David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Feb 8, 2012, 7:23 pm
Feline Sweet About You - A Quillcards Valentine's Day Ecard Feline In Love Again Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve – this feline wears his on his chest. Look at those hopeful eyes – romantic to the core, don’t you think? He’s gearing up for Valentine’s Day – dreaming of th...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Feb 7, 2012, 5:25 pm
An Idea Is Like A Ghost Today people in the UK are celebrating the 200th birthday of the great author Charles Dickens. Dickens himself explained an aspect of his ingenious creative process when he said: An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Mr. Dickens ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Feb 2, 2012, 10:15 am
Bridge At Berwick Upon Tweed This image of the bridge at Berwick is available as a Quillcards ecard. As I wrote in the article about The Coast Road To Edinburgh, Berwick Upon Tweed is the last town in England along the coast road before one reaches the border with Scotland. Berwick is three miles...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jan 23, 2012, 7:43 am
Blooms At The Window - Jane Austen In Chawton A Sweet View It was a sweet view – sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive. – from ‘Emma’, Jane Austen’s novel published in 1815 Jane Austen had li...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jan 9, 2012, 10:02 am
Quillcards Ecard Guinea Pig Guinea Pigs Top The Charts As you might guess, animal images are always popular subjects for our ecards – and our guinea pig images are perennial favorites. In fact, we could devote a whole category to these little animals, they are so popular. Equally popular is ano...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Dec 31, 2011, 7:32 pm
Happy New Year From Quillcards Happy New Year! is a post from the Quillcards Blog Related posts:Piglets Suckling and The Happy Pig 962 Quillcards Ecards For The New Year & Beyond Quillcards Festive and Seasonal Ecards
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Dec 20, 2011, 10:59 am
Let It Snow - A Quillcards Ecard Clarence Odbody in It’s A Wonderful Life Ah, Frank Capra’s 1946 Hollywood movie ‘A Wonderful Life’: Nothing like snuggling down to watch it during the winter festive season yet one more time. And no matter how many times I have done so – I always wait in...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Dec 18, 2011, 12:10 pm
The Deer Says Hello New Ecards Added To The Collection We have added 18 new images on a variety of subjects to our range of Quillcards ecards and you can see them in the Recently Added section of Quillcards – just click the link to take a look. Here is a ‘screen grab’ of the page showing so...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Dec 8, 2011, 7:19 am
Public Sector Strikers and Paddington Normally when I hear the news about political issues, I don’t think for a moment about bears – not even Paddington Bear, the fictional storybook character created by author Michael Bond for his ‘Paddington’ children’s book series. Now I for one love ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Nov 1, 2011, 12:56 pm
The New Scottish Parliament Surely has been a parliament since Scotland became a country many centuries ago? It’s a natural question to ask and indeed the first recorded reference to a meeting of the Scottish Parliament dates from 1235 and the first permanent meeting place for the parliament was...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Oct 4, 2011, 7:30 am
... there to celebrate on World Animal Day. I said that the short ... of steam and chemicals underground to break up the rock and release ... by fracking. Celebrate World Animal Day So, against this background of ... , we wholly support World Animal Day and the environment in which ... all...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Sep 30, 2011, 9:41 am
... Edinburgh. Note: You can find the ecard of this image in ... repainting. There were concerns that the thick glass flake epoxy wouldn ... and crew all died. However, the North British Railway Company (who ... and slowed down. Forth Road Bridge The Firth Of Forth A ... Edinburgh is so...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Sep 23, 2011, 4:20 pm
Promenading In Regency Costumes All this week the 2011 Jane Austen Festival has been celebrated in the city of Bath in Somerset, England. Hundreds of Jane Austen fans and aficionados dressed in Regency costume kicked off the opening last weekend with a promenade through the streets of Bath. It’...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Sep 15, 2011, 9:44 am
Grant's Zebras How To Make A Black And White Image A few weeks ago I was photographing animals at a Safari park for our ecard collection. The sun was bright and it was around mid-day. These are not good conditions in which to take photographs because the sun washes out the colors and the shadows ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Sep 13, 2011, 7:27 am
Ramparts At Berwick Upon Tweed Heading north, Berwick Upon Tweed is the last English town before the border with Scotland. The town is just three miles from the Scottish border and a few hundred yards from the North Sea. On its seaward side there are these high earth ramparts built in the late 150...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Aug 30, 2011, 11:58 am
Antony Gormley - Man Half Underground A Short Walk To The Gallery Here in the west end of Edinburgh where we are staying during the Edinburgh Festival, it is only a short walk to the Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art. This statue by Antony Gormley of a man half underground is at the pedestr...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Aug 18, 2011, 6:57 am
Architecture – Those Grand Sandstone Terraces And Crescents There are so many grand terraces and crescents in Edinburgh – intersecting and leading one into another – that it is easy to get heady and lost in the maze. Some of the terraces are very long and stretch for what seems like hundreds ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Aug 10, 2011, 6:36 am
