I don't know if anyone's still reading this on the actual blog. But if you are you'll notice I've removed all that gubbins that ran up and down each side of it. The badges, the links, the counters. And all the FeedFlare and all that stuff. Don't know why. Just fancied a change really. If you want gubbins, there's quite a lot here. And there's a soupy stream of everything RSSable here.
lovely day
You can't beat a Welsh sunset.
sunny
You can't beat London on a sunny spring day. This is Gordon Square. Splendid.
descent
As Paul has recounted on Dan's blog. We went up Ben Nevis at the weekend. Hardest thing I've ever done, very grateful to Paul for lieing to me all the way up about how the summit was just around the corner. Since I thought I was unlikely to be doing anything like that again I thought I'd try a photography experiment, a sort of time-lapse thing. Chris was kind enough to lend me an N95 for the trip and I made a sling for it out of duck tape and those tie things you always get in toy-packaging. I hung it from the cross-strap on my rucksack so it was about chest height and set it to take a picture every minute and tag it with GPS data.
On the way up it worked for precisely three minutes. But, on the way down it worked for a bit longer, so this video is about an hour of descent from the top of Ben Nevis, compressed into a minute, down to about 1000m, where it stopped working. Not sure why. I like it though, it works as proof of concept. I'm not sure what the concept is exactly, but it's proved. The pictures themselves are all in this flickr set and I'm sure there's something clever you could do with the attached GPS data, but I'm not sure what.
a bit of a descent of ben nevis from russelldavies on Vimeo.
urbis bacon chips and beans
Urbis, the splendid museum in Manchester say:
"Inspired by the book Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans Urbis (www.urbis.org.uk) will be running a small exhibition about Manchester Greasy Spoons - if you have any comments about your favourite (or worst!) Manchester Greasy Spoons, get in touch with us - [email protected]"
Brilliant stuff. I've not done that many places in Manchester, not really had chance, so I'm looking forward to what they unearth. Remember, email them, don't comment here.
thursday
Look Out! Danger of this.
wednesday
Pendine Sands
tuesday
Beach cricket.
Extraordinary ice-cream.