But What a Sound!!!

I've spent some of today making sound effects for the demo content for the XNA book. Great fun. I've been sampling things using Audacity and I tried to export a little bit of a waveform to make the tick sound for a clock that I've made. Except that I exported all the tracks at once. The resulting sound however is fantastic. Take a listen here and try to keep a straight face all the way through.....

..just think how much I've saved

Went shopping for clothes today. Went very well, got a couple of jackets and some jeans It might not seem much to you, but I'm only able to buy clothes a couple of times a year and this was one of them. I'm not telling you how much I spent, but I saved loads...

The weather was kind of interesting and wintry. Asked number one son to poke the camera out of the car window during the journey.

So he did.

The first shot he took

True Grit

Not quite an oil painting, but it could be..

As could this...

Swiss Army Explosive

The motorway just down the road from us might have to be closed soon because someone out with a metal detector discovered a large piece of unexploded second world war hardware buried in a field. The local news said that it was a "100 pound general purpose bomb". I'm wondering if this means that you could also use it as a can opener and corkscrew etc.

Not now, James

Just finished watching a Bond movie, and the question arises, "Is the world ever saved by ugly people?"

New Year at Hornsea

We always try to go to the seaside on new years day. We've done this for years, and we are still not sure why. The thing is, sometimes the weather is great and you can get some superb pictures.

Then you have days like today. It was quite cheering to find that there were a few other plucky souls who had ventured out into the horrible weather. I, of course, took the camera to record the occasion.

Nobody was swimming.....

Teddy bears

Snakes and Ladders

We spent a pound here. In two pence pieces....