Posts for April 2004 (14 entries)

Howdy, from the West Coast

29th April 2004, mid-morning | Comments (41)

I must apologise for my eight days of silence, but the move has left me with little time for blogging. Here’s a brief update on what’s happened so far…

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Trip 1: itinerary

20th April 2004, late morning | Comments (23)

I’ve been rather vague up to now about my impending trip to the States, so for those who are interested, here is my schedule…

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Old before its time

19th April 2004, late evening | Comments (38)

6th April
You buy a nice, new, 17in Apple Powerbook. It is delivered to a friend’s house, ready for you to collect on your way through to San Francisco. It’s sitting in a box, 3184.92 miles away from you, unseen and untouched. You’re very excited.
19th April
You bastards!

The world’s largest unexploded bomb

18th April 2004, late evening | Comments (16)

Back in January I read a story in The Daily Telegraph that I meant to share with you. It’s the story of the world’s largest unexploded bomb.

Luckily it’s in Belgium…

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Sour crop

16th April 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (22)

The average man, when confronted by a chap demanding that he Pretend to be a chicken, might be forgiven for laughing like an asthmatic mule, and backing nervously away. For, along with trying to swat imaginary flies, making such requests is one of the eight sure-fire ways of being marked down as a looney. And on the whole people aren’t too keen to engage with loonies…

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Cheep cheep, baaaa

13th April 2004, late evening | Comments (26)

Spring is most definitely in the air, and as much as I’m looking forward to San Francisco (only ten days to go now) it’s going to be quite hard to leave the countryside and head to a city just as nature gets its groove on. (There are eleven more photos in the full post.)

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Quotations

10th April 2004, the wee hours | Comments (12)

I was browsing through our dictionary of quotations tonight, and noted down a few that caught my eye…

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Photo manipulation

10th April 2004, the wee hours | Comments (31)

I don’t know that this is entirely a good idea, but I thought it might be helpful for other aspiring photographers to see some ‘before’ and ‘after’ versions of my work.

Why might that be useful? Well, let me explain…

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Dominique

8th April 2004, late evening | Comments (30)

I didn’t think I’d ever be able to do it, but today I looked through some photos of my ex-girlfriend, Dominique…

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Tidying up

8th April 2004, early evening | Comments (26)

I’ve spent that last three days trying to sort out and back up my photo collection. It might not sound like a big job, but when you have 50 gigabytes of images, spread out over a four year period, it takes a while to figure out what’s what. I’m expecting to be stuck with the task for at least another two days, and God knows how long the actual DVD burning is going to take…

Anyway, in the process of sorting through everything I’ve stumbled upon a few photos that I thought I’d share. The collection isn’t terribly coherent, but it’s better than nowt…

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A pair for every day of the week

5th April 2004, late at night | Comments (20)

It’s not too long now until I head off to San Francisco; only seventeen days in fact.

I’m going to be flying out of Heathrow, stopping off in Boston to see Ethan, and then continuing on to my new (temporary) home…

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Retro: La criada

5th April 2004, late evening | Comments (5)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

Scene: Molly’s house.

Carmen The Maid came today, to give the house its weekly dust and polish. Not having had a cleaner before (not one I’ve paid anyway, eh mum?) I’ve no experience of the temptation to let everything go to ruin, knowing that in seven days someone will come and clear it all away again…

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Retro: Very arranged marriages

1st April 2004, early evening | Comments (35)

Tucson, Arizona, USA ~ April, 2002.

Today I stumbled across a web site called The Hindu, which is an online edition of India’s national newspaper.

In their Classifieds section they have four categories of adverts:

  1. Bridegrooms Wanted
  2. Brides Wanted
  3. Brides & Grooms Wanted
  4. Real Estate — Selling

Now, as regards Number 3: who’s actually having the wedding if they need a Bride and a Groom?


Some photos of home

1st April 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (40)

I thought I'd show you were I sleep and work. Fascinating, I know…

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