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Comment on Palm House at Kew in the evening light by Richard Hollins

Richard Hollins — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:10:03 +0000

Lovely warm light in this, and the way it lights up the Palm House from behind is terrific. Kew is one of my favourite places for photographs.

Comment on A winter’s walk along the canal by SP

SP — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:54:53 +0000

Love the tight depth of field, great pics. You should blog more often!

Comment on Shedcam – building a new summerhouse by Mum

Mum — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:17:00 +0000

What a fast worker!!!!

Comment on When is a knotweed a weed? by Steve

Steve — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:45:06 +0000

I know the area referred to very well and have very strong opinions on the subject! (our beautiful allotments near the future Velodrome, Manor Gardens, were demolished in October 07)
The areas occupied by Japanese Knotweed were actually tiny, and had been there for many years without noticeably spreading. And I would suggest that a bit of knotweed (popular habitat for grass snakes & amphibians, flowers a useful nectar source for bees) is far less of a menace than the Olympic developers themselves. They destroyed almost all the wildlife habitat in the area, Community Woodland, Nature Reserves, allotments, nearly all the trees – now just bare earth, in order to remodel it into an artificial, sterile park.
Since Japanese Knotweed has been around in the UK since 1825 you’d expect the whole country to be covered in it if it was as invasive as is claimed. It’s pure propaganda I’m afraid – and a lucrative business.

Comment on Cliff Richard, Druids, and the Archbishop of York by Duncan McNair

Duncan McNair — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:13:48 +0000

Hi James

I’m Duncan McNair, author of The Morello Letters – Pen pal to the Stars.

I’m pleased you liked the letters on my site morelloworld.com. This is my first book, and the respondents to the letters from Mr and Mrs Morello (and sometimes their 3 hopeless and hapless kids) have been very gratifying. Also I’m really delighted at the reviews the book has received, and it’s now been picked up by some huge circulation newspapers who love it. So it certainly sems to have legs into the New Year and beyond.

I hope you’ll buy the book, and encourage other subterraneans to do so.

Do let me know which letter you and they like most (and why?).

I’ve now been asked to produce another book, probably for publication later this year.

best wishes. NB Always leave a tethered goat or other noisy beast at the top of the cavern/pothole.

Duncan

Comment on Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth by James

James — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:22:09 +0000

Thank you to my ever vigilant stalker

Comment on Email amnesty? by James

James — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:21:07 +0000

I didn’t email them, I didn’t visit them, and to be honest I don’t think I’ve spoken to them since. Strange in this virtual world how you disappear for a day and you’re completely forgotten.

Actually, I was told that one of them was caught breaking their own amnesty and sending an email. If I had received it, the mischievous part of me (a terrible thing I know) would have faked an auto-reply saying that their email had been rejected and that their breaking of the amnesty had been reported to their Head of Department. The person involved is so gullable and technophobic they would have fallen for it for sure.

Comment on Lookout knockhead, this is Chinglish by James

James — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:17:53 +0000

By some magical coincidence I have just downloaded some documentation for my new GPS (from the manufacturer’s site in Taiwan). I wonder what my work’s server admin people will think if they see that I have just downloaded something called ‘Flashing Manual.pdf’?

Comment on eBay bonanza! by James

James — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:39:32 +0000

It’s Friday lunchtime, just over 2 days to go, and the combined total stands at £144. One item has 14 watchers, and I’ve got bids on just about everything. Looking promising But a distatrous day yesterday means I’ll be really pushed to get all teh postcards listed for this week.

Comment on eBay bonanza! by Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:37:32 +0000

James, Rumour has it that you also have a fulltime job as a webmaster, but personally I doubt that. I like your ebay listings, which are very stylish, and do you know, I’ve started to watch the bids clocking up with a sort of voyeuristic pleasure. How sad, I should be listing not lurking! Anyhow, one question – do you include in your cost caluclations the many hours you spend researching the location of the slide or biog of the photographer??