Light Graffiti - Defacing the night!

September 20, 2009 8:38 PM

After all of the running around of yesterday, Sunday it appears turns out to be a much more relaxing event to a degree that makes for a pleasant change. The morning is spent doing not much of anything but when it gets to lunchtime we sit and enjoy one of the most simplest pleasures in life, the humble tuna mayo sandwich.

By 1.45 PM we are heading down to the gym as we have our monthly assessment to see how we're getting on. Quite a good one for me too, as I've managed to shed 1 stone of fat and I'm now no longer on the "really fat" part of the weight conversion chart they have which was one of my own small goals met! My resting heart rate has lowered too and blood pressure was fine. Phil didn't fair so well with his blood pressure elevated again and putting on 1lb. So we then get put on the treadmill to do a fitness test and after 10 minutes of being evaluated I manage to get a score of 5 (where 12 is super human) and Phil gets a 4. No surprise since Phil gets little time to go to the gym. I just hope he doesn't get too demotivated. None the less, he was very congratulatory of me which was lovely and boosted my confidence no end, he really is supportive with this sort of stuff as he knows I have a continual problem with my weight, I just hope the time he gets to spend down the gym pays off and helps his heart health. We did do his blood pressure when we got home and it was normal so thats a good sign - I think we probably need to be less reliant on what the gym equipment has to say (for example, their scales put me at 5lbs heavier than our scales!).

When we get home we get showered and changed and head over to the supermarket to stock up. Phil also pops into Argos and gets a new computer game.

Shopping done and it's homeward bound once again and with the groceries put away I make a start on Sunday dinner (chicken tonight!) and have a chat with a friend via Skype whilst it's cooking.

After tea and when it is dark Phil and I start chatting about how they have done the talk talk sponsorship adverts for X-Factor this year and Phil narrows it down to something called "light graffiti" which he then duly investigates and announces that we can do it at home with the kit we have as it is in fact quite easy to do, all we need is a long exposure setting on the camera, a torch and some imagination (oh, and as we learnt later, a smidge of talent for drawing).

Phil then sets about setting all the kit up and we give it a go, nothing too adventurous but it's given me a taster for lots of other things we could do with this technique once we've practiced a bit more! It's amazing what you can do with a garden light for example (see flower above).