Firstly, please let me thank Sarah for inviting me to be a guest on Birds on the Blog. I feel honoured and humbled to be in the company of such esteemed and eloquent bloggers! I’m Charles Conway of Clear as Crystal Web Design in Wrexham and my wife Christine and I recently launched a new site aimed at [...]
A little diversion from my intended topic today, because I wanted to introduce an item in preparation for a rather tasty little competition we will be running next week for fans of BirdsOnTheBlog … the subject of which is a rather beautiful glass splashback! … so to make sure you’ll know exactly what to do with it [...]
Are crime writers guilty of murder, or something worse? Image via Wikipedia The Sisters in Crime blog started me thinking, when they asked this question – “Does it bother you, that you write murder as entertainment?” I’m in the middle of writing my first crime novel at the moment, and I’ve been reading crime fiction [...]
I have never been very good at telling anyone other than my kids how much I love them. So the fact that I love my Flip and I am making a public declaration is a big thing! Image by Getty Images via Daylife Camera’s have never been my ‘thing’ as I have said before I [...]
Jewellery is an art in its own right. The precious stones used, the metals, the designs all fall within the criteria of beautiful art. So it is no surprise that artists through history appreciate the beauty of jewellery and document these ornaments in their paintings. Works of art are great records, reflecting the economies, lifestyles, [...]
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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