Alphabet Story

Posted on 27th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

August:

Belinda

Caught

Dogs

Eating

Firewood.

Gosh!

How

Irritating

Just

Krackers!

Let’s

Make

Next

October

Party time.

Queue

Responsibly,

Somebody

Took

Umbrage,

Very

Weird,

Xtremely

Yellow.

Zounds!

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 26th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Boats at Salen
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Earth Day 2026

Posted on 22nd April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today is Earth Day, and today’s TDC asks us how we are going to celebrate it. I’ve been weeding and pruning our back garden this week, so today I will get out and clear the weeds from in and around our little garden pond.

Garden Pond
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It’s all looking lovely out there, especially now Fair Flora is in her new home

Fair Flora
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Posted on 20th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC is about earthquakes. Here’s my response

The world shakes
At the mess man makes

Earthquakes
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Silent Sunday

Posted on 19th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

101/365 Hogganfield Loch
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Digital Storyteller’s Kit

Posted on 18th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Camera
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Today’s TDC asks us to say what’s in our digital story teller’s kit, so here’s mine:

  • GIMP, for serious photo editing
  • Giphy for quick gifs (add stickers to a photo for quick effect)
  • Lunapic, for a whole range of filters and effects
  • PPT, for a quick way of adding text to an image (I get this free through work, other slide packages would work just as well)
  • Clipchamp, for quick video editing (as above, I use this as I get it through work, there are alternatives)
  • Flickr, to upload my images and easily insert them into web pages
  • WordPress, to write my blog posts

And a whole load of other stuff: like my light box to draw over images; my pens, pencils and crayons to doodle; my cameras, to take pics as I wander around; my scanner, printer and PC …

Digital storytelling is , and I think the Argos kit for toddlers is great.

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Unicorns

Posted on 17th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Unicorn
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Today’s TCC has an image of the unicorn from the Lion and Unicorn staircase at UofG (no surprise, as I set this TDC). As ever, I have this poem in my head:

The lion and the unicorn
Were fighting for the crown
The lion beat the unicorn
All around the town.
Some gave them white bread,
And some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum cake
and drummed them out of town.

So what skills would a unicorn have? The patience to wait till the perfect time to oust a pretender, maybe? And charm, of course, to appear sweetness and light. But watch out for that horn – it can do serious damage!

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Booking Bands

Posted on 16th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to mash up a book and a band. After some deliberation I settled on “of mice and men at work” (from Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” and the band “Men at Work”.  I then headed over to Night Cafe and asked:

An image for a book cover called ‘of mice and men at work’. It should have features of the ‘men at work’ album covers

The image it generated was great, but of course the caption was misspelt. After two attempts at asking it to spell correctly I asked it to remove the caption. I then opened up PPT and edited it myself.

Of Mice and Men at Work
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Then I remembered the Penguin Classics Cover Generator so I made a version using that.

Of Mice and Men at Work
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As I was doing all of this I also fed my prompt into Your AI Slop Bores Me and asked for a ‘human AI’ version, which I then added a caption to.

Mice and Men
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I love them all!

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 12th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

RSPB Lochwinnoch
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Poem Portrait

Posted on 7th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

For todays TDC I headed over to Google’s Poem Portraits, as the prompt suggested, and gave it the word breakfast. I let it take my photo while it generated this poem.

Our breakfast stems were drowned with the stars,
My fancy wastes the sun. The fire is formed.

poem-portrait
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