The failure to reach a new binding agreement on emission cuts for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases at the December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen imperils glaciers worldwide —not only polar ice caps but also tropical glaciers that are located in equatorial mountain ranges. What still remains of the world's tropical glaciers, more than 95 per cent of which are found in the four Andean countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, is doomed to disappear within the next few decades, threatening many livelihoods.
There has been a rapid retreat of all glaciers since 1980 in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru: studies indicate they lost between a half and a third of their volume. The Andean tropical glaciers are especially vulnerable because of the absence of winter precipitation, a situation aggravated by the more frequent recurrence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomenon, an ocean-warming and atmospheric disturbance originating in the Pacific that results in insufficient rainfall or prolonged drought. Further, these being mainly small glaciers of less than one square kilometre in surface area, they are more climate-sensitive and are melting faster than larger glaciers.
To make matters worse, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change —established by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization— projects that temperatures will rise faster at higher altitudes. Measurements from the last 30 years confirm this tendency.
The icy remains of a small glacier with only a few years left in the Tuni region, Cordillera Real, Bolivia in January 2010.
The accelerated retreat of the Tropical Andes glaciers has devastating regional and local impacts. As natural water storages with regulating functions, over centuries glaciers accumulate precipitation in the form of snow during the wet season and release melted water during the dry season, guaranteeing a minimum ecological stream flow —the necessary amount of water to preserve aquatic life and minimize pollution— in mountain rivers and brooks, and providing farmers, hydro companies or water enterprises with water when it is most needed.
Glacier retreat will affect the hydrological cycle and hence carry important consequences in terms of water availability for urban and rural populations, production of hydro energy, conservation of flora and fauna as well as equilibrium of mountain ecosystems. In fact, glaciers play important roles well beyond mountain areas.
The Andean glaciers meltdown will have its greatest impact in Peru, where more than 70 per cent of the world's tropical glaciers are located. In addition, millions of Peruvians live on its semi-desert coastal plains —either in the capital, Lima, or other large cities— and depend almost exclusively on the water captured in the mountains to sustain their livelihoods. Peru will also grapple with important economic strains; for the Río Santa power plant alone, which runs on the heavily-glaciated Cordillera Blanca in northern Peru, a 2006 World Bank study estimates that this meltdown could cost the country anywhere between US$6 and US$72 million. The same study calculates that Peru will have to spend over US$100 million in water supply for the eight million inhabitants of the greater Lima area once glacial melt has come to a halt.
In the case of Bolivia, researchers claim that over the last 50 years, half of the glacier area has melted in the Tuni Condoriri catchment area, which provided much of El Alto's and some of La Paz' water supply, as reported by the French-led program GREAT ICE (Glaciers et ressources en eau d'altitude — Indicateurs climatiques et environnementaux). In 20 to 30 years' time, the area will be completely ice-free.
Even where global warming is seen as an opportunity to expand agricultural activity to new, higher areas as freezing levels move up —as is happening in some parts of the Apolobamba mountain range in northern Bolivia— new problems arise when rainfall diminishes or when the uphill use of water resources leads to conflict with traditional downhill water users.
Ecuador is already bringing water from the wet oriental Andean slopes to its two million inhabitants living in Quito. Not only is such a water diversion scheme very costly, but it has a high potential for conflict as this water will no longer be available in its region of origin; glacier retreat will only reinforce the current strain.
Colombia's glaciers play a less important economic role and thus their retreat will not have a resounding impact on its population but it is nevertheless disquieting to know they are expected to completely disappear by 2020, as recently calculated by Colombian researchers Germán Poveda and Ketty Pineda.
Awareness of the implications of glacier retreat for human activities has been growing very slowly over the last few years among the Andean population. Many mountain communities are not yet fully aware of the changes the meltdown of glaciers will impose on their living conditions. At present, they enjoy the extra amounts of water that the glaciers are releasing. However, for most of the poor peasants throughout the central Andes, climate change is a novel reality that will hit as an additional strain in their fight for daily survival.
The last remains of what used to be the world's highest ski slope with a lift on Chacaltaya in November 2009.
The future holds large potential for conflict in many regions; these conflicts will create highland-lowland clashes as well as rural-urban ones. Yet, the Andean countries neither have strategies for pre-emptive measures nor comprehensive mitigation plans for climate-induced glacier retreat; at best, they are in the course of elaborating them. Governments do not even have a clear idea of the quantity of water stored in glaciers and of what is being lost every year; determining this is an urgent task. As the impacts of glacier retreat are strongly felt at local levels, local authorities need to play their role in the elaboration of strategies to adapt to the changing environment.
Glaciers are excellent indicators of climate change because of their high sensitivity to temperature fluctuations. Their meltdown is also the most visual expression of global warming. However, it must be emphasized that the impact of climate change on biodiversity or forests may be just as important if not as visible. Clearly, glacier retreat is only the tip of the climate change iceberg.
What is more, the world is currently experiencing the effects of less than a one-degree Celsius global warming, while climate scientists worldwide expect a warming of five or six degrees by the year 2100.
Dirk Hoffmann is the Director of the Bolivian Mountain Institute (BMI), a non-profit foundation based in La Paz. He is also the coordinator of the Climate Change Research Program at the Ecological Institute of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), in La Paz, Bolivia. His most recent article "Climate Change and Protected Areas in Bolivia" presented in November at Climate 2009, an international scientific conference, will be published next spring. For more information contact bolivian-mountain-institute@gmx.net.


