If you are getting stuck on what text to practice your writing, try these …

• Why do toasters always have a setting so high that it could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
• Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
• Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don’t point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?
• If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
• If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
• Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
• Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride he sticks his head out the window?
• Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

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I was looking around the Internet the other day and came across this amazing image:

Apparently the car is covered with over 6,000 pens.

I found this picture at http://www.toycyte.com/

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I recently found this website The Man in Blue
“The Man in Blue is the alter ego of Cameron Adams, a Web Technologist in Sydney, Australia. (That means he does graphic design, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, writing, server-side jiggery pokery, and anything else that takes his fancy that day.)”

There are some very interesting articles on this website about a wide range subjects. However, it was BokehType that caught my attention. I tried to get a couple of screenshots but I was not very successful.
Its hard to explain – you will just have to visit the BokehType page and see for yourself what happens.

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Last Thursday and Friday again saw the best start possible to the summer holidays – The Lowestoft Air Show. Each year the show gets better and this year was no exception.
The Lowestoft Air Show was the largest attended attraction in East Anglia last year and the winner of the Suffolk Tourism Award 2008 for the best Festival or Event.

On Thursday, the show got off to a great start with the Princess of Wales Royal Rgt. who are one of the country’s premier freefall parachute display teams. Personal favourites included F-16 Fighting Falcon, Avro Vulcan XH558 and the KC-135 Stratotanker.
Thursdays show finished with the Red Arrows. One of the highlights of their display is the solo manoeuvre performed by the synchro pair who race towards each other at 800mph before passing only 100ft apart.
Just as the Red Arrows finished their display the skies opened and we were caught in a torrential downpour. It rained so hard that my digital camera, which was in my pocket underneath the waterproof, has broke. Hopefully I will be able to retrieve the pictures from the memory card when I get a card reader.
This was the Red Arrows last year.

Fridays show started with the Red Arrows. Again an excellent range of displays was planned for the day. However, the weather was not so kind disrupting the displays throughout the day. Again for the second day in a row we experienced a torrential downpour, which may have been even harder than the previous day.
I only got two photos on Friday using my phone camera, which was taken minutes before the storm.

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	Lay Member’s Day was again a sell out with all the tickets sold before the event started. This was our second visit to the show so we were more prepared. The doors open early for the stall holders, giving us nearly 2 hours to set up. This time went so quickly. We almost got the layout of the products how we wanted them when we had our first customer. Josie Brown was demonstrating at the show and so quickly made a purchase before she started.
The doors opened at 10:00 and minutes later we were all serving customers. Some of the most popular items purchased included oblique penholders and pointed nibs. Thanks to Joy Daniels from the CSIG demonstrating Copperplate writing, there was much interest in getting the equipment and having a go at this style of lettering.
Sales of vintage nibs were good. Luckily I just remembered to pack the nibs moments before we set off to London. Potential customers were disappointment when they learnt we had had some Gillott 303 nibs in stock, which had quickly sold out within a week or two of them being available on our website.
The only period we were quiet was when most of the visitors attended the lecture. This year, Dennis Brown was speaking. I met Dennis for the first time just before he was about to speak. It was great seeing his work up close rather than images on the website. I also met Ewan Clayton. He was selling a wonderful range of Japanese Ink Sticks.
We eventually got back from London late at night. What a great day and I’m hoping we return next year!

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