Archive for the ‘theviewfromhere’ Category

Comments now open again

My bad. It’s been so long since I used this weblog that I didn’t realise commenting was locked down. For what it’s worth, gentle reader, comments are now once again open for business.

Month one of one pic-a-day project

I’ve joined the 2009/365photos Flickr photo pool. This is a group of education technology folk who’ve decided to take one photograph every day for a year. It’s a great discipline and has rekindled my interest in taking photos. I’ve not been systematic about taking photos, instead I just try to capture an image that for [...]

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for health and happiness for all during 2009.

My kids on the beach in Manorbier

This is one of the photos I am most proud of. My beautiful kids

WordPress on my iPhone

First post from the new iPhone WordPress application. Looks like a nice little app.

Phoenix has landed

NASA’s Phoenix lander has arrived on Mars!

Dalai Lama Bringing Meaning to Our Lives

Yesterday I was in Nottingham with my friend Kwansuree to attend a public session of teachings from the Dalai Lama. The theme was ‘Bringing Meaning to Our Lives’. His Holiness is in the UK to hold a series of meetings with political and spiritual leaders, and to bring a simple message of hope and the [...]

If real life friends were like Facebook ‘friends’

Fancy a cuppa?

If your hot beverage of choice is tea rather than coffee then head on over to the Rare Tea Company. Henrietta Lovell, the proprietor sells the most amazing teas and she’s a jolly nice person to boot, happy to chat about her selection of teas to help you make a choice. I can recommend them [...]

CD cover meme

For my birthday today (yeah, 43, who’da thunk it) my brother emailed me the CD cover meme. Being a bit of a music fan I like this meme very much. The idea is that by following 3 simple rules you generate your own CD album cover via the synchronicity of random selection, or something like [...]