Rose

Christmas lunch with rose. Nice one. Going to look for this one in shops.

Cat-in-a-Box

Vicky choosing to show solidarity with this year's homeless by sleeping rough in a cardboard box (on a nice warm thick and soft blanket in my centrally-heated office)

Driving school car

Is it really supposed to say that?

What is this doing so far from home?

More to the point, can there even be Welsh Cheddar cheese? It's as daft as Caerphilli cheese from Bristol, or Champagne from Dagenham.

Castlepoint.

This is such an eerie place at night when it rains. You can hear water trickling through cracks in the roof that simply shouldn't be there, and almost hear the iron jacks holding it up rusting. I shop here often, but only because I like living dangerously, and enjoy the thrill of making it out alive.

Boscombe in Winter

Cool bracing sea air (the sort that makes you want hot chocolate) blows sand around making a sound like sugar being poured from a paper packet. The grockles don't see this side of Boscombe much. Sure would be up even without our surf-reef. What a brilliant place this is.

Bowling

10pin bowling on Tracie's birthday. Happy Birthday Tracie.

Lunch treat

Tried one of these. :-) Scrummy! More expensive than a sandwich, and the filling doesn't quite extend to the end, but still nice.

New laptop

Wide-screen is fabulous for 1-vdu programming, but I have found my eyes getting very tired and suspect it was just the brilliance set too high (on max). Turned that down now. We shall see.

Doing it right

Sometimes you find a company with good customer focus and a professional "let's do the job right" attitude. I am happy to recommend CartridgeSave.co.uk as a perfect example of this.

Jimmy

First thing in the morning. Jimmy is cool, and at 21, very very old.

Steve's place

Nice place to spend a weekend.

View from Hythe Marina

Mexican meal followed by chilling out with a dockland view. Priceless :-)

Thought for the day

You know you're getting old when signs like this suddenly have two meanings.

M4

Dodging traffic hold-ups on the M3.

Terminators

... are definately cool.

England Test Squad 2003

Bat signed by N.Hussain, J.Anderson, M.Butcher, A.Caddick, A.Flintoff, A.Giles, S.Harmison, M.Hoggard, A.Stewart, M.Triscothick & M.Vaughan.

Lemon cake

. . . will ready in 16 minutes.

Cherry Trees are Cool

Sitting under the cherry tree in the middle enjoying a cool glass of old fashioned lemonade. Perfect. B-)

SkypeFone

What an excellent device. If only Windows wouldn't keep muting the microphone between calls.

Annie

This sweet little bundle of fluff is Annie. Her fur is so light and soft it's hard to tell when your hand actually starts to touch her. Her eyes really are that blue.