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Friday, July 28, 2006
I am proud to say this is "on our ours!" (ad's from the company I work for, that is!)
We're off down to Devon for the weekend to see our families. Check out Trunk Cast 50 to find out how my week went ;)
I'll be back online with a full update on our return.
Have a great weekend!
P.S. Someone left me a voicemail on Skype yesterday which was made from a mobile phone. Unfortunately the name was a bit fuzzy. Was it you? If so please email me!
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Cheers M8!
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Today I was told by someone at work with broken English (I can get away with that as it covers 90% of the staff!), that my lunch had too much fat in it.He was referring to a packet of crisps!
And I had to sit there and be lectured by a man who routinely manages to scoff his pre packed sandwiches (mine are lovingly prepared by Richard each morning), with such gusto that he usually gets the filling stuck up his nostrils.
Charming!
I was rather impressed by a guest-book entry that someone left today notifying me that when searching google for photo's of Nerja mine comes up near the top! Surprising as a) I thought I had removed that section and b) the person then asked for Nerja tourist advice. But hey I did my best to help out. Being the good Samaritan that I am!
Minimal (Superchumbo's Light and Shade Dub) from the album "Minimal - Single" by Pet Shop Boys & Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant
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Airborne
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Today we had a fab time at Farnborough Air Show.Richard, Dan and I spent the morning browsing around all the stands and the afternoon watching the various displays.
Of course the Airbus A380 stole the show.
I am particularly proud of this shot of the A340-600 landing whilst the A380 was in flight.
There seemed to be quite a lot of military aircraft on display and to be honest I found it a little sickening that we were admiring this arsenal when it was being used with such brutal efficiency in the middle east.
The whole show tended to be geared around the military market, which seems a departure from previous shows.
More photographs are available on Flickr.
[Listening to: Touch the Sky - Kanye West & Lupe Fiasco - Late Registration (3:56)]
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B R I L L I A N T
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Last night, Richard, Steve, Robin and I went to see Pet Shop Boys in concert at Thetford Forest.
I wasn't entirely sure what to make of the venue - what I wasn't expecting was picnic rugs and picnics!? This gave the event a very English feel - what could be more English than the Pet Shop Boys in the forest on a balmy summers evening?
The set was brilliant and Neil sang the best I have heard him.
THere were lots of tracks from Fundamental and a liberal dash of popular singles from the back catalogue. NOtably for me they missed out three of my favourite songs (Domino Dancing, What Have I Done the Deserve This? and Being Boring) and the set instead included different songs such as Dreaming of the Queen and Shopping.
This made for a very varied set though and the whole concert absolutely flew by.
We got a great view of the stage, thanks to all the gaps created by the picnic sets! It was quite a show too - the dancers were brilliant and the set was very clever - a king of giant Rubix cube with each twist providing a new function or feature.
I have uploaded a host of photographs that we took last night and hope (if I can clean up the sound), to put some of the videos together at some point.
[Listening to: The Sodom And Gomorrah Show - Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental (5:19)]
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Crying like a baby
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Today I found myself on a packed train weeping.Now it had nothing to do with the stifling temperatures or the fact that both my trains today were rammed due to being reduced to 4 coaches... it had more to do with Marley and Me.
I saw this book whilst in New York in February and was going to buy it but decided not to.
Thankfully it popped off the shelf of my local book store last week and I had to buy it.
For all of you who don't know this is a delightful account of a families life with a labrador.
If you love pets, dogs, cats etc then you will love this and recognise so much from the book.
It may come across as sympathetic to some but I found it enduring. Knowing that this is a real live journal of life with a pet meant everything that everything that happened to Marley and the family you felt.
So much resonated from Brandy and Jerry and all my pets before.
You'll probably guess why I was weeping but I couldn't help it. The end of the book really pulled my heart strings and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
As a safe bet my next batch of books are all jovial, modern tales and accounts - books that won't leave me looking so teary on the packed commuter train home!
