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One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut he asked about his bill and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you. I’m doing community service this week.’
The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next morning there was a [...]

20 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2009

As promised, here are some more painting styles using the same photograph as yesterday.  I would be interested to know which of all of them you like best.

14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 11th 2009

I have had a few comments about my recent experimentations, changing photos into paintings and sketches.  For some time know I have felt the software I was using was a bit restrictive because it had a limited amount of features and set styles.  It never did quite what I wanted.
I have finally got round to [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 10th 2009

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Cheers ;-)

I will shortly be going out with friends that I haven’t seen for ages and hopefully much fun will be had by all.

16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 8th 2009

On and off for a number of months there have been technical problems with my local PCS site which meant I had to investigate temporary solutions to host the posts.
During the process the inevitable happened and I revamped and updated the style of the page. Well it is still a work in progress really [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 6th 2009

A few of my blog friends asked about how I managed the pencil drawing in my PhotoHunt picture last Saturday.  Does a girl have to give all her secrets away?
Oh all right then   This magic page made the transformation for me.
And here is one I made earlier:
Before transformation…

After transformation…

16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 5th 2009

Last Friday the Government announced plans to radically reduce the compensation paid to civil servants who are made redundant.  The proposals are published by the Cabinet Office and are described as “reform” of the civil service compensation scheme.  The proposals actually represent a cut in contractual rights to a decent redundancy compensation at a time [...]

21 Comments CherryPie on Aug 4th 2009

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