Summer time, a crazy car driver and too much rain

What a naff summer (weather-wise) it's been. Spent a lot of time at the beach when the suns been out. The newly nearly finished breakwater/tidal defance building work has made a big difference in the overal fun factor. It is supposed to stop flooding, but from what I've seen it's just a pile of specifically placed rocks imported (apparently) from France, and placed in long lenghts along spaced out sections of the beach. It looks strange as its changing the appearance of the whole horizon of the beach, when seen from beach long view. The only concerning factor is that there now seems to be a permenant foot or so cliff which has formed at the edge of the pebble section. So now, when you want to "hit" the beach and go paddling or building castles, you have to remembed to bring you hiking gear so you are able to get "down" to the beach itself. Hopfully this has been calculated and is simply part of the finished outcome. But I have my doubts. Its come about from all accounts, because the newly placed sand (dredged from the seabed?) has been quickly pushed by the moving tide, to a point where the waves stop, and hence a wall of sand is now created.

That aside, the new sand is wonderful for making castles and digging with.

So many lovely shells that my daughter now loves collecting them. I am also a bit sad about the colour of the sea itself. It's now got a strange yellow muddy look to it.

The froth from the breaking waves, which is left after each wave craching against the shore, is not something I would want to walk on, touch or for that matter choose to see. But I hope it's just the new work that now has to settle down which has caused it.

That aside....
Today, our new trailer arrives. I dont have a car just yet, and so decided that because we need transport, and I need to loose a few pounds, I would get us a bike trailer. I've only seen one in use, and that was a friend at my daughters old school who used one to take her little one to and from school. They (trailer) looks odd at first glance, but the appearance is outweighed by its usefullness. My daughter as I am myself, is looking forward to trying it out. There's room for luggage along with being able to transport (in safelt via two seatbelts) two children. So Sophie and a friend can sit in there whilst dad peddles like the wind to the destination....ha ha

We've been doing a bit of gardening too. I moved a tree from the back garden and planted it in the front.....and its now nearly dead. Oops! Still it was a valuable lesson learnt about now moving certain buds etc.

We now have a kitten called Max. He is great. Together with our dog Harry, they have quickly become inseperable. If Harry gets stuck and can't find Max he will look everywhere until he finds him, and then usually curl up beside him. Max (Kitten) has become a permenant squater in the no-longer-used-very-much large dolls house my daughter has in the front room. Whats funny is that Sophie my little one (not so little anymore as she is nearlt 6) has sorted out all the furniture and fitting, and along with removing the movable iserts has created a luxury detached house just for Max. He can curl up anywhere now apart from the loft. The stairs are far too small. Althought Sophie asked if we could make a lift for Max. But logistics and materiels and obvious difficulties aside, I have had to explain why this wouldn't either be a good idea or possible. Cats don't know how to press buttons (or could they be taught?) to take themselves up and down to the different floors.

Yesterday, we both went crabbing down on the jetty at Felixstowe ferry. Great fun! We caught in total 11 crabs, various sea weed and an old crabs claw. We hoever lost two fishing weights and nearly lost the fishing net. I managed to rescue it after it slips out of Sophies hands, via the throw ing the fishing line and old cod head bait at it until I caught it and managed to pull it in.
Things have certainly changed down there. I don't recal ever having to wait for a space on the jetty previuously. But yesterday we had to go and use the other side of the water way until someone moved. Its amazing how many people got down there these days from what we were told.

A few days ago, we called on a friend and family from across the way. I had been meaning to visit for a while. Great people and great kids. Sophie had lovely afternoon and it was great to catch up on old times with my friend. What ever nicer is all the children go to her school. So it will mean even more friends for my daughter. She loves the new school and so do I. Everyone so far has been great. I have even bumped into a few old faces from my own school days. It only seem like yesterday when I was at school. And its funny how faces stay pretty much the same. In my case I guess it's just the weights around my middle that gives the game away...he he he he

Recently.. I got hit by a car whilst about to go around a corner on my mountain bike. The old guy was certainly in now fit stage judging from how he looked and sounded when he eventually pulled over to explain. I have a nerve in my right arm at the moment that is causing a bit of a problem. As the car nudged my handle bars, I put my arm out to steddy myself, and the car pushed up again me forcing my arm up. This is what caused the nerve to become damaged.
I called the police straight away having got over the road, and .........

