Bridget B

@bugshaw

Science fiction, movies, robots, Cambridge-UK based, don't eat nearly as much chocolate as when I first wrote my profile but I do much more sewing.

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Bridget B@bugshaw· 26d

Pot feet

A plant pot with leaves and pink flowers, also you can see a cat's front paw poking out from behind it in the sunlight.

Bridget B@bugshaw· 28d

Well ha! 1925 story, in fifty years there will be talking pictures and no more jobs for caption writers. 'The Man Who Had Great Possessions', Helen de Guerry Simpson

A couple of paragraphs from a fiction book. The relevant section of dialogue:
'What do you suppose the aristocrats of letters will be doing in fifty years time? They'll be writing captions for films, and glad of the job.'

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jul 8

It is too hot for these shenanigans

A photograph of a woman clumsily mimicking a book cover photo, a cup of coffee in the foreground, the woman behind with an arm flung out.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jul 8

Now reading:

A photograph of a book on a garden bench. The book is 'Heat' by Nick James, analysis of the film of the same name.
It's funny because it's hot today.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jul 6

The duvet has been washed, dried, aired and grounded.

Photo of a sunny garden. Two kitchen chairs lie fallen on their sides, and a duvet is sprawled on the lawn. It looks like a crime scene.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jul 4

Toby (as I kept adding to what I was saying): You don't need to put a hat on a hat. Me: Hold my fridge magnet

A black square with a photo booth picture of a woman's head and shoulders bent over giggling wearing at least five hats and maybe two wigs one of them neon pink.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 27

Saw this in the wild in Hart's Bookshop but it's mine now.

Hardback book, The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard, by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan. A bright blue dust jacket with a monochrome picture of Ballard standing in front of a tower block.
It's on the low garden wall in full sunlight.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 26

Aieeee!

The face of Tiffin the cat, sitting on a wall.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 26

Outtake from the cat photoshoot

Ginger cat face extreme close-up as he got way too close to the camera. Can't even see a nose, it's all half a mouth and whiskers. A pointy tooth is ready for its breakfast.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 26

You're in the breakfast man's chair. Where is my breakfast? Cinnamon (a neighbour's cat) got up on the table and so close her licked my eyebrow.

Ginger cat face, close up, leafy garden behind, expression a wizard would have if casting "Compulsion: meal"

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 24

It is the time of year when I sleep with the window open in my ground floor room, and hear night time creatures drinking from the water bowl out front. Sweet peas just starting.

Pale cream sweet pea flowers with tendril stalks climbing a wooden trellis.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 23

Today's bird is robin.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 22

Next door's teenagers hanging out on the fence.

Juvenile blackbird on a fence, side view

Juvenile blackbird on a fence, speckled front

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 22

Weirdly, after that the solar app charts show almost nothing used (here's one from yesterday with 0.2kW y-axis and an afternoon laundry, and a representative one from February which isn't very sunny but is normal) but the smart meter is showing the grid use.

Screenshot of solar monitoring app from June 21. The y-axis only goes up to 0.02 kWh. There's a steady low use of Load Power then a burst of Grid Consumption around 5pm when someone was doing laundry.

Screenshot of solar monitoring app from February showing the normal pattern of use of power from grid in the morning then a bit from panels and batteries in the afternoon.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 22

Today's Technical Problem I Didn't Ask For: Electricity. I check the smart meter twice a week to monitor the daily usage. From June 11 it's 5-8 kWh/day more than usual for sunny days and solar panels. I start trying to troubleshoot/understand. Here's the solar monitoring app data for June 10.

A screenshot chart of electricity data from a solar panel monitoring app. Date June 10. It shows bursts of use, in colours that mostly represent load power and feed-in power. Around 3pm the usage drops to almost nothing.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 12

Visiting Toby for the weekend. This is the face Lucia Cat throws when she hears him at the gate.

Calico cat looking suddenly very alert, her green eyes are slits. She's sitting in the garden in a sharp angle made by a low red brick wall and a green bit of shrubbery. Only visible from the neck up.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Jun 4

Matilda, stealing my chair at a sewing class.

