And like yesterday, I keep thinking it’s Friday. Bits of work done today, translations of reviews, transcripts of crazy people talking, bits of code updated, people emailed. And I keep leaving my daily photo until late afternoon when it’s getting dark outside and in.

The good news is though that there’s leftover no-cook lemon pie from yesterday.

I’ve had a plan, which has been slowly coming together over the past weeks. I believe I now have all the requisite elements at hand (most of which are stationery) that allow me to announce the launch of:

www.doow.co.uk

Here you’ll find a permanent display of postcards I’ve had printed from my own photographs. These themed sets are now available to buy in my Etsy shop, nestled somewhat unexpectedly among the hats and scarves. Well, I guess it’s not unexpected if you know me. The following sets are currently available: flora, fauna, water world, culinary, autumn and festive. The photographs were taken at home here in Kent and as far from home as the Galapagos Islands, offering a real spectrum from the familiar to the exotic.

I’ll be adding further sets and perhaps individual cards for sale too in the future.

I have a sore throat. Bits of me ache. My hair needs washing.

But all these problems pale in comparison to the one currently troubling me most of all:

I CANNOT SEE INTO THE FUTURE.

I mean really, what kind of world is this? How else am I meant to know whether I should keep my work updates ticking over at two a day, or whether I can afford to put up a third tomorrow, because lots more will be coming after that? Is it really too much to ask that events reveal themselves to me before they happen? I promise I wouldn’t spoil the surprise for anyone else.

Aah, that’s better: a bit of web work and translating. It’s been a rather a shock to the system since Hubert’s tour ended. After a summer of 7-day work weeks, suddenly there was bugger all to do. But he’s off on tour again next week, so - rejoice! - there’ll be a pile more work.

Taken on the M25 motorway as John drove us homeward from our photography job in Berkshire. He took photos of a company’s employees while I got a nice bit of bureaucracy going with a table of everyone’s names and what shot numbers they were. To really make it look professional and awesome I added WordArt and clipart in Word. It looked special.

With that job done John had a few errands to run, including returning some big theatrical drapes to a business based at Shepperton Studios. As we passed a studio we even had a celebrity sighting, which I brought to John’s attention with “Aaargh … Thingy! … June Whitfield!” I like to think she’d have been touched.

As I begin to load more photos from my trip to Cologne it occurs to me that I never linked from here to my photos on Flickr of the concert I’d actually gone there to attend. Probably too busy translating German press articles about it to stop and do so. Now that the tour is over I’ve a little more time on my hands. Time I hope to use to reacclimatise myself to blogging and Flickr - and dear God I hope I do that, ’cause otherwise the start of the craziness that is 7 Days on 20th September is going to take me somewhat by surprise. By the way, we’re looking for inspiration for the two theme days, so head over to the group page and leave your ideas in the discussion there.

And then have a look at some very cool musical people. I photographed during the soundcheck and concert in Cologne … probably the only yodelling photographer there.

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