During the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Royal Mile – a long street in the center of the city that leads up to the castle – becomes a venue for artists to give the crowds a taste of what they are offering in their shows. A Potted History Of The Century Bepo and Co – circus performers from ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Aug 7, 2011, 5:26 am
The Royal Mile From Princes Street Gardens In Edinburgh We Are In Edinburgh We are here in Edinburgh for the Festival. More about that next time, but first something that Tamara noticed as we were traveling north on the A1 to Edinburgh. The A1 is a major road runs from London all the way up to Sc...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jul 25, 2011, 4:31 pm
Inside The Abbey On the several occasions that I have visited Bath, I have looked to see whether Bath Abbey was open, but it never seemed to be. So when I was passing one morning recently and saw that the great wooden doors were open, I grabbed the chance and went inside. Bath Abbey doesn’t lo...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jul 15, 2011, 7:53 am
New Ecards We have added 21 new images to the site and you can see these most recent additions by clicking here to see our Recently Added Ecards. Trips Around England We’ve had a hectic few weeks traveling and visiting various places in England. Some places we intended to visit, and others we j...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jun 15, 2011, 7:18 pm
The Gherkin Building in St. Mary Axe, London This is a follow-up to this article on photographing London in which I mentioned the Gherkin building in the financial district in London. I walked around the area, looking for a viewpoint from which I could show the way that the building curves inwards...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jun 13, 2011, 9:53 am
The Zodiac In Somerset House It’s a small thing, but one of the more interesting way to enter Somerset House is from Victoria Embankment by the River Thames in London. The usual entrance is off the busy road named the Strand, but there is a back staircase (at least it feels like a back staircase)...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jun 3, 2011, 6:32 am
If you have half a day free in London and want to see some of the more iconic buildings in the city, you can do it at a fairly relaxed walking pace. This walk begins at Liverpool Street rail station, and when you step out onto the forecourt you will see the famous ‘Gherkin’ office building peek...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - May 18, 2011, 12:42 pm
Green-Winged Macaw - A Quillcards Ecard For Endangered Species Day Where the Wild Things Are It’s just a teeny-tiny drop of a contribution in the ocean of ‘how can I help wild creatures who have it rough finding enough food to exist?’, but I just love our bird feeder and the crew of garden b...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - May 16, 2011, 4:29 pm
At The Exhibition Leeds Art Gallery in collaboration with the Tate Britain Gallery in London is hosting an exhibition of Henry Moore’s sculptures, paintings, and drawings. There is a permanent exhibition of his sculptures at Leeds Art gallery. For this exhibition, however, pieces have come from ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Apr 27, 2011, 6:18 pm
A Quillcards Ecard: The Dashing Prince The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton We want to give a Quillcards romantic and fun nod to the forthcoming royal marriage of Prince William and Catherine (‘Kate’) Middleton that will take place here in England this Friday, April 29th. A ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Apr 22, 2011, 11:08 am
Kirkgate Market In Leeds Kirkgate Market Kirkgate Market in the center of Leeds in Yorkshire in the north of England is the largest indoor market in Europe. There were five markets in Leeds at one time – some dating back to the Middle Ages – but as the city became richer and the middle of Lee...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Mar 31, 2011, 10:22 am
The Endless Layers Of India Traveling for seven weeks in northern India with my husband David last year was an experience in endless head turning where one constantly sees astonishing tableaux of extremes – delightful and depressing, enriching and enervating, uplifting and chilling. Such is the ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Mar 26, 2011, 12:22 pm
Back To Waterloo Lake I have been making some loose panoramas, including some of Waterloo Lake in Roundhay Park, Leeds. I call them ‘loose’ panoramas because of how I shoot them. Articles and tutorials on how to make panoramas by blending a number of photographs say you should place your came...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Mar 24, 2011, 9:06 am
Tweet FACEBOOK The Blogsherpa Community As you can see from the blue badge over at the sidebar here, the Quillcards Blog is part of Lonely Planet’s Blogsherpa community of travel writers. That means that the travel articles we publish on this site are also published on the Lonely Planet website...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Mar 17, 2011, 5:36 pm
Tweet FACEBOOK Ewe With Lamb In The Yorkshire Dales The Farmer And His Sheep Sheep farmers in the Yorkshire Dales in the north of England face a short spring and summer season. Therefore it is important for them to put their lambs out in the fields as soon as the new spring grass starts to co...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Mar 9, 2011, 11:16 am
Tweet FACEBOOK We have just added a bunch of new images to our Quillcards ecards. Here are two of them, and you can see them all in the Recently Added section – just click the link to take a look. Green-Winged Macaw - A Quillcards Ecard The Green-Winged Macaw Also known as the Red-and-gree...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Mar 8, 2011, 7:57 am
