Hi Everyone, I’m here, honest… Sheesh! Was it really two whole years? »

A delicate balance of neglect and preservation; Calke Abbey is a National Trust country house estate near Derby. The café’s great and the buildings and gardens are picturesque from all angles, especially on a sunny day! I’m especially fond of the photo of the backlit church… »

After the best part of 18 months writing my Ph.D. thesis, we had a long weekend in Iceland. Good timing too, for the banking system collapsed shortly after we returned home and it was great to go. »

Please note: This article was originally on planetfear.com but has since vanished. Steve wrote the original and thanks to t’internet principle (once published; always there somewhere) via the Wayback Machine, here it is. »

PlanetFear ran coaching holidays for climbers on the idyllic Greek island of Kalymnos and with great pleasure Becky and I went to the last one ever! PlanetFear Kalymnos SunRock holiday. As you’ll see from the photos on this site, we had an awesome time… »

Becky and I went on the last PlanetFear Coaching holiday to the idyllic Greek island of Kalymnos. Both hoping to push our grade, we had a great time under the critical eye of Steve McClure and Katherine Schirrmacher who were both fantastic. I cracked F7b+ on redpoint on my third try, but watch this space as there’s definitely more to come where that one came from. »

Got a wireless network? Need to extend the range to cover that other corner of the house/garden/shed? Been thoroughly hacked off with trying to get what should be quite a simple thing working properly? Yup. Me too… »

Monday 25th June 2007: Pouring rain in Sheffield all day, the River Don flowing past the back wall of the Foundry Climbing Centre bursts its banks, flooding large parts of Sheffield including the Foundry car-park to a depth of about 4 feet! Fortunately the floor of the Foundry is several feet higher than the car-park, but it only takes a couple of inches of coverage to soak everything. »

Animation is the reverse process of making a live-action film. For a live-action film, movement is ‘frozen’ into a series of separate still frames but for animation each frame is created to produce the film. »

During the last week of May 2006, Becky and I took a week holiday in Amsterdam: I’d been through Schiphol airport many times on the way to and from various labs for my research, but never been to Amsterdam itself. This page shows the pick of the photos from our trip. »