Of work and leisure.

Today (and yesterday) I began the large task of making greetings cards out of photos.
Said photos being all virtual of course so the process includes persuading the computer and printer to agree on the size of the end product...not, you understand the file size, or the number of pixels or the size on the screen or whatever other sizes you might have been thinking about (you weren't? The computer does) but the actual piece of printed paper that has to fit neatly and attractively inside a little 'aperture' in a piece of card.
In the end it seems the only way to be sure that the picture fits into the card is to make the actual image a good bit smaller than the aperture and then add a border which is a good bit larger. The border has to look nice, both with the picture and the card....it also has to look as though it was intended to be there for a purpose other than making sure the picture doesn't fall out of the card.
Other pictures have to be persuaded, in the same way, to fit into picture frames (which I collect from charity shops).
Next I am going to decide on a sensible size (which the computer will tell the printer to produce without too much argument and adjustment) and order a large number of card blanks and mounts (mattes) ready made. I am also going to order lots of little plastic bags to put cards in and then I shall arrange the cards in nice little packages...flowers, skies, animals, landscapes, ducks (Ducks??? Oh all right then, ducks too) *and so on...Oh and I shall probably also order two or three box/shelf thingies for displaying cards on a stall. and sticky labels for prices and stuff. Maybe little contact sheets for the back of each packet? With descriptions)
Oh ...very important...I shall post the letter to Art on the Park (which is a sort of Green park arts display only in Newbury's Vickie Park) asking if they have any pitches to spare for li'l ol' me.
And when I have a large amount of cards and pictures mounted (matted?) I shall email the Beep and ask him to introduce me to the man who runs the Oxford Market where he has his (lovely and full of desirable things) stall.
It may take a while yet though...I just counted and the result of eight hours work and some backache, is 27 cards and 12 pictures. Probably not enough yet to make some kind of enticing display on a market stall (besides being a not very sensible number of cards).
So much for work.
Leisure now, that's what we did in Romney Marsh :)
We rode on the little train
We climbed the old lighthouse
We looked at the view (and went Ooooh! Look at the view!!! As you do)
Then I looked at the giant lantern and went Oooh some more
We walked down to the sea (where oddly enough, the shore was bristling with rod and line fishermen - just over the shingle bank)Watched the train coming back for our return ridePored over the map as we went past Derek Jarman's garden
Wondered why (or indeed whether) people actually live here
And enjoyed the views
Quite hard work really, this leisure business!

*Yes and little boats too of course :)