One of the things I like about the photography class I recently enrolled in is that the subject is taught in the round. By that I mean the class is not just about the technical aspects of photography but instead takes an overview of the subject. For that I am truly grateful as in truth two and a half hours of tech detail every Tuesday evening would rapidly turn my brain to a mushy pea consistency.
Dublin: Vintage Photographs
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Favourite Quotes//Seven
‘Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being’
Albert Schweitzer 1875 – 1965
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Photography Class
One of the things on my to do list this year was to enroll in a photography class with a view to improving the images I take for the blog. I did attend a short set of classes earlier in the year but I was out of my depth and I struggled with trying to grasp concepts such as ISO and f-stops which the others in the classes seemed to understand instinctively, so the impact of the classes on bettering my photography was minimal.
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Kennedy’s of Enniskerry
Kennedy’s of Enniskerry is, as you might expect, in Enniskerry. Enniskerry is an enchanting village at the foot of a valley in Wicklow, a county immediately south of Dublin, that was original built as the estate village for the nearby Palladian Powerscourt House: Kennedy’s is a charming café on Church Hill right in the heart of the village.
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Back to the Past: Islington
Like a runaway horse heading in one direction only, the unstoppable temporal train gallops forward carrying us ever onwards towards our unforetold futures. There are no return trips and as we are not time travellers we cannot go back to yesteryear. Of course, our minds can wing us back to remembered and half remembered days gone by and besides if curiosity gets the better of us it is usually possible to revisit places where we have been at an earlier time in the arc of our lives.
An Instagrammed September
Yes, yes, I am a little late with this. I cannot use the excuse that September has one day fewer than most other months as today is the 3rd October so I am, er, actually, three days late. And of course how could I forget that there were only thirty days in September when I have what is probably the world’s best know mnemonic to remind me. You all know the rhyme:
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Favourite Shops//Dolls
At the corner of two leafy streets, lined with period red brick townhouses, in a quite but interesting Dublin 8 residential neighbourhood, a mere stone’s throw from the city centre, is an alluring independent clothes shop – Dolls – owned by Petria Lenehan.
Filed under Designers, Dublin, Shops/Shopping, Style
Ursula Celano Notebook: Girls on Bikes
The weather on Monday was ark-appropriate: for ark-appropriate read insanely wet, wild and windy. So, I was in need of something cheering to take my mind off the incessant rain and the ubiquitous grey mist. And I found just the thing when I called into the Irish Design Shop’s branch in the RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy) and bought an Ursula Celano notebook which has an utterly charming cover a bit of which you see in the image above.
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Eeek!
Eeek, it’s been a week, a whole week, since I last posted on Just Add attitude; this, I am sure, is the longest gap between posts since I started blogging back in March 2011. No, I have not been contemplating leaving the blogosphere; I have just been preoccupied with other things this week which meant I neglected the blog. So, if you clicked on expecting to read my words of wisdom narcissistic ramblings only to find nothing new I apologise for going AWOL.
I may not have blogged but I did do an occassional trawl of the internet, where I happened upon this wonderful piece of advice on household management which I thought you might like. “The best way to get rid of kitchen odour: eat out”. So that dear readers is exactly what I did today, munching my way through a traditional Sunday lunch of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. I am not sure if Mrs Beeton would approve but in my book it’s advice of the best kind.
I will be back with a proper post in the next few days. I hope you had a good weekend.
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Snapshots of my Weekend
I had set aside this weekend for a clean up of my place which looks like some mythical beast had ground down a ton of Saharan sand and huffed and puffed until it covered every surface. No, not sloth on my part – I had some minor work done, very minor, which has generated an inordinate amount of dust. However Friday came and went and the work wasn’t completed; Monday is now the new finishing date. It seemed pointless to do a massive round of cleaning only to have to do it all again forty-eight hours later, so this weekend was instead dedicated to doing as little as possible.
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