Running Down the Beach...

Took this on Friday as Ben and I were running full tilt along South Beach. I was trying NOT to trip over but take some sort of picture of Ben and as we were both moving fairly quickly we came up with this... It is sort of a bit interesting in an arty sort of way... Oh and Matt's remix is out there for the world to hear so go an give him a 5*!!!! 

Bush of George

Here is another picture from our Holiday. This is from the Lake District and was the wood above where we had our sandwiches. On a more up to date note I have got very interested in remix projects at the moment. I was rummaging around on the Peter Gabriel web site and he has put up the tracks that form his song Shock the Monkey from the late 70's. There is a competiton to remix it as you see fit using the raw ingrediants that make up the original. If you go to the site there are quite a lot of different versions. My currently posted favourite is an Italian version of the song which is very clever, listen it it here. Matt at work has put in a lot of effort and done an excellent job on his version. When he puts it up I will get you all to go and vote for it! I am also slowly stumbling along with a version which hopefully will see the light of day. As is my want, I have already become distracted with a different remix project. This one is for an album called My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne. It is a bit scary as I can remember this album coming out and thinking it was totally amazing. It still is, and there are also lots of different peoples interpretations of two of the songs. My favourite from that site would have to be Bush of George... you have to go and have a listen. Maybe it won't mean as much if you havn't hear the original album but it is still priceless...

Aussies Abroad!

Saw this in a shop window in London! What more can I say? 

A Small Libation

We had been to Beatrix Potters house, which was closed as it was a Friday... but we were able to walk around the garden. As we walked back to the Car the small pub next door features in a couple of the drawings so it seemed like a pity not to stop and have a Pint of the Best Bitter (or a lenonade) and look at the verdent countryside... 

8 Long years...

Well Ben turned 8 yesterday and we had a very successful Birthday Party. As one of the mothers pointed out, we should be getting the presents for keeping them alive for another year! Ben was very keen on a Pinata Cake, the chocolate that you can see is just a shell which hides the cake within! That is the reason for the hammer as well... he got to break through the chocolate shell into the hidden cake. 

She turned me into a Newt...

I got better... 

That French Food...

We were having a coffee and the Ladz were enjoying an amazing hot chocolate. This was the view across the road... 

Ben Family

Hmmm... Ben showed me this in his school work book. It is his family. Rose is pretty happy that she is so thin, not quite so sure about standing on a box though... I am a bit concerned about the somewhat dishevelled and scruffy apperance that I seem to portray... maybe he is telling me something! So nice that we are holding hands...

Bridge on Kew

Snap'n

Getting some extra shots for her blog site.... 

Twisty Passages lead in ALL Directions...

You would probably need to have played Zork for the title to make much sense. This is Ben decending into the unknown on the Tube. He is probably a bit worried about large balls rolling around the corner... Strange, I don't remember anything about a beer festival! Probably the day after we left anyway! (you would probably say sour hops to a comment like that)

Smell'O'Rama

Our first full day in Paris and we meet up with my parents and brother and his family. My father decided that what the boys really needed to see was the Paris sewer museum. So this is what you can expect! Yep, that is real French sewerage flowing down there and with the high temperatures it was all fairly ripe! I don't think that the boys thought that it was quite the highlight of the trip that my dad expected! They did however like the Indiana Jones experience with the large sewer cleaning ball...

Capri-Sun

This was highly amusing! While we had our two days in the Lake District we went to Wray Castle and The Beatrix Potter Gallery and various other places. We decided to stop and walk up a small mountain (well a hill really) called Latterbarrow and look down over Coniston Water.

When I was young I had been a very keen reader of the Arthur Ransome children books, many of which were set in this area. I had introduced Declan to the books and he had also enjoyed them. In on of the books, Swallowdale, the children climb a mountain and at the top find a stone cairn. Amongst the rocks at the bottom of the cairn they find an old tobacco box which has a sixpence and a note that the parents of some of the children left when they were young.

When we climed Latterbarrow I said to Declan, jokingly, lets look for the old tabacco box! I had a bit of a look and instead found this:
It is a letter that a chap had written to his girlfriend. It says:

November 1997
Well Leigh, hopefully you remember Capri Sun on Latterbarrow. By the way welcome to Latterbarrow. If you have got this I would say that we are still together. Is this your first time up here? Well to the point now: Leigh I have known for a long time that I love you and that I want spend a lot of time with you, but I at the moment of writing don't know how long. However if you are reading this then I am happy because I now know that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. So I was wondering, LEIGH SNEDDON, WILL YOU MARRY ME?
P.S. Please
P.P.S. Got to go it's raining again

When we found this Rose thought that I was doing some sort of joke but it is as we found it! We put it back so you can go and have a look. We were wondering what happened! Are they happily married? Did she ever come? Who knows, but it even sparked a romantic feelings in an old cynic like me!

Rainfall Observer

This one really tickled my fancy. It is in the grave yard at the Hawkshead Church in the Lake District, in the UK. It was the 2nd day of our holiday and we had gone for a walk from the Bed & Breakfast place in the evening.