Well. I have a few things to do today, so had better stop writing now and make some breakfast.

Nick

Sophie at the wheel

Sophie at the wheel
Originally uploaded by non_com

We were waiting for an Ipswich bus on Saturday. One came along quite quickly so it was great start to a lovely sunny day.We were off to the swimming pool. Trouble was though that the bus on turning up, brought with it a smoking brake disc on its left front side. Bit of a shame we thought as we were told another bus would be 20 more minutes. But the hand of thanks must be passed in the direction of the kindly bus driver, who obviously is one of the most decent people we've met in a while. He simply told us to not only wit in the bus out of the hot sun and slight wind, but told my little one that should she want to, she could sit in the drivers seat and look around. Wow....it made Sophies day, and to be honest I couldn't wait to see her face light up when she got in the cabin. We eventuallygot to the pool that day and had great fun. Then to the park, where we collected sticks to and had a stick sword fight before constructing a wigwam for "tiny people" that was actually supposed to be a pretend fire...then we did a bit of shopping and having woken Sophie up on the bus when we got to our stop we were back just in time for tea.

A neat day....

life update...and rather a lot of my waffling

Hello out there...

Firstly, I am sitting in the front room at the moment using the old laptop. So I don't have access to any pics to upload of the new house or garden etc. So I will have to do that later. Still, its just cool to get a moment this morning to write at least something in my blog.

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Its certainly been a while since I last wrote on here, so I thought I would add a few lines regarding what is happening in our life. First off we (my daughter and myself) have recently back in April moved into a new house. Its great and has changed our lives so much. Coming from a large no garden two bedroomed appartment as you can imagine makes it fantastic, as we now have two even bigger bedrooms (Sophie my daughter got to choose which one she wanted and guess what, she chose the biggest room and at the front of the house) I got the back room and am happy too. Two outhouses in the large garden means (although Sophie chose the first one which incidently is once again the biggest and best, but she DOES have a lot of stuff to tidy away..ha ha)

I can put my recording studio dream into action once I get into teaching and life gets to a point where everything slots into place, I bring home a nice wage, I manage to find a writing partner who can also play an instrument such as a guitar: accoustic? and...blah blah blah Can't wait for that.

We now have a happy little jack russel called Harry who I'm sure I've written about previously.Anyway along with the fact that her adores the garden too, we have a park not far away and we have both made a ton of friends. So I walk him when I can which is most mornings after my daughter has gone to school and I have an hour before I have to further my studies on the computer. Sophie also uses the garden daily and we've at last been able to use the rather large Swimming pool I saved up and bought over two years ago (never thought I would ever get to inflate it let alone fill it and put a slide at one end).
Just got buy some chlorine later today so the water can stay fresh and usable, oh and a filter at some point. It really IS a fairytale come true.

I have also gotten into gardening somewhat, and with help from family, managed to transform the previous incarnation into a more personal and relavent piece of estate especially with my daughters needs in mind. Just have one more thing to do with the back garden in particualar and that it to extend back about just over a meter. There was a rockery and build up of soil when we moved in. So I have been saving up for a skip rental to remove it and plant some grass. After that its going to have add lenght to the already long garden. I have already moved the group of garden slabs and extended te patio (it wasn't really a patio previously BUT is now) I've gotten both Picnic table and bench too which are great. Oh, and an old American type rocking chair which I fixed up, sewed up the seat fabric and use on hot days. At the moment the pool is in use daily as my little one has chicken pox and it keeps her from scratching when she is in there. I checked up and just like the benefits of a cool bath the pool helps her skin. Luckily Sophie has not really scratched as once I told her the problems with chicken pox she understood. Thanks be for a great daughter. Shes actually missing school too. She has to be off until the crusts appear on her chicken pox spots which hasn't happened yet. But already she misses her friends. Bless her. We've been doing lots of painting, drawing and reading. I bought her a complete pottery kit recently from my favorite charity shop called the PDSA (animals can't speak for themselves I always say so hence they need our help right?) We got three full bags of clay which is specially made for auto hardening without the need for a kiln along with a powered potters wheel.

Neither of us managed to finish off whate were making, as Harry ended up jumping on the table and killing our work whilst they were drying.

