The End Of The World Is Nigh!

Some local street art spotted on the way home from work the other day. Apparently there are also some others around the City by the same artist.

More Gardening

Here are a few more shots recording the progress of my front garden make over the other week. I'm sure that Alan Titchmarsh and the Groundforce crew would have been impressed!!

Unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to take a quick shot before the work commenced so the first photo is actually after a foot or so of soil, some shrubs and weeds had already been cleared.

Step 1 - Ground cleared, leveled and time to come up with some design ideas!


Step 2 - Anti-weed membrane put down and leftover slabs from the back garden laid to


Step 3 - Rest of soil covered in anti-weed membrane (carefully cut round shrubs etc), then a layer of low maintenance bark laid.


Step 4 - Focal point finished off with a Cordyline (picked up from a local garden centre) and some other new shrubs planted around the edge of the garden (which can't be seen in the photo!).

A Day at The Races

After some serious digging on my first week off work last week saw some less strenuous activities including a day out at the races with friends.

Luckily my system seemed to work well as I picked 3 winners and 1 second place out of the 6 races. When I say "system" what I mean is that I liked the horses name or where they came from. Lets just say I was lucky!

Here's the end of the first race of the day and the first winner for yours truly.


Here are the winnings for the day....just check out those 50's!!!

Give Me a Ring

Playing around with with some hard drive platter spacers. Didn't think it turned out too badly for a quick snap with the camera phone although did do a little post processing.

Spiders Spiders Everywhere!

There seems to be a lot of spiders springing to life in my garden at the moment. I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be liquid moving but at a second glance realised that it was ball / mass of young spiders caught but the breeze and becoming detached from each other cascading with their newly found web spinning skills.

I took a couple of shots of one group that had detached itself from the rest. All I had to hand was my camera phone so not as clear as they could have been.

More Viewty Macros

A few more Viewty macros...

Viewty Macros

Tried out the macro on the Viewty the other day and here are some of the results.





In case you are wondering, these are all components from inside a hard disk drive!

New Mobile

My mobile contract was up for renewal just before Christmas and I had the usual dilemma of which new handset to go for.

I did the usual research reading online reviews etc and narrowed it down to a few models in the Nokia N Series or the new offering from LG...the Viewty. I was very drawn to the large touch screen and the camera on the Viewty so opted for that sacrificing the very handy built in Wi-Fi that the handsets that I was looking at in the Nokia N Series offered.

The phone itself and the touchscreen are pretty good although not as user friendly as the Sony Ericsson's that I've been used to.

After a few months I've still got mixed feelings about the camera. It takes pretty good photos on bright days but I'm not that impressed with the low light indoor shots (one of the selling points for the Viewty). The Xenon flash helps but with only the Auto, Red Eye or Off option it doesn't allow you to use it on every photo if required.

Benefits of the camera are Auto Focus, up to ISO 800, Image Stabiliser & 120fps video plus a lot of the functions that you would find on a compact digital camera.

Downsides are the lack of a lens protector / guard, flash settings in low level (mainly indoor) lighting and that you can't switch off the shutter sound even which sounds even when the phone is on silent.



Here are a couple of the better low light shots that I've taken with the Viewty...




Some of the pictures on previous posts have been taken using this this camera phone which you can view Here.

Cat Shelters Under Rhino!

Noticed this cat sheltering from the rain under the wheel arch of a Suzuki Rhino and managed to capture a quick image. Maybe the engine was still warm!

Road to Heaven

Came across this raised harbour bridge during a recent visit to Weymouth, Dorset.

Rainbow for Rent

Caught this out of a window at work the other day. Makes a change to see something bright during all this rain that southern England is suffering with at the moment.

VW Camper Hybrid

I was enjoying the sun down in Bournemouth the other day when I saw this little beauty parked on the sea front.





I thought at the time that it was a lot more modern (and shorter) than a traditional VW Camper and when chatting about it to a friend he said that he had heard about people converting Suzuki vans in to a modern version of the well loved classic.

Had a quick Google on the subject but could only find this post.

Bloody Weather!

The walk to work at around 6am this morning wasn't very nice at all. I had a big golfing umbrella but was still getting soaked as the wind was so strong that the rain was near vertical!

I managed to just about reach my work's building when a strong gust of wind totally destroyed my umbrella :-(