For those interested parties, I’ve uploaded all of my Paris photos to Flickr and some edited ones to the Photo Gallery.
For your viewing pleasure, I’ve added some photos of both my trip to Scotland and the little visit me and @Glitterboots took to Elvaston Castle.
So we have Scotland:
And we have Elvaston Castle:
Enjoy!
In a bid to do more things with my life, I went out a couple of times this weekend. The first was back to Cambridge to another book sale. I didn’t get a huge amount this time, but here’s my list:
- Dream Angus – Alexander McCall Smith
- Tombstoning – Doug Johnstone
- Dynamo – Tariq Goddard
- The Third Brother – Nick McDonell
As ever, random books by random authors I’ve never heard of. I’ve now got a large pile I doubt I’ll ever get through and these will be added to it. Hopefully I’ll pick up the reading again soon.
Right then, back to my weekend. After the book sale I decided not to head into the city like I normally would. Instead I drove over the Wimpole Hall to take a look around. I must say it’s a lovely place for a walk, though it is a little muddy. The paths don’t take you around the whole estate and you’re reliant on being able to cross stiles in order to get to the out-of-reach places. But if you’re properly dressed for traipsing through the mud it really is a great walk.
I got a large number of pictures too, which you can find on Flickr. I imagine I’ll put some in the Gallery at some point, though I’ve not got around to it yet because I went out again today.
This time it was down to London on a cheap-day ticket. It was the Chinese New Year celebrations and I figured it’d be a good place to take a few shots. I was wrong. It was partly my own fault, but of those pictures I took there were literally none that were any good. I shall explain why.
I was under the impression that the parade would be ending up at Trafalgar Square after roaming the streets of China Town. So I headed straight over to the Square to wait. Unfortunately it never intended to get that far and I missed out on what could have made some great shots. Then, after waiting an hour in front of the stage with nothing but a two-minute fire-cracker show to entertain me, it was time for the main event to begin. Only it wasn’t. What several-thousand people were forced to endure was a series of boring and repetitive speeches from a number of low-level politicians and hangers-on. “Oh, isn’t it cold?” they would say. Yes, it was bloody freezing. So cold that it started to snow. But still the speeches continued and still nothing happened on stage. After roughly an hour of this, me and several-hundred other people made the wise decision to scarper. I’m sure the acrobatics and the dancing were a sight to behold once it actually kicked off, but as ever the politicians killed it. I don’t think I’ll be heading down for next year’s celebrations.
So I came away with nothing from the day, apart from a bag of sweeties for a friend. So perhaps it was worth it after all. 
American Cemetery, originally uploaded by amjohnno.
I’ve had these on Flickr for almost a fortnight now but I forgot to link to them! I took these at the American Cemetery near Cambridge on a very cold Sunday. Not many people around at the time and it was very peaceful.
You can also see them all in the Photo section of this site.