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The Hallé in Dublin: June 2020 – cancelled
Dublin National Concert Hall, Dublin 2
Tickets €80, €67.50, €52.50, €37.50
Note, due to the current situation on Coronavirus, and in the light of Government's advice given, we have decided to cancel this concert. Please refer to NCH's website for latest information: https://www.nch.ie/
Rachmaninov	- Symphonic Dances
Ravel	- Piano Concerto in G major
Stravinsky	- Firebird Suite (1945)
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Due to the current situation on Coronavirus, and in the light of Government's advice given, we have decided to cancel this concert.
To round off the International Concert Series, the Hallé makes a welcome return to the NCH with its esteemed Music Director Sir Mark Elder. Multi-award winning British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been described as 'one in a million … several million' by The Independent. Benjamin first came to prominence as the winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, and was subsequently invited to perform at the First Night of the BBC Proms, aged just nineteen. He has since received numerous awards including Gramophone's Young Artist of the Year and a Classic Brits Critics' award, as well as being featured in two BBC television documentaries and in CNN's Human to Hero series.
For the closing programme in the season we hear three great works from the first half of the 20th century: Rachmaninov's final orchestral work, a valedictory nostalgic masterpiece written in 1940; Ravel's jazz influenced Piano Concerto completed in 1931; and Stravinsky's final re-working in 1945 of his first masterwork, The Firebird, originally composed for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1910.
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This event is managed by National Concert Hall. For more information, please visit this booking link, call the box office on +353 (0)1 417 0000 or visit the NCH Box Office in person.

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A host of leading journalists and academics will be looking at both events with a focus on how they have changed the way the media operates.
The conference has grown out of the recent book Brexit, Trump and the Media, edited by John Mair, Tor Clark, Neil Fowler, Raymond Snoddy and Richard Tait, which was a collection of 56 chapters written by experts, mostly journalists, academics and economists.
Tor, who is Associate Professor in Journalism in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, said: "There has been so much interest in the book since we published it in July, that we thought there was a lot of mileage in getting our authors and others together to assess the current and future situation as far as both Brexit and Trump were concerned.
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Biografia

Allobico era il comes domesticorum equitum di Onorio, il suo comandante della guardia a cavallo, ma riuscì a fare carriera con l'inganno. I soldati che si trovavano a Ravenna, infatti, si ribellarono dietro istigazione del prefetto del pretorio Giovio e con la complicità di Allobico, chiedendo la rimozione dei loro generali (Turpilione e Vigilanzio) e di due eunuchi di corte (il ciambellano di corte Terenzio e il suo vice Arsacio); per paura della rivolta, Onorio acconsentì che Giovio, che ufficialmente non era partecipe della rivolta, rimuovesse i generali e gli eunuchi (i primi vennero imbarcati per andare in esilio, ma uccisi per ordine di Giovio, Terenzio fu inviato in Oriente e Arsacio a Mediolanum). Allobico ricevette allora la carica di magister equitum, comandante della cavalleria, che era stata di Vigilanzio, mentre l'eunuco Eusebio ricevette il rango di praepositus sacri cubiculi che era stata di Terenzio.

Nel 407, Onorio aveva dovuto subire l'usurpazione di Costantino III, che aveva preso il controllo della Britannia Romana, della Gallia e della Hispania; quando però, nel 409 si trovò a dover fronteggiare i Visigoti di Alarico I, l'imperatore accettò di riconoscere l'usurpatore in cambio del suo aiuto contro i barbari.

L'ambasciata che aveva portato all'alleanza tra Onorio e Costantino era stata condotta da Giovino, il quale aveva stretto amicizia con Allobico alla corte di Ravenna. Allobico e Giovino progettarono probabilmente un piano per deporre Onorio, che sarebbe dovuto scattare all'arrivo di Costantino e del suo esercito in Italia in occasione della campagna dell'usurpatore contro Alarico. Avvenne però che Allobico entrasse in contrasto con Eusebio, il praepositus sacri cubiculi di Onorio: la loro acrimonia aumentò a tal punto che Allobico fece uccidere Eusebio per bastonatura. Dopo poco tempo, mentre Costantino era appena entrato in Italia e si trovava in Liguria, Allobico venne assassinato mentre prendeva parte ad una processione; è probabile che il mandante dell'assassinio fosse Onorio, il quale scese da cavallo subito dopo la morte del suo magister equitum e ringraziò l'assassino.

Sebbene non vi siano prove dell'esistenza di un accordo tra Allobico e Costantino, le fonti concordano nel dire che Costantino fosse entrato in Italia con lo scopo di conquistarla e che si ritirò in Gallia non appena gli giunse voce della morte di Allobico,

Bibliografia

Fonti primarie
 Sozomeno, Storia ecclesiastica, ix.12.4
 Zosimo, Storia nuova, v.47.1, v.48.1.

Fonti secondarie
 Bury, John Bagnell, et alii, The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 1925, ISBN 0521302005, p. 129.
 Livermore, Harold V., Twilight of the Goths: The Kingdom of Toledo, C. 560-711, Intellect Books, 2006, ISBN 1841509663, p. 31.

Comites
Generali romani di origine barbarica
Magistri equitum

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The socket the turn signal in an E-code headlight.
It doesn't fit. The slots in the socket that the pins on the bulb go into aren't 180° apart, so the pins on the bulb don't line up.
I've never seen or heard of anything like this.
So.. what am I missing? I confess I've never looked too closely at an amber 1156, are the pins on them not 180° apart? I always thought they were interchangeable (mechanically) with clear 1156 bulbs.
Weird. I've used amber 1156's in my tails and they are identical. Are you sure the pin does not go under (inside) that copper bit on the left in the last picture? I would like to see a close up of the inside of that copper side contact.
Worst case it might be possible to use the turn signal holder from your original assemblies?
Go to your VW, Audi or Porsche dealer and get amber bulbs for a car that has clear lens for turn signals. The three of them started to use that type bulbs in mid 2005 and up cars.
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Weird. I've used amber 1156's in my tails and they are identical. Are you sure the pin does not go under (inside) that copper bit on the left in the last picture?
Not that I can see. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.
The fit is very close, the ID of the socket is nearly an interference fit with the OD of the bulb.
I would like to see a close up of the inside of that copper side contact.
But that's not really the problem. The US socket has a three pin connector, the E-code a two pin one, so it would mean soldering and cutting, which I'd rather avoid if possible. I'm not spooked by soldering, but Plug-n-play should mean "no cutting or soldering"
Wait... are you saying that the VW bulbs *are* different from every other 1156 type bulb out there?
Ok, I just looked at the parts fiche and found "PY21W" to be the bulb. I stuffed that into teh google, and came up with a bunch of "150° offset pin" quotes about the oddball pins, and "VW/AUDI/BMW bulbs" and the like.
And a bunch of sites suggesting you can simply cut off one of the pins on the bulb to make it fit.
I had this plan to swap out the yellow lenses from the OEM units into the E-Code ones 'cuz I like the visible yellow better, and because it'd allow me to use the high efficiency/high brightness Honda spec 1156 type bulbs. But I guess that's not gonna happen unless I modify the bulbs or the socket.
I have done this on 3 sets of ecodes with out a problem, only takes a few munites a side. On the last set in my car I went with the amber city light and while not as bright it does a decent job.
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If Audi, BMW, MB, Porsche and VW all use them it must be a FRG thing then.
Fog, as you found out the sockets in the ecodes take a different bulb.
Can you get the Honda bulbs in a wedge base type like the North American VW bulbs?
If so you could get some NA type sockets at the VW dealer.
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Picked mine up at the local Volvo dealership as VW didn't have them at the time I got my E-code headlights. As stated above, gotta be a Euro spec.
With that said, these have lasted for ever and ever. Probably six years now (?).
Further googling suggests that a couple of the Japanese companies are using them too, at least Nissan. I found a reference to them on the Nissan Cube forum site.
I gotta say, making it so you have to try really hard to put a white bulb in a socket that really should have an amber one doesn't seem like a bad idea. I hate white turn signals nearly as much as red ones.
I hate white turn signals nearly as much as red ones.
Whoa - nice job dredging up a thread that was dormant for almost EIGHT YEARS!!
yes i know. i was having problems with the euro style lights i bought and found these old conversations.


