Italy

I've been away for a few days in Italy, and am now going through and choosing the pick of the photographic crop to put online in the next few days. I still need to design the layout for the new photo section of the website which will replace to some extent fotopic, although due to ease of use I think I'll continue to use Fotopic for less high quality images.

No queue jumping!

I was in the local Sainsbury's at lunchtime, having remembered for once that I was otherwise destined to get back to the flat to discover I had naff all to eat. Somewhat startlingly a film crew were huddled in a corner by the supermarket entrance; wedged between the stacks of blue plastic hand baskets and the lifts. The camera didn't appear to be on; just as well too as I didn't fancy being accosted and ending up saying something stupid, which I would inevitably do if put on the spot.

I pottered off to collect a few items for lunch, and while queuing for the checkout the camera crew leapt into action, and some chap wearing an old fashioned detective's outfit, looking slightly like Sherlock Holmes, appears from nowhere and starts spouting something enthusiastically to camera. Fortunately the supermarket staff were on-hand for an explanation "they're from Channel 4....don't worry about then, they've been here all morning!" Turns out they were filming something about queue jumping. Been beckoned to the checkout I was destined not to discover more, although I'll be on the look out for something bizarre on Channel 4 in the weeks to come.

Indian summer

I can't believe how warm it's been these past couple of days. Let's just refresh our memories by taking a look at the calender. It's October; mid-October nearly. Now September is fair game when it comes to a late spell of summer and is much welcomed. But the depths of October?? The temperature has reached 23 degrees for two days in row in the big smoke. Not normally reason of complaint, but at this time of year the central heating of many buildings have been running for a week or two, making the conditions unbearable. I always have been a cold weather fan; it offsets my naturally high operating temperature. The weather is set to break tomorrow and thereafter refreshing forecasts of 15C.

New photos on their way

Regular visitors to the site may have notice that I haven't been putting much in the way of new photos online of late. This isn't due to a lack of photos being taken, far from it. It is in part to do with the gig of webspace now at my disposal. As a result I'm currently working on putting some high quality images on the website directly, rather than being hosted on Fotopic. I'm in process of going through the best of the summer's photographs to put online. However it all needs optimising, and so it's taking some time. When it's done, I hope it'll be an improvement on the photo quality currently available. Thanks for being patient!