Cathedrale Notre Dame de Bayeux
The heart of Bayeux is a cathedral town. Bayeux cathedral is on the gentle slopes which rise above a small river The main shopping street run east west just a couple of blocks north of the cathedral with a quaint residential area (with some nice cafes) just to the west of the cathedral. The cathedral […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Spanish Skirted Dress
The picture is a bit blurry – I must take a better one, but after sharing the pictures of Dante Marioni’s Blue Group, I thought I would add this blue dress I designed. I love the Spanish skirt. In case you are wondering what this is doing on an Ancient Egypt site it’s simple. In […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Californian Halloween
I never understood the fuss about Halloween until I spent a Halloween in Silcon Valley. In Britain was are used to seeing a few houses decorated at Christmas. The road up from me is one where most houses are illuminated outside. That’s nothing though compared with the decoration I saw in Old Palo Alto. Whole […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Burgundy Orchid
When I was in Thailand I visited a couple of orchid farms and can’t recall quite which orchid farm this was taken in but it was just one of literally thousands of blooms. My father used to grow orchids and was always excited when he got one or two blooms. I’m really not sure how […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Blue Group – Glassware by Dante Marioni
Blue Group is a 1994 piece by the American artist Dante Marioni which was displayed in the Stanford Museum in 2008. It features three tall, slender pieces of hand-blown glass in lustrous blue. [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Embedding Hybrid Hooks in Code
The Hybrid Hooks PlugIn is great for quickly testing something but once it is working then it is secure from accidental editing if it is transferred to functions.php. I added a <div class=”halo”></div> “before_content” to provide the halo around post elements. Once this was stable and signed off, I transferred it into functions.php very simply: […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
1920s Flappers
When I was a little girl, I used to watch the old 1920s silent movie, Chapin, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Cops and the like. They weren’t exactly highbrow but for a young girl growing up in the 1970s they were fun all the same. They have left me with a love of the 1920s. Some […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley