break on through

I know that many people think that I'm a full-scale nerd.geek because I use computers and stuff but, actually, I'm about the opposite. I'd like to live in a world of sticks and mud and fires outside and donkeys for transport and no straight lines and NO standardised sizes of paper (oh lord, how I hate A4) and I'd like to not need to know how cameras work because I'd have time to PAINT - probably with colours I'd made myself out of beetroots that I'd grown myself from seed I'd saved from the previous year FFS. In fact, I'm an out and out Luddite who grudgingly accepts that the modern world exists and tries to make the best of it. But it's sooooo hard. While other people either grasp techie things straight away or just run in the opposite direction, I spend two years trying to get into my stupid head what bits of my camera are actually doing when I press buttons and why that may be desirable (or not). Today I grasped things about aperture that I had not previously grasped. And in such a way that I think it will, at last, stick.

These are some pies I made. Thank goodness cooking can be done with hands and taste and smell and sight and doesn't require any technical knowledge - you don't even need instructions, you can just make it all up. I do, of course, have a fully computerised oven, which is handy...but don't let me think about that too much, let me pretend that I cooked by donkey power over an open fire, outside, in the rain....