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Woman dead in one-vehicle accident in Taylor County
Sarah Muller
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One woman is dead after a single-car accident in Taylor County.According to the Iowa State Patrol, Anna Michelle Eischeid, 40, of Bedford, was traveling northbound on Forest Avenue. She tried to turn east on 300th Street but when she lost traction and rolled several times into the north ditch.
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One woman is dead after a single-car accident in Taylor County.
According to the Iowa State Patrol, Anna Michelle Eischeid, 40, of Bedford, was traveling northbound on Forest Avenue. She tried to turn east on 300th Street but when she lost traction and rolled several times into the north ditch.


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By George Gedda, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Libya has offered to pay $10 million per family as compensation for the deaths of 270 people in the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing, lawyers representing the family said Tuesday.
They said the Libyan offer was a "vast multiple" of settlements paid in any other aviation or terrorism case.
At $10 million per family, the combined compensation would come to $2.7 billion. Of the 270 victims, 181 were Americans.
The lawyers have been negotiating with the Libyans for years, with a view toward reaching a settlement that would permit the lifting of both U.N. Security Council and U.S. sanctions against Libya.
The State Department has not been involved in the negotiations. A senior department official expressed doubt that the Bush administration would approve the arrangement.
The New York-based Kriendler & Kriendler law firm, discussing the case publicly for the first time, outlined the status of the negotiations in a five-page letter to family members. Copies were made available to the news media.
Under the agreement, the money would be placed in escrow and released piecemeal as the sanctions against Libya are revoked: 40 percent when U.N. sanctions were lifted, 40 percent with removal of U.S. commercial sanctions and 20 per cent when Libya was removed from the State Department's list of sponsors of international terrorism.
In England, the Rev. John Mosey, who lost his 19-year-old daughter, Helga, in the attack, said the money would go some way toward "lightening the burden" of his family's loss. Mosey said, however, he would believe the money was forthcoming only when he saw a check, and in any case it would not deter the families from pressing their long-held demand for an independent inquiry.


