25 My pepper
01 My bar
25 My piano
19 View from roof terrace @ One New Change
St. Paul’s from One New Change
31 Hallowe’en pumpkins
ZZ Top O’Lantern
21 Paddington Recreation Ground 0750
View from office window
19 Bath time for the civilised gentleman
12 Paddington Recreation Ground 0755
10 Our spice shelf
08 Marble Arch statue
07 Maida Vale synagogue
Hampstead Heath
Hampstead Heath
Parliament Hill
Gerrard Street
Nelson’s Column
Ship in a bottle
Trafalgar Square
Nelson’s Column (2)
National Gallery
06 welcome to Camden
Camden snooker club
floating restaurant
Swans @ Camden Lock
Camden Lock
View from my window
04 Old photos reprocessed
Palm House – March ’07
Palm House – March ’07
Physical Energy – April ’07
V&A – April ’07
Albert Hall – April ’07
03 HDR experiments
HDR experiments
HDR experiments
23 My certificates
Halloween date fail
18 Old Chapel @ Greenwich Naval College
16 Close encounter @ Swiss Cottage
10 Predator costume fail
30 A Roesel’s bush-cricket in west London
Long winged form of Roesel’s bush-cricket for migration
27 The death of a fridge
New bar inauguration – first martinis
Kitchen all done!
new kitchen 2
new kitchen 3
Bar all done
Amtico ‘Back to Black’ flooring unveiled
21 Ready for painting
Painting – the home straight
19 Tiling done
17 Tiling seven eighths done
16 Tiling three quarters done
13 Tiling half done
11 Units fully installed
Bar fully installed
Just the tiling left to do
…and painting
first beer in the new fridge
10 Door handles fitted
Bar progress
09 Hob fitted
07 View from Vista rooftop bar in The Trafalgar hotel
06 More doors going on
looking good
Chin Chin Laboratorists
sprinkles in flasks & beakers
blueberry, toffee & strawberry toppings
05 Appliances fitted
it’s starting to take shape
04 Worktop and sink fitted
03 Base units fitted
02 First few kitchen units fitted
29 Camden police officer
The new kitchen units arrive
28 The flooring laid – and covered
The fireplace opening…
…the planned bar area
27 Paul levelling the kitchen floor
the kitchen floor levelled
26 Greg removing the old kitchen
kitchen half stripped
kitchen stripped
25 Goodbye old kitchen
…new kitchen design
old kitchen 2
new kitchen design 2
old kitchen 3
new kitchen design 3
24 If Andy can’t go to the GBBF, the beer festival can come to Andy!
23 Racial Tolerance Fail
17 Roses in Pad Rec
16 Rosemary’s Babies
The proud mother and her babies
What does it mean
Martini night
11 Burlington Arcade
Trafalgar Square
Ship in a bottle
Covent Garden living statue
10 Luke & Daryl’s lillies
07 Chalk Farm art
Banksy v Robbo graffiti war!
Banksy v Robbo
click for previous incarnation
Tyre specialist fail
06 Ducklings on Regents Canal
03 Out and about in London
Pride London
parade floats…
fire engine…
ambulance
Trafalgar Square (2)
Nuns
these tourists got more than they bargained for in their snapshot
‘I say, Carruthers, those chaps look rather gay!’ ‘Yes, Roger, they do look jolly happy don’t they.’
The Thames and the London Eye
London Eye
South London Here be dragons
Dragons of the air
Pterosaurs on the South Bank
South Bank statue and pterosaurs
27 Simplified Bloominfool Chili – day three shredding the ribs
Ended up with 778g of beef
Assembling the chilli
Assembling the chilli
Simmer for 40 minutes
Roasting peppers
Finishing the chilli
Final step eat
26 Simplified Bloominfool Chili – day two rinsing the ribs
Braising the ribs
5 hours at 140C
leave to cool
remove excess fat, bones and vegetables in muslin
25 Simplified Bloominfool Chili – day one 4 beef short ribs
Brining the ribs – who knew they’d be so big
Infusing the passata
Finishing butter
Shallot confit
24 Home made Chilli Powder
Chilli Powder taste test
22 Ducklings on Regents Canal
30 Re-planted windowboxes
…let’s see how long they last
Tube train draught excluder wreck – no one harmed
21 Camden Lock
19 Pad Rec bandstand
Pad Rec knot garden
Pad Rec flower
15 Anniversary dinner
@ Cafe Pacifico
01 Just add chain & Christina Ricci
04 Moss in the herb garden
03 Mmmmm, peanut butter with no added palm oil. Delicious!
27 Fresh milk & dairy fail
Now that’s a phone.
Mmmmm, beakers of port @ Gordon’s Wine Bar
16 Is the sky wearing a bow tie or is Gotham signaling for Bow Tie Man
14 Lamb & Potato pie in the making
…for National Pi Day (3.14)…
…the finished pie
A mummy one and a baby one (it is mothering sunday)
Sunbathing in the park in March…
…it must be spring
06 Live at the Apollo…
…Lynyrd Skynyrd
06 Chocolate Lady Liberty @ Plane 9
25 They are pollarding the plane trees on our street.
22 Avatar again again @ BFI IMAX! Should have gone to Specsavers!
21 Shop window display on Regent Street!
Sign made of rivets.
31 Forget Banksy – there is an artist at Plan 9 coffee shop next door who paints amazing portraits in chocolate!
26 Banksy v Robbo graffiti war!
Camden Coffee Shop – where we get our Santos Dark.
the equipment is over 100 years old.
Red sky.
23 Great Court, British Museum.
Addressing the Haggis @ John Lewis – I like this shop! It’s exciting!
06 Camden lock froze over.
Frozen lock.
Moorhen on ice.
Bridge over frozen water.
A chair thrown from the hotel …very rock & roll.
In Camden even the snowmen have mohawks.
