The review - no spoilersFirst things first, just a very basic review of the film. It's a great Bond film, possibly a contender for the best Bond film ever. I however am not a huge Bond fan, I watch them more as isolated, slightly throw-away thrillers rather than as some hallowed hero that's been with me since childhood. Even on those grounds ( Read more... )

I took a trip to London Zoo last week, unfortunately the weather was a bit miserable - wet, windy, cold and overcast, but the good thing about London Zoo is there are a fair few inside bits to hide in, so I spent some time in the bug bit, the reptile house and the aquarium. Between spending a chunk of time hunting for things hiding in corners and ( Read more... )

Somehow, I had never been to Richmond Park prior to my trip on Wednesday, I'd got as far as Kew Gardens and never really made it any further. But I decided to embrace a bit more of the extremely convenient number 65 bus route (Ealing, Kew, Richmond, Kingston) and take my camera out for the afternoon in search of some nice autumnal colours.


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One of my favourite people who can be at least partially blamed for my obsession with baking over the last couple of years has developed a bit of a wheat/gluten intolerance. This meant I had to get a bit creative when I went over for dinner, fortunately I'd somewhat randomly recently watched an episode of The Home of Fabulous Cakes which featured a ( Read more... )

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September was a full month of glorious freedom! I had absolutely no intention of looking for work so spent the whole month doing precisely what I wanted to do, which was pretty much nothing. (Well I would quite liked to have done some other more exciting things like travel the world and whatnot, but just 'cos I was footloose and fancy free didn't ( Read more... )

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I fibbed a bit that my previous post was the last about the Olympics. Turned out that I had a few more photos waiting for sorting which were just about generic Olympic stuff rather than specific events.


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