah, Skye was one place I was very pleased to leave! I can imagine, not only battered by sticks, but battered by hail stones from the side too - not good conditions! Rain was always horizontal there... O_o
That is odd, I'm a bit more sheltered with trees and some houses breaking the wind.
Ow, two foot shorter or narrower? *checks profile height* You're nearly 6 ft, I can understand that'd be maddening. Nothing worse than an uncomfortable mattress. I tried sleeping on mine on the floor for a couple days - couldn't stand it without some support frame.
Yeah, I will be - at least now I have space to move around (break out the dance mat!!! XD). What's your place like? Is it a small family-run farm?
That'll be a good time tomorrow - getting to catch up with friends. Shame you have to come home early, but I have the same problem with going to Glasgow, since I rely on the buses too. Well, have a great time at the flat-warming, man! :D
Wow, I hope the chickens weren't in the cope at the time! :O Reminds me of the Isle of Skye weather, where I used to live for a while as a kid.
You must be more in more open territory than me to get that sort of wind!
The room's still waiting on a chair, lol - I've been avoiding thinking about getting another. The light strip came and it works, though had to send for a better transformer and another strip before I hook them up round the room. Still I've got them round the floor skirting board and set them off to fade/flash colour-cycle while listening to some music. They're fun, but I've got to work out how to cut up some polystyrene to mount them round the ceiling. heh
You been to your friend's flat warming this week yet, how did it go? Or is it not 'til the weekend?
Yeah, the wind picked up today a fair bit - but it seems to have died down again, as you say. No flying cows around. :(
I bet! Sounds like you have even fewer buses where you are, than I do. heh
I usually go more for particular tunes rather than bands, because I find usually they have either one or just a few tunes I like and the rest isn't worth a repeat listen. I like all sorts, in all genres really, but mostly I just have my whole collection on random select and quickly shuffle through until I find a tune for my mood. XD
Good luck on the compo! Fly Agaric's make great looking photos - I'm curious now to see the selective colouring you did on it. I've taken a few photos of fungi, but it's rare to find undamaged Fly Agarics around, so I've not done one of them.
Don't get me wrong - I'm glad you're got a good winter line-up to go see. :D Gotta keep busy during the cold weather, talking of which there was meant to be the remains of a hurricane coming to Scotland today? Seems mild here though.
Congrats on passing your theory, big plus done! Will be cool to get your license in November and be free to go where you want, when you like to concerts. Plus, you can escape the locals more. =D
You should put some up - adds a little more real life to the site. A lot of folk concentrate on close-ups, but as long as the picture size is set high enough, you get all the detail and see the whole person/scene behind makes for a better pic often.
I was thinking like this trick - have you ever tried a photo like that? I think the ones where the clones are 'looking' or interacting with each other are clever.
Of course, just getting a normal perfect photo angle on something is a great satisfaction once you see the photo turn out great. Or when you get those depth-of-field shots or fore-shortening effects, those are cool, but really can't be done easily yourself.
I agree, when the handling gets too stiff and you can't turn to save yourself it spoils the fun.
You're going to have a busy winter :D How are you getting in to Glasgow? Do you have a car?
Yeah! I used to hate being in pictures - I would run at the sight of a friend pointing their camera. lol But now I quite like pictures and editing them is fun - or at least cropping & colour-balancing them (which I do a lot of, my camera always makes things slightly yellow indoors). Just I end up picky about which pic to keep. heh One of my best friend's friends came to the street fayre in June and wanted to take pics of my red mohawk. It's funny when folk get all awed.
I wouldn't mind doing some more false background stuff - tried that once, worked out quite well. That and clones in the same pic are cool, though getting the shadows right is tricky. Someone on here did that in a photo.
Need for speed! Oooh, fav series, shift 2, huh? That's one I'll be getting myself too. How's the handling in it?
Maybe could work out to hang out in the town centre before a concert some time in the future. What bands are at the concerts?
I was a fan of Uncharted from the beginning videos, would be sweet to play it.
Yep, you always get the odd bunch that want to cause trouble. Sometimes I go into Glasgow too, haven't been recently though.
What made you pick Photography? My oldest brother has got into photography in a big way recently (as his hobby, doing macro images and scenery). So I've been a few walks round the countryside with him hunting out new things to photograph. :D
Funny enough, me too - one of my older brothers had a PSX and I used to go for a regular gaming night at my friend's brothers who had a couple playstations and then PS2's.
Yeah, I always liked the Prince of Persia series - not tried the last one though, and Uncharted looks like an awesome type of that. The new PS Vita is looking very impressive.
