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boris who?

tom — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:27:20 +0000

As an inhabitant of the Coldharbour ward, which really is a very small part of South East London (as we know a ward should contain 5,500 people), I was very pleased to learn that my ward came bottom of the list for votes for our new mayor. Coldharbour had the lowest proportion of votes for Boris of any London ward (just 12.3%).

Hoorah for my neighbours.

Some photos from Denmark

tom — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:44:32 +0000

A slight delay in service, but I’ve made some photos available from a November trip to Aalborg in Denmark.

north west scotland: i like

tom — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:07:51 +0000

Sarah and I just returned from an excellent trip to North West Scotland. Sutherland and Wester Ross and thoroughly recommended.

My photos are available. Some highlights include:

Scottish figs:

Award winning beaches:

Smoo Caves:

Generally incredible views:

See the whole lot..

**update** Sarah describes the trip in extensive detail here

Cool Camping

tom — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:45:12 +0000

The bank holiday weekend took us on a long weekend break to the Isle of Wight. We opted to stay at in Brighstone at a camp site that Sarah once took an extended break at as a child.

It just so happens that this camp site, beautifully situated at the edge of a cliff at the southern end of the island, comes highly recommended by Cool Camping. For those unaware, this recent publication has reminded many people of the joys of camping. As a side effect, it has also made camping accessible to followers of Hip Hotels and other such coffee table books. Not that this is a bad thing, per se, but this was definitely the first time I have seen somebody buffing the alloys of their SUV on a camp site:

Those who were not asleep this weekend will know that the UK weather wasn’t really cut out for camping, least of all our chosen destination on the Isle of Wight, which attracted the largest rainfall in the country (over 2 inches in 12 hours, and that isn’t taking into account that it had already been raining solid for 12 hours prior to that..). This, combined with winds gusting up to Gale Force 8 (or 9 depending on who you ask), meant that some of our cool camping friends didn’t have such a cool time.

Over night, the majority of our neighbours left. Some left, abandoning their tents and possessions:

Maybe those behemoth tents aren’t such a good idea afterall. At least, not when camped on the edge of a cliff.

(pictures courtesy of Sarah)

May Showers

tom — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:42:32 +0000

What happened to the weather? April was dry, hot and sunny, and all of a sudden it is consistently colder and wetter (or at least it is in London, I assume the same for the UK).

I’ve been meaning to take a photo from my office window to illustrate an upcoming blog post, but the weather (and hence visibility) has prevented me from doing so.

That’s my excuse anyway.

Organic food comes to Coldharbour Lane

tom — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:49:42 +0000

Despite technically being in leafy Herne Hill, we live on the fringes of Brixton and Camberwell, and our flat is a stones throw from Coldharbour Lane. This is one of London’s most notorious roads, at least according to (the unverified facts on) Wikipedia. It was with great excitement that the other week I spotted (from the bus) an outdoor organic fruit and veg market on this very road. Today, I found more information: http://www.sunanddoves.co.uk/greens/ – every Sunday outside the Sun and Doves bar/pub/gastropub, about midway between Loughborough Junction and the Camberwell end of Coldharbour Lane.

Not only that, but I hear that London’s (allegedly) roughest pubs, closed down due to the activities within, are being converted into gastropubs. Whatever next.

Update: I found some photos!

what you looking at?

tom — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:02:47 +0000

There’s more to see in the missing photos department. I even thought these pictures had gone missing during the move from one laptop to another, but I found them backed up.

Here we have a moderate sized gallery of pictures from our adventure across Denmark in September. The route took us to Newcastle, Gothenburg (by ferry), Copenhagen (by train) then by bike to Esbjerg, and ferry to Harwich.

That’s enough catch-up. Future posts might be more relevant to the current time!

new photo

tom — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:05:21 +0000

Two new photo galleries have appeared in my photo gallery. There has been a bit of backlog of photos to appear online caused by the old 4angle running out of hard drive space. We now have a new home on our own shiny little box (it’s one of these) in Sovereign House, which has considerably more space (but I bet it will still run out soon..). It’s also nice and fast.

So on to the galleries..

March in Snowdonia

a weekend trip to Berlin, and we made it this time

Get out and walk

tom — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:22:05 +0000

It is all too easy to get around London. People take the tube from a to b without thinking about where these places are in real life. Afterall, the tube map is an abstraction of real life.

I particularly enjoyed the walking tube map of London (via some art students). It tells you how long it takes to walk between stations, instead of getting the tube.

a brief trip away

tom — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:31:38 +0000

The weekend before last I took myself on a brief excurtion to the Isle of Arran.

I cycled around the perimeter of the island – easily done in only a few hours. The results are here: