Blogs from Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 9

Many people of my age (same age as concorde - you do the math) will remember growing up watching emaciated Ethiopian children with pot bellies on the Childrens BBC Newsround program in the 1980’s and 1990’s, with songs like Feed the world and Heal the world making it big in the charts and we all did fun runs, 24hour famines and bring and buy sales to reach that Blue Peter target to send rice to these families, but as young children we always asked the same question “Dad, if they are starving why are they fat?” We now watch Lenny Henry and other comedians every March who make us laugh with their comedy and cry with their pictures of these same children and we phone and donate because we feel guilty for laughing on our comfy ... read more

Looking back through my pad at work there is a gradual change with my note taking. When I started there was a certain amount of professionalism about it. But as the days passed and the 4th of July grew closer my work was forced from my pages and was replaced with drawings off backpackers, temples, bottles of beer, beaches and a day by day count down. Only 6 days to go, 3 more of work and a weekend with the Uni boys in london. Then comes Monday the 4th. Andrew Neal and I will be boarding at 9:00am and flying for 18 hours (with a brief stop in Mumbai) to Bangkok, the first stop on our tour of Asia! We will be meeting up with Jon Date on the 5th and then Andy Chater-Lea on the ... read more

I wanted to say a quick congratulations to Matt and Erin on the birth of their daughter "Sookie Violet Williams" born at 11:37am on Father's day ... read more

Richard and I are setting off on another cruise this weekend. New cruise line for us - P & O ... will the PO start the word POsh or POor? Posh we hope. First time without a balcony but a big window so at least we can see when to run out on deck. New destination - Norway ... lots of lovely cragginess we hope. But meanwhile, we're only going as far as M&S. New clothes on order. Getting seriously excited now. Roll on Saturday.... read more

What cameras and associated bits to take?? The next thing....was what camera gear to take...? After the last trip, my first thought was no backpack for the camera - this is something I have been thinking for some time anyway, as backpacks make the changing of lenses and filters so much more time consuming. The question was, what to replace the lowepro backpack with? Eventually I settled on a Crumpler 7 million dollar home. One problem - it's only available in the US....DOH! A colleague was over there, so I bought it blind, hoping it would be right, and as it turned out....yes...it's bloody brilliant! I can fit everything I could in the old backpack, plus some, and it's quicker and easier to use. So, I can easily now take: Canon 5D Mk II body Canon ... read more