Aye, I know exactly how you mean about not being seen as a local - had the same problem both in Skye and down here in this village (at first). It's got better now (more incomers), but there are still pretty petty & close-minded folk around. I prefer Glasgow, when I go through there, the people are generally very friendly and I can be myself. A friend of mine went to Glasgow college - what course are you going to do?
The only console the family has is a Wii :D I wasn't tempted by a 360 since I build up my PC's with nice graphics cards and although there are some exclusives I would have liked to play on it, ah, a lot of them eventually get converted.
The PS3, no one I know has one and yet, there are some games on it I really did like the idea of playing, like: Uncharted series, Little Big Planet, God of War and I've watched some videos of the next Call of Duty and it looks really nicely done! Very involving. I just don't have much cash either and PC games tend to get cheap quick - even if they do take longer to get ported. =)
I still prefer split-screen/lan multi-player with pals over online multi-player with random strangers. (Also I don't like dying from lag. lol Though I am a big shooter fan, when it's friendly.)
Now you've made me curious about what you find 'not good' about the culture up here compared. LOL But then I did live in the Isle of Skye for 5 years and that was a extreme difference too and I certainly found plenty to complain about there! :D
Well, I like most types of games, though lately I've been going for racing, or MMORPG and some first-person shooter fun. Oh, and RTS too. Games like Split-Second, Dead Space 2, Need for Speed Carbon, Rift and even Runescape. heheh If you've heard of that last one, I still can be addicted to simple things. lol
What about yourself?
And would you say there's also culture shock between Southhampton and here?
Either way, sounds good. Someone just last weekend joined the site and we were trying to brainstorm on the chat how to do blue tips with black - either dye both at once or separately. They haven't got back on how it worked out with their friend helping them on Sunday or Monday.
Yeah, I've had my fair share of miss-cuts :D
The room's not bad - it's tidy and clear! (For once! haha) It's brilliant having room to walk round. lol I've got a tiny little room, so any space cleared is greatly noticed. But I'm taking a break today, back in my deck-chair inside. heh My new, damaged chair got picked up by the postie yesterday for return. Now I'm back to the hunt for a good chair again. Think I might get my sister to give me a ride to town and check out for a comfy one. (It'll be like 'The Three Bears'.) But I'm bored of fitting things together & buying now. :D Time for gaming!
I had a friend from South Africa who did the same. It's some change of climate! But at 6 you wont remember much, I guess. Though even Southhampton to here is quite a difference, I bet!
It's great when the fan works out like that. You're welcome to the link, good to be useful. :D Always fun going through colours.
The green actually did fade quite a lot on the first wash or two, but I put some more on and just left it in without washing it out (it's conditioner after all) and after that, even with further washes it didn't fade too much and stuck around for a very long time.
Yeah, my sister (even though she once was a hairdresser) was afraid to cut my 'hawk (esp. the back where I couldn't manage). They're afraid to mess it up. I now do it all myself (including dyeing). Though I think it'd be pretty cool to dye someone's 'hawk and see your work tall & proud and them happy with it. Plus, it'd be much easier getting it right than DIYing with two mirrors like I do!
I know what you mean, mostly I leave it up for as long as I can get away with it. Still, it's always a confidence boost and I missed the effect when I had it short for a couple summers ago. At least with plaiting you can always decide to do it up or down, maybe even two-dye plaits!
Good to hear. Would be interesting to see how the faded looks before you change it, always handy for recommending dyes on the site to get a later photo.
I don't know if you came across my thread here about what folk's impressions are on lots of dyes. It might help you choose one - I always think colour choice is a kinda personal thing, it's always important to get what you like. I will say, blue seems to be one of the harder colours, it fades fast for most folk it seems. When I went green I really drew attention - scarily...I mean getting screamed at like with positive comments and groups of young girls running to catch up with me in my village. LOL I also shocked my local shopkeeper into gasping and taking a step back until they recognised who I was. XD
You're actually the same time away from Glasgow as myself, I'm about 10 miles outside Stirling and I used to go up to Fort William for family holidays. So, I too am in middle of no-where - I get by. :) Just use online a lot for buying stuff, including dyes! haha
I've been getting my room all done up - even blogged about it today (while waiting on the postman XD). Apart from some messed up stuff by Parcelforce, I've been doing pretty good, looking forward to experimenting with some colour-changing LED strip lighting I'm getting from HK.
How's it feel having the 'hawk now 6 months or so on? Did you notice any difference after you went red & purple? If you want to be daring, you could try yellow and black sections - that's very effective I remember a couple folk on the site did it.
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That's quite a trip to go to Skye for a game of shinty! Was it part of a championship series?
