heading to bangkok in a few hours - unless there's wireless internet there, no updates here until monday night here's a little bit of the poppycat monster for you though:
a few more edinburgh photos
am back from singapore - it was an exhausting weekend (not helped by a 5:45am pickup for golf on monday) and i finally got back on tuesday. a few things to do this weekend; i think we are buying a cot or something like that this saturday, then on sunday it's little sam binnington's 2nd birthday party. before that we have vic landells in town for a few hours, and we'll take her out to lunch somewhere before she wines and dines at some cocktail party somewhere :-)
i got some of the b&w photos back from mr photo man yesterday. i still have another roll to come (the iso 3200 one - sweet), but here are some of the iso400 photos (as always, click to open bigger slideshow):
...and then a few non-wedding ones. the first is from just before the wedding in our bathroom, and the second was taken on the plane en route to london:
a few more photos of the wedding
just pulled a bunch of photos from rachel's camera from damon and lynn's wedding in edinburgh. first a few from just after the ceremony (my photos from the ceremony are on film, so they'll be up in a few weeks):
... and then some from the reception. first is damon and second is when the damon and paul dragged me onto the stage for a few songs:
more photos from edinburgh
am just digging through our photos from the holiday and have picked a few from edinburgh which were taken both in the main castle and also when wandering around the streets on sunday. when you open each pic, there should be a little caption in the bottom left, but it's all pretty much self explanatory. as you can see, sunday was really quite an amazing day - although it was a tad chilly...
lazy saturday
had a lovely afternoon in hammersmith at a pub, where we caught up with kirsty, her hubby james, anna moo, nic, steve & emma, dale, ricky and fen. gorgeous day, great food and great company. perfect way to catch up. bbq at jonathan and laura's last night, j's parents were in town, and it was a nice chance to catch up with them. delicious feed of burgers, snags and chucken - I could hardly move by the end of the evening...
heading to covent garden today to meet up with john and jane pascoe, and then am going to kill a bit of time with the camera while rach has her baby shower at tim and sarah's place.
a little bit of charlie for barbara
barbara's favourite 2 year old does a jigsaw with mum :-)
london part 3
just had a lovely morning out with sarah and the kids; then lunch with jane loveday and a ride on the london eye (although i had forgotten how bleurgh the tube is). will add some more photos later on, but here's one from my phone taken from the downward bit on the london eye. what a view...
balham! (london part 2)
made it to balham and are now hanging with sarah, charlie and penny. after a bit of yelling (at me) penny is now asleep and charlie is doing jigsaw puzzles with rachel. charlie is hilarious - he says "uh oh" and "cup of tea!" constantly! here's a photo of feeding time at the zoo:
edinburgh
just back from edinburgh and we're looking out at a wet and gloomy tuesday morning in london. had an amazing time in edinburgh and the wedding was fantastic - a spot of rain during the day, but the ceremony was lovely, the reception was absolutely marvellous, and we met - and reunited with - some awesome people. i took a load of film photos which won't be ready for a few weeks, but we did take a few with rachel's camera. damon and lynn looked fantastic (damon was in a kilt!) and everything went beautifully. i was actually playing music with paul (the best man) when he met damon and so after dinner when they were bashing out a few tunes on the guitar, they invited me up on stage for a few kiwi songs - great fun. thankfully i had tanked up on red wine so wasn't nervous at all...
sunday we wandered around edinburgh and went to a lovely michelin star restaurant "number 1" in the balmoral hotel. loved it - great food and great staff in a beautiful old building. a bit of an indulgence, but hey - it's not a regular occurrence :-)
monday we saw the castle (photos are on my other camera sorry) and then caught manju and sunethra for lunch at a small organic cafe in downtown edinburgh (urbanangel). took a bus trip around the sights to kill a bit of time and then we had a cheeky wine in a beautiful old bank building called "the dome" before heading to the airport.
a few photos from the wedding are below, but i've got plenty more from the weekend on the other camera - but i'll sort those out when we head to sarah and tim's place today (we're staying with them for the rest of the week).
london part 1
landed safely in london after an uberlong flight - 12.5 hours. thankfully we managed to upgrade to premium economy using points, which put us upstairs in the nice quiet bit. i ate a monster amount of food and watched a ridiculous amount of tv - all good. the crew were awesome and i even managed a bit of sleep despite it being a daytime flight. had a great dinner with katy, sam, anna and kieran at a local bar / restaurant "the duke" and today we had a lazy day, with a coffee in richmond, a 1.5 mile walk down the river, and then a great pasta lunch in a little italian-style cafe. i had forgotten how good gnocchi is...
currently chilling out at sam and katy's place and tonight it's dinner in covent garden.
off to edinburgh tomorrow afternoon from gatwick and then back monday. sorry, this isn't very thrilling but here are a few photos from the morning walk. click on them to make them bigger:
