Just back from 5 days in Les Carroz with some great company and great conditions for a fantastic week!!

I’ve tested a new gallery for these – as well as being on the gallery page (link at the top of the page), you can see my pics and upload yours by going to the new album here. If you want a full res image of any of the pics for printing, leave me a comment below with your email addy.

Word of warning – some of the pics are a tad… well. hmm..

..it took! 6 hours to cover the 25 miles home from work!! They closed the M3 so everyone decided to try and fit down the A30. Which didn’t work. I gave up in the end – I abandoned my car in Sunningdale, had a really nice curry and then got the train home.

Everyone loves a snow day

It is astonishing how such a group of well meaning individuals can truly fuck something up – I was looking forward to this as my family used to go to Donnington to watch the BTCC and MotoGP when I was younger (Guinness sponsored a couple of different manufacturers = corporate hospitality )

Ok, so that wasn’t quite formula one, but they were giving the place a much needed refresh to welcome the British Grand Prix to its new home and everything looked quite exciting.. the track is well on it’s way to being finished and all they needed was the £135m to support the event but they couldn’t find it. What is sickening is that at least this figure was spent on legal fees and arguing over track designs / changes to be made before anything was even done.

Without Formula one, how will the place ever survive with the massive debts they must now have? A victim of the credit-crunch, or just cack-handed management?

Didn’t expect to be woken up by the fire brigade at 2 o’clock this morning!

Me: ‘Better check our car park to make sure our cars are ok…’

Sophia: ‘Ooh, fireman – look at their powerful hoses!’

Gemma made tea.

Typical!

“My personal opinion is that we should go to Finland and all those arab countries and just blow them up”.

This is a quote from “9/11: 102 minutes that changed America” – I’m just halfway through watching it and could not actually believe that these words came out of someone who, a business man, looked fairly intelligent.

It’s a properly shocking video timeline that really goes someway into showing just how horrifying the events were for the people who were there – I tried to imagine it at the time, but I didn’t even come close. If you don’t like watching people jumping to certain death, then this really aint for you (I have to admit, even I closed my eyes in parts).

It’s always been a wonder how the buildings managed to stay standing for so long after being hit by planes, but equally, how did they suddenly just collapse? After seeing them burn for so long, and having seen the footage of them just before collapse – you can see tower one ‘glowing’ from the heat of the fires within, and Tower 2 had molten debris flowing from it – it’s just amazing that anyone escaped at all.

All I can say is thank god for democracy – George Bush was pretty bad as presidents go, but from hearing the above statement, I realise that it could have been a lot worse. Finland should probably be thankful that ol’ George Dubya has probably never heard of them…

How on earth does does someone actually manage to do this?

Wooo! All i need to do is make my car road legal again and then I’ll be on my way! (yeah, slight oversight on my part!)

As ever, the weather looks crap (see here) – But it can’t be worse than the floods of 2007 and the great storm of 2006..

Pics to come

Ok, so usually I just copy a template I like and I give it a few tweaks to get the look that I am after. This time I thought it was time to put what I’ve learned over the years to use and actually sit down with a paper and pencil and sketch out a design and then create it from scratch! Thus this new template is born; it isn’t quite how I planned it to look – for some reason some background colors and borders aren’t working – god knows why, they only rendered properly in IE 7 (ironically!) Now to make some money out of this… ?