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Building a useful garden room extension.
This post follows on from a short series I wrote a few weeks ago and describes how I added a Tuin garden extension to our Log Cabin - Blogging
Dunster House Garden room build – part 3
The final part of my short series describing how I put together a Dunster House garden room in our back garden - Blogging
My Dunster House log cabin build – part 2
This post continues my experiences of assembling a Dunster House Log Cabin in our back garden. - Blogging
Building my amazing Dunster House Log Cabin – Part 1
This post is the first part of a series describing my experiences of building a Dunster House log cabin in our back garden. - Blogging
Creating a simple but effective Emby home media server
This post explains how I created a home media server using a Raspberry Pi single board computer and the Emby media server software. Background Like many people, over the years I’ve built up quite a sizable collection of DVDs as I’ve watched films or TV series and thought, ‘I’d like to keep a copy of that’. Although many of the films I have in my collection are available on services like Netflix or Amazon Prime, not all of them are,... - Blogging
My miserable year at Kerry Ultrasonics in Hitchin
My son James keeps asking me about the different jobs I’ve done over my working life and I thought I would write a post about my time at Kerry Ultrasonics to act as a memory jogger, and to give him a fuller history he can refer to. Both looking back with the benefit of hindsight and to be honest at the time, I found my time at Kerry Ultrasonics to be the most miserable year of my working life. There... - Reviews
Brandes ‘superior’ BBC headphones from c 1945
A look at a pair of Brandes headphones from about 1945 which were used by my Father for most of his life. - Blogging
Big Changes coming to the Photoblog
A post just updating any regular readers of this blog of big changes coming - Reviews
Easy Ender 3 Pro assembly and first print
This post looks again at the Ender 3 Pro 3D printer and covers the assembly, some small issues I found and first print I produced. - Reviews
Ender 3 pro 3d printer first look
This post is a departure from my normal photography related posts and instead takes an initial look at the Ender 3 pro 3D printer which I recently acquired. - Blogging
Exciting new vintage home movies site
This is a very short post just to publicise a new sister site to found-film which I've recently set up. - Blogging
Joseph Baker single valve radio c1922
This is a bit of a departure for me in that although this post is about a vintage item it’s not a vintage camera but instead a vintage single valve radio. This post features a radio receiver or wireless which was made in about 1922 by a manufacturer in the town where I grew up (although that was a long way past 1922 I hasten to add). Single Valve Radio images The Joseph Baker Single valve radio This single valve... - Reviews
Pluggable USB microscope review
This is a look at a novel little device I bought a few days ago – a Pluggable USB microscope which allows you to view close up pictures on you laptop. I bought this device for about £35 from amazon, and the main driver for purchasing it was to see if it would provide a good image to use in my continuing 8mm telecine project. That is something I will investigate in the next few days and weeks, but in... - Reviews
Bosch EasyControl room stat and smart rad controllers
This post describes my experience of using the Bosch EasyControl smart room thermostat with smart radiator controllers. Although it will probably be of no interest to anyone who visits my site for it’s photographic content, I hope it will prove useful to people thinking about specifically purchasing the Bosch EasyControl unit or another smart room stat. Bosch EasyControl System The Bosch EasyControl system is a modern replacement for the standard central heating timer and combines the job of room thermostat... - Blogging
Moving from Lightroom to ON1 Photo Raw
A couple of weeks ago I posted how I was trying out Alien Skin Software Exposure X4 as a possible replacement for Lightroom after I’d cancelled my Adobe subscription. Well, in the end I didn’t plumb for Exposure X4, but instead went for the latest release of ON 1 Photo Raw 2019 instead. As I explained in my previous post, I ended up cancelling my subscription to Lightroom quite quickly and so was left without a photo editor. Just as... - Reviews
A quick look at Alien Skin Exposure X4
Earlier in the year I wrote a post about a software photo package called ON1 Raw because I was planning to cancel my subscription to Lightroom. Well, a couple of days ago went ahead with the cancellation, but instead of ON1 Raw I actually started trialling Alien Skin Exposure X4 as my photo editor. Although I had planned to cancel Lightroom in November, in the end I cancelled it on October 30th and in quite a hurry. I was looking... - Blogging
Site Changes coming up to simonhawketts.co.uk
I’m finding it difficult to get the time to post articles to this site at the moment because of other work and personal commitments. As well as a major landscaping project in the garden, we are having a new boiler fitted in a couple of days and then we are re-designing and refitting our 20 year old kitchen. On top of this, I’m also planning how I’m going to move my woodworking / DIY workshop from its current location in... - Blogging
James with Freddy the Cockapoo
We recently spent a weekend at the Elvden Centreparcs and I took this picture of James holding our Cockapoo puppy Freddy in the garden of the Starbucks above the sailing lake with my mobile phone. I really like the expressions captured on their faces, although I wish had taken the photo with my XT-1 and a longer lens so I could have de-focused the background a bit. Unfortunately, that wasn’t possible as at the time I took this picture all... - Blogging
A collection of 8mm home movies
I’ve written before on this blog about collecting 8mm home movies and I’ve purchased several films over the last couple of years which I’m hoping to be able to digitise soon. Each of the films which I’ve bought has been quite interesting, but I’ve generally acquired films which were shot in the mid to late 1960s; this week however, I had quite a find when I picked up 20 8mm home movies which were shot from the early 1950s up...