It'll be a lot better too no longer falling in a gap. Yeah, I should be getting a new mattress too to go with my new bed frame - but I dread going round the shops for it. Had enough of buying for awhile. =]
heh heh @ locals. What's the name of the hotel? My brother used to work up at Forrest Hills.
So, how went the flat warming? All went good?
Oh yeah, Skye was one place I was very pleased to leave! I can imagine, not only battered by sticks, but battered by hail stones from the side too - not good conditions! Rain was always horizontal there... O_o
That is odd, I'm a bit more sheltered with trees and some houses breaking the wind.
Ow, two foot shorter or narrower? *checks profile height* You're nearly 6 ft, I can understand that'd be maddening. Nothing worse than an uncomfortable mattress. I tried sleeping on mine on the floor for a couple days - couldn't stand it without some support frame.
Yeah, I will be - at least now I have space to move around (break out the dance mat!!! XD). What's your place like? Is it a small family-run farm?
That'll be a good time tomorrow - getting to catch up with friends. Shame you have to come home early, but I have the same problem with going to Glasgow, since I rely on the buses too. Well, have a great time at the flat-warming, man! :D
Wow, I hope the chickens weren't in the cope at the time! :O Reminds me of the Isle of Skye weather, where I used to live for a while as a kid.
You must be more in more open territory than me to get that sort of wind!
The room's still waiting on a chair, lol - I've been avoiding thinking about getting another. The light strip came and it works, though had to send for a better transformer and another strip before I hook them up round the room. Still I've got them round the floor skirting board and set them off to fade/flash colour-cycle while listening to some music. They're fun, but I've got to work out how to cut up some polystyrene to mount them round the ceiling. heh
You been to your friend's flat warming this week yet, how did it go? Or is it not 'til the weekend?
Yeah, the wind picked up today a fair bit - but it seems to have died down again, as you say. No flying cows around. :(
I bet! Sounds like you have even fewer buses where you are, than I do. heh
I usually go more for particular tunes rather than bands, because I find usually they have either one or just a few tunes I like and the rest isn't worth a repeat listen. I like all sorts, in all genres really, but mostly I just have my whole collection on random select and quickly shuffle through until I find a tune for my mood. XD
Don't get me wrong - I'm glad you're got a good winter line-up to go see. :D Gotta keep busy during the cold weather, talking of which there was meant to be the remains of a hurricane coming to Scotland today? Seems mild here though.
Congrats on passing your theory, big plus done! Will be cool to get your license in November and be free to go where you want, when you like to concerts. Plus, you can escape the locals more. =D
You should put some up - adds a little more real life to the site. A lot of folk concentrate on close-ups, but as long as the picture size is set high enough, you get all the detail and see the whole person/scene behind makes for a better pic often.
I was thinking like this trick - have you ever tried a photo like that? I think the ones where the clones are 'looking' or interacting with each other are clever.
Of course, just getting a normal perfect photo angle on something is a great satisfaction once you see the photo turn out great. Or when you get those depth-of-field shots or fore-shortening effects, those are cool, but really can't be done easily yourself.
I agree, when the handling gets too stiff and you can't turn to save yourself it spoils the fun.
You're going to have a busy winter :D How are you getting in to Glasgow? Do you have a car?
Yeah! I used to hate being in pictures - I would run at the sight of a friend pointing their camera. lol But now I quite like pictures and editing them is fun - or at least cropping & colour-balancing them (which I do a lot of, my camera always makes things slightly yellow indoors). Just I end up picky about which pic to keep. heh One of my best friend's friends came to the street fayre in June and wanted to take pics of my red mohawk. It's funny when folk get all awed.
I wouldn't mind doing some more false background stuff - tried that once, worked out quite well. That and clones in the same pic are cool, though getting the shadows right is tricky. Someone on here did that in a photo.
Need for speed! Oooh, fav series, shift 2, huh? That's one I'll be getting myself too. How's the handling in it?
Maybe could work out to hang out in the town centre before a concert some time in the future. What bands are at the concerts?
I was a fan of Uncharted from the beginning videos, would be sweet to play it.
Yep, you always get the odd bunch that want to cause trouble. Sometimes I go into Glasgow too, haven't been recently though.
What made you pick Photography? My oldest brother has got into photography in a big way recently (as his hobby, doing macro images and scenery). So I've been a few walks round the countryside with him hunting out new things to photograph. :D
Funny enough, me too - one of my older brothers had a PSX and I used to go for a regular gaming night at my friend's brothers who had a couple playstations and then PS2's.
Yeah, I always liked the Prince of Persia series - not tried the last one though, and Uncharted looks like an awesome type of that. The new PS Vita is looking very impressive.