A soft grey cat on a wooden dining chair

Bridget B@bugshaw· May 25

I'm having a coffee.

A red white and black mug with stylised cats lounging on retro chairs. The mug is sitting on a wooden planter bench in a garden.

Bridget B@bugshaw· May 22

Timing: good or bad? I was getting ready for this afternoon's Zips! sewing class, and the side zip broke on my trousers...

A pair of blue trousers with a broken side zip.

Bridget B@bugshaw· May 16

It describes the scissor making process. ... until the polisher can see his ... sweaty face in their surfaces.

A paragraph from a book:
Ernest Wright's grinders work in a sequence established generations ago: inside bow, outside bow, shank, nail hole, blade. An accomplished practitioner can get through fifty items a day, provided he isn't interrupted. The blades are then hardened in a furnace so they're strong enough to take and keep an edge, re-heated to a lower temperature (a process called annealing or tempering) so they're soft enough to manipulate without snapping, 'rumbled' smooth by porcelain beads, dried in a warm bath of maize and walnuts, and burnished with Italian cotton until the polisher can see his

Bridget B@bugshaw· May 16

I bought Toby James Fox's Craftland for Christmas, and he's now bought me this marvellous pair of Ernest Wright Sheffield-made quilting scissors!

A hardback book, open at a line drawing labelled diagram of a pair of scissors, with the shadow of a hand holding a pair of scissors falling across the other page, and a second hand holding the book open.

A copy of a yellow hardback Craftland by James Fox. On top of it sits a brown leather pouch stamped Ernest Wright, and a shiny pair of scissors.

Bridget B@bugshaw· May 13

I got rid of my worn out coat yesterday, but first I cut the buttons off and saved them in the button jar. The jar is now full and I was not prepared for that. What now - a second jar? A bigger jar?

Bridget B@bugshaw· May 4

I went to Shepreth Wildlife Park yesterday on the train. Door to dinosaur in 42 minutes!

A large plastic dinosaur in a paddock with a wood fence. A sign on the fence says:
These animals will bite.
Do not lean over.

Bridget B@bugshaw· May 4

Today in the garden everything's purple.

Three pinky purple flowers in pots in the garden, arranged together. An allium, two irises, and some hesperis, offset by a white painted fence.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Apr 29

Crochet class 3: magic ring and reading a pattern to make a coaster.

Denim blue chunky wool crocheted into a rough disk shape

Bridget B@bugshaw· Apr 26

Carousel mode

Two carousel ride horses, slight rear angle

Bridget B@bugshaw· Apr 25

DIY practice. I call this piece "Ducklings".

A rectangular piece of wood with six holes drilled in it; the one at the right is larger to represent a mother duck and five ducklings.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Apr 24

Did my DIY class homework. I have a long list of questions and things I found difficult.

Back garden patio on a sunny day. A wood table, on it an electric drill and a vise, and a wood frame about 40cm across with a top and bottom and sides and two extra internal uprights.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Apr 22

DIY practice: very energetic for me, but I don't need to leave the house till Saturday so I have plenty of recovery time. Practiced sawing skills and turned this old shed roof that didn't fit in mum's car for the tip, into four smaller bits which I hope to be able to dispose of at some point.

Back garden patio. A large piece of shed roof wood is lying on the table, with its far end balanced on some folding steps. There is a saw in it, it's got about half way through but I left it there while I had a rest, with its orange handle sticking out. Protective eye goggles also on the table.

Corner of the back garden patio. Four pieces of shed roof are leaning against the wall. They're a more manageable size now, though the critical amongst you might point out that I've not sawn them on a nice right angle and their edges are wonky.

Bridget B@bugshaw· Apr 22

Crochet class 2: granny squares. Made a couple of off by one errors and needed to unravel all the way round twice, but understanding it more now. Homework: finish the edge; try another edge with a different colour; try another square from the beginning but much tighter, I'm very loose.