Volumes from Verulamium – 2.0

An ornament I picked up from the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years back. It seemed quite appropriate for today’s momentous events.  God bless America!

Phoebe prepares to read.  She’s looking for new fish recipes, naturally. Technical notes: Nikon D90. Nikkor 50mm f1.8 AF 1/60 @ f/4 ISO 200. SB-800 flash.

We failed to get Sarah a Pimm’s teapot, Pimm’s Winter for the warming of, before Christmas.  Largely because when she decided she wanted one they weren’t there!  Anyway, I ordered one for her online and it has finally arrived.   For some reason the various bits of the kit (scarf, gloves, tea cosy) were all a [...]

I met a man who wasn’t there.  Day 2 (in a Big Brother sort of voice). And for the observant amongst you, noooo shoes! Technical notes: Nikon D90, Nikkor 50mm f1.8 AF 1/60 @ f/1.8, SB-800 flash Note to LJ readers: I will fix this so you don’t have to see big images inline at [...]

There’s a great article over at Photojojo of New Year’s Photography resolutions – check it out here. Having read all of the suggestions, I decided that I already do some of them. Others aren’t practical for me. But… I might just try Project 365. It might be a bit more difficult to actually have the [...]

Been suffering with thick head, cold and aches for the past two days.  And that, coupled with my lack of voice, has meant that I’ve kept away from the office (firstly, people couldn’t hear me; secondly, if they could, they’d laugh; thirdly (and most importantly) nobody wants to risk catching another bug this close to [...]

Pictures from mid-October.  Nearly done on the backlog, promise!  Clicky on the piccy as usual…

Batch two from our trip to Lake Garda.  We took a trip into Verona one day – here’s the photos to prove it!   Have to confess I had been a little nervous about another Italian city having found Naples so horrible.  But Verona was clean, friendly and very easy to get around, and full [...]

Second batch of Italian pictures up – same link as before. But I did want to share with you three cute cat pics:

First batch of photos from our holiday (September seems a long time ago!) are now posted – click on the picture above or here.