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Scribus Template - Business Card

While I still use LaTeX and Sphinx for my report writing I still needed a replacement for Adobe InDesign. Scribus fits the bill perfectly.

Lemon Blondies

This is a recipe that Jess first made, well it is a recipe that she used as the basis of it. These Lemon Blondies are awesome. I really enjoy them chilled right out of the fridge.

Weekend Baking

I got up to some more weekend baking and made my favourite cookies ever, ginger molasses. When it was time to put our portion in a tin, I noticed that it was round! The tin is over 20 years old! I have a few of the hexagon ones too, and …

Dramatic Cranes

We took a walk around Point Pleasant Park yesterday, and the lighting was perfect. Lots of dramatic clouds and filtered light.

Would recommend.

:wq

Spooky Season is here

Halloween weekend is over, the weekend that everyone does their parties, and trunk-and-treating. We went to a party with other like minded aka Covid is still everywhere and we don't want to get sick families on the weekend too.

Other than a halloween party, and a lot of autumn chores …

Slugs and Moss

A couple of weeks ago we went for a wander in the woods, and I was skimming through the pictures today and noticed something that I didn't see before, a slug under the moss. I didn't notice it when I was taking the picture, I just thought that the little …

More bees and flowers

I was going to test focus-bracketing, but then I remembered that there was a lot of extra pot-processing. So instead I just made the fstop number bigger (aperture smaller). Tomorrow I will probably add my flash for a flash for a full fledged macro-setup and turn the fstop to 11 …