We've Done It!

We’ve finally got around to adding our wedding album to our photos page which you can view here.

Now it’s time for us to go and get another drink!

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Lucy found her snowman last night, it's been missing since Christmas Day! 

Wedding Album

We picked up the wedding photo album last night and it looks fantastic! All the photos look great and the photographer has done a superb job, especially with a picture of us walking from the church to the reception, where he's removed street lights and a traffic sign etc. Now we've got a load more photo's to load into our on-line album and we haven't even got round to loading the ones we already have ..lol.. We'll get them sorted out over the weekend when we're having a break from the DIY.

We're going to have to get to grips with touching up photos ourselves, at the moment all we really know how to do is to make pictures brighter. With our new cameras came a photo editor which looks ok, I'll have a tinker with it later and see what it can do, I think the complexity of something like paintshop pro might be a bit too much for us at the moment, can't be doing with all those knobs and buttons hanging about ..lol..

I think for my birthday I might ask Debbie for books titled something like "Idiots Guide to Photography" and "Photo Editing For Muppets".

Paul

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We signed up for a variant on Blog Exchange yesterday called Blog Clicker, it works just the same and certainly seems to be increasing the hits. While I guess that many whizz by during a frenzied click-a-thon, some people do leave a comment, link to us or both before clicking on by which always brightens our day.

Anyway last night, after I managed to prize Debbie off the computer, going for just one more click for about ten minutes, we went upstairs to watch The Others. We've seen it before but it's a fantastic film, very simple, not really any special effects but keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through to the best twist I've ever seen at the end of a film.

We also got a phone call from the photographer last night, our wedding album is ready! We'll be off to pick it up soon and can't wait to see the photos now they've been touched up a little to correct the colours and background etc.

Paul

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Arrrrrchew!

I think we're both coming down with a flu/sickness bug that's doing the rounds here at the moment, so last night, rather than have our soup for tea in line with our diet, we opted for a therapeutic visit to McDonalds instead.

I did start working on the new photo album for the wedding and honeymoon pictures last night and quickly realised why we've not been adding pictures in there as often as we should be doing... it's a right royal pain in the butt!

First selecting all the pictures we want to put in, then narrow them down, then renaming them all from dsc dah dee dah, open and save them again in paint (reduces the file size) and finally load them into the album. Suffice to say, with over 200 photos to work through, we've not got to the loading stage yet, hopefully we'll at least get the wedding ones loaded tonight.

This morning was weigh day and Debbie's doing rather well, only putting on 2 pounds over Christmas and she's lost more than that over this week, I however, put on considerably more but I'm heading in the right direction again now the beer intake is subsiding.

Paul

R.I.P. Hotmail

We've been having problems with hotmail recently, we used to access the account through Incredimail and it's suddenly stopped sending messages, although messages were still coming in. There was no error so we weren't aware of the problem for a week, then I read somewhere that accessing hotmail through an external email client was now limited to those daft enough to pay for the premium service. So, after six years with the same hotmail account, it's time to say bye bye.

We're now just using our three gmail accounts through Thunderbird, which is the email client from the same team that brought us Firefox. It is a bit fiddly to set up access to gmail accounts but the help on the gmail site is first class and guides you through every step.

We had an email from my Auntie last night, she had sent us some photos of the wedding last week but thanks to hotmail we lost them, but now we have them back again safe and sound. My Auntie has also posted some of the pictures on her own website here which we're chuffed to bits with.

We're going to load all the pictures we have so far into our photo album tonight and update our original website which we haven't touched for about eight months.

Paul

Higher up, the stream winds through the trees and rocks.

The stream on the Longendale trail, disappearing into the hills.