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Just looking in to view some other pages. Nothing to report. It's raining. So what's new?

The connection seems a bit on the slow side today. I've given my contacts on Flickr a week to find me here as Gothenburg Observer, so now I think it's time to switch to my new monicker. Why Supercargo? On the old EastIndiamen - viz ...

15 Passing in front of the con…

... and other trading ships, the supercargo was the man assigned to the ship by the owners to oversee the cargo (super=above). I'm a passenger on the good ship Ipernity, but I'm in charge of my own little corner and the goods in it. I hope the quality of the goods here will come up to the same standard as rest of the goods Ipernity is carrying, and I aspire to be in charge of a super cargo (super=superior) - even if its only a super cargo in my own eyes!

Rose 1

I like the idea of having a blog here. I like the idea of illustrating it even more - but no matter what I do I can only get thumbnails. And if thumbnails are all, then I'd prefer to choose whether or not to use the caption from my photos page. And also, why not let the text wrap around the thumbnails? All this space!

 

Pater Noster 8

Ah, well, there you go. I seem to make a habit of trying to do something, failing, complaining about it and then finding I was just doing it wrong ... So it goes. On the other hand, having tried again. Yes, it's possible to wrap text around by choosing the Left (as here) or Right option, but none of the other options (Middle, Top, Bottom etc) have wrap around. Instead they default to the left margin. For example, the next picture is supposed to be aligned to the Abs Middle. And even if I move it to the middle

Rose 2

using the 'center text' option, it still sits in a sea of white.

Pater Noster 2

And I cannot choose not to have the picture caption. Even if I go into 'source' and remove the <title = ""> code, as I have done for all these three pictures, the picture caption is still there. Obviously.

A thought - suppose I paste the URL for one of the pictures in to the HTML code? Like this ...

 Well, that gets rid of the caption, but now the text doesn't wrap around. Sigh. I'm going to bed!

Or at least it seems to be doing so at present. I just uploaded a series of photos taken over the last few days which are all a bit damp. And Lea has kindly responded to my last blog so now I can put pictures in here without the captions. 

Ah well, not quite perfect even so, but definitely better.

Sunday morning and it's still raining out, but I'm sitting here in the dry, listening to world music on the radio (Klingan P1 - for anyone in Sweden) and Iperniting. ... And a bit later, Klingan is over and I've uploaded six rather large pictures and made up a new album: The Abandoned Sewing Machine.

A week ago I discovered my camera can film short sequences. Since then I've been having a lot of fun, though the etaher has limited my range of sibjects somewhat ... The film I am uploading now is my second (Opus 2). My first is coming, I hope, but waiting for approval from the people who are in it. Nice to see so  many people have dropped by since I was last here. I'm off on holiday from the Internet for a few days, but I'll look forward to responding to everyone when I'm back. Pip-pip and toodloo!

Hydrangea flower

Just back from visiting my mother and sister in England. Uploading a few pictures mostly from my mother's garden, and playing around with the layout of the home page.

Raindrops on Lilly flower

Just a quick addition to note that I have uploaded three short samples of music from the album I'm listening to at present. It's Voices of Eden by Fleskkvartetten (The Flesh Quartet). I don't want to infringe anyone's copyright, so these snatches of my three favourite tracks are taken from a CD sales site here in Sweden. Fleskkvartetten have their own My Space site where you can hear full-length versions of four of the twelve tracks from the CD. Go to www.myspace.com/flaskkvartetten .

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Highgate cemetery 6

Uploading a few more photos from England. Mostly from a sunny morning in Highgate Cemetery.

My Grandmother

'Cause I don't.
I've now caught my wife's cold so I am coughing and sneezing and generally feeling sorry for myself. The only fun I have (cue violins, please) is chasing around Ipernity trying to join Sally Gal's drinking game. That and sitting in the sofa watching movies on DVD. (Most recently Harry Potters 3 and 4 and The Wizard of Oz - and now I've got the Scarcrow's song going round my head "... if I only had a brain ...".) Well, that and inventing cures for the common cold, most of which depend on using the expensive malt whisky we brought back from England. My next round in the drinking game may very well be a whisky toddy. (And my next DVD may very well be Whisky Galore!)

In the meantime, I've just added a few more pics from our England trip - mostly portraits limited to "family and friends" - but here is a picture of my Grandmother from way back ...

New toy

My new toy is an electro-static drawing tablet. That's my hand in the picture pretending to draw the ship. I actually have drawn the ship on the screen, but I'm pretending in this picture because with the best will in the world it's difficult to take a photo with one hand and draw a ship with the other. 

I bought the tablet last week. I'd been thinking of getting one for a while, what tipped the scales was that I tried to buy a pro account on Ipernity but Paypal didn't like my Visa card. I tried and tried, but Paypal kept telling me I was entering the wrong details, or that there was something wrong with my card. So, I went to an on-line electronics store and used the card to buy this. Just to prove to myself that the card was OK. Ipernity didn't get my money - this month. I wonder if anyone else has had similar problems?

Just passing through to upload a new recording, which is a sample from the CD Skräm en katt (Frighten a Cat) by the klezmer/balkan/jazz group Vrat na Vrat who were one of the performers at the Krokstrand Music Festival "Man Must Dance" 26-28 July 2007. This piece includes parts of three of the CD's tracks: "Baba oro" (Track 9), "Ar bloaz daou vil" (Track 8) and "Nekemtenemmutogatol oro" (Track 1). You can hear the tracks in full if you visit the band's homepage on www.myspace.com/vratnavrat. To see some pictures from the Festival, go to Blenda's homepage.