I’ve had some films developed from Sunday and here is one shot that goes some way to demonstrating the power of these machines. F16 takeoff
Air Show
Some shots from the airshow on Sunday. We had great seats in the ‘Friends of the Royal International Air Tattoo’ grandstand. The grandstand was about as close to the runway as you could get without running the risks of burns or permanent deafening. We got to see all sorts of aircraft perform displays, the military […]
Frances & Merv
We have hired a car this weekend so we can go to the Royal International Air Tattoo. Today we took advantage of the extra travel option and went to Heathrow to meet Jenny and greet Frances & Mervyn when they arrived from Dubai. And here they are. Look who we found at Heathrow today
Colchester Zoo
Some photos from our trip to Colchester Zoo a couple of weekends ago. The running vulture. The upright vulture. Baby play fight. Relaxed lions. Lazy flying
Weather forcasting at a train station
You can tell the weather by visiting your local train station in London. The turn of the seasons means that if you want to know what the weathers like turn up at the station and have a look around. If it’s like below, and it’s June, then you know summer is here. The official reasoning […]
A trip to Highgate
On Saturday we went back to Highgate, primarily to visit the Cemetery. We’d been before with Jenny, Amanda and Daniel but had not entered due to the woman at the gate. There are regulations about what you can wear into the cemetery and on the previous day, in the middle of summer, some of us […]
Howard Shore Talk
Yesterday afternoon we set off into London in the direction of the Royal College of Music. We were off to see a talk by Howard Shore specifically dealing with his work on the Lord of Rings movie soundtrack. There was also to be a signing afterwards, so we had a few goodies lined up to […]
The LST Cricket Team
I don’t think I’m destined to play cricket. Last year I played a game for the LST team and it was fun. I fielded a bit, caught someone out and got a golden duck. This isn’t so bad, I thought. We played the same team on Wednesday evening at the same location but this time […]
The London Eye and other things
This weekend has been good. On Saturday we started nice and early and took a ride on the London Eye. I’d noticed earlier in the week that the weekends weather forecast was good and thought that it might be a good time to do one of the ‘London touristy things’ so booked ahead for a […]
Golf
I played golf in a company competion on Saturday with a couple of Helpdesk people (Paul and Roger)and another person (Cathy) who was drafted in at the last minute (we needed at least one woman and the few woman who were willing to play that we knew about were already in other teams, and Keryn […]
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies performed at the Hammersmith Apollo and we attended. One of the many songs performed was called ‘Another Postcard’, which was (or is, depending on where you are in the world) the first single off of the Ladies latest album ‘Everything to Everyone’. The song concerns the abundance of postcards adorned with chimpanzees that […]
The Ladies
Last night, being the evening of Wednesday 29th of April, we attended a concert performed by the band Barenaked Ladies. It was fantastic, I haven’t laughed so much and had such a good time since the last time we saw them play which was in Auckland back in 1999. Barenaked Ladies singing an acoustic number