I Want a Dog from the album "Introspective" by Pet Shop Boys
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*Trunk Cast 48
Episode 48 The Trousers Enthusiasts RemixA little bit here, a little bit there (sounds like the title of a D Mob album!). Anyway... We are out several nights this week so this pod cast has been recorded over a number of evenings, whenever the mood has grasped me!
Find out what I think about the weather, what everyone else thiinks about the weather, having great friends, needing your help and Fish and Chips!
For further podcast information (show notes etc), please visit the Podcast page ;)
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[iTunes: "Trunk Guy (48)" : Trunk Guy]
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Too hot to sit down
Monday, July 17, 2006
Today has been sweltering. I didn't realise just how hot it was until I took my lunch break today.I acquired a copy of the free paper and planned to sit by the bank of the Thames watching the world go by.
As ever I phoned home to check everything was well with mum but during the conversation I realised I would be better to keep moving for fear of melting.
I made my way along the Thames, over the Millennium (where they were filming a pop video for a band I didn't recognise), before heading back across the south bank and over Blackfriars bridge to the office.
I stopped along the way to take some more shots on my Nokia 6280 and I am very pleased with the results. It seems the 6280 is very adept at photos when there is good light.
One of my favourite shots from today was of the view towards St Pauls from the ramp of the Millennium Bridge. I am sure it's a view that has been taken a thousand times before but it just grabbed my attention and I thought it only fair to share it with you.
St Paul's Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century, and is generally reckoned to be London's fourth St Paul's Cathedral, although the number is higher if every major medieval reconstruction is counted as a new cathedral.
Release It from the album "Graffiti Bridge" by The Time
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Taken up the aisle!
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Today was very productive. It was not our intention to spend any time on the Big Event but nevertheless we have made substantial progress!Whilst browsing around the boutiques in St Albans we purchased our suits and rings today.
We take delivery of everything in the middle of August which means it's with us in good time for the day (well my bits and pieces as my trousers needed taking up and the ring has to be made).
With 97 days to go things are getting very exciting.
[Listening to: Wedding Feast - Prince - The Rainbow Children (0:54)]
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Abercrombie and Bond (Street)
Saturday, July 15, 2006
OK so this is how I see it...Americans wear Hackett because they cannot buy it very easily in the States.
We buy Abercrombie for the same reason (of course I mean official stuff purchased when visiting the States and not cheap market knock offs).
But now that's all about to change as this photograph proves... We came out of the Royal Academy of Arts today and were greeted by this bloody great billboard advertising the opening of a new store - the first in the UK (and the first in Europe?). And where have they had the cheek to open it - Saville Row!
Oh the irony!
I wonder if they'll be able to staff it with cute American college types or whether the store will be over run with uber queens from Soho?
One thing I know is that this will make A&F more mainstream in the UK which is a good reason to find a new label...
Why Esra, why?!
(PS We had a great time at the Summer Exhibition, sadly the work I wanted to purchase was already sold. There are a couple of photo's of the rather creepy Virgin Mother statue which dwarfs the courtyard of the Royal Academy (by Damien Hirst)).
[Listening to: Black Velveteen - Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits (4:48)]
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Lunch time walks...
I feel so privileged to be able to step out of my office and walk around such a fascinating place as the City of London.For those of you who don't know the City of London is the true heart of London and the business heart, the original London. It only sits at a square mile (in fact that's one of it's many nick names), in the center of London but it has so much history.
I enjoy going out for walks around the City when I am at lunch and I guess in a way I am still playing tourist. The thing is there is so much to see you really cannot take it all in. Everyday I discover something else and thanks to my trusty Nokia 6280 (and good lighting) and am starting to build up quite a collection of photo's from my walks.
Just up the hill from the office is St Paul's Cathedral, somewhere I have never actually been inside. This is quite a shock considering I have been inside many famous churches and cathedrals around the world and yet I have never stepped foot inside Wren's masterpiece. I am sure this will be rectified soon.
Around the Cathedral is PAternoster Square which was redeveloped a couple years ago and is now a mace for fancy restaurants, sandwich bars and boutiques which are frequented by the City workers.
Temple Bar is one particular hidden gem and it's hard to believe it didn't actually start life here, it has moved a couple times in it's lifetime and now shares the neighbour with fantastic historical buildings and modern architecture.
