We closed off our balcony last summer by having double glazed windows installed with aluminium frames. We were left with a kind of “jardin d’hiver” or veranda - a room that you could enter via what was the outside balcony door, but that had no floor or wall insulation and was enclosed mostly by glass. […]

I’ve mostly been updating news over at Flickr lately. Or rather, posting photos to Flickr and possibly including information worth reading underneath them. Time constraints and other things mean that I’m not particularly productive on blog posting of late.
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I’ve been influenced by a number of piano players. My paternal grandfather and my father both played a lot when I was a child - my father still does. A few of the schoolteachers I admired played a mean piano. Billy Joel, Elton John and Stevie Wonder are musicians I appreciate who sing and accompany […]

I’ve added recent photos from my FlickR account to the RSS feed, so if you read me via email updates or RSS you should now get photos when I update them as well. We spent Christmas in Marrakech, and most of the recent photos were taken there.
Unfortunately, Yasmina’s grandmother Ginette - who lives in Rabat […]

Here is a set of a few clips I took with my mobile phone yesterday. They were edited together using Avisynth and processed with Virtualdub (both free). Since my mobile phone records in 3gp format, they also needed converting via a piece of free software. Here’s the result.

Three related photos are on FlickR.

This was shot a while back, thought I’d share it with you. A performance at the office. Cathaly is singing, I do a bit of backing vocals & play the guitar (um… obviously).

Nathan loves the park close to home, where he can play on the slide, a rocking horse on a spring, and a sort of spinning top. Even now with the colder weather, it’s great to get out and watch him run around and climb up to the top of the slide. I thought the cold […]

Just what is it that makes Flickr stand out from other sites, so that it can boast an impressive 2,000+ photos uploaded per minute? That’s 2,880,000 a day, and over a billion - or a thousand million for those who think a billion is a million million - per year!
Their tour covers some of the […]