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Hi from London

Probably the final London instalment from Laura: Hello again! I was sitting at work today, talking about Indian saris, and my boss Phil mentioned a sari he'd seen that was the colour electric blue. Of course, being an Australian child of the 80s, I started singing Electric Blues. Suddenly my colleagues were strangers; they did not know the words. They did not know the song. And they certainly didn't have a clue who Icehouse was. A thought came into my head: it's time to go home. So this afternoon, Simon and I paid for our flights back to Australia. Although ... more

Tilt shifting in the extreme

I've seen some awesome tilt-shift photography before, but this takes it to a level of awesomeness never before seen. Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Another update from Laura

Ho hum. Probably naïve of me, but I had no idea how focused London is on the finances of the world. UK television, newspapers, current affairs shows every single day are dominated by news of all the bank collapses and money woes and recession talk. It’s all a bit doom and gloom at the moment, isn’t it? For the first time in my life, I’m also in an industry (recruitment of all things) where people lose their jobs and lose them quickly. No fat cats at all, but people like secretaries, accountants, help desk workers, consultants and techies I was ... more

Finally fulfilling the promise of photos

So far this year I've managed to hit the shutter button more than 4915 times. Since not all of those clicks turned out well, I've made a selection of the photos I think are worthwhile looking at and uploaded some of them to my Flickr account. There will no doubt be more appear there over time, but this is a good start after being behind in uploading for most of the year. You can find photos from England, of course, as well as all our trips to other European destinations. You can check out the sites of Belgium in the... more

A miraculous thing happened today

What makes today's happening even more miraculous is that you really wouldn't expect to require a miracle for it to happen. I know you might find it hard to believe, but today we managed, after an 81 day war with British telecommunication companies to have the internet connected at home in one of the largest cities in the world. I suspect some day soon, there is a post coming about how seriously unbelievable the problems have been, but I'll leave that for another time1. As a result of this 81 day internet hiatus, I'm massively over stocked with holiday type ... more