Archive for June, 2006

Open Garden Squares Weekend

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Another day, another London delight. Today we saw some of the hidden city courtesy of the annual Open Garden Squares Weekend. A tip, get your tickets in advance from the ‘Visit London’ office on Regent Street and save £5 on a pair of tickets. So, two whole days of garden snooping for £10! We decided [...]

Summer of London

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

We’ve had our main holiday this year and the rest of the Summer seems very long and hot, all stretched our before me. Between us we are both saving every penny we have; me for college fees, Bubb for our intended house purchase. So, the Summer looks hot and long. Last Friday I took the [...]

coComment

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Right, I’ve joined coComment (as ‘Bobble’) and it’s fabulous so far. Works with WordPress (a bit of nifty code for him indoors to play with), Flickr and assorted other blogs. I’ve got the RSS feed to my conversations over at Bloglines too, so I can be as lazy as you like. I love technology when [...]

The world cup has started

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Sent to me by email today by my lovely friend H. The picture below is an advert from a Dutch TV station. You have to love the Dutch.

Duomo

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

For Brother Lawrence: The first of my Lubitel scans from Italy. Orvieto’s duomo at night. The first time I’ve used a ‘toy’ camera – or indeed a twin lens reflex – on a tripod too. I guestimated the exposure as it was set on ‘B’ and I held the shutter release cable in for 30 [...]