Archive for June, 2006

Underwater photography

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Our few early experiences with cameras and diving were notably a little sad. Our first camera was an el-cheapo model, bought in a dive shop in Cairns before our Barrier Reef trip. We filled the first reel with grainy reef shots, some photos of the dolphins we met on the way back to [...]

Wimpy (TM) on steroids

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

A little while back, we took advantage of the lovely long summer evenings to go a bit out of our way to find our evening meal. In this case our destination was the Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Bayswater – about 15 minutes walk from Notting Hill Tube.
The GBK chain has been [...]

Going grocery shopping online

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

The week-plus since we got back from Cornwall has flashed by in a blur of work, evenings out and time-consuming admin tasks like photo-organising and dive-log updating.
I’ve been toying with the idea of using one of the online grocery shopping sites for a while now – mostly because for Tom, grocery shopping in his free [...]