[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-way-too-much-fun-with-filters":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"If I didn't have to do any repairs on it, and could take it with me wherever I went, I think this might be my dream house. I saw this place when I went to the south coast between Portsmouth and Chichester to visit my writer friend \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com/\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a> at the holiday place she rents out, \u003Ca href=\"http://tidecottage.co.uk/index.htm\">Tide Cottage\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_millhouse1-2308b2b88f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI love the sweeping views along the sea front between Emsworth and Langstone. And I was having fun with my phone camera. I love it that I can make pictures look like they were taken on an old box camera. I'm sure I'll get over this soon and start taking normal pictures again, but please put up with me for now.\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more photos under the cut! And a drawing.-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_tideplain-1e938d39d0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHey look, this wall must have been made out of concrete-filled sandbags, and then eventually the bags rotted away, leaving just the bricks. They also flop a bit like cookie dough.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_sandbagwall-4b60de6358.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhen you get outside of London, you start seeing where all these great British printmakers get their inspiration. The plants on this coastal bluff look like \u003Ca href=\"http://www.angielewin.co.uk/\">Angie Lewin\u003C/a> prints.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_coastalbluff-4af86e97be.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe clouds, the clouds! I wish they looked this dramatic in real life. Well, they almost did. Wow, filters are just SO MUCH FUN.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_royal_oak2-49371ce4ab.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOops, I think I took the filters a bit too far and plunged this pub photo back into the 1970's. You, too, can tastelessly corrupt your pictures by downloading \u003Ca href=\"http://instagram.com/\">Instagram\u003C/a> to your camera phone.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_royal_oak-4fed6d6e28.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOh, the joy of making everything look like a scene in \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Hero\">\u003Ci>Local Hero\u003C/i>\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_tidedchart-f849c5798f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's my lovely host, Candy! This weekend, she and her husband, Richard, entertained a whole flock of us from the \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/\">Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_sarah_candy-63f68a83b4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI see a lot of their names flitting about online, but it's great to meet these people and find out a bit more about them. Like writer \u003Ca href=\"http://mrsbung.wordpress.com/\">Kathy Evans\u003C/a>, who just happens to be an ace belly dancer and run an \u003Ca href=\"http://www.haygrovesidlesham.com/\">industrial-scale fruit farm\u003C/a>! She brought these beautiful raspberries she'd grown herself. Her farm supplies Sainsbury's, but also Buckingham Palace, how cool is that. And she still gets time to write.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kathy_evans_raspberries-3e12a3c826.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWriter \u003Ca href=\"http://www.julietclarebell.com/\">Juliet Clare Bell\u003C/a> brought along her picture book that's launching this week! It's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.julietclarebell.com/my-books/\">\u003Ci>The Kite Princess\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, illustrated by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.laura-katedraws.co.uk/\">Laura-Kate Chapman\u003C/a>, with an audio CD read by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001767/\">Imelda Staunton\u003C/a> and published by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.barefootbooks.com/uk/\">Barefoot Books\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/juliet_clare_bell_kite-8134bc3af8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nClare's daughter treated us to an impromptu reading of \u003Ci>The Kite Princess\u003C/i>. (Juliet Clare goes by 'Clare' because she used to get teased in school for being a 'Juliet'.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/clare_book-dc819e0f3f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.anitaloughrey.com/\">Anita Loughrey\u003C/a> brought along her picture books, too. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.qed-publishing.co.uk/author.php?a=anita-loughrey&page=2\">Four of 'em!\u003C/a> One for each season.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/anita_loughrey_picturebks-4f0be179a9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fionadunbar.com/\">Fiona Dunbar\u003C/a> with her new Kitty Slade book, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fionadunbar.com/posts/scrapbook/raven-hearts-is-here/\">\u003Ci>Raven Hearts\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, and Candy and Kathy being mega-impressed.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fiona_dunbar_ravenhearts-c7665aa40e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the gang down on the sea front by the amazing mill house.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_groupshot-2a0ce8b8f8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe be-hatted lady on the far left in the last shot is \u003Ca href=\"http://www.piccadillypress.co.uk/\">Penelope Bush\u003C/a>, and when we were having lunch, I idly doodled her a cover for her new book with Piccadilly Press, about twins, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Me-Myself-Milly-Penelope-Bush/dp/1848122527\">\u003Ci>Me Myself Milly\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. (But her real cover is much better.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/me_myself_milly_bush-bbbf4ea2cb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOkay, indulge me in a few more photos. Check out what happens if they go black and white! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_millhouse3-b652a46f91.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_millhouse2-1196d93de6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/havant_tideplain3-8a051aaec3.jpg\">","2012-09-04T07:47:00.000Z","way-too-much-fun-with-filters",[],"way too much fun with filters",1776628724160]