This has all happened very quickly (after more than a month of collective foot-dragging) but we now have ourselves a holiday all organised for April – to the Red Sea! Wheee-hee!
We had discussed going to the Red Sea this year – it seemed like a good idea now that we had more experience. [...]
Some of you might have noticed that we accidentally let our domain subscription lapse at the end of February. The people who administer the registrations were very quick to put up a re-direct, so people visiting our webpages were shown to a page of their advertising instead! (And for up [...]
I love my bread-maker – it’s been almost two years since I got it as a ’surprise’ birthday present and it still sees lots of use.
Although what it does is very straight-forward: mix ingredients and bake, it gives the opportunity for (a) being creative with new recipes and (b) adding the home-made touch, while still [...]
London 5-Day Forecast
We had SNOW this morning. Not serious snow that falls and hangs around – but still, little pieces of frozen water falling from the sky – indicating just how cold the air must be to support that!
And there I was thinking that with the now gradually lengthening days, we’d definitely seen the [...]
We had a fun excursion last night – visiting a new area, socialising with a large number of other (mostly new-to-us) South Africans, and trying a new restaurant.
The occasion was Gavin’s birthday supper – Gavin being a friend of Tom’s from ThoroughTec days, who moved out to London last year in the wake of a [...]
Only a day or two after putting up my photos for sharing on morgueFile , I got an email from someone asking if they could use one of them (left). The lady in question works for the United Nations Environment Program, and they want to use my pic as one of their [...]
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. – Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)
Another weekend almost over – sigh… No matter how hard you try to spin them out, they do tend to flash by.
I’ve had a lot of undisturbed time online on this one, as Tom has been re-inspired to delve into his [...]
In a day which was fraught and frustrating in so many ways, these were the highlights that made it all worthwhile:
The weather. Ah, what an amazing morning. I just love the early morning city walk part of my commute on days like these. The required ingredients are a washed-clean, cloud-free sky; and the [...]
Being away from work for a few days is like freewheeling downhill on a bicycle. Wonderful while it lasts, but a massive penalty to pay when you have to turn around and go home.
Today was a bit like that. Just a deluge of things to do, meetings to attend, people to speak to… [...]
Still more tinkering about with my image editing software, and here they are:
[Click on the image to see a bigger version.]
In hindsight, I’m sorry that I didn’t take more close-up pics that illustrated how scratched the old left-hand panes were. (It’s kind of visible by how the light is reflecting off the glass in [...]