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A hobby I adopted a little over a year ago was that of putting together and collecting costumes and, while I've only put one full costume together (a Little Tramp costume), I feel like I learned a lot in the year it took me to put together the costume. So I have decided to pass on some words of advice to the people out there who like to cosplay or just like to dress up every now and then.
First off, become good friends with a local Goodwill or Salvation Army or just some sort of local thrift store. If the store is of any good quality it will become your best friend.
Don't think you have to spend a lot of money to get quality clothes and clothing accessories (like ties, belts, and so on). One thing that has always dumbfounded me is the attitude by some friends and family that they have to go to places like Target or Walmart or whatever to get good quality clothes. You can get perfectly good clothes at thrift stores for a mere fraction of the cost that you would get them at a chain store. For instance you can get a pair of jeans for five dollars instead of twenty-five, a pinstripe jacket for four bucks or so, and a tie for a dollar. So I'm telling you right now GET STUFF AT THRIFT STORES. It's going to save you so much money in the long run. Now yes, some things at thrift stores won't be in the best of shape. Some clothes might have stains on them or be a bit worn and ripped (although worn clothes can work quite well depending on the costume). For the most part, though, I find a lot of good quality merchandise at thrift stores. You won't be able to find everything at thrift stores, however. For some stuff you're just going to have to look online.
One of my Internet buddies for costume shopping ended up being Ebay. It was where I actually was able to find a couple key items for not bad prices. Ebay, too, though will not have everything you're looking for. A lot of google searches may be required to find what you want.
Another thing I feel I must warn about, don't just buy the first thing you see. Try it on first (if you can) if it doesn't fit you right (and you or someone you know can't adjust it) or it just isn't right for the costume then don't get it. Also, even if you've spent months looking for a part for your costume and you finally see it for sale on Ebay don't buy it if it's not exactly to your likes or if it cost more than you're willing to pay. It can be hard sometimes (believe me I know) but it's worth it. There were a few times I almost gave in and paid more than I was willing to pay or almost bought an item that wasn't quite up to my specifications but in the end I resisted (or just lost the auction on Ebay, haha) because the details weren't right. And it's all in the details people. Be very particular about that. If you are, your costume will benefit from it.
Eventually you might have to settle on a few things (I had to settle on the shoes to my Little Tramp costume) but don't do so until you've fought a very long and hard battle. So if after many, many, MANY months (or longer) have gone by and you truthfully, from all the research and looking you've done on the item, can't find it, then you alter your specifications a little but still look for good quality (but yet still cheap) stuff.
That point reminds me of something. Do your research. For some older items, and even newer items as well, research can be done to find out what the piece of clothing is actually called (which can help so very much when trying to find it), or where you might find it, or how rare the item is. I did a lot of this with the Tramp outfit and it helped a lot. Read anything that you can from online articles, to things other people post on message boards, to maybe even books that have information on the piece you're looking for.
Finally, if possible, look at photos and possibly even videos of someone wearing the costume in question. Photos and videos can be very helpful in spotting certain details about the costume and can help a great deal. Pick apart these photos and/or videos for every pit of visual information that you can.
Visit thrift stores (repeatedly, if they don't have what you need one day go back another day and keep on trying).
Don't think cheap products are bad products.
Look online at places like Ebay and do many searches on Google.
Don't always buy the first thing you see.
Be picky and pay attention to the details.
Sometimes you have to settle.
Look at photos and/or videos of your costume if any are available.
I hope this helps my fellow geeks out there who like to dress up (for whatever the reason). I'm not the end all be all on this subject and maybe you have methods that work better for you, but these are things I've learned from my experience and that have helped me in my costume searching. I hope they can be of help to you too. Happy hunting.
P.S. Incase anybody is wondering, the current costume that I'm putting together is an Eleventh Doctor (Doctor Who) costume. So far I have the Sonic Screw Driver and the pair of red suspenders for the costume is on its way.
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The art of getting out of trouble
Thread starter Pollyanna
Today Wavelength posted a great Billy Ward clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teR_A12OIiA
He was saying that he practices getting out of trouble and how it's useful because he's in trouble all the time. I sooo related to that ...though he looked pretty damn in control in the clip to me)
Back in some bygone era (when dinosaurs wore short pants) I was complaining about my regular stuff ups to a guitarist in an old band I was in. He said it was okay because I was good at getting out of trouble. That's the only other time I've heard anyone talk about it before.
I guess it's almost like a dirty little secret because we all like to appear as though we're in control. That's why people watch us play. Any tips or thoughts?
Edit: Oops, this belongs in Technique. Sorry Bernhard/DB
Skulmoski
I am always aware of the downbeat so I look for that. It is sort of an unconscious thing for me now (lots of years messing up).
VedranS
Yeah, I'm doing this all the time. One way for me to get out of trouble is to play the mistake again (and maybe again as the song calls for it). I think an important part of this is to be able to hear and remember what you're doing, so you can recreate it. A perfect example of this is in a song on my band's myspace (cough, "My Playing", cough) , "PCs in the BCs". At the time of recording, the song was extremely new. So, I thought it was going back to a quiet part where I lay out, but it was actually going into a kind of solo section. So, solo starts, and I'm not playing anyhting. So I just pretended it was a dramatic pause, hit a loud crash a measusre into it, paused again, crash again, pause again, crash again. Total mistake, but the cover-up sounded so good to me that that's how I'm playing it nowadays....
I think that another important thing in a band context is to have good eye contact/body language. That way, if theres a collective trainwreck for some crazy reason, people can look at each other and kind of do "big motions" and get back into it quickly using visual ques/musician esp. Another fun thing to do is if a bandmate messes up individually, to look at them and make like it was the gratest/most planned out there thing you've ever heard. I'll give a big smile and nod of my head, kind of going "oh yeah!" with my body language if that makes sense.
