I never thought...
In the past year I've successfully sold 10 pictures on Alamy of rollercoasters. I never thought. I only took a few because they look good against the bright blue sky
Nailed at the Chimey Abbey
A wonderful place, Scourmont Abbey in the Hainaut province of Belgium. The home the Chimey trappist beer.
Mozilla... I didn't last very long...
On my Macbook I moved over to Firefox, instead of Chrome or Safari, and Thunderbird instead of Apple Mail. What happened? Well I did try them both and I tried them for a while, but sadly I didn't last very long...
Picture of the week. No8.
Remembrance Sunday is not far away in the UK, so I got this shot in the Dozinghem War Cemetery in Belgium
More landlord bashing... Well why not, we are the "scum of the earth" after all...
With a shortage of housing and renters fleeing the market in the UK
Quote - Milton Friedman
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The Finest Hotel in Kabul - Lyse Doucet
Afghanistan is often remembered as the “graveyard of empires”—a terrain that broke the ambitions of Alexander the Great, Victorian Britain, and the Soviet Union. Yet in The Finest Hotel in Kabul, BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet charts the country’s turbulent modern saga not through battlefields, but through a single, extraordinary vantage point: the Inter-Continental Hotel.
The Brethren - John Gisham
I don't read a lot of John Grisham books, but the ones that I have read have always been good page turners, especially on long journeys or gigs with lots of downtime... I downloaded The Brethren onto my Kobo Reader and I really enjoyed it, so much so I bought another one of his books.
One of us - Elizebeth Day
This is the first book from [Ms Day](https://www.elizabethday.org/) that I have read. t did take me a while to get into it, but I decide that I'd hunker down and finish it.
Sipping Gin in the mid September sunshine. Way to go...
Living on the Isle of Wight does have some advantages. Being a holiday destination it does have some lovely places to visit and to spend some time.
Another year, another PLASA
After more than 45 years in the entertainment industry—most of them spent as a lighting designer—you might assume I would be a regular at the PLASA Show, the anual entertainment technology show in London. In fact, that has not been the case.
Picture of the week no.6
As far as man made machinery goes, there is no doubt that the Airbus A380 is at the top of the list