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.
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.
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.
This weekend saw the wedding of Christopher and Pien.
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.
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.