I saw a Victor Wooten video where he was talking about how on the bass you are always a half step (1 fret) away from being in the right key.
I've related that to drums in the sense that you are always 1 beat away from being in/on time.
Applies best in 4/4 time - if I find myself off, I just add or subtract 1 beat to whatever I'm doing and it should put me back in place.
Good vid!
aydee
All the spine tingling happens when you walk on the edge of a cliff.
And if if you walk there all the time, there is bound to be an accident sooner or later.. maybe thats why we humans inexplicably slow down near traffic accidents... it is morbid, riveting stuff.
Now, I'm not talking about the kind of music that needs to be played the same night after night, but more about the jazz/improv/solo space. For me its always the guys who push the limits that excite. Like Ward says the art of recovery is crucial skill to these players. To be able to whip around and grab a shrub and pull yourself over.
I find that limb independence, being able to accent any basic rudiments with either hand, and the ability to play hand/foot combinations, are great life saving skills on stage.
In the context of drumming, despite all the talk about control, tightness and underplaying being touted as great virtues there is another fearless, play-in-the-moment side without which we wouldn't have had players like Buddy Rich and Elvin Jones.
Man, I would have loved to have one of these two tell us how they got out of trouble and I'll bet they got into it all the time.... not that anybody other than themselves would ever know..
Davo-London
I thought that was what the drum roll was invented for?
Gets you out of any disaster.
Actually, that's Bill Bruford's advice!
Bo Eder
I just get up and walk away
In my guitar playing days, a drummer buddy said that I "played wrong notes better than anybody he knew". Somehow, I knew I was in trouble, but managed to get out of it often enough that folks would come up and give me protracted theoretical analysis of the jazz thing that I'd done. Sorry, I was just trying to get clever and mucked it up. I don't know enough to do that on purpose.
On drums, I tend to look at fills as I would phrasing a lick on guitar. Instead of subdividing and counting out each stroke in the measure. That way, if I find that I've gotten off, I can just leave off a note or add an extra note to make it come out right. Double strokes are a neat way to change something at the last minute to reverse the sticking or fill in a missing space. Worst case, you can do two crashes (and-one) or if you find yourself swinging at a drum with the one coming up, I always loved how Garibaldi would crash on the And after the one. Just smack that last drum for an accent on the one and then come up on a crash (One-and) and get back on track realizing where you are.
Sometimes, when the zone is just flowing, I'll deliberately do something wrong, just to invent a way out of it. On those magical days when things are going right, you are in that one half step away from right note space.
Vic Wooten talks more about this in his book The Music Lesson. If someone is thinking of only one right note to play (the one they intended) or a basic fundamental note like the I, III, or V, then landing in the wrong place leaves them lost. Where was that "right" note? But if they let go of there only being one right note, then they are only one half step (one fret on a bass or guitar) from something that is in the key of the song (or chord center at the moment). And often that "wrong" note is just a "blue note" or passing tone to some diatonic resolution.
With time (as opposed to notational value as in percussion instruments) that hit in the "wrong" place may also be part of a triplet, 5 over 4 or some other advanced polyrhythmic concept. So there really are no such things as "wrong". You simply have to resolve them in some manner that gets back to the song. That takes keeping your internal clock going so that you can come back to where everyone else is. Or trusting that your band hasn't followed you, finding and rejoining them. Then it's just "Wow! What was that Dennis Chambers lick you did in there?" ;^)
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As a one trick pony rock drummer, I've never been in a situation that two with the left hand hasn't been able to get me out of. If I ever start playing some improv jazz or the like, I'm sure it'll be a different stroy.
Swiss Matthias
jer said:
Yes, but those half steps away are often the worst IMO. I'm not really into that philosophy actually.
And in relation to drums: I think it depends whether it's a fill/impro/free part or a groove. If a stroke is out of place in a groove context, the groove gets disrupted, period. If it's a fill etc, well maaaaybe one could hear it in a new place. But I think good ears will find out in most situations, if it was a "mistake" or intention.
VedranS said:
Haha, well done! I think mistakes at the start of a section can often be spun as a dramatic pause. It can make you sound more sophisticated I'm a big one for repeating mistakes too. It helps the passage make musical sense to me. Otherwise the boo boo just sounds odd.
Matthias, I agree that sharp listeners will pick up mistake cover-ups but, when we err, all we can do is salvage what we can ... we can't expect a perfect solution. The main thing is to hide the blunders from the crowd haha. If I had a dollar for every time a band member, friend or a punter's said to me "I didn't hear anything wrong" I'd be sipping pina coladas in Fiji. But deep down, I know the truth ...
toddbishop
Davo-London said:
I believe he was paraphrasing a swing-era drummer- maybe Sid Catlett? I need to dig through my old Modern Drummers...
My friend Steve Pancerev, a great improviser, has a little variation on this: when in doubt, breathe.
I always refer to it as, "Avoiding Tying Myself Into a Knot!"
I go for something and I realize that it isn't going to happen, so I bail out with a double hit with one of my hands, or a cymbal smash, or something like that.
Anything that is in time to try and get out of tying my arms into a knot! LOL
LukeSnyder
Pollyanna said:
You want a dramatic pause that actually works? Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btx2SDBkY3s
If I had a dollar for every time a band member, friend or a punter's said to me "I didn't hear anything wrong" I'd be sipping pina coladas in Fiji. But deep down, I know the truth ...
Yeah, sometimes I honestly think the audience must be deaf, dumb and blind!!
... or they're just trying to be nice.
LukeSnyder said:
haha I had a feeling it was going to be that one, Luke I noticed that just before hitting him, after he'd been talking to you, you really stomped your kick drum when playing a crash ...
Swiss Matthias said:
All they notice from drummers is the general sound and vibe. If the general sound and feel is appropriate people will say it's good. If the drummer also has spot on timing and groove, then they say it's great. If the drummer ticks the above boxes and also plays flamboyant fills then the drummer is amazing. Travis!!!
brittc89
Pioneer Member