Oh well. I've also started writing music and songs again although my lyrics are somewhat in need of fine tuning and NOT like they were.
Words dont come easy these days but I'm sure they will. Before I forget, we have great neighbours. One of the main points that can make or break a move into a new place is obviously getting on with those next door. I couldn't believe how nice the people are on either side. Infact I would go as far as to say that the whole street is a very nice place to live. People are so friendly where we are. Its certainly a breath of fresh air to say goodmoring or have goodmorning said to you when you walk down the street to get a newspaper or are taking the dog for a walk. I'll be off now and will upload some shot of the new life very soon. So just incase someone out there is tuning in now and again these are for you.
Finally, its great to say that we are now in a position to be able to recycle at least 50%. All cardboard and paper is sorted into a bin, and the next step is to get a can crusher and seperate metal bin.


OK, I'm being called so had better go. Cu/
Nick

Harry

I took this picture on the spur and really like the way the sunlight shines from behind.

I took Harry for a walk yesterday evening across the fields behind where we live. Harry had never seen horses before.

Puddles, Parties and technology

Party

What a really great party yesterday. Took my little one to a party for one of her friends at a place called Jans Madehouse. Wonderful time had by all judging from the cool and relaxed atmosphere throughout the morning/afternoon.
I ended up playing soccer with my daughter and some new friends who joined in. I was in goal. I ALWAYS hated being in goal at school, but now as an adult I seem to be able to stretch my arms left to right enough to cover the net (evil laugh, ha ha ha) so that made a difference and gave me somewhat of an advantage..... I did let them all get a few shots in. (truth is, that i am RUBBISH at football and let them all in because of it.)

My daughter also managed to get me to go down a slide that I hasten to thought I would get stuck down, but that didn't matter one iota.
It was quite funny at the time as just as I sat staring into the abis bellow wondering if the slide would hold all 18 stone of me, I heard a child say "hey, there are steps for big people over there if you're scared" Bless!
I didn't get stuck and successfully got out at the bottom and found myself laughing my head off.

It really was a great time and we all enjoyed the day.

Puddle Jumping

My daughter and I oh and the dog, all went puddle jumping yesterday. The last time we did that was months ago after the big rain fall. Yesterday was funnier though as we went and found that all the puddles were frozen over. It was good fun watching her break the ice and make a mess everywhere. Harry has a short learning curve with anything new and so picked up quickly what puddles were for.

Technology.....

At the moment, I'm listening to some early 70's ear candy in the form of some Peter Gabriel tracks. Heaven knows it took long enough to get the BlueTooth 'widcom'stack to work (part of the software drivers) and load correctly.
Got it going in the end and it was worth the wait. Nothing better than pure stereo pumping out out of these minute futuristic buds AND from up to 100 feet away from the laptop! Love technology...love life.

My daughter has her own birthday party later today and I can't wait. I know she's going to have a ball. Lots to do later so I thought I would keep my blog up to date whilst it's early which I am going to try and do on a regular basis now.
Its quite therapeutic especially when I look back and read what I've written a few months or so down the line. But I guess thats the same with everyone who keeps a blog or diary.

Proof positive, that Harry is finally getting used to public transport! :-)

BeetleDrive

In all I had a lovely week this week all round. I managed to get all my future goals aligned in one fell swoop. I will be going into the teaching profession at some point in the future and have had several things to do what with one thing and another. Anyway.

Once I have my degree mapped out and finish my dissertation (I have completed 99pc of it now) I will only need to obtain my GCSE in Science and English. Once I have those which I am told won't take long to achieve, I will fully qualified to look at teacher training.

Life doesn't get better than that!!


I haven't had so much fun in years. It's true! My daughter and I went to her schools Beetle drive yesterday evening. If you haven't played then you are missing out!!
At first, I have to be honest and admit that beforehand I had no idea what to expect.
I thought a Beetle-Drive was something to do with prizes, hidden treasure, following trails and using clues on paper locating around a place.

Little did I know that it involved ones heart racing ten-to-the-dozen as we all raced each opposing table as we tried to be the first "team" to construct a drawn beetle by throwing the right numbers from a dice.
I did take take a few minutes (thanks to one and all) to get the hang of putting my beetle together in the right places, but once I managed to get it together I loved every minute of it. What hit home the most, was that the parents, teachers and various other contenders? who played were the nicest people you could wish to meet. I really enjoyed the evening. Our highest score was 58 I think, so that was pretty good. Or so I thought until a young chap with a fizzy drink in his hand came over asking what score we got. He beat us by one or two points. I still wonder who won the whole evening on points. Be funny i f it was Team-Endean...lol

On the way out my daughter proudly showed me her Skeleton design which her class each put together as part of the reading module/lessons. She's getting really good at reading and writing and its wonderful to watch her progress so well.
I was spending an hour a day after school and some mornings after breakfast reading, writing and then as off recently using the new sentences packs and envelope. It was only after one of my favorite staff who my daughter thinks the world of, that I realized only ten minute each learning session is enough. Oh well, no one can say we don't put the effort in.

