Inquisitive minds

Your 6, your on holiday and you find a big hole in the ground! What are you supposed to do? This is what happens when an inquisitive mind gets the better of you!

Fowey

So been playing with a trial version of Adobe lightroom and Photoshop CS3. Managed to take this to greyscale very easily and adjust in lightroom before exporting to CS3. Had a problem though with file formats! Used RAW on camera -> Lightroom then exported to CS3. In CS3 this came in as a TIFF. Trying to save as did not give option for JPEG so had to use Save for Web/mobile which is all new. Not sure if this works as well as previous photo's!

Break time

You may have noticed a shortage of posts recently. We've been on a wee break to Cornwall.

First though lots had to be done around the house and garden. With all the work being done we had to stop for a break for tea/cake!

Holiday photos to follow soon. You have been warned!

April Snow!

It started snowing at 7am this morning. By 8am we had 2 inches.

Lots of snowball fights, sledge out and then the kids went in! The adults continued to play though! Kids these days - no stamina!

Switzerland

Went to see a client in Switzerland this week. Client is very Swiss and a well known optic brand. They made us feel very welcome and were a pleasure to work with. Coming back last night i was on a 5pm flight out of Zurich. 50% full so i slide over and sat next to window. Glad i had the compact camera in the hand luggage. Yes, its the Alps poking through the cloud base! Splendid sight indeed.

T5 - whats all the fuss about?

Flew in and out of Terminal 5 at heathrow this week. Don't know what all the fuss is about. Checked in on line. Took 1 bag into aircraft. Only problem is i forgot about the 100ml rule for toiletries. Had to throw allot out before security. Baggage screening was 5 mins. No queue, but funny has hell watching the shock on an Italians face as his sunglasses vanished into the x-ray machine. You get a plastic tray delivered by machine at the start of process, you fill it up, it goes through machine, you take stuff out and the plastic tray drops onto a lower belt to be delivered back to the start. The Italian wasn't quick enough and his sunglasses went with the tray! Funny as heck. After that it was a quick sandwich and a leisurely walk to gate. Thing to watch out for is there are no departure announcements so you have to keep an eye on the monitors. All in all. Good experience. There are still bits and pieces to be finished off, but when they finish it i think it will be a great terminal.

Church Road!

So i decided today to go out on the motorbike. Decided to stick to the green lane and headed east! No pre-determined route, just rode where i wanted to go. If I came to a junction, i would pick the route i had never been before, as long as i thought it went east! Ended up on a quaint road called "church road". Church was at the start of the road, it went up hill, into the sun. Decided to stand on pegs to stretch legs. bumbling along at 40mph.....when all of a sudden...no tarmac! It just disappeared at the crest of a hill. If you look closely at google image you will see faint tracks.....yep that's the road. Once i got over the change it was quite a good road. Certainly will feature in the future. I am not religious but God thanks for the road :)

Out and about

So had sometime to myself and decided as it was sunny and dry i would get out on the bike. Was just going for a wee spin - which turned into a 3hr 25min run! Some offroad included (more on this in a mo) So i managed to cover a 226 sq mile area totaling 126 miles. No tea breaks. Average speed was 37mph! Slow you might think...well check out the church lane image i will post in a moment!

Thanks to garmin for the plot and stats!

Happy Blogging birthday to me!

Well it's just over a year since i started the blog! Not bad for someone who has never been able to keep a diary for more than a week!

Had sometime to kill on way back from London before being picked up. So ended up in HMV. There was a CD playing and it was so distinctive, different and good I went and asked what it was.

Seasick Steve. Blues CD but great music to chill out to.

Told he was on Jules Holland one evening - but i obviously missed that one.

I recommend it.