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Archive for October, 2006

umdenken umm

The lovely photo newletter photojojo is fairly new to me but I’m coming to rely on it a source of interesting and amusing little photo related thingys.  The latest issue has the 10 second tealight photo holder, which is a cunning little creation.
The tealight photo holder is one of a number of bizarre creations at [...]

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crashing waves

Lovely weekend in Dorset with friends and our goddaughter. We went walking by the incredible Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door. It’s one of those areas that I’ve been quite close to a number of times and never gotten round to going to. It lived up to all expectations and was made all the more [...]

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peat puddle

Its a long way to Northumberland but it was worth it. Just had a lovely weekend in the Cheviots. A bad weather forecast turned out to be wrong and we had a good days walking, including a stop over in Scotland for lunch. Moors in the morning, mushroom-laden woods in the afternoon.

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Big Dave’s Gusset

It has been a favourite piece of graffiti of mine for years, I must have passed it hundreds of times on the train from London Bridge. Now In the Aquarium has solved one of London’s great mysteries, and even corresponded with Big Dave himself. Here is the story behind Big Dave’s Gusset.

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My grandma died last week, her funeral was this week. She was 97, after a healthy old age she broke her hip in a fall at the start of the summer and declined from there. It wasn’t unexpected when I got the call, I was at the top of Pillar in the Lake District when [...]

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Rain and the Lake District

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And it did.
We’re just back from a week in the Lake District. It was lovely and it rained, which is to be expected in October. We were camping and managed to stay dry all week until the final night when water started to rise up into the tent. The walking was good, we got in [...]

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