Hannah Stothard

I cant believe how much more growth there is after just one week. This week we were able to pick a couple of courgettes and harvest our first new potatoes.

Our Pickings

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I recently visited New York for a weekend break. I dont have an SLR camera (although id love one) but I do have a reasonably decent compact, Canon Powershot A700. What I like about this camera is its easy to carry around but it still has quite a few manual features to experiment with. I am quite pleased how these two pics turned out. See more on my flickr account.

Times Square

Top of the Rock

Look at these fab paper sculptures. Bought as paper tubes from http://piperoid.jp/en/ you cut and assemble these little chaps without glue to create movable figures.

Our crop is now growing well… We have potatoes, onions, leeks, courgette, marrow, butternut squash, parsnips, carrots, beans, rhubarb, cabbage, cauliflower, beetroot, spinach, aubergines and sprouting broccoli.

I decided our living room needed a bit of colour so I set about my first painting since college (7 years ago). I wanted something a little abstract but with some texture. I built up the canvas a little with texture paste first then glued on some beads on to finish it off.

So whilst developing away the other day I came across the <col> tag! ( Hopefully I am not alone in never having used this before.)
After a quick google I soon established that the col tag could be used to control the widths and alignments of columns in a table removing the need to constantly define td widths and alignments individually.
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