The great escape

Last Christmas the English department at Mum’s school gave her a red amaryllis, which she brought home. There was no suitable setting for it in her library and one of her assistants tasked Dad with taking care of it. Mum’s not the one to whom you should entrust your pot plants while you go on [...]

Snow from Hampshire to Kent

I didn’t get much snow yesterday, so it helps to have a cameraman and video editor for a brother, who can so beautifully share what he has with me across the internet.
Hoping for some more snow of my own tonight though. All that Christmas shopping I have yet to do can wait, right?

Powerless

Rain is pouring down outside and then, despite the lack of any thunder or lightning, my computer screen goes dark. My phone squeaks its hideous squeak as the power blips back on and then goes out again. Around the house we are faced with the blank faces of our digital friends. But for the odd [...]

7 Days: Day 4 – Going to Northants

In the car on the way to see Granpop, with rain beating against the windows. The technically-minded among you will surely appreciate the fact that I took this with Photobooth in the car and then uploaded it to Flickr outside John’s house, stealing his wi-fi before he’d even got home to join us on the [...]

Isn’t it obvious?

John, texting from Florida: Sam and I went on an airboat today. What the hell TV programme was it when we were little that people whizzed about in airboats all the time?
Me: I can NEVER remember the title. But there was a bear. Possibly called Ben.
John: Gentle Ben. WTF is a bear doing in the [...]

In a county where wildlife eats the food rather than the feeder

We went to Northants last week to see Granpop and Aunty Ann and Uncle Terry. They get a lot of interesting birds visiting their respective gardens, which always make for some good entertainment. Of course, one way to keep them away is to get your camera out. Nonetheless I got a few garden shots at [...]

Wandering in Kent

I would have posted this earlier, but electricity got in my way. You see, there was a nice big power surge at John’s office which blew out a few power supplies (great, thanks!). One of the power supplies took care of his server and so I couldn’t get hold of the video in which I [...]