Lux

I hit Luxembourg for the first time! You can still smoke here, and already it seems wierd, and your person stinks after one night out such as this.

Jacob on the beach and us on a boat.

A bit more Sardinia

Holiday!

Whanau Wendhold and Turoa hit the beach in Sardinia.
We stayed at a camp ground called Limone Beach

another gig at Koko!

Third gig that week and we are not really concentrating...

modest mouse 23rd May Royal Albert Hall

I meet with C, B and L in Hyde Park for a lovely picnic as the sun goes down. We head over for my first time in the royal Albert hall, where I was v. disappointed with the sound quality. But when I got home the camera picked up a much better sound. as you can see for yourself.

Cold war kids KOKO 21 May 2007

May ends with a flurry of gigs, the sound quality of the cold war kids (Koko again) -its not the best but you get the jist, a singalong gig.

Michaels new work

M Moves upstairs in his new work and its just down the road from Clems new house.
Here we try out Andy's Cafe down the road from us.

Marks Wedding in Manchester

Our First time in lovely -albeit wet, Manchester!

Datarock

datarock

ATP

The all tomorrows parties crew cut some shapes after the Dirty Three curate All Tomorrow's Parties. Nick Cave played 4 sets whoo hooo.

Were going again this year, it's curated by Expolsions in the Sky.

St Pauls at Night

Tate Modern Gilbert and George Exhibition and Surrealism

Our first visit to a Tate since MT's birthday membership card arrived making us ever so cultured don't you think? Thought so....

Here's some of the G&G stuff I quite liked. Made me want to do my own stuff as seems easy peasey - perhaps not the 'shit' themed stuff

Tate Membership!

L. has bought M membership to the Tate, where we often meet K.

camera obscura Koko

Camera Obscura gently push us off to a month of many gigs. We are shocked at the price of beer at Koko!

Sitting up

Jacob big blue eyes

Emirates Satdium

Jo on the lookout

It's snow, it's snow

Out the back window, perfect for a BBQ

3:09 2007 homeward bound

Sally and Liz's itty bitty christmas skewers

These are from Karl's holiday recipie and very yummy. Wrap bacon around houllami cheese, add as desired a selection of Mango, pineapple, red and green pepper, (giving a lovely christmasy look!), onto cocktail sticks, then grill, turning, until the bacon all cooked and cheese nice and brown. Delicious.

My First Christmas Ham.

Post Pineapple - with fresh Cherries, but pre-glaze!

Christmas tree

Isn't she georgous

Celebrity Chef Series: Part 2 Jacob's Encounter

My beautiful nephew Jacob with Paul Rankin from such hits as Ready Steady Cook and Saturaday morning cooking show, I know fabulous isn't it?!

Celebrity Chef Series: Part 1 Gordon comes to HC

Ramsay came to work today. I got him to sign my book. Whilst having some witty remark lined up to get him to dedicate to mum, whom I was getting my book signed for, I bottled it in the end. I came over all shakey and hot. He's ever so handsome. Anyway I wasn't shameless enough not to get a few snaps on my snazzy straight to blog phone!

Cousin Sally

We have cousin Sally staying at the moment. She's from Australia and has just spent the summer in Mykonos being a tour rep. Party girl Sally. This is a particulary flattering photo don't you think? Anywho, lovely Sally took us to our local, The Swimmer at the Grafton Arms, for dinner. I had a great steak with Peppercorn sauce, cooked nicely Medium Rare. New ladies behind the bar, which while nice enough gave me lemonade and lime cordial instead of lime and bitters. Still irks. Luckily not for me as I wanted beer, the bitters was for Sally. M think's I shouldn't dwell.

Blogging my blog

This is bloggin' my blog, as referred to in the title, and my breakfast. Never fear though as I am coming up with a project that will be mind blogglingly interesting. In case you're wondering that IS the Champagne pool in Rotorua on my calendar next to the crispbread - which are vile by the way, should nvere have doubted the rice crackers. See if you can spot my thimble collection.

I like drummer's

Went to see gig last night. Herman Dune, obviously. I liked the drummer. They were folky, or 'anti-folk'. I think I liked Jeffery and Jack Lewis better. They draw pictures. But these guys were good too. You can refer to Mr Turoa's blog for a more detailed review.