La Machine

September 3, 2008 8:32 pm

When La Machine came to town we had the best and worst of Liverpool. People really enjoyed themselves, thousands turned out to support the event and see what was going on despite poor weather.

Then we had ridiculously over officious ‘security’ who were telling people that children couldn’t be carried on their parents shoulders as it was dangerous. They were threatening some people with involving the police. As if some offence has been committed. One group of people had waited for an hour and a half on a raised area and the ‘security’ guys let them stay there until about 5 minutes before the spider arrived. By which point they could no longer get a decent view from anywhere. I’m usually reasonably compliant with event organisers but the guys hired by Liverpool council are tossers.

Anyway, back to the photos…

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Carrmill Dam

August 10, 2008 6:20 pm

More water skiing photos

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Cindy and Gabe visit

August 3, 2008 11:21 am

Cindy and Gabe gave us a surprise visit this Sunday. It’s always good to have visitors just a shame they could not make it up on the Saturday!

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Turning the Place Over

August 2, 2008 8:28 pm

This is another great piece of public art in Liverpool. This is on Moorfields and is called Turning the Place Over. It’s part of this years Biennial. It’s wierd but somehow quite cool. Why? Is all the springs to mind.

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Phuket

July 15, 2008 11:59 pm

As part of our holiday this summer we went to Phuket.

Where we hired a moped. With that moped we ran out of petrol in the middle of nowhere, were stopped by the police and fined for not having a license, we visited the worst waterfall ever and we got engaged whilst driving down the beach road in a monsoon.

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Hongkong

July 10, 2008 10:59 pm

This summer as part of our holiday we went to see Chris, one of my brothers, and Pien, his wife, in Hongkong.

What an incredible place.

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Wedding of William and Beth

June 8, 2008 10:10 pm

This weekend was spent at the other end of the country for the wedding of my cousin William and his wife Beth.

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The venue (Pembroke Lodge in richmond Park) was great and the weather was better.

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Wedding of Christopher and Pien

June 1, 2008 8:51 pm

This weekend saw the wedding of Christopher and Pien.

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The wedding was great and went pretty much without any issues. The penalty shootout between England and Germany organised by the german contingent was great fun.

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State of the Wirral Map

April 27, 2008 11:11 am

Open Street Map now has an easy export function which means it’s easier than ever to get images of map. More importantly you can export the XML for an area.

Here’s a state of the map for the wirral.

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Independent on Sunday Happy List

9:19 am

As an alternative to the Sunday Times Rich List, the Independent on Sunday has produced it’s Happy List. Well worth a read.

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