From Wikipedia: There were seven principal gateways to London (Aldgate, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate, Moorgate and Newgate) and by 1800 they had all been demolished. However Temple Bar remained as an impediment to the ever-growing traffic. In 1878 the Corporation of London, eager to widen the road but unwilling to destroy so historic a monument, dismantled it piece-by-piece in an 11-day period and stored its 2,700 stones carefully.
In 1880, the brewer Sir Henry Meux bought the stones (at the instigation of his wife, a barmaid he married amid much scandal) and re-erected the arch as a gateway at his house, Theobalds Park, between Enfield, and Cheshunt in Hertfordshire.
It remained there, incongruously sitting in a clearing in a wood, until 2003. By then it had been purchased by the Temple Bar Trust from the Meux Trust for £1 in 1984. It was carefully dismantled and returned on 500 pallets to the City of London where it was painstakingly re-erected as an entrance to the Paternoster Square redevelopment just north of St Paul's Cathedral. It opened to the public in late 2004.
Isn't amazing that buildings and structures can have such a fascinating history - something as seemingly lifeless as a gate could hold so much history.
Another such building across the river from my office is Tate Modern. The modern art galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron and stands at 99m tall. Since its opening on May 2000.
You know I think I should start a tour of London or maybe, lunch time walks with Trunk Guy. What do you reckon?
To whet your appetite further photo's are available on Flickr (I've created a new set called Lunch Time Walks).
[Listening to: Call On Me (Autumn Leaves Remix) - Janet Jackson - 20 Years Old (9:15)]
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More than meets the eye
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Psychological day...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Today has been a weird psychology kind of day, a day where I have been thinking about other people, other things and strange going ons.It started when
And then I think about those poor people in Mumbai, what they must be feeling, what they must gbe going through. It made London's bombings in 2005 very vivid again and once again reminded me of the silence we gave in honour of those who were last during last weeks anniversary.
For me I think that there is constantly feelings of the people I left back at home, notably my parents. Especially as my mum isn't that well, I do wonder how she's getting on. I think about how much my dad is working, trying to figure out when he'll ever slow down. Closer to home I think about Richard all the time, what he's doing, how his day is going, hoping and praying he'll be back home safely to me tonight.
And then in a bizarre twist an elderly couple sat next to me on the train this evening... I was engrossed in my book and it was kind of weird that I looked up as I thought I heard my mum and for a split second the elderly couple sat across from me were old presentations of my parents.
I find this kind of thing disturbing... Maybe I am simply tired? Maybe I have an over active imagination, I don't know. Today just feels like one of those days...
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Dick around...
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Yesterday was a very busy day.I was up at the crack and made my way around town to get some bits and pieces. Last week I decided I needed to focus more attention on the Big Event as it had fallen off the radar due to my new job etc.
I think Richard and I are back on track now as we have a clear idea of what's outstanding and what the plan is (to be honest I think we always did, it's just that we needed a bit of a refresh).
So yesterday morning I sourced some material for putting together Order of Service booklets for our guests. We had thought about mini photo books but thought it wasn't that personal (and it would have cost a small fortune!).I then made my way to the florist and had a very good chat with her about our request for the day. I am very pleased to say that she was very in tune with our thoughts and our plan. I look forward to seeing what she produces on the day.
I am not sure if I was a little too organised as I turned up with magazines with photos' of arrangements, flower catalogues for Chelsea and a number of idea and colour schemes. I am sure she must have twigged I was gay but the end of our conversation! LOL
The rest of the day was spent trying out ideas in PhotoShop and chilling before we headed into town.It was Steve's birthday and we were already going to another party so we hooked up with Dan and met Ste. and Robin in Soho for dinner before heading out to a party in Bar Soho. It was quite a nice evening as there was a whole bunch of Richard's friends there and it was nice for both our friends to mingle.
I must say I have never seen Richard's mate Lee quite so drunk before - bless him!
Lola Lasagne was quite amusing too - quite an admission really as I don't normally like Drag Acts.
