A Photo A Day

A little project which involves taking a photo every day for a yet to be determined period of time.

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Gig time - Steel Panther!  A tongue in cheek 80s hair metal band, most of their songs are about girls, sex, sex with girls and sexy girls.  It's a complete stage act but they are also cracking musicians and very very funny. 

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Time for another nice walk, and today a colleague and I headed down to St. Katherine Docks, a lovely place hidden away behind Tower Bridge and some office blocks.  We didn't realise that there's a food market every Friday here so we tucked into some delicious paella whilst taking in the sun and people watching.  We also checked out some of the nice looking yachts that were moored up.  One day i'll have one of those.

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Tonight was a joint birthday celebration for 3 or 4 old colleagues of mine, and they decided to have drinks in a new bar called Babble City.  It's over three floors and each one is slightly different.  We spent the night in the dark and dingey one with the loud music and low ceiling.  Sadly it was one of those nights that never really got going, so a few of us decided to head early and go to Pizza Express instead.  Maybe we're getting old but we had more fun in the restaurant than in the previous 2 hours in the bar.

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I went home this weekend and found this box of strawberries in the kitchen.  I love strawberries, they're one of my favourite fruits (after apples and grapes) but I get slightly suspicious when I see one this big.  This can't be natural, can it?  It tasted good but I couldn't help but wonder how many chemicals and fertilisers i'd just eaten along with it.

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Back at White Hart Lane for the replay of the FA Cup match that was stopped due to Fabrice Muamba's illness.  We won 3-1 but it felt like a bit of a hollow victory.  Thankfully Muamba is doing ok.

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I didn't like the way this chocolate easter bunny was looking at me, so I ate half his face and both his ears.

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Golf is my favourite sport to play in the whole world, but sadly living in London I rarely get to give it a go.  This weekend however I decided to head home and play with my Dad and old golfing buddies.  It was a thoroughly enjoyable day, I didn't play to my best but just getting out onto the course and getting some fresh air was a nice change from the norm.  It's days like this that make me really love the sport, but a couple of bad rounds and i'll get fed up with it again.  Definitely a love/hate relationship going on.  This is the second hold at Aldwickbury Park Golf Club, my home course.  I've been a member since 1996 and i'm still not bored of the place.

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Another nice day, another nice walk.  This time I was headed to Stamford Bridge to watch Spurs take on Chelsea with some colleagues and I decided to walk from Hoxton.  It took a few hours but was well worth the effort and I saw parts of London I never knew existed.  After the game we popped to a pub, I stayed on the waters and got the tube back home.  A good day all round (the result was 0-0).

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The glorious weather is still here so it was a good excuse for another lunch time stroll.  We headed down to Tower Bridge and walked along the North Bank before getting to London Bridge, admiring the views along the way.  There's something about London in good weather that makes it a pretty special place, I don't think i'll ever get bored of it.

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11 days on and still no gas.  Good job the weather has picked up a bit, but having no hot water or a cooker is jolly frustrating.  I've been hitting the gym every morning before work so thankfully I can shower there, but dinner in the evenings is becoming a bit of a pain.  There's only so much one can do with a microwave, and takeaways are expensive.  Sort it out National Grid, you bunch of chumps.

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I had lunch with a good friend of mine today and was introduced to a new place on the river called The Oyster Shed.  They do oysters.  They also do other stuff too, it's got a rustic vibe to it and appears to be a popular haunt for city workers who fancy a nice beer by the river.  Today was a glorious day so after lunch we got ice creams on the way back to the office.  Good times.

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I had dinner with an old friend of mine tonight, we both love Thai food so I decided to try out this place - Busaba Eathai.  I'd never been there before despite the fact it's literally 1 minute from my flat.  It was a bit on the pricey side but the food was excellent, especially the octopus. 

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Another walk around the streets of Shoreditch, another piece of art on a wall. 

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It's mother's day!  I headed home to spend the day with my mum, and decided to walk to St. Pancras station instead of getting the tube.  It was a nice day for it and I went along the regents canal, a strangely peaceful and tranquil place when you consider it's right in the middle of the city. 

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Today will be one of those days that I never forget, sadly for the wrong reasons.  I was at White Hart Lane to watch Spurs take on Bolton in the FA Cup.  Everything was going as normal until one of the players just fell onto the floor without anyone near him.  At first no-one took any notice as players sometimes go down with a muscle strain, but this was different as some of the players on the pitch very quickly realised that someone was seriously wrong here and got the ref over.  The medical staff from Bolton rushed onto the pitch, and were very quickly followed by the staff from Spurs.  The crowd had gone fairly quiet, as is often the way when a player goes down injured, but all of a sudden one of the medical staff started to perform CPR on the player.  That's when everyone realised that this was not a normal injury, and the atmosphere in the stadium changed completely.  I've never experienced anything like it and hope I never have to again.  The players on the pitch were visibly upset at what was happening and many members of the crowd had their hands over their eyes, not believing what they were seeing.  The CPR continued and the crowd soon realised who the player was - Fabrice Muamba.  At this point, the entire ground was chanting the player's name, willing him to come round but each time the medical staff tried another round of CPR the groans got louder and louder.  One fan ran onto the pitch and it turns out he was a cardiologist from London's leading hospital on heart related matters.  With the crowd singing the players name, applauding, cheering, crying and just willing him to come round, eventually they got him onto a stretcher and took him off the field.  The ref halted the game and eventually called the whole thing off, which thankfully everyone in the stadium understood was the right thing to do. 

It came to pass that Muamba was ok but it took them about 70 minutes to revive him.  Had it been anyone else in any other place, he would have died but thanks to the medical staff from both teams, and that chap from the crowd, he pulled through. 

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The Presidents of the United States of America.  No, not Bill Clinton and Obama on stage, but the popular pop rock band from the 1990s.  When I was at school their debut album was a huge favourite of mine and on a constant loop on my hifi.  One of my friends had put a copy onto tape for me (piracy in the 1990s) and I knew every word of every song off by heart.  Sadly I never got to see them live...until tonight.  They were in London for one show only, and a few friends and I decided we simply had to go.  They started off by playing some "newer" songs but a few songs in they just played their first album, in song order, in its entirety.  The whole place went nuts and I left the venue with the biggest smile on my face ever.  Thank you, PotUSA!

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I get to learn all sorts of fun stuff at work, and today was no exception.  Unfortunately for some poor organisation, one of their heat exchanger tube bundles sprung a leak.  I was reading a report into how it works and what went wrong, and this little diagram was quite handy in understanding exactly how everything fits together.  Sort of.