I find that my taste profile for beers favour the darker ales, so when I picked up some White Rabbit to try (being a fan of other Little Creatures beers), I found it to be very good (in my opinion) and am currently a fan of it. It’s full of flavour with strong caramel notes to it. Always happy to pop open a bottle just to savour the refreshing taste.

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So it’s the big six for this blog now. 6 years since I’ve started it. Wrote a silly and worthless first post. Heh, it’s moved on to a new home without hiccup and all the better for it, considering the blistering speed at which I upload stuff to it via FTP. Would like to do a few more enhancements but this weekend already seems chock full of activities with Chinese New Year just around the corner.

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Took delivery of photos from Snapfish when they had their 9c per print offer. It’s a significant saving from the usual 15c, saving me about $10 for the 160 or so prints I made. Delivery charges were painful though, at $10, so it’s sort of like paying for 15c copies but free delivery.

Printed my pictures at the standard 4 x 6″. Only bad point to the photos were that the photo paper was on the thin and flimsy end, and would probably bend easily, unlike older film developed photos that had the postcard feel to it. Other than that, the pictures were great. Having a colour calibrated monitor really helps out here, as the pictures in my hand were exactly as they looked on my screen (well, from memory anyway, I didn’t compare them directly). Having a colour corrected monitor helps you to identify colour casts on pictures and fix them up (another side note that even with a calibrated monitor, you need a colour calibrated printer to go with it and my previous prints on the home printer were slightly off). Without colour correction, my monitor tends to be on the warm side, with white webpages imparting a slight yellow hue that you probably wouldn’t even take notice of. Images were sharp, and some colours a little too dark but mainly due to error on my part for overprocessing the images. They look fine on the screen but didn’t translate over to print.Your eyes can see more variation of colours than your screen can display, and the screen subsequently can display more colours than what you can print.

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My cousin has caught the grub growing bug and I transplanted some of her tomato plants (I hope they are what she thinks they are) that grew offshoot and have invaded into her chilli plant pot. Heh, will try my luck again with the coriander and parsley later on this year. Also have more experience with aphids, and when my friend (who is also trying out some herbs) brought it up, I knew exactly what she meant by white bugs covering the plant. Coincidentally enough my cousin is also experiencing the same problem now, and it does require some urgency to remove the bugs before they destroy your plant, as they have done so in my previous two attempts with growing coriander.

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Heh, just so many other fascinating things in life to keep me occupied, the only dull moments are when I can’t do it all quickly enough.