I realize its just a game, but truly, when you have alternating tables of players who are all trying to get hold of the dice and shaker as quickly as possible, AND shake the right number (need a one to start= beetle body) then you can understand although it may sound crazy, why you sit there mesmerized waiting for a go with your heart going faster and faster. I so wanted to win and get a finished beetle, but alas next time. Oh Yes!!! next time I WILL get to shoot a winning beetle.

Incidentally, the more I think about it, the more I am both proud of what my daughter has achieved and how lucky I am to know that she is able to attend such a wonderful school. A really great bunch of people all round.

Thanks School, and I look forward to the next evening.

what a crazy week

Just another bit of slightly strung together words with a few sentences thrown in for good measure....you have been warned......blah blah blah

So many things have happened lately that its been mind blowing. There's one thing for sure to be said and that is simply that there is never a dull moment.
In no particular order but as I remember them, here's my week or so just gone. Just for the record, at the moment I have been tidying up my Dissertation website and signing back up to Microsoft Live as family and friends are keeping in touch I thought it was about time. I forgot my details so have to go through all that hastle again of signing up. It will be worth it though as I have Live already installed on my PDA and have often felt it would be good to try it out (along with VOIP which is also on the new ROM by "Dutty" from xda dev..thanks Dutty the ROM is great!)

Sorry for waffling...blah blah blah.

Anyway. I had probably the worst driving lesson to date last week but incredibly one of THE best also a day earlier, so explain that!@?
I know it won't take long now before I am scaring all the other road users and pedestrians when I get behind the wheel of my own car shortly...(evil laugh)
I think out of all the acheivments I have made in my life, driving is going to be hard to top although getting my degree and obtaining a teacher training placement which sounds like will be shortly in the pipeline will be a close second.
I met someone recently who has made a big impact on my life and the way I think about myself. They will remain nameless and I look at them as a friend. But I'm actually glad that this person has become known to me. Every now and again in our lives (at least thats my take on things) Specific people come along and leave their mark with specific words, phraces , comments etc that you know seconds later will stay with you for life. Well, this person has already said a couple of things that have left a very positive mark on me. To the point I might add, that I intend to follow one area up and do something I wasn't going to do for a while. I can't go into it as it personal, but rest assured it will make me a more confident person for sure.

I have better shut up now as I really need to play catch up and finish my dissertation off before I get much older.

Cu

Red Sky

Beautiful Morning

Woke up on Friday morning to THE most beautiful morning sky views I have ever seen since living in this apartment.

The making of a Blockbuster

On a lighter note, my video production group and I went out looking for a location to film some more of the video film we are doing. It was the best fun I have had in years.

Thought for the day....oh.....to win the lottery!

Voxpops!

I spent a good part of today (Saturday 10th-Nov 2007) in Ipswich. I was trying to get as many people as possible to voice their opinions on the subject of Street Art (aka: Graffiti or Urban Art)
It is probably an easy thing to do for most, but seeing as I am definitely NOT the most self assured or confident person in the world, for me this was a mission in itself. So far I have around 10 individual voices recorded (with permission) for use on my website as the background to one of the Street Art videos I put together.

I will never understand why I don't have much confidence as I know I am not a horrible monster or even a miserable old git. But when it comes to talking to people I find it so damn hard. I never used to be like that. In the past I have been heavily into writing music and getting involved with bands as I have always played the piano and keyboards and always enjoyed being the semi centre of attention. But I guess as I got older I hid myself away somewhere.

Anyway. Enought of the sad self indulgent "please feel sorry for me" talk. Things can always be a lot worse. I think the worst thing of all is the fact that....actually I am going to shut up and leave it there as there are people far worse off than I feel I am.

Bye bye for now Blog.