I really like the idea of having your ear "be in charge on the creative side" and using you internal time pulse to make that a reality. Thats when things like behind the beat on top of the beat swing straight all go out the window, its just music at that point. Your just becoming one with the ever passing time that we as humans are always facing, the fear of death can easily be called the fear of time. You can almost think of music as a constant dance with death, a realization and acceptance of mortality, an acknowledgement of the passage of time. And thats the internal time feel, time will always pass no matter what I play and if I can be a part of that bigger stream of consciousness I wont ever find myself in trouble because every moment is a musically clean slate. You cant stop forward momentum, potential energy, gravity and thats what propels music. The realization of the passage of time.
larryace
"Uncle Larry"
I don't play the type of music that I consider easy to get in trouble with. The only thing I could call trouble is if I try to execute a figure or fill and I miss it...then I just kinda play less notes and get through it however I can. Even when I mess up with my hands, my internal metronome doesn't usually suffer (luckily) and I just wait for the next grab-able beat to get back on the train. (hopefully the rest of the band can keep themselves in time for the half a second I'm away lol) If I have to stop momentarily, I do...and even though it feels like a really long time, it's not and goes by pretty smoothly. Covering one's missteps without being noticed is an advanced skill. I tend to play within my comfort zone, so it's usually not an issue.
I have another gig where I am house drummer for an open mic blues gig. Nothing is scripted, so that's a situation where it's easier to get into trouble than on a cover band gig, but it's still blues, and blues drumming is mainly about the groove and drive, 2 things that sound better with more space than notes.
Seems like Jazz/Fusion/Progressive are they types of music where you can get into big trouble. Rock and Blues, not so much. JMO.
here is an example how how I got out of trouble in my otherwise best studio performance to date.
at 2:07 my stick hits the rim DOH!- anywhere else in the song and it would have been a disaster - but here it kind of worked and I flowed with it for a couple measures.
This performance here is a milestone for me in both my drumming and production.
Working with a click track really takes some getting used to and on this track to really line up with the feel of the rythm gtrs the drums had to have some swing...
Don't mean thing if ain't yeah yeah...
I know most of you here could nail this song first time but I struggled with it for about
7 days and today I got everything ready, tuned up nice mix in the phones and no warm up just took a deep breath - said a lil prayer and hit record.....
Somehow I was able to hit it from a fresh perspective and correct some things I didn't like in my previous attempts - like choking up on the hi hat quicker...hittng the cymbals less and less kick drum hits - and less fills and all added up to what I consider my best effort yet although slight timing issues in the beginning still bother me and that stick miss...oh well
One thing, I was so relaxed while I played and it made a huge difference.
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North Dakota's Most Popular Wedding Song
As the Royal Wedding was the focus this weekend, 'wedding season' is pretty much underway as the summer months approach. So, what's your wedding song going to be, North Dakota?
Business Insider published the list of the most popular wedding songs in each state based on information provided by Spotify. This was done by using songs from Spotify playlists with 'wedding' or 'first dance' in the title. From there, each state's top 500 songs that were the most-played were ranked from how often they've been listened to in May so far.
It's no surprise that in North Dakota, the most popular wedding artist is Ed Sheeran. Across the country, Sheeran was the favorite artist for 'first dance' songs in 24 states. But the question is, which of Ed Sheeran's songs is North Dakota's most popular wedding song? Honestly, if I had to guess, I would've said, 'Perfect.' However, I would be wrong. Of the 24 states where Sheeran is the most popular wedding artist, only four states picked 'Perfect' to be the most popular wedding song of that state.
North Dakota's most popular wedding song is Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud.' That was the pick in the remaining 20 of the 24 states that picked Sheeran as their most popular wedding artist. Of course, that could eventually change. 'Perfect' is a younger song than 'Thinking Out Loud' as the latter has had more of a chance to age and become somewhat traditional.
What do you think, North Dakota? Did they get it right? Whether you agree or not, the time of year is upon us. In the excited words of Vince Vaughn in 'Wedding Crashers,' "It's wedding season!"
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Choosing a personal scent is not something that should be done on a whim or a whiff!
The sense of smell is critically important to human beings. We may not have the same olfactory senses that animals do, but we often tie experiences and emotions to particular scents, which is why a simple whiff of baking cookies can make you feel as though you've been transported back in time to childhood visits at Grandma's house. Some people take scent association a step further by selecting a signature fragrance.
But before you permanently cause people to associate you with Chanel No. 5 or Britney Spears' personalized scent, there are a couple of tidbits to take under advisement when choosing a fragrance. First, whatever you do, apply your scent with a light hand! Quantity varies by person, but typically, a dab or small spray to your pulse points (throat, wrists, temple and anywhere else you can feel your heartbeat) is enough for anyone. You don't want to be the cause of other people's watery eyes, do you?
Second, it's important to know the various types of signature fragrances, which include cologne, perfume, oils, aftershave, eau de toilette and really anything else that changes your scent.
Personality type: If you're outdoorsy by nature, for example, pick a woodsy scent!
Body chemistry: The same brand of perfume may not smell the same on every person, thanks to our own natural scents.
Lifestyle: Consider your day-to-day activities. For example, boardroom professionals probably don't want overly fruity fragrances wafting off of them.
Time of year and location: You might want one signature fragrance for hot, humid summer months and another for cool winter days.
Cost: Obviously, certain fragrances are going to cost more than others (Chanel versus Britney Spears' line of perfumes, for example). A scent doesn't necessarily have to be designer to suit you and your expectations, but don't sell yourself short, either.
If you're overwhelmed by the sheer number of options out there, just take a deep breath and have fun with the selection process! You know those people who are always waving scent cards in your face at the mall? Walk around and get a few small sample bottles to take home. Then, use one for a few days in varying circumstances (at work, out with friends, around the house) and quantities. Switch to a new sample, and be sure to get input from others. If you're feeling extra adventurous, you might even try your hand at layering a couple of different colognes or perfumes to create a completely unique scent. Just make sure you don't have anywhere important to be right away, in case the experiment bombs and a shower becomes necessary.


