Volumes from Verulamium – 2.0

I don’t normally post anything political here.  No, I don’t have sinister extremist views. I’m just not sure anyone’d be particularly interested in what I thought.   However, I am making an exception here for a political campaign that is party neutral: Mysociety.org’s Free Our Bills campaign.  For those of you who’ve not come across Mysociety.org [...]

St Albans is the only place where I have ever seen individual streets with their own war memorials.  Each year, poignantly, they are hung with poppy wreaths on Remembrance Sunday. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will [...]

Sunday was our first wedding anniversary.   As we’re off to Bruges with Sarah’s brother and father in a fortnight’s time, have only recently returned from Italy and this weekend was the big St Albans fireworks display, we weren’t going away.   So, we had friends round for drinks, chilli jacket potatoes and a trip to the [...]

I promised you I’d start getting through the backlog of pictures.   So here’s the set from our outing to Portsmouth when we were last down in Chichester. We started by buying an ‘all in’ dockyard ticket which included a boat tour of the dockyard.  This was something I’d never done, despite having been to Portsmouth [...]

  We don’t know his name, nor where he comes from.   All we know is that he seems fit and well cared for, very friendly and likes to spend a lot of time in Mum and Dad’s garden!  Click on the picture above or here to see more.

Back from two weeks ‘off work’ (you wouldn’t know by the two days spent in the office during the first week, and the amount of e-mails on my ‘mobility device’ (it’s not a Blackberry but not sure what else to call it) during the second.  And this week itself has been manic due to various [...]

Or perhaps the Grays way to (Nikon) heaven

I seem to have been short-listed again for the Innocent Village Fete photography competition. If you feel that way inclined, clicking here and voting would be very nice – mine is entry four in the second set of boxes.  But of course, I do want you to vote for the one you judge to be [...]

Anybody else see this over on the BBC website about how at least one independent cinema chain is banning popcorn? Personally I don’t object to it – generally far less anti-social than nachos which can stink the place out.   I can see the argument about the mess (though the cinema I was in at the [...]

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