Kate Phizackerley's Squidoo lenses

Actuarial

At present there is just one lens, but if it seems to be a success, then it will become part of a series.

Ancient Egypt

I have now created a separate lensography of my Ancient Egypt lenses and in time will delete the individual lenses from here.

Ancient Egypt - Amarnan Princesses

It's easy to assume that little-known princesses had boring lives, particularly when many of them died in childhood. How wrong that would be! Read on and be amazed.

Ancient Egypt - Atenism

Atenism is perhaps the first recorded instance of a state-sponsored monotheistic religion. It's important for all those interested in the history of Judaeism and Christianity.

Ancient Egypt - 18th Dynasty - Pharaohs & Tombs

I am very interested in the New Kingdom and the 18th Dynasty is one of the most interesting of that period with famous Pharaos like Tutankhamun (King Tut) and Akhenaten (the Heretic King). These lenses are my biographies of Kings figures from that period.

Ancient Egypt - 18th Dynasty - Queens

I am very interested in the New Kingdom and the 18th Dynasty is one of the most interesting of that period with famous Queens like Nefertiti and lesser known ones like Meritaten. These lenses are my tributes to this remarkable women.

Ancient Egypt - Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor in Egypt is the burial ground of New Kingdom pharaohs and many of thier queens and senior officials. I have written several lenses on tombs in the Valley of the Kings and my blog News from the Valley of the Kings is the leading blog on the subject and is now often on the front page of Google.

Ancient Egypt - Book Reviews

Rather than adding a book review to Amazon, I have started creating a lens here. These are my reviews of books about Ancient Egypt.

Animals

When I write about animals my fun side tends to show and I am often more interested in playfulness of cuddly kittens than a sober description of diet or mating habbits. My Wonderful Elephants lens is a great example of what I mean and one of my favourite lenses.

Art & Artists

Professionally I am as likely to meet my contacts in an art exhibition as a stuffy meeting room. Culture is an important part of our lives, certainly of my life

Bayeux & the Bayeux Tapestry

I tend to write lenses in groups. This set may not seem to be linked but they all arepart of my Bayeux cycle.

Billy Joel

A series of lenses about the singer, songwriter Billy Joel

Business Tips

I maintain a business blog but for some longer articles, I make the material into a lens and point the blog at it. So here are some business tips for you.

Cake Icing

These are a nice little mini series of food lenses. They were written to support the specialist birthday cakes lenses and form a bridge out to my more general food lenses.

California

I love the area around San Francisco - hope to get back soon!

Computing - Blogger - How do I?

When I find a neat trick on Blogger I add it to my How2Zilla blog but the very best tips deserve a lens here all of their own ...

Curiosities

Curiosities is an old, old word used to describe things which are just slightly out of the ordinary. You'll find a collection of odds and ends for your amusement in this section

Debates

Lenses filed here could be categorised in their own subjects, but they are lenses which ask questions andI prefer to think of them as a separate set of debate lenses. If they are relevant to one of the other categories, they will be linked from lenses withing that category anyway.

Disney Princesses

These make very nice, sweet little lenses.

English Cathedral Organs

This is a mini series that will grow but is low priority so enjoy those I have written so far!

Food & Cookery

This isn't a big category for me, but I think the lenses I do have are very nice ones.

Genetics

A series of lenses about genetics and DNA with an emphasis on gender and inheritance.

Highland Dancing and Music

I'll gradually add lenses to this series. I like the sound of bagpipes - just as I like the sound of organs. It's the deep harmonics from the drone I think.

History of Computing

I bought a BBC Micro as soon as they could produce colour output. The first time I was ever paid for my wriiting was an assembler language BASIC IDE which was published in Personal Computer World. Since then I have seen amazing developments and, just occasionally, it's good to be nostalgic and look back at the history of the technologies we now take for granted.

Lenses as Image Stores

As the traffic to my lenses increases, providing bandwidth for images I use on Squidoo was becoming a potential issue. The answer though is simple - create lenses to hold the inages I use and <img src ...> them in from there. The lens, "Using a Lens as an Image Store" explains how to do this, and is an image store - the other lenses in this section are mainly image stores. That doesn't stop them being valuable lenses in their own right - a good collection of images is a perfect recipe for creating a great lens!

You might also want to check out the Artwork section of this lensography as some of my orginal artwork I use on Squidoo is hosted in those lenses.

Lenses in French

There is some good material out there in French and the best way to use it is to write the whole lens in French. There won't be many so each is special ... (I also wrote about the process in this lens.)

Malta

I've visted Malta several times. Sadly most of my photos are on prints but I have some digital ones that I will turn into lenses when I have time.

Movies & TV

I don't often get time to write Movie or TV reviews so when I do the movie or show really has to have captured my interest

Music

I don't write many music lenses but the lenses are do are as diverse as my musical tastes! There is also a set of lenses about the saxophone and a Billy Joel series and various organ music lenses including Widor

Nikon Camera Equipment

I have been a Nikon camera user for more than 10 years and keep up to date with product releases so it was about time I wrote some of my knowledge up as a series of lenses about the latest Nikon digital cameras.

Orchids

There's nothing sophisticated about these lenses, just great pictures of orchids - the where my father's favourite flowers.

Organ Music

People

A miscallaneous people category for people who don'y fit easily into other categories.

Perfumes & Perfume Reviews

This will always be a fairly small category as I will only review perfumes which I have bought and made it onto my top list. I use:

• Chanel No 5 day-to-day and work


• 5th Avenue casual and evening wear


• ST DuPont Orazuli special occasions

I'll probably add a couple more. I usually have a bottle of something cheap for popping to the shops and I want to try out so alternatives for casual wear.

Pumpkin Recipes

I bought some Pumpkin lenses from another lensmaster which are shown below. These formed the basis of a new set of recipe lenses. You can see the rest on my Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe lens.

Saxophone

(A Saxophone Lensography)

You'll find a group of lenses for saxophone fans listed in this specialist lensography.

Specialised Lensographies

To keep this lens manageable, I have written some specialised lensographies. They are listed under the appropriate subject. Some though just don't categorise very well, so they are listed here along with my Best of Squidoo lens which showcases top lenses by other lensmasters.

Sport

A fairly sparse topic. I follow some support but there are bigger sports fans than me out there and they generally have saved me the trouble is writing a lens about a sport, a team or sportsman or woman. Occassionally I spot a gap and write something though.

Squidoo Diary

I keep a regular Squidoo diary but supplement that with an irregular series of longer articles charting my progress on Squidoo.

Squidoo Tips

My tips on creating lenses and my personal lensography of the best lenses on Squidoo. You may prefer to use my specialised Squidoo tips lensography which sorts them by lenarank order.

Squidoo Traffic Tips

How to boost your traffic on Squidoo both in terms of number of visitors and in terms of the effectiveness of that traffic.

Working with RSS Feeds

You can do some amazing things with RSS feeds!

Zazzle

I have a Zazzle store and this lens was set up to promote it, but I may add some more "how to" lenses over time.

1920s - The Roaring Twenties

Another mini series in development, all about 1920s style

My Squidoo Profiles

I maintain three Squidoo profile lenses, each with a slightly different focus, plus an artwork lens. (My personal profile lens doesn't have a main photo so it may loiok incomplete in this list but that's just a Squidoo "feature".)