Push up Bus
Olympic Water Message
At some point over the next few days I will get round to uploading a proper post from the Olympics and some more pictures, this time of the action! In the meantime one of the things we saw yesterday were these water messages which were pretty neat. Pity I couldn’t keep the camera still!
Stadium in View
Olympic Stadium
Orbit
Flame
Inspiring a Generation
The catch phrase of London 2012 has always been to “Inspire a Generation“. I think that what Lord Coe and the rest of LOCOG probably had in mind was inspiring the NEXT generation not old fogies like me. However, having seen 54-year old Nick Skelton win gold for Team GB yesterday I am beginning to wonder whether …
A Smooth Spanish Concert
The reason that we chose to take our holiday in Spain this year was because the guitar orchestra our younger son plays in was touring there and this was to be our last opportunity to see him play with them. Mat has been learning to play the guitar with Berkshire Maestros for ten years now …
Evolution of a Kitchen
As some will already know we have been having our kitchen re-done. We have lived in this house for over 15 years now and haven’t touched the kitchen in all that time so it was probably long overdue. Initially we had intended on only doing the kitchen until our very own version of Kirsty Allsop …
Spain 2012 – Day 6 – And home again
When we were out last night having dinner out in a square in Girona we noticed that the tables were covered in a fine layer of ash and when we got up this morning I noticed that the balcony on our hotel room was similarly dusted. Checking the BBC news it quickly became clear. There …