I have had a love of magazines since I was 8. My mother used to buy me 'Princess' every week and then added in 'June'. This lasted until I was about 13 and then I swapped to 'Seventeen'. Magazine Junkie. In my 20-30s I was paying off a house so there was little money to spare for mags but I did buy some recipe monthlies. In mid life, I restarted the passion when I started quilting. This week, I have had my final clear out and ripped out only hat might be possible in this life time. Only a few remain complete and in a book case.....U? Well, they are part of the Universal Magazine stable.
The remainder is on its way to Vinnies every time the car leaves the garage!
@ Dangerous
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Untold numbers of google searches have been unfruitful. the most interesting I thought would be Untested elephant: An elephant is considered “untested” if it has not had three trunk washes
Summary: Management of the infected animal may require isolation of the exposed herd, potential removal of the animal from exhibit or shows, and if elected, treatment of the animals and exposed herd ... In some cases, with potentially dangerous or unpredictable
However, wading through the information was becoming very tedious and I was not going to race over to the zoo any time soon so I have settled for the very pedestrian 'under-the -sink' type dangerous solution. Even though we try to sanitise everything with white vinegar, we still have chemical undesirables under the sink. Luckily, no one shorter than my mother and her dog visit us so the dangerous cupboard is safe for the moment.
@ Colour
Umber brown was an interesting-sounding colour in my paint and pencil boxes along with Siena Yellow. It was a long time before I realised that the names referred to actual places. Umber (Umbria) is a region to the right of Tuscany, where Siena lies. In printer colours, Umber is composed of 52 parts Cyan, 49 parts Magenta, 64 parts of Yellow and 35 Parts of Black. Therefore Umber Brown is predominantly YELLOW!
Umber brown
Orvieto in Umbria sits on pans of umbrian brown coloured clays
@UFOs
L to R: unfinished socks, unfinished toddler's shrug; unfinished afghan
U should know ur way to Cinzia's blog by now but the shortcut to all Scatterers is http://lgfns.blogspot.com.au . I am looking forward to a letter with a little more charm.
The hexadecimal color code
#f7d917 is a shade of yellow. In the RGB color model #f7d917 is comprised of 96.86% red, 85.1% green and 9.02% blue. In the HSL color space #f7d917 has a hue of 51.96 degrees, 93.33% saturation and 52.94% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 587 nm. Pantone / PMS Yellow 012 is a matching paint color.
Fascinating U's. A friend of my parents bought me a Seventeen magazine from a trip to USA when I was a teenager and I was hooked. Now if I want to read the quilting mags I go to our local library, they have them all, saves money. That photo of Umbria, reminds me of San Gimiango.
ReplyDeleteA couple of my friends subscribe to the quilting mags, so I read theirs. It seems once you start a subscription with that organisation, it is very difficult to cancel it; they offer you all sorts of "special offers" to keep you signed up.
ReplyDeleteI also used to be fascinated by the names of colours in the paint box. Thanks for explaining umber!
U was definitely a hard one this week.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to get to the point when I need to cull MY magazines .. everyone elses I have NO problem with.... ;-)