Aye, I know exactly how you mean about not being seen as a local - had the same problem both in Skye and down here in this village (at first). It's got better now (more incomers), but there are still pretty petty & close-minded folk around. I prefer Glasgow, when I go through there, the people are generally very friendly and I can be myself. A friend of mine went to Glasgow college - what course are you going to do?
The only console the family has is a Wii :D I wasn't tempted by a 360 since I build up my PC's with nice graphics cards and although there are some exclusives I would have liked to play on it, ah, a lot of them eventually get converted.
The PS3, no one I know has one and yet, there are some games on it I really did like the idea of playing, like: Uncharted series, Little Big Planet, God of War and I've watched some videos of the next Call of Duty and it looks really nicely done! Very involving. I just don't have much cash either and PC games tend to get cheap quick - even if they do take longer to get ported. =)
I still prefer split-screen/lan multi-player with pals over online multi-player with random strangers. (Also I don't like dying from lag. lol Though I am a big shooter fan, when it's friendly.)
Now you've made me curious about what you find 'not good' about the culture up here compared. LOL But then I did live in the Isle of Skye for 5 years and that was a extreme difference too and I certainly found plenty to complain about there! :D
Yep, indeed.
Well, I like most types of games, though lately I've been going for racing, or MMORPG and some first-person shooter fun. Oh, and RTS too. Games like Split-Second, Dead Space 2, Need for Speed Carbon, Rift and even Runescape. heheh If you've heard of that last one, I still can be addicted to simple things. lol
What about yourself?
And would you say there's also culture shock between Southhampton and here?
Either way, sounds good. Someone just last weekend joined the site and we were trying to brainstorm on the chat how to do blue tips with black - either dye both at once or separately. They haven't got back on how it worked out with their friend helping them on Sunday or Monday.
Yeah, I've had my fair share of miss-cuts :D
The room's not bad - it's tidy and clear! (For once! haha) It's brilliant having room to walk round. lol I've got a tiny little room, so any space cleared is greatly noticed. But I'm taking a break today, back in my deck-chair inside. heh My new, damaged chair got picked up by the postie yesterday for return. Now I'm back to the hunt for a good chair again. Think I might get my sister to give me a ride to town and check out for a comfy one. (It'll be like 'The Three Bears'.) But I'm bored of fitting things together & buying now. :D Time for gaming!
I had a friend from South Africa who did the same. It's some change of climate! But at 6 you wont remember much, I guess. Though even Southhampton to here is quite a difference, I bet!
It's great when the fan works out like that. You're welcome to the link, good to be useful. :D Always fun going through colours.
The green actually did fade quite a lot on the first wash or two, but I put some more on and just left it in without washing it out (it's conditioner after all) and after that, even with further washes it didn't fade too much and stuck around for a very long time.
Yeah, my sister (even though she once was a hairdresser) was afraid to cut my 'hawk (esp. the back where I couldn't manage). They're afraid to mess it up. I now do it all myself (including dyeing). Though I think it'd be pretty cool to dye someone's 'hawk and see your work tall & proud and them happy with it. Plus, it'd be much easier getting it right than DIYing with two mirrors like I do!
I know what you mean, mostly I leave it up for as long as I can get away with it. Still, it's always a confidence boost and I missed the effect when I had it short for a couple summers ago. At least with plaiting you can always decide to do it up or down, maybe even two-dye plaits!
Where did you move up from?
Good to hear. Would be interesting to see how the faded looks before you change it, always handy for recommending dyes on the site to get a later photo.
I don't know if you came across my thread here about what folk's impressions are on lots of dyes. It might help you choose one - I always think colour choice is a kinda personal thing, it's always important to get what you like. I will say, blue seems to be one of the harder colours, it fades fast for most folk it seems. When I went green I really drew attention - scarily...I mean getting screamed at like with positive comments and groups of young girls running to catch up with me in my village. LOL I also shocked my local shopkeeper into gasping and taking a step back until they recognised who I was. XD
You're actually the same time away from Glasgow as myself, I'm about 10 miles outside Stirling and I used to go up to Fort William for family holidays. So, I too am in middle of no-where - I get by. :) Just use online a lot for buying stuff, including dyes! haha
I've been getting my room all done up - even blogged about it today (while waiting on the postman XD). Apart from some messed up stuff by Parcelforce, I've been doing pretty good, looking forward to experimenting with some colour-changing LED strip lighting I'm getting from HK.
How's it feel having the 'hawk now 6 months or so on? Did you notice any difference after you went red & purple? If you want to be daring, you could try yellow and black sections - that's very effective I remember a couple folk on the site did it.
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