Author: Hannah Sterry

The Non-Phonetic Alphabet

| Hannah Sterry

I was wondering if I could create a useless alternative to the Nato Phonetic Alphabet, so I decided to give it a go (with a little help from the internet, friends and a pencil that claims to be 100% wool and has the instructions “DRY CLEAN ONLY” printed on it).

Anyway, here is the Non-Phonetic Alphabet:

A – Aether, Aisle, Auxiliary
B – Bdellium
C – Czar, Ctenophore
D – Djembe
E – Euro, Eye, Eight, Eiderdown, Euthanasia
F – ???
G – Gnat
H – Honour
I –   ???
J –  Jalapeño
K –  Knee, Knight
L –  Llanelli
M – Mnemonic
N – Nguyen
O – Oestrogen, One, Oujia
P – Pneumatic, Pterodactly, Phlegm, Phonetic
Q – Quiche
R – Rzeznik
S – Sgraffitto
T – Tsunami
U – Uighur, urushiol
V – ???
W – Write, Wrap, Wrestle
X – Xylophone
Y – Yvonne, Yreka, Yttrium
Z – Zaragoza

Use it to annoy people in call centres at your own risk.

My name is Hannah, spelt H for honour, A for aisle, N for Nguyen…
The name is also a palindrome so you should be able to spell the rest by yourself.

If you’ve got better ones, just comment and I’ll add them to the list.

I’ll be really impressed if you find any good ones for F, I, L, N, R, S, U, V, Y and Z!

Photography

| Hannah Sterry

Buy my art

I decided to upload some of my better photos to redbubble, just to see how it goes. Once my new camera arrives and I’ve had a bit of a chance to play with it, I expect I’ll have plenty more images to add to this mini portfolio.

Waiting for Parcels

| Hannah Sterry

I realise I haven’t blogged anything in a while. Basically I’m waiting for my mandolin strings and shiny new camera to arrive so I can mess with some more instruments and do some more photography.

In the meantime I’ve been drawing cartoons like this one:

Nobody will sit in the bar with them.
Nobody will sit in the bar with them.

Anyway, soon I should be back to regularly recording and uploading nice fun bits of music about pirates and zombies and zeppelins! 😀

Why Public Toilets Should Be Soundproof

| Hannah Sterry

Toilet Humour

I’ve always thought that public toilets should be soundproofed. Very silly idea, but it seemed like good material for a cartoon!  🙂

Fading Notes

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The piano keys fade off into the distance… and I realise I’m on holiday today! No work! 😀

This means that the day has been spent with me practicing piano and flute, composing and being impressed with the string sounds on Logic Express. Later I’ve got a flute lesson, so I’ll do a bit more practice for that in a second.