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I went out for a wander with my camera for the first time in a month yesterday, on a wander with the London Photobloggers up the grand union canal from Brentford. I put up a few more piccies over on flickr. The other attendees were Lorissa, Ben, Tom, Stuart and Scott, who all run rather excellent [...]

I want my own plasma globe.
I am in Edinburgh doing touristy things. Which is scary as I don’t normally like being a tourist. I have drunk interesting things, eaten tasty things and, as ever, taken some photos. Today – Leith. Tomorrow – Holyrood and home.

Yesterday I went and took some photos. No big deal, you may say, knowing that my love of carrying my camera everywhere is inevitably leading to an increasingly advancing old age fraught with back troubles and the hunched appearance that carrying a rucksack full of gear will bring. However, this time you would be wrong, [...]

Today was the second London Transport Museum scavenger hunt and after enjoying the last one (and winning) I signed up for this one as well. Rather than the more random “stuff involving transport in London” theme of the last one, this was all about The Roundel, celebrating its 100th birthday this year. I will not [...]

Shot at The Temperance, where it looked like they had a smoke machine running upstairs. On further olfactory investigation that was discounted and we blamed it on a smoky kitchen hidden somewhere below. I like the idea of a pub built in a refurbished temperance hall.

It worries me that today, after a day of wandering around places for Open House London, taking many photos (although not in The United Grand Lodge [which was rather excellent, leaving me loaded up with freemasonery propaganda leaflets and a masonic be-symbolled collapsible cup, bought from the masonic gift shop], as they didn’t allow photography, or in St [...]

Happy Birthday Forbidden Planet! It’s their 30th anniversary this year and this weekend is their instore celebration. I wandered down this afternoon after seeing Danacea’s twittering about the organisation of the weekend for the last few weeks. I didn’t manage to grab a “I <3 FP” badge but did find some bargains in the shop, [...]

Taken at the Eden Lake screening the other day, as they set up to record the Q&A session.

As Beth has already mentioned, I finished my current circumnavigation of the worldEurope with a wee trip up to Edinburgh for the festival. I’d not been up before and my impressions of the experience were based mainly on reading Richard Herring’s blog for the last few years – I expected tiny empty venues covered in [...]

Saturday night was the last night of racing at Walthamstow Stadium. There were tales of emergency meetings on Sunday and new bidders, but as far as I know the sale is all done and dusted, and while there’s no definitive “there will be flats here soon”, there’s a distinct feeling that there will be flats [...]