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January, February and March have already passed, the year is both flying by and already one of our most eventful ever all at once. We certainly seem to have had our share of challenges and tricky times so far this year with at least one drama a month. Meanwhile though life carries on with daily reminders of how fortunate we are and the promise of new adventures ahead.
The polytunnel is springing in to life – strawberries under plastic at the front are spreading like crazy, bright green and healthy looking, several trays of seedlings have already germinated and the garlic I planted out in the raised beds outside is already poking through the soil. The rhubarb I had given up on last year has all come back and I really, really must get the asparagus crowns planted out this week. There are buds and shoots on most of the soft fruit bushes and orchard trees in the fruit cage.
The weather has kept us indoors a fair bit so I have been busy with my crochet hook – I have been making more Moods of Rum scarves to sell in the shed – I now have four different designs in a full rainbow of different colours and plenty of yarn to get hooking with more. I did a stocktake today, thanks to my Mum for bringing up another sackful of balls when my parents visited this last week I have five big bags full all sorted into colours and packed into vacuum bags awaiting my attention.
I also finished my February and March blanket – I made one in January while Ady was in hospital and it inspired me to make something bigger and more 'me'. One big bag of wool later and hours of making up random patterns and colour mixes I have created something bigger than a kingsize bedspread filled with colours, patterns, shapes and sizes.
The photo doesn't really do it justice, I love it, have learned loads about different stitches, the maths sides of crochet patterns ad different textures.
I found some of last years midges set in resin so have been making more keyrings for the shop – only a few weeks until the 2016 midge population is upon us.
The shed has already been doing well with the first real trickle of summer season visitors, a steady trade in jam, eggs, postcards and candles is making for a promising looking first year. I have had several orders for freshly baked bread and pies too.
And visitors! My parents first visit of 2016 – blighted by bad weather and possible cancelled ferries it looked as though they may not get here and then they had to leave earlier than planned in advance of yet more bad weather forecast for this weekend but it was fantastic to see them for real life hugs, chats and catching up – phonecalls over hundreds of miles simply don't ever take the place of being together in person.
More friends arrive next week, another a week or so after that and I had a surprise email this week from an old friend who is hoping to visit later in the year.
The brighter, longer days are definitely on their way.
Looks like we made another winter. As our fourth year here draws to a close and we start to go into our fifth year on Rum we have passed the anniversary of setting off on our WWOOFing adventure five years ago. Five years ago we had already finished at our first WWOOF host and were already at our second, life was already changing forever and our eyes were being opened to a whole new world out there. That very first host Steward Wood has recently been making headlines in the press and had a fantastic, amazing success in their crowdfunding target to raise cash to help with their planning appeal and continued work on their community and projects. Steward Wood was a really pivotal place for us and one we talk of frequently five years on.
Here on the croft there are new signs of spring every day. I spotted the first primrose last week, we're collecting chicken and duck eggs daily, have found at least one goose nest (and moved a protective enclosure over it to protect the eggs from the crows and give the goose shelter and protection when she goes broody), got our first broody chicken of the season and been watching the mating fever of the various birds. There are buds out on the fruit trees and the first tiny seedlings poked their heads out of the soil from the seeds I sowed last week in the polytunnel. So far parsley and salad leaves have germinated, I will no doubt be spotting something new every day over the coming weeks and need to get sowing the next lot soon.
We've taken delivery of more postcards, finished the jam cupboard front, got eggs for sale in the shed and sold several more jars of jam, postcards and candles.
Two days of T shirt weather in a row mean everything feels possible! There is no denying (despite not dwelling on it) that we deal with some challenges to enjoy our life here. Sat at the foot of the croft hill currently is a big gas bottle waiting for either sufficient drying out of the mud to wheel it up on a sack truck or an energetic hour of rolling it uphill for Ady and I. We get through a gas bottle approximately once every 2 months so getting them up the hill is not a new challenge or one we have not faced before. It's a good reminder on days like these to see it there and appreciate these glorious sunny days as our reward for the tough bits of our life here.
And thankful we have been. And busy! Ady has finally found a dry, still day (which are in fairly short supply) with nothing more pressing to do and managed to fix up the replacement wind turbine which has been waiting for months for such a day. We got it here before Christmas but it's taken this long for the right conditions and nothing more important to be doing instead. A large part of our life here is taken up with the basic business of surviving.
I could wait no longer and having cleared all the ground in the polytunnel, tidied up and got everything prepared I finally got to spend time sowing seeds. I think I might enjoy that even more than harvesting the crops! I sowed until I ran out of room! I sowed herbs – basil, sage, thyme, oregano, mint, chives, dill, garlic chives, parsley, coriander, wild garlic. I sowed tomatoes, chilli peppers and sweet peppers, I sowed peas and beans, some flowers – borage and nasturium along with some sweet peas as they are Ady's favourite. I sowed leeks, celeriac, cabbage, kale, cauliflower, chard, broccoli all into trays ready to bring on and either plant outside into raised beds when the soil is warmer or to plant into bigger pots and containers to stay in the polytunnel. Direct into the ground on one side I sowed a variety of lettuces and salad leaves. I sowed cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkin and celery.
I have some old emergency lighting casings which I am planning on using as mini propgators for the next round of sowing and have various roots (parnips, swede, carrots) which I will sow direct along with some asparagus crowns which need to go in.
We turned the water supply on to the hose which leads down there (it's been off all winter) and I did some clearing up of the crate which holds my supplies of netting, containers and other bits and pieces.
Meanwhile on the croft the chickens have finally started laying again, we even found the first duck eggs of the year today. Which means eggs are back on the menu again – quiche for dinner tonight!
And Mr and Mrs Turkey are also feeling the spring along with all the other birds on the croft showing signs of mating and getting ready to raise young.
It's days like this which remind us why we don't want to be sitting in traffic on our way to and from the office, cooped up in an office, a shop or a meeting like we might have been a few years ago on a sunny Tuesday in March. Days like this which make those testing times worthwhile.
Down as in the village rather than up as in on the croft. It hasn't been more really but this has been a village heavy week for us. I've been covering Post Office three mornings, Ady's had a couple of shifts of hostel cleaning and two Saturday nights in a row we've been out for the evening at friends' houses down in the village plus the first Rum Cinema of the year and a regular Crafternoon tea, chats and crochet.
Ady has finished the new pig pen and I've dug over and cleared the whole ground of the polytunnel and emptied out the old spent compost so a nice blank slate to start this years sowing awaits me.
I'm provisionally booked onto a beekeeping course in May and we've started making plans towards getting our first sheep this year. We have several folk booked on to all our volunteer events already and we are mere days away from our first visitors of the year. Bring on the spring!
Sunday was Mothers Day. Tuesday was International Women's Day. Both cause for celebration and contemplation I think.
Many years ago in a different life I was the manager of a branch of a well known high street card and gift store. It was actually one of my favourite jobs, I had a great team of staff, we worked really well together, all playing to our strengths and supporting each other with learning more. I enjoyed a good relationship with the management team above me and felt respected and valued by them and was given a lot of freedom and autonomy to run the shop how I chose. I was ambitious for a high powered career back then so after 18 months or so I was searching for the next opportunity but that remains one of the employment periods I look back on most fondly. Working in retail, which was largely what I did during my years as an employee I was used to a seasonal feel to my year. Retail management is rarely about the days of the week, you certainly don't get the celebrated Friday feeling as the chances are you will be working the weekend. You don't do the 9-5 either, a typical working day for me back then was 730am -630pm with lunch taken after the lunch time rush if at all. Late nights, early mornings and back to back shifts were a matter of course with Christmas being the busiest period of all. We lurched from one peak period of trading to the next with workload heavy times such as stock takes or paperwork scheduled in for the quieter times meaning even they were fraught and stressful. In that particular job though there were graded times of busyness – Christmas was by far our biggest 'season' when from October onwards we would be rearranging the shop weekly to expand the footage given over to Christmas until it took over half the shop. The next biggest season came directly afterwards in the shape of Valentines Day, from which we lurched straight into Mothers Day. There were other seasons – Fathers Day and Easter were probably the main secondary ones with the period from May to August deemed Wedding Season when we would extend the footage given over to invites, wedding cards, anniversary cards and thank you cards, July seeing us put out stands for Thanking Teachers, Congratulations on exam results and so on. This is nearly 20 years ago but we were already starting to capitalise on St Patricks Day, Nurses Day and some of the religious festivals of faiths other than Christianity.
