On Thursday night we went and saw a talk involving Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld novels. Terry was informative and funny, answering many varied questions on his current book, film prospects and such things as the nature of inspiration. I think we walked a bit long getting there and leaving however, Keryn’s cold […]
Tom Yorke – The Eraser
As part of promo activities for the new Tom Yorke solo album a mysterious cut out of a man has been appearing on London streets this week. I set out to find him at lunchtime today, guessing that today he would show up in the vicinity of the Gherkin building. My guess proved correct and […]
Keryn won something!
Landsecurities is one of the sponsors of the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park and every now and again they’ll give away tickets for an upcoming production. Keryn entered such a giveaway and we found out yesterday afternoon that we had tickets for the evening showing of ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’. So we went and […]
Elephant in the rain
Undeterred by a bad weather forecast we headed into London yesterday and spent a good six hours wandering streets trying to second-guess where the Elephant and Girl would be going and also where we could find a way through the crowds of people. I’ll have more photos up tonight, for now just the one of […]
Wow
More photos of the Sultan’s Elephant activities from today can be found in the Gallery, click on the image below to see more. Ollie and I went down to the Horse Guards Square and watched as the Elephant moved around entertaining the growing crowd. We then walked up to Waterloo Place to see the open […]
The Sultans Elephant
Over the next few days in London there will be a rather strange visitor walking the streets of Westminster. The Sultans Elephant is street performance on a grand scale, you can read more about what’s happening here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2006/05/03/sultans_elephant_qanda_feature.shtml. Today a strange rocket has been found crashed into the street of Waterloo Place. I went along […]
A weekend is a long time
The past weekend was very busy for us, and a busy last few weeks. We’re now settled in and just have a few boxes around the place that are needing to have their contents given a home. We had Roz (Australian we met on the Kumuka trip) stay with us for a few days almost […]
Billy at the Hammersmith Apollo
Last night we travelled across London with Jim and Gee and enjoyed ourselves watching Billy Connolly walk around on stage. He talked about many things from politicians to newspaper hacks to Dunedin and Kaikoura. Needless to say we enjoyed ourselves, I’m fairly sure I could listen to Billy all day. A smile preceeds a laugh. […]
The F16
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 […]
Sarah McLachlan
I went and saw Sarah McLachlan (or Sarah McClaclin as the presenter insisted on calling her) yesterday evening. Took a few photos, some of which can be found here: …Sarah McLachlan…. It was a good show, five songs followed by a signing. I am now very much looking forward to her concerts in London during […]
The Tate Weather Project
Not a lot to report right now. We’re looking at moving soon as our lease is up for Ribblesdale Avenue, and we’ve been investigating mortgages rather than renting. At the moment we’re still trying to decide on an area to live and we’ll be off to a few places this coming weekend to see what […]