Another party

During the week it was my big brothers 40th birthday. Today he organised a big get together for family and friends at a nearby pub. As the man would be late for his own funeral I thought I was safe arriving half an hour early to put some balloons up, but no, he was already there!

Party food

Its a weekend of birthdays, today we went out for lunch to celebrate my father in laws 76th. Lily had loads to eat and a run round the garden and finished it all off with two huge scoops of icecream!

He's making a list

I treated myself to another LEGO minifigure. A new series of them is out with characters from an alien to a deep sea diver and, as its nearly that festive time, Santa. Guess who I got? Anyway I've just started thinking about Christmas and what presents to get. I'm making a list and I'm checking it twice....

Setting the scene

We were working in the town hall of a town in the Midlands. When I first went to site there was a curtain up, but today the back wall of the place was on show. A massive mural of the street painted in the late 1980s.

Ship shape

Built in the 1860s as a tea clipper, the Cutty Sark has sat alongside the Thames at Greenwich since the 1950s. Its recently had lots of restoration work carried out including this frankly hideous glass base thats been built around the dry dock. The work has been slated and named as the worst building in a few surveys. The vessel is magnificent though.

Roadside memorial

I've driven past it hundreds of times but never knew what it was. Finally today I had the chance to pull over and take a proper look at this unusual little castle that stands by the side of the road just outside Nettlebed. Its a memorial to the 343rd US Army Engineers who were based nearby during the war. There always seems to be fresh flowers next to it when ever I pass by.

Christmas is coming!

Its only just November and already the festive decorations are going up in town. Theres some lights and this rather odd silver tree. I guess it looks better at night!