Working in that environment gave me a cynicism for these largely manufactured events and excuses to make money – and chop down trees – to celebrate these days. There were certain types of customer – the smug, early bird types who were in purchasing all their Christmas cards in October (or worse still, those who purchased them in the January half price sale and would be able to find those stashed bargain cards 11 months later!), the last minute types (we always kept Valentines and Mothers Day cards out for a few days and always, always sold them after the event!) , the customers who looked at the price tag or the ostentatiousness of the card choosing the biggest, sparkliest or most expensive, or the considered ones who stood for ages reading the words, comparing several options and really putting thought into their choice. I too, for many years fell into one or all of those categories and it is fairly recently that we have eschewed all purchased greetings and celebration cards in favour of home made or not at all.
I have read some backlash comments against Mothers Day this year, about how we don't need celebrations of motherhood or excuses to buy flowers and cards and turn the role of mother into something consumer driven. I tend to agree with this, we don't celebrate Valentines Day for just that reason but I did send a card to my Mum, along with a message to someone I consider my second Mum and have wished a Happy Mothers Day for several years. Mothers Day has become something Davies and Scarlett mark though, utterly of their own volition. While motherhood certainly does not define me – it is a massive, massive part of my life. As a Home Educator I have spent the whole 15 years of my parent in the company of my children and it has been the most enlightening, rewarding, educational, exciting, fun and happy time. The fact that both my children go to such lengths – not just on Mothers Day, but every single day – to demonstrate how much they feel the same fills my heart with joy. Mothers Day gives them the opportunity to celebrate specifically and this year they presented me with chocolates, a gorgeous tumbler and most precious of all hand made cards. Scarlett was the organiser of the gifts my capable thoughtful, doer of a daughter who makes things happen. Davies once again reduced me to tears (as he does pretty much every birthday and Mothers Day) with one of his amazing cards. A complete labour of love with illustrations, words straight from the heart and a testament to everything I have done for the last 15 years and why I have done it. The words he has written about what I mean to him and why he loves me are wonderful and had me sobbing, but I think what meant the most was not that their acts were directed at me (as very lovely as that was) but that they are capable of such acts, able to articulate themselves and feel such love, demonstrate such kindness and thoughtfulness, be such amazing people. I am so proud of them, proud to be their mother, proud to know them and have them in my life.
Which brings me to International Womens Day which I celebrated this year by telling 25 of the women I know why I think they are amazing on facebook. And that was barely a quarter of the amazing women I know, who I could spend the rest of my life enthusing about and listing all the reasons they are wonderful.
Those 'special' days to mark events can just be an excuse to spend money, or feel bad for not doing so. They can also, quite rightly, be a celebration of more than that, a prompt to tell someone just why they are wonderful and what they mean to you. And of course we should do that anyway, regardless of whether that is marked off on the calendar as an opportunity to celebrate mothers, women or love but in busy days in busy lives it is easy to get distracted from doing so.
In other pigs news we may be increasing our porcine holding in the new few weeks. Barbara and the two girls are doing well and Ady has been busy building a new pen for the potential newcomers. More on that as it happens.
I've finally used my Christmas gift of a kneeler which sat in pristine condition for months and now looks far more like something I own as it is covered in mud! I spent a very happy couple of hours this morning in the polytunnel weeding. I've decided to grow direct in the ground in there so will be creating beds along each side along with the shelves I use for sowing seeds. The ground has previously been conditioned by the pigs and is worm ridden and pretty well drained (by Croft 3 standards anyway!) so I would rather work on improving the soil in there over time than continually growing in containers in there. So I'm digging out the roots of the reeds and levelling the tussocky bits in there which is a slow but quite theraputic process. Today I was in the excellent company of Elton John, Cher and two hens. Elton and Cher provided the tunes to sing along to while the hens assisted with slug patrol and dust bathed in some of the containers!
Elsewhere we have sold more jam from the shed and had some great customer feedback, had our first chats of the season with visiting tourists, a lovely sunny day out at Harris Beach on the other side of the island and celebrated Mothers Day.
Today has mostly felt like pushing wheelbarrows about. We are down to one vehicle and so can only get as far as the fork in the road, meaning a further half a mile along a very rough track and up a very muddy hill before we reach the croft. Animal feed, compost (we buy in a small amount each year from our animal feed supplier to start off seedlings), veg box all arrived today, along with a couple of bales of straw for pig bedding and bird house bedding (we cut and dry rushes during the summer for that but last years has long since run out for want of a dry space to store over winter). So that was four trips each for Ady and I with loaded up wheelbarrows, sacks on shoulders across the unwheelbarrowable terrain and maybe the odd mumble under our breath here and there.
It was also about discovering that both Davies and Scarlett are taller than me now.
surely a landmark moment for any parent.
We had our very first customer in the Shed, purchasing a jar of bramble and cinnamon jam and having a chat with me as I happened to be mid wheelbarrow load sitting on the bench at the croft gate catching my breath and enjoying the view.
We found the first chicken eggs of the season, a round half dozen nestled in a forgotten small coop which was in the fruit cage and is now back close to the caravan again.
I have shared pics of the shed progress as we have gone along but today on the 1st of March we unveiled the signs leading folk to the shop so I guess it can be declared officially open for business. I found a local celebrity to do the honours!
We have signs leading people from the village up to the croft and when they arrive they will find 'Croft 3 In The Shed'. I still have a few twirls and whirls to add, the cold weather prevented me from finishing that off last year, but I'll get to it in the next few weeks.
Inside it is filled with crochet bunting and solar fairy lights, repurposed driftwood, slates, wood and branches cut from the woodland nearby, picnic baskets and quirky old display ideas we have gathered. I suspect this will also continue to be a work in progress as we have brainwaves or find more stuff to get creative with. I guess the shed itself and the fixtures and fittings are as much a reflection of what we're about as the items we're selling.
Scarves are displayed on two branches creating rails, midges in resin hung on a branch, candles inside a picnic basket, pot pourri in a basket I made years ago on a basket weaving course, Davies' Designs and Ady's photography have been captured in postcards (we endlessly brainstormed for display ideas for these but succumbed to traditional bought in stands for now), jams are on a shelf unit.
There is plenty of space for more items as we come up with them – I have plans for basket making but events overtook me this winter despite getting out and cutting down the hedgerow material to make the baskets. Scarlett has a plan for croft 3 clay creatures, Ady and Davies have plans for further lines using their art and photography. There will be more produce for sale as it is harvested including free range eggs and we have a whole range of midge inspired items planned.
This shop is a bit of a landmark for us, the realisation and fruition of our business plan and dreams when we first arrived here. The embodiment of the way we have raised Davies and Scarlett (nurturing their talents, creativity and ideas, facilitating their entrepreneurial spirits and helping them create opportunities, learning about business skills, marketing, advertising, profits and margins) and the creative outlet for all four of us. This is just what we came here to do, to find ways to follow our passions and put out there what we are about. It showcases each of us as individuals with different skills and styles but also demonstrates our cohesion as a unit and how the sum of the four of us is greater than our individual parts.
To the shed – may it continue to bring us joy and hopefully bring us a bit of cash this year too!