Oh and for the record, I met someone today who seems to have stayed in my mind all day. I am not going to divulge any details as theres no point. But rest assured if I would have had the will power and had had a drink I would have bought this person the biggest bunch of flowers and had them delivered to where she was at the time. Thanks to this person for helping me out and giving me a metaphorical kick up the bum which allowed me to start the ball rolling with getting more people to answer my questions. xx

Dentist

GOODBYE TOOTH [AT LAST]
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About to go in...

Going going gone.....

Last Thursday after months of waiting I actually had a tooth out that has been bugging me painfully for sooo long. I had some bad experiences a while back when 4 teeth were removed at the back for the sake of possible future problem solving and in an attempt to stop some pain I was having. After all that and too much pain, I was left gutted to find the same problem was still there. Rest assured it left it's mark and I have taken ages plucking up the courage to have this tooth out. I do not hate going to the dentist and am regular in my attendances, however whenever injections and that "if you feel any discomfort please raise you hand" line comes out, I get a little scared. But this time after filling the tooth in a few times over the past few months it was time to get it fixed for good.
I had put the appointment out of my mind for a long time. Luckily I was reminded recently and all is now done thanks so much to my dentist Dr.Browne. I've been seen by many dentists in my life, but this chap has the magic touch so to speak. I even kept the tooth as to me this has been a turning point.
I was well aware I'd feel crap for a while after having the tooth out as it always takes a few more than normal (injections) to shut me up. But I felt sort of a mixture of shakiness and overwhelming shock at actually going for it and getting this done, so I ended up taking things easy for the rest of the afternoon. Only thing that bothered me a little was that it wouldn't stop bleeding for at least 2-3 hours. Not unheard of apparently..but still worrying. Anyway, a momentous and cool day to remember. To others it is a normal day at the dentist, but if you bear in mind the hassles my history book shows from a previous dentist in nr Colchester you'd understand why this is a day to remember.

Next on my to do list is to get a lifetime of electronic repair scares removed from my two front bottom teeth. (using my front teeth to strip the plastic from wire before soldering.)

Purple Shop: Recommend
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I also recently had my lip pierced.
A warning to anyone considering this is although its not painful and is quick, EATING IS A BITCH! Maybe I am just stupid or perhaps naive to not have considered this, and being a born worrier, but trying to eat is hard at least for a week or so. The bar used has to be long to start with (about 12mm in long) to accommodate the original lip swelling. Once it settles a smaller bar can be used which obviously sits in the lip flush.
You have to be careful when eating as its very easy to bite your swollen inner lip or worse as I found out, is getting into a nice chocolate biscuit and biting down on the inside inner half of the new additive (bar).

Looks great though and am more than happy. I am very much looking forward to having a small normal size bar put in.

The day the Urban Art simply vanished

Really peed off today. I had everything planned, and arrived in Ipswich to begin getting some video shots and photos for use in my video short for use in my dissitation.
Every week whenever I am in town I find new and not so new and some really dated works of art (along with some default black pen work..not my favorite but interesting all the same)


Anyway, with video camera in hand and bag of vid supplies along with new blank tapes and the last of the Sony "normal-life"[2 1/2 hrs recording time]
I must have walked for miles this morning. I got the 9.19am bus from near where I live and headed into Ipswich with a really good feeling in my gut. Trouble is, wherever I went, the Urban Art had been disintegrated by those above (council treated with default yucky pink or worse colour they can usually find).

So I ended up going back to where I remembered there was some artwork scattered around an old building site, an old church yard and behind a Supermarket in the car park area.
To be honest, I at least got some footage for use in the work I am doing, but all the really great art has been vandalized and has been painted over. I understand that to some (and I DO agree that certain work is not that cool) but to remove the works that I remember being up on specific places is a travesty. When you stop and consider what the council or whoever has done this has put in place of the work it is laughable. I have a few shots that I will try to unload of before and after shots.
Just glad I live in Suffolk as some of the artists are more talented that mere words can describe. Some work I have seen in particular, the stencil work and a small percentage of past ups and stickers have been really nice to bump into whilst walking the streets heading to the shops or wherever I have been going.
Anyway. I guess I will have to leave it a while and try and hunt down some new places where artwork has been "hung" upon the concrete gallery of Urban Life and start from there.

One Last Time

I've never seen the corridors so chockablock before!
So many new faces!

I came home feeling both elated for various reasons and somewhat strange having taken nearly ten minutes to get my head around a room number (ok so even after all this time I forget where certain rooms are) which turned out to be ten feet away from the sign I was reading. Stupid was the operative word at 1:30pm yesterday.

