I’ve been lucky enough to meet David Peat on a few occasions through my involvement with Mark Beaumont. What a truly nice guy and such a sad loss. Lorraine and I shared a meal with him in a wee quiet restaurant in Paris and he regaled us with tales of his past…
Christmas Picture
This year with the arrival of Jess our black lab I did a wee picture of our attempts to get her wearing antlers – not entirely successful but almost got there…
Lightning Video
I got round to editing and uploading a video of some forked lightning from the top of our hotel in Pisa, Italy
TV cold turkey
Instead of giving up the booze for the new year this time we are considering a TV free month. Now that Strictly and The Apprentice are over there’s nothing much exciting on anyway! Can’t get away with TV on iPhone or PC or laptop either… Probably find myself listening to…
1 million pictures
Well not quite… But I’ve put an editted set of photos online of our Italian travels. We flew in to Pisa for one night – basically just for the cheap flights and to see the tower obviously. Then on to Florence for 5 nights or so Then sunny Assisi where…
'Near miss' on the holiday money
With holidays just over the horizon the money was ordered and on its way… darn Edinburgh funny holiday monday meant I wasn’t at work when it was schedule to arrive, but the slip was through the door okay so all I had to do was pick it up. or so…
Busy weekend
Up to a variety of things this weekend. Early start on Saturday heading through to Fife for a 30 mile cycle with Simon Followed by wander down the Water of Leith with Lorraine to check out some of the Gormley sculptures. Followed by cinema to see ‘The Other Guys’ (well…
Shiny New Flat Pictures
Since my old flat is about to go on the market it has had some new pictures taken. Following a spruce up with new carpets it is looking really great. Spacious and bright. You can view it here on the ESPC
More tweets than posts…
Maybe because it’s easier to tweet than write a decent length post but I seem to be tweeting more than posting these days. Shows up worst here on the blog front page with all these ‘latest tweets’. All too easy to just use one web tool to post to facebook/twitter/blog…
Final Season of Lost
Looking forward to a lazy evening watching the first couple of episodes of the final Lost season. Need to watch the resume of the previous series first as I’ve forgotten a lot of it! Quite a busy weekend half over but hopefully all good.