Patricia and Sam came with us from Manchester to Brentwood and we’ve had their company for the last few days. Today Bridget and Dean also turned up so there is a family atmosphere at the Doran stronghold in Brentwood. Earlier today we, being Keryn and I, went for a walk in the Thorndon Country Park […]
Christmas Day
Today was spent preparing food, watching DVD’s, eating said food and relaxing. There was also a little walk as the evening went from sunset to dusk. Rather than go into details here are a few photos of our hosts and the house where this all happened. Preparing dinner Walking after dinner At the hilltop New […]
Christmas Eve
Today we had a lazy start before heading out into New Mills for a bit of shopping. Christmas dinner is going to be Mexican flavoured this year, just for something different. We purchased food and wine for tomorrow and then walked back to the house for a bit more relaxing. The guys over the valley […]
A service annoucement
We’re having Internet access issues at home and as I can’t update the blog at work we’re going to possibly have fewer updates than normal over the next few weeks. The open field we walked through to get down towards the stream that ran along the valley that the Sanctuary called home For now we’re […]
Because Catherine says so
It’s been quiet here on the Blogging front, possibly a combination of being busy, the onset of winter and the family visits recently. Lets go back through the last few weeks then shall we? This week I was at Leeds on Sunday night so I could be at the LS City Walk Office first thing […]
The Lord Mayor’s Show
Thursday night after work I went down to the Speight’s Ale House after work for a pint or two and Danny, a King Country lad who also works on the Helpdesk came along. We were later joined by Keryn and chatted our way through a few pints of Speight’s followed by a bottle of Oyster […]
The roundup
It’s been a busy week just gone. On Tuesday night I went to the Roundhouse in Camden and watched KT Tunstall in Concert. I bought my ticket months ago and Keryn had decided at the time she didn’t want to go so it was just me, my camera and all the other people. It was […]
Photos updates
A lot of photos have been added to the Gallery recently, click on the photos below for more. In other news somewhere between taking photos in Richmond and getting home that evening I lost my new tripod – left it on the train no less. I’m definitely getting value out of our insurance at the […]
The good and the bad
Today I spent a lot of time following the Ship Lida which has carried a Speight’s Ale House across the oceans from New Zealand to London. In the morning I watched as the ship passed through Tower Bridge and then passed back again half an hour later. There were a few photographers around and a […]
Interim Solutions
You can see some photos from our recent travels here in a different gallery format: https://2kiwis.nz/NorthAmerica Click on a file to zoom in and then you can navigate using the arrow keys (and zoom out with the space bar). Coming home today I got a surprise – the scaffolding that has been in front of […]
The gallery is down at the moment
With the gallery down there won’t be any more photos of New York or other such destinations for a while, hopefully not more than a couple of days. There are two issues at the moment; firstly I updated the back end software yesterday and this broke things a little bit, secondly there are server issues […]
Neil
We attended a talk where Neil Gaiman was the subject this evening at the Criterion Theatre in central London. Neil was interviewed and read a little from Stardust which has it’s London premier tomorrow night. There were questions from the audience and I got to ask if Neil would like to write an episode for […]