Motorbiking

My friend Keith has gone and bought a Ducati 748, and Italian bike. Now I keep seeing them every where!

Wedding cars

I came past Goodwood today. There was obviously a wedding on and the cars were lined up outside. I'm guessing the silver Rolls Royce was for "her" to arrive in and this 1929 6½ litre Bentley was for "him"

Viewing pleasure

I decided to treat myself to a new DVD at lunch time today. Having failed to see it in the cinema and being a fan of comic book films I've added it to the collection. Watched it last night with a pint and some nibbles and it was brilliant.

Clothing blast from the past

Ten or fifteen years ago I used to frequent a shop in the Broad St Mall called Cavaliers. It sold printed t-shirts, dog tags and various other gothy goodies (I was a semi Goth, I wore an Iron Maiden t-shirt and didn't wash!) Fast forward and its now a clothing print shop and has moved from its dark and dingy location to a warehouse unit. I was shocked to learn it had moved about five years ago and I hadn't noticed. Even more shocked to learn it first opened in Reading in 1976!

London skyline

A nice sunny day in the big smoke and a rooftop to stand on means good views. This time over St Pancras and Kings Cross.

Kitchen helper

One of Kims friends was over for tea last night. I decided to try my hand at toad in the hole again (it was another success) Lily wanted to help too. So she was put on pea shelling duties!

Last day on the job

Well, the last day on the Derby job, off to Leeds tomorrow. But for now I never have to trudge round that school again or align a projector in a boiling hot classroom in full PPE!

New clothes

We bought a couple of presents for Lily in the vast shop at the Park yesterday. She loves her new Paralympics t-shirt.

Welsh Olympics

A trip to the capital of Wales shows that its not just London thats getting into the Olympic spirit.Outside City Hall in Cardiff I spotted this massive set of rings. We escaped the city just before it was locked down for the football at the Millennium Stadium.

Fricking lasers

After a few weeks indoors installing for work in sweltering heat, it was nice to get up on a roof top in the pouring rain and fit a laser link once more!

Long range Olympics

With the Olympics well under way now I managed to get another glimpse of the park, this time from Highgate, several miles out!

Pitstop for The King

On route to Bedford today I pulled off the M1 at Toddington services. Santa Pod was obviously holding an American meet as the car park had several muscle cars and in the truck stop a few drag cars on trailers including this replica of Richard Petty's Superbird.

Is there some sporting event on?

After yesterdays barge full of rings I thought I better give BP a nod for this monster hoarding, spread over half a dozen billboards at Earls Court Corner and normally reserved for massive films, its truly epic with a massive torch making the centrepiece.

Olympics are getting everywhere!

With only a few days to go till things kick off at London 2012 the trip through London to our site is getting more and more Olympified. Floating in the middle of the Thames near Battersea we spotted these massive rings.

Give peas a chance

Back in the mists of time a clever artist called PEAS tagged the viaduct over the M25 near the M40 junction. A few years later some witty chaps added the extra wording to create a motorway legend. I've driven under it hundreds if not thousands of times but for once the sun was shining, the sky was blue and I was in the passenger seat.

Putting your best foot forward

What better thing to do on a sunny and warm Sunday than a walk to the shop for an ice cream and a a go on the swings. Lily is now happy to walk most of the way there and back again which eases the strain on the back and knees!

Crofton Beam Engine

On my way back from a job in Marlborough I spotted a sign for "Beam Engine and Windmill" Off up a country lane I drove until finally I found the chimney smoking away. Built in 1807 its the oldest working beam engine in the world.

Olympic lanes

Just recently new signs have been sprouting up all over London and finally today the first of the special lanes reserved for Olympic cars was opened on the M4. Will there be traffic chaos? If today is anything to go by then no. It was even quieter than a normal school holiday monday morning. I was in to Central London in a little over an hour!

Patriotic shopping

With the Jubilee and Olympics this year a lot of the shops in town have the bunting up and the flags out. John Lewis (or Heelas to everyone over the age of  25!) went all out this weekend with a massive Union Flag slung under their impressive frontage.

Towering above

Working in East London today and hearing that the M25 and South Circular were pretty busy I decided to do the only sane thing.....drive through the centre of London and pop out on the M4 to get home! On my route I passed all the famous landmarks including The Shard. I couldn't resist taking a tiny detour to the base to look up all 309m of it. Its properly huge!