Month: October 2007

  • Driving sucks

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    Some days I need to drive into work, and I’m reminded of why I cycle. Commuting by car sucks. Even when it’s wet it’s better by bike (although having a cycle path helps).

  • Morning in the Bay

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    A grey panorama, from my cycle in to work this morning. Swansea Bay from Blackpill.

  • Star Wars Lego

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    steamlego_swindon_svw_002, originally uploaded by samwebster. Jack’s really into his Star Wars lego at the mo, and has been for ages. We went to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Swindon the other week as she’d mentioned there was a lego show in the Steam railway museum. Jack was impressed by all of it, not just…

  • Pushing the Dawn

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    I got some prints back from my favourite processor, and Kim liked some of the dawn ones. I decided the colours and silhouettes needed pushing (click for large):

  • Big Swing

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    DSC00847.JPG, originally uploaded by samwebster. Jack and I could both get onto a huge swing together. He loved it, I felt seasick. And I don’t even get seasick at sea….

  • Running to School

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    Taken with the new phone. Jack and Ben are racing the girls to the school gate.

  • New Sony

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    To make it clear that I will not be buying the first iteration of iPhone due to be released in the UK on November 9th I’ve signed up for a new contract with 3, and picked up a shiny new Sony Ericsson K770i. My number will get ported across in the next few days. The…

  • Podcasts

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    I’m not podfading, honest. Rhiannon Fish has agreed to co-host the remaining embryology podcasts, and we’re waiting for a second microphone to arrive. As soon as that happens I reckon we’ll rattle them out.

  • UK Pumpkin Shortage!

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    Oh no! Our bad summer weather has apparently hit the pumpkin harvest this year! The BBC reports that, “Britain’s leading pumpkin farmer says wet weather in June and July means that his crop is down by 30% and his pumpkins lack their traditional colour. “It’s a disaster. Everybody knows that pumpkins are orange,” said David…

  • Photos from The Gambia

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    I took some snaps of the more touristy things that we saw when in The Gambia, and I’ve put some of those up on the photos page. Gambia photos