Tweet If you are familiar with our ecards, you will know they have a background color that fills the browser window around the image and the text, as you can see in this sample ecard. Originally we offered a range of five background colors. Some time later we increased that to seven colors, and th...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Mar 1, 2011, 12:07 pm
Tweet One Hundred Million Sunflower Seeds In The Turbine Hall At The Tate Modern The Tate Modern is the natural gallery in London to show ground-breaking, avant garde artworks. The kind that as often as not might make you shrug, dismiss, and despair of. I am talking about bricks laid out on th...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Feb 26, 2011, 4:28 pm
Tweet Dancer In Udaipur - A Quillcards Ecard It Is Getting Harder To Travel Light There was a time when I would have been happy to leave my camera at home and let my senses do the recording. Now a camera, lenses, and a laptop are all fighting for space in my pack. For all that, the guiding pr...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Feb 20, 2011, 2:08 pm
Snowdrops These snowdrops came out a few days ago. I saw them one day and intended to go out to photograph them the following day. However, the best-laid plans can go awry, and the next day it snowed. The snow was swept away by the rain the next day and so I went to visit the spot again. I didnâ€...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Feb 10, 2011, 2:33 pm
Alexander Graham Bell Applies For A Patent Have you ever cooed to a loved one via the telephone or on your cell phone or mobile on Valentine’s Day or otherwise? Turns out that the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, might have been unwittingly prescient about this since he filed hi...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jan 29, 2011, 4:55 pm
I have just been watching one of Don McAllister’s screencasts from his series of very useful tutorials at ScreenCastsOnline on how to get the best out of your Mac. This week’s show is about John Gruber’s Markdown and about various text editors that can use it. What Is Markdown? Markdown is ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jan 21, 2011, 7:39 am
A 'People and The Arts Quotations' Quillcards Ecard As of this January 2011, we now have a total of 962 ecards on Quillcards. This includes 45 ecards that we have put on the site since Thanksgiving, and 17 ecards that we have just added. From Attenborough To Shakespeare & More Our most recent ec...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Jan 12, 2011, 12:59 pm
Imagine you receive a Quillcards ecard and want to reply – ideally with one of our ecards. However, you are not a member of Quillcards, so what do you do? In fact, it is very straightforward. At the foot of the ecard you will see two links. Click on the words Reply With A Complimentary Ecard an...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Dec 16, 2010, 9:16 am
The Ecard Archives 'Delete' Button Rereading Ecards That You Have Sent Members of Quillcards can reread the cards they have sent by logging in to their accounts and then going to the Ecard Archives section of My Quillcards. Until recently, members could view the cards they had sent in the past tw...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Nov 29, 2010, 1:59 pm
Changes At Quillcards We have been working behind the scenes at Quillcards, and we have now completely revamped and upgraded Quillcards. Just to be clear, we are talking about the main site of Quillcards, not this blog. Among the new features you can access on the Quillcards homepage are the fo...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Nov 22, 2010, 8:18 am
Leeds Arcade A Very Brief Introduction Leeds is an industrial city – or it was before the destruction of British industry, Only a fool or a liar would say that Leeds is a beautiful city, but there are some beautiful buildings in it. So starting first by way of an introduction to some of the po...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Nov 20, 2010, 5:11 pm
A Quillcards Thanksgiving Ecard In his 1863 Proclamation of Thanksgiving which set the precedent for the American national day of Thanksgiving, President Abraham Lincoln said: The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies…. ...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Oct 2, 2010, 2:57 pm
A Gift Of Tea A Hymn To Korean Tea I drank a cup of tea and watched the flowing and stillness. Quietly and naturally I seemed to forget the return of time. The Korean monk Choui Uisun wrote this in 1837 in one of his set of poems called The Hymns To Korean Tea. This and his Tea Spirit Message cr...
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Oct 1, 2010, 12:46 pm
What Is There To Celebrate? The short answer is that there is lots to celebrate – even in a world troubled by declining species. On a personal level, guinea pigs are animals that Tamara and I particularly get a kick out of – and they get... Click on the title to read the article.
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Sep 16, 2010, 10:38 am
TweetA Buddhist Verse In the ‘Exalted Sublime Golden Light Sutra’, there is this verse that talks about a number of impossibilities in nature: When white lilies grow In the Ganges’ swift currents, When crows become red And cuckoos... Click on the title above to read the full article.
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Sep 1, 2010, 5:42 am
TweetFirst-Time Travel Abroad When I was 14 years old, my parents agreed to let me go on a school trip abroad. My classmates and I would be walking for two weeks in the Odenwald – a wooded and hilly area in southern Germany – ending our... Click on the title above to read the full article.
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David Bennett posted an article on The Quillcards Blog - Aug 31, 2010, 6:42 pm
Marilyn’s Guitar What pops into my mind first about traveling overseas is Marilyn’s guitar. In my head, that’s what began it all for me. Marilyn, just back from Mexico, all those years ago. Marilyn singing in Spanish as she... Click on the title above to read the full article.
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