Dave

We went to see Dave Dobbyn play in Koko, Camden last night. It was an excellent night of popular music and mass sing-a-long. We managed to get to the front of the stage and were joined by Jim, Emma and Ollie. It’s always good to see New Zealand music well received in London. Dave Dobbyn […]

The Evening Standard

Today was the day where I got to visit the Evening Standard picture desk and see how they work. Over the course of the day I met the picture editor, had the ins and outs of picture sourcing, editing and placement explained and got to go out with one of the photographers on a couple […]

Jim’s Feijoa

We had dinner with Jim and Emma last Thursday evening and afterwards we took Jim’s precious Feijoa home to plant-sit while he and Emma head off to France for the week. You can read more about the Feijoa on Wikipedia – I didn’t know that the plant is named after a Brazilian Botanist. Here is […]

Poppies

Weather wise it has been a lovely weekend. Both Saturday and today have been warm with blue skies and a light breeze blowing through making sure that walking isn’t as hot as it could be. Yesterday we went for a walk in the afternoon that took us through areas of Brentwood we hadn’t explored before. […]

A long weekend

A week ago was the last May bank holiday weekend and we had a busy time in London. On Saturday we went for a bit of a walk and visited the Tate Modern which was in the midst of a long weekend festival. We happened to time our arrival with a piece of performance art […]

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