On normal weekdays I moan that I never have enough time in the house because I'm always at work.
Today I worked from home and by 4pm started to feel unpleasantly odd at having been in the house all day without talking to anyone.
Never happy!
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Reflections and portraits
Sunday, 9 January 2011
The sartorialist
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ is one of my (and many others') favourite blogs, so it was really interesting to watch this little video.
He spends several hours every day trailing around the streets of various cities around the world, looking and looking for interesting people to shoot. Heartenly (is that a word?) for me, he has no training - just a great eye and clearly a lot of drive.
Speaking of photography, I'm very excited because I've just bought this Pentax K-r. It arrives on Tuesday or Wednesday. Although I'm sad to upgrade from the old MX, the mirror was sticking just too often and the film and developing is getting more and more expensive.
He spends several hours every day trailing around the streets of various cities around the world, looking and looking for interesting people to shoot. Heartenly (is that a word?) for me, he has no training - just a great eye and clearly a lot of drive.
Speaking of photography, I'm very excited because I've just bought this Pentax K-r. It arrives on Tuesday or Wednesday. Although I'm sad to upgrade from the old MX, the mirror was sticking just too often and the film and developing is getting more and more expensive.
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
A proper white Christmas
Regardless of what the bookies say, Christmas in Dublin was as white as white can be. We took our plastic bags up the hill and flew down at top speed, getting caked with ice and snow as we braked. Brilliant!
Thursday, 16 December 2010
On stage at Bright Club
Something I never, ever, thought would happen: me doing stand up. This was last Monday at Bright Club.
Friday, 3 December 2010
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Out of the sandstorm into the rain - love it!
Can't wait to get down to the boat this weekend. The weather promises to be sunny, after 3 days of winds and rain.
Mind you, I can't really complain about the weather. On Monday I was enjoying 27 degrees-worth of bright sunshine in Leptis Magna, Libya. I was working at the weekend doing teacher training for doctors but had the Monday free.
On Tuesday we had to fly home in a sandstorm! The BA cabin crew were very reassuring. One of them told us about a time his plane was trying to land in Cairo. The visibility was so bad they nearly had to divert to Alexandria. He was getting more and more anxious, sitting by the door, looking at the emergency exit handle and remembering his drill, when all of a sudden the door disappeared. So much sand had got into the cabin via the air conditioning that he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
I felt quite calm when I could clearly see the palm trees waving in the wind from the cabin window.
Mind you, I can't really complain about the weather. On Monday I was enjoying 27 degrees-worth of bright sunshine in Leptis Magna, Libya. I was working at the weekend doing teacher training for doctors but had the Monday free.
On Tuesday we had to fly home in a sandstorm! The BA cabin crew were very reassuring. One of them told us about a time his plane was trying to land in Cairo. The visibility was so bad they nearly had to divert to Alexandria. He was getting more and more anxious, sitting by the door, looking at the emergency exit handle and remembering his drill, when all of a sudden the door disappeared. So much sand had got into the cabin via the air conditioning that he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
I felt quite calm when I could clearly see the palm trees waving in the wind from the cabin window.
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