For newcomers

At the bottom of each post there is the word "comments". If you click on it you will see comments made by followers, and if you follow the instructions you may also comment and I always welcome that. I have found many people overlook this part of the blog which is often more interesting than the original post!

My blog nick-name is SIR HUGH. I'm not from the aristocracy - my middle name is Hugh which relates to the list of 282 hills in Scotland compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891. I climbed my last one (Sgurr Mor) on 28th June 2009

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Monday 16 November 2015

Diversions

A combination of  poor weather and other circumstances seems to have kept me indoors for a while. That means I have turned to various diversions:

1.  A new Photoshop painting.

Based on Small Water (nr. Haweswater - Lake District)
I have reduced pixels by half for the blog - original would be a bit sharper - CLICK TO ENLARGE
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2. At the request of daughter High Horse I  made a rubber band pin board for Katie.



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3. And more Photoshop playtime - have you noticed my new avatar?




This was the orginal but the figure was too small on the avatar so he had to be cropped


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5 comments:

  1. afootinthehills17 November 2015 at 17:46

    Hello Conrad - I did notice your new avatar and very fine it is too.

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  2. gimmer17 November 2015 at 20:44

    would you like me to lend you an iron age iceaxe to model with - or is this a reference to your potholing and caving exploits (cannot be gardening, of course)

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  3. Sir Hugh18 November 2015 at 09:34

    afoot - Hi Gibson. I saw a picture of him on The Two Blondes blog and just had to have one. I thought it may be a discontinued LEGO item but the Internet provided. The ice axe is a bit out of proportion even allowing for the monster I refer to in the next reply here.

    gimmer - I still have my STUBAI ASCHENBRENNER FUHRERPICKEL . It is one of those coincidences that I haven't seen it since I moved here over 15 years ago and I came across it yesterday when I was clearing out the big wardrobe cupboard on my landing. I see they are fetching around the !00 dollar mark on Ebay in The States.

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  4. Anonymous18 November 2015 at 23:09

    Conrad,
    I'm trying to identify the crag below your Lego climber.
    Gritstone?
    Yorkshire?
    Ilkley? Caley?
    Put me out of my misery.

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  5. Sir Hugh18 November 2015 at 23:18

    bpwland climber - 'Tis the Cow at Cow and Calf, Ilkley. Remember a couple of exquisite moves on Ferdinand - the slab at the right hand end, albeit on chiseled holds?

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