Biking with Buffy

February 17, 2006 at 8:53 am | In Biking, Life, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Went out to the Swinley Forest today with Buffy, my 2nd daughter who has a new bike. I was not expecting very much as its really muddy there at this time of year and it takes a lot of confidence to cycle on swoopy trails with 4inches of slime on them.

But, I must give her credit- she did really well, fell off less than I did and was almost as quick up the hills. All I need to do is get her into it cycling in a big way, win a few championships and I’ll be able to retire on her earnings…

She also took this picture of me :-)

 

What’s the Matter?

February 14, 2006 at 3:33 pm | In Commercial, Life, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Off to Liverpool yesterday to photograph part of a project called ATLAS. To cut a long story short, its a massive particle accelerator that some pople have been working on for 20 years that is going to be buried in the ground in Geneva and record particle collisions at speeds never before undertaken. The data amassed each day will fill a mile high stack on un-boxed CD’s and from this we will be able to discover the meaning of life.

The whole project is actually an attempt to find dark matter. There is a big hole (a black hole!?) in the most popular model of how the ‘big bang’ happened, seeing as how the sums don’t add up properly. To make them work, scientists have invented a particle, so called ‘God Particle’ that if it exists will make all things lovely and bring world peace amongst the scientific community. This project is an attempt to find the particle. If it does not exist then they will have to think again, probably quite hard, but I was told they are fairly confident on finding out something interesting whatever happens.

In my experience, one does not need the $4 billion that this project has cost to find God, but what do I know? Regardless, its all very interesting and what I did discover is that we only know about 6% of the properties of the universe and that, in the words of the leading professor on this project, is not very much at all. So, to those of you who are concerned or even relieved that Science has Disproved God – don’t be so sure!

The Axe-man Cometh

February 7, 2006 at 7:40 pm | In Life, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Today I bought an Axe, and a Dads Army DVD.

Purchasing the axe is a trial due to the problem with my pin numbers I shall relate shortly on this very site. Thats why I ended up buying the Dad’s Army disk because we had to wait so long for the card to authorise that I went down the road to browse in Woolies for fear that I would end up using the axe in an unpleasant way on the shop assistant.

Axing is hard work! Some of the wood is like iron and my ears are still ringing from the ‘thwack’ as the axe hit the wood. Anyway, its great fun and I have now created a wheelbarrow full of chopped wood.

We don’t have anything to do with it mind, but it was very theraputic and the axe cost less than the DVD. You can see my substantial ‘bread belly’ in these fine shots taken by my wife just before the unfortunate accident.

 

Fresh Bread!

February 7, 2006 at 7:25 pm | In Life, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

We recently bought a breadmaker. I was so incensed by the quality of the bread rolls that our kids eat, the kind of thing that immediately turns to mushy pap as soon as it enters your mouth, with a salt, sugar and fat content that has to be seen to be believed, that we went out and bought a machine to make it ourselves. The upside is great bread! The downside is too much great bread! I now weigh 160 killos and am surviving on a staple diet of…. welll, you can guess.

Here is Ruth enjoying a nibble. Look what one mouthful has done to the poor kid.

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