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And we have snow. Plenty of it, too. I honestly didn't think it would hit Cardiff - usually by-passes us completely down here on the coast. If it's this heavy here, I hate to think what it's like up in the hills.

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And we have snow. Plenty of it, too. I honestly didn't think it would hit Cardiff - usually by-passes us completely down here on the coast. If it's this heavy here, I hate to think what it's like up in the hills.

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The bloke on the front desk tells me the building is closing at 3.30 today. Sounds good to me!

Trudging to work through the couple of inches of snow we've had overnight (getting very wet in the process) and thinking about how this is the first snow of the winter for Cardiff reminded me of a story my great-grandad used to tell us about when he was a little boy growing up in Norfolk. He was born in 1899, so it would have been the early 1900s, and they lived in the middle of nowhere so he would have to walk 10 miles to school every day. One day they had very heavy snow, but he set off as usual, and trudged his way through that heavy snow - until he suddenly took a step forward and landed in a massive snowdrift. Turned out, he'd been walking along the top of a six foot hedge without even knowing it, the snow was so deep! We don't get snow like that in these parts any more. A couple of inches is enough to ruin everyone's day!

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The bloke on the front desk tells me the building is closing at 3.30 today. Sounds good to me!

Trudging to work through the couple of inches of snow we've had overnight (getting very wet in the process) and thinking about how this is the first snow of the winter for Cardiff reminded me of a story my great-grandad used to tell us about when he was a little boy growing up in Norfolk. He was born in 1899, so it would have been the early 1900s, and they lived in the middle of nowhere so he would have to walk 10 miles to school every day. One day they had very heavy snow, but he set off as usual, and trudged his way through that heavy snow - until he suddenly took a step forward and landed in a massive snowdrift. Turned out, he'd been walking along the top of a six foot hedge without even knowing it, the snow was so deep! We don't get snow like that in these parts any more. A couple of inches is enough to ruin everyone's day!

Icon dump 1

The evolution of icon making. So, the last couple of months I've been trying to learn how to make icons that look even halfway decent using only Photoshop Elements 2.0. Some I've attempted have been awful, others I've managed to make halfway decent. And I've been sitting on them for ages. I was going to just pick out a few of the better ones to post, but then decided to just throw in a selection of both good and bad, to mark the learning curve. I'll split them into two posts, though, because there's a lot and it'll take ages to load for anyone on dial-up. They're in no particular order, though, so you'll have to guess which ones came first and which ones were made later!

Part One

( Dark Angel )

( Supernatural )

Icon dump 1

The evolution of icon making. So, the last couple of months I've been trying to learn how to make icons that look even halfway decent using only Photoshop Elements 2.0. Some I've attempted have been awful, others I've managed to make halfway decent. And I've been sitting on them for ages. I was going to just pick out a few of the better ones to post, but then decided to just throw in a selection of both good and bad, to mark the learning curve. I'll split them into two posts, though, because there's a lot and it'll take ages to load for anyone on dial-up. They're in no particular order, though, so you'll have to guess which ones came first and which ones were made later!

Part One

( Dark Angel )

( Supernatural )

Icon Dump 2

The evolution of icon making, Part Two:

( Professionals )

( Misc. )

Icon Dump 2

The evolution of icon making, Part Two:

( Professionals )

( Misc. )