catherines confessions

Roentgen's photo of Albert von Koelliker's hand from January 23rd, 1896. It is Tuesday, June 29th and both Mrs. Denise Nesbitt's abc-Wednesday and Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday have the letter 'X' as this week's assignment. My first X -word is X-ray . Since here is a shortage of X-words, I suspect that many participants will choose this word as a solution to this challenge. I choose the word X-ray with mixed feelings, because it is an area of study for which I have absolutely no prerequisites. I was rotten in school when it came to the subject Physics. It will be interesting to see how others present their X-words! But thanks to Wikipedia, maybe I will be able to get through this alright. X-rays If I were writing this post in Swedish, the subjects of rays used to make plates showing the insides of our bodies, would not belong to the X-words, but rather the R-words, as the Swedish language follows the German usage of the term 'Roentgen-...

This is my 8-year old son, Erik, who has been kind enough to help me with this post. It is Wednesday, June 16th (even if I started this the day before yesterday) and both Mrs. Denise Nesbitt's abc-Wednesday and Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday have the letter 'V' as this week's assignment. Without even opening a dictionary , there was one word that came immediately to mind: VIKING . I nstead of coming up with many different V-words , I am going to try to stick with just one word, ' Viking ' and see what I can do with it. 'Varning för Vikingar' means 'Beware of the Vikings!' These are my son Erik's drawings. Since 'Viking' or the 'Vikings' or the 'Viking Age' is a subject that could fill several books, I have decided to limit my study of the Vikings to just a few things that an eight-year-boy might deem important. The Vikings were people who lived in Northern Europe from about 700 to 1000 A.D. (Take a look a...

Today is Wednesday and once again it is time to play my two favourite alphabet-memes, Mrs. Denise Nesbitt's abc-Wednesday and Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday. This week both memes have the letter "S". Similar to the letter "R", there are lots and lots of S-words to choose from. After so many R-words last week, I have decided to try to limit myself to S-words that are related to my main subject, jewellery-making. So my S-word is Silver , a precious metal that is widely used to make pieces of jewellery . Here we see a finger ring and a bangel that I made of sterling silver at a beginners' silver-smithing course that I took a year ago. Not very exciting? No. But I learned the basics of how to solder silver. Until that time when I can afford to invest in silver-smithing equipment there are already good silver smiths who can do the kind of jewellery that I would like to be able to do one day. Take a look at Trudie Davies' ring here. You c...