It was fun to be out in Soho as I have done it so rarely in the recent past but to be honest I don't miss it. Getting back in at 2 am was a bit of chore to be honest - I used to be out much much later etc but I really am not that bothered these days.
So it's Sunday, it's chucking it down with rain but at least it's cooler. I think I might spend the day dicking around...
[Listening to: Dick Around - Sparks - Hello Young Lovers (6:38)]
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7 July 2006
Friday, July 07, 2006
The same message as last year...We are NOT Afraid.
In memory of all those who lost there lives during the London bomb attacks on 7th July 2005.At 12 noon today the UNITED KINGDOM fell silent.
We spent two minutes reflecting on the atrocities of July 7th 2005 and remembering those who lost their lives or were injured during the events of that terrible day.
I recall it as if it were only yesterday...
I wasn't in London but Richard was and I was very anxious throughout the course of the day. Spending the morning trying to contact him and the rest of the day anxiously waiting for Richard to return home safely.
Since then there have been many harrowing stories of loss, bereavement and the struggle of victims to rebuild their lives.
I will never understand why the human race needs to inflict such pain on one another and I will never understand why religion places such a huge part in the lives of so many.
If god (or whomever) is the person you worship - surely he doesn't want you to cause pain and hurt? If he does then how can he be such a saintly figure?
If you have a concern with a particular religion or race, surely it is your god you should be questioning and not inflicting such atrocities on your fellow man.
I hope Mr Bush and Mr Blair (and all the other countries that ducked out early in the game such as Spain), realise what you have done. I hope the history books are written by the common man with records of the disgust and anger felt at all the conflicts of our recent history.
I do hope that you Mr Blair find a reason to get off your smarmy ass and put together a public inquiry. The government were able to do it during all the atrocities of the IRA, so why not now?
I don't believe the comments about cost, what I do believe is that you are hiding something. For your sake I hope this is not true.
All I know is that the British people will not forgive you until this inquiry has been conducted.
Until then Mr Blair, you are no better than the terrorists...
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Cheeky Monkey
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
It's been one of those days and I think this site just about sums it up!
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Tuesday?
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Is it really only Tuesday?- Is it the heat?
- Is it because I was up at 4 am yesterday and spent a long day in Rotterdam?
- Could it be because I spent the majority of today locked away in a recording studio (thankfully I wasn't singing!)
I think it may be a combination of all three (oh and getting caught in a torrential down pour back from the station today!).Any way at least I have some chance to focus your attention back to my paintings. You may recall a short while ago I showed you a work in progress? Well things have definitely progressed as this now part of a sequence of paintings. Silhouettes of cats painted on small canvases against vibrant backgrounds. As this photograph illustrates there is a second painting in the series and I hope (once I have purchased more same sized canvases), there will be more.
Thanks to those of you whom have left Richard greetings for his birthday.
Also note there is a now a direct phone number alongside my comments area which enables you to dial globally and leave me a voicemail. Why not drop me a message?
Escapade (I Can't Take No More Dub) from the album "Escapade The Remixes" by Janet Jackson
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Many Happy Returns
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Please help me in wishing Richard a very Happy Birthday xxxxx
One of my gifts to Richard for his birthday was a day at Hampton Court Palace. Of course the weather was perfect at 34 degrees (maybe a little too perfect!). To see how we got on take a look at the photographs.
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Dell-ightful not!
Saturday, July 01, 2006
There has been more problems with my Dell, for the past couple of weeks the machine has not seen either DVD drives.
This is a real inconvenience because although I use my Mac for creating works, I tend to use the Dell to burn them as it's much faster.After weeks of discussion with the Dell Support people (globally probably!), I had a new drive arrive today.
I fitted it and guess what - it still doesn't work! What a crock of shit!
Oh well, the sun's shining and we plan to relax in the garden this afternoon and (thanks to not wearing any shoes), my foot is starting to feel better.
Oh yes - any Janet fan's should haul ass over to her My Space page (yes you read that right - her My Space page!), where you can not only hear but also download her latest song Call On Me.
[Listening to: Call On Me - Janet Jackson - 20 Years Old (3:30)]
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