I’ve been camping in a field for two days, then rushed down to the coast to take in some sea air, and eat some dead deer, which was fantastic.
The field was nice, booze was good, loads of food and loads of shooting.
Muddy field, crazy people, guns, food, music & alchohol = yeah!
Pictures and words will come soon, I’m tired now and must go to bed really.
Ah the great English weather is back…I’m stuck in the house again.
Had a light dinner after so much heavy eating, some parma ham draped over a melon, some pork pie and carrot/cucumber with houmous and taramasalata.
Topped off with a beautiful meringue pudding, fresh cream and oodles of strawberries.
I went to see my decrepid old gran, who’s reaching 100 soon..
We took her to the Garden center for lunch, it’s quite nice there.
English weather still get’s me though, if you sit in the shade, and there’s a breeze you need to put a jacket on..but if you move out into the sun you break into a sweat.
Crazy.
This is my Gran’s street.
You can’t beat starting the day with a nice egg and bacon sandwich with freshly made homestyle wholemeal bread and a dribble of HP Sauce.
The weather wasn’t great in the morning so I just hung around at home, had some light lunch and headed into the city.
Planning to check out the cathedral and perhaps a walk down the river, the river garden was closed though.
Bought a couple of things, but the sales are coming to the end, so not much to get.
I did a bit of street photography whilst I was hanging around.
So after the hearty pub lunch we took a rather long stroll up to the top of the Malvern Hills, one of the oldest hills in the UK.
We parked at the North Quarry and walked up to the beacon, the highest point in the range.
As it’s towards the end of summer a lot of the flowers are going brown and dying off for the browns of Autumn.
Well after missing my connecting flight and being stuck in Dubai airport for a grand total of 10 hours, I finally made it home, trip time around 25 hours..
Let’s just say I was pretty tired, but not too bad as I got leg room on both flights, yay!
The second one was surprisingly empty, but I guess everyone in UK is leaving to go on holiday in August not yet coming back.
The skies were beautifully blue and it was a nice pleasant smooth journey.
Streamyx, but actually I do!
Current equipment – Pentium II 333mhz, Windows 98 and a crappy dial-up connection.
So yeah I did manage to get on the plane the second time, I didn’t miss it again, flight was smooth, slightly earlier than planned they gained some time. Watched a Spike Lee movie on the plane “The Insider” with Clive Owen, not too bad, might review it later, and had a few ultra strong Gin and Tonics and passed out.
I’ll try and upload some pictures, but flickr takes forever to load so I’m not sure how many I’ll be able to do, I got some nice ones yesterday of the Malvern Hills.
Did an 8km walk up to about 1300ft, pretty tiring, totally not used to walking.
Was beautiful though, if rather windy and cold up top at the beacon (the highest point in the range).
I’ll try and sort out a few pics after lunch and get some uploaded from yesterday!
My Moms addicted to Flickr now too, but she goes down the library to look at it.
She’s so excited about her new camera, I bought a Panasonic DMC TZ-1, 10x optical zoom, 5 megapixels etc..
Excellent little cam, shame about the high noise at higher sensitivity ISO, but I guess they will fix that as they go along.
It takes great macro and very nice scenery and the flash metering is good so indoor portraits look nice too.
I’ll post a review and some samples from it when I get back probably on DigiSniper.
So Hi and Bye for now, off to have some bacon and eggs for breakfast it’s 9.30am here.
Will be back later with pikchures and stuff.
Ah shit, noobed it.
Was doing some server migration yesterday, with quite a few things going wrong as usual..
So when I arrived in Dubai I came online to sort them out, knocked out a few blog posts too, surfed etc normal stuff.
I sat by my departure gate, waiting for the queue to get a bit smaller, when there was just 5-6 people left to enter the gate…I went to the desk.
I then realised the queue I’d been watching was for a New York flight….not a Birmingham flight.
Yes indeed, 100% oh shit moment.
I realised my flight wasn’t in fact delayed, I was just watching the wrong gate.
It was one of those 11/13 gates with a peice on each side, my real gate was obscured behind the one I was watching.
Argh Internet is bad..bad.b.adddd
Work is bad!
Oh well at least I don’t have to overnight here, the next Birmingham flight is in 7 hours..
I managed to get some free food aswell because of my ‘delayed’ flight..
I’m sitting on the floor now recharging my almost flat laptop battery.
They never put the powerpoints in convenient places, I always end up sitting on the floor leaning against a pillar.
Might try and get some sleep, without oversleeping and missing my flight AGAIN, which would be quite terrible.
Ah well, shit happens.
Again!
Thankfully this time is for my enjoyment, a holiday, w00t?
What is a holiday..I think I’ve forgotten.
Argh stress.
I’m in Dubai airport now just about to board the plane, better get moving!
Thankfully they have free WiFi…I still have work to do.
I can’t post any pictures due to flickr being banned here! I remember when I blogged from Amsterdam airport.
At least they designed a pretty page to let you know that you are blocked.
I don’t know how often I’ll be able to update as access will be limited in UK, if you have any requests for pics/food you want to see I’ll do my best so do let me know.
For now I suggest you amuse yourself with my old archives, some good stuff there that no one reads 😉
Especially my old posts from UK last year, lovely!
After my busy night on Friday at the Sunrise on Saturday night I managed to get to the Asia Cultural Lantern Carnival 2006 at Bukit Jalil before it finished on the 30th (Sunday).
I wanted to go as it seems pretty interesting and it was a good opportunity to test out my new Manfrotto tripod and do some difficult night photography.
As I went towards the end of the festival I’d seen quite a few pictures so I tried to get some different more interesting shots.
The entrace fee was also a very reasonable RM5.
Here’s my take.
The entrance.
I tried to get there during magic hour, around the sunset, but the traffic was really horrible due to two accidents, so it took me a little longer than I expected.
Did get a couple of shots during sunset before the lights were on.
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