PASSED!!

One step at a time and all will be reachable

All good things come to those who wait

Chess and Chips

"Apparently..I was taking too long to take my turn"

A video from my own"WONDER YEARS" which I found on line recently.
I used to love Roller Skating to this song at the then "rink" at Langer Park in Felixstowe. They ripped the place up and now its a parking spot for council vehicles and various bits and bobs. Life can be so sad. But thats pen pushing progress for you...!

Classic Car Rally

I stopped along the road the other week to watch the classic cars driving past. Every year they come from miles around and head along the High Street to the seafront, where they all park up in a line from one end of the beach prom to the other. Great to watch. My favorite has got to be the ZZ-Top Eliminator look a like.

Ride like the wind

Bought my little angel a second user battery operated motorbike she'd been after. I had to replace the old battery with a new one and now it is as good as new.
The crash helmet I bought her she hatted so we swapped it the day after this photo was taken and now she uses the new helmet for riding this and her push bike.

_______Day trip to Norwich________

Spent the day in Norwich of all places thanks in part to a spur of the moment thought and the fact that I couldn't remember the last time I was there.
It was quite a memorably day in all. We did a spot of shopping (for therapeutic reasons you understand) a spot of lunch, a good look round.

I took several photos. The first, below is one I took of a Brain sculpture which became on reflection the high-light of my day. I'd never seen anything like this before and I doubt I ever wil again. There are actually numerous sculptures in and around the City Center of Norwich, and this (the Brain) was the most bizarre and mind blowing.
My second thought after being quite literally shocked was thinking that where I come from in Suffolk: that no council around here would ever dream of being so cool and so original as to allow or commition an artwork like this.

The Brain Sculpture in Norwich City Center

I have to mention the House Of Frazer Center. By car we entered an underground car park which without exaggerating was THE cleanest, sweetest smelling and most well looked after car park I have ever seen. It would have been almost perfect had it actually had a litter bin somewhere and fresh pumped in air. The air was sweet but still too hot.

Underground Car Park

Coming out the car park, the lift or escalator takes you right into the House of Frazier. Even the floors are much the same as the actual car park, in that the impression is that one could almost eat you dinner of it. Entrance

The next photo shows what I felt was the most abstract......no, make that "bizarre" way of utilizing mannequin's I have ever seen. To take the heads of them after setting them in place and removing their heads was something I had never seen before. My immediate thought and one that I do not use in a derogatory way, is that it came across as thought removing the heads and getting the dolls to rest the odd arm or two on the balcony / rail came from either a student who had only just started work at the house of Frazier, or from the mind of someone who had lost a love that same morning and was having difficulties removing their negative thoughts towards their now "ex" partner and was instead finding Solis in removing the heads that way.

...and those Mannequin's

We had a good look around and it was extremely difficult to move away from the chocolate shop. I almost bought my daughter a rather nice sweet dispenser but realized that it would probably end up with me using it more than her. (Truth being that it was a subconscious thought really that I was wanting it for myself and just trying to excuse the fact that it would add even more pounds of weight onto my already fat body)

Cafe Zest

We stopped off to have a relaxing coffee after a long drive. I found a beautiful cafe called "ZEST" It is situated on one of the highest levels of the shopping mall which gave for great views of the shopping strip and walkways. The coffee was £2.50 each which was in my book more expensive than any local Felixstowe or Ipswich Cafe would dare charge (correct me if I an wrong) But in all it was worth it.

That View!

The Norwich city center was jam packed and we both agreed that Norwich people in general lack manners. If theres one thing I like about where I live and Suffolk on the whole, its that when people accidentally knock into you or over shoot their personal space, they react to it and will either give a polite gesture or an apologize. Unfortunately in Norwich manners are definitely a no no. The best way to describe Norwich is to describe it as a wanna-be London. It's certainly busy and people are certainly in a hurry to get to where they are going. But it doesn't seem quite real. Its as if people have read a book that teaches those with inadequate lives "how to look like you have somewhere to go"

Apart from that, the artwork in the city centre was certainly a welcome surprise

Phoneography

Technology.......

I was looking back at some of the many cellular / mobile phones I have owned. Heres the last few. Its interesting to note that although the size of the phones across the board, has not been a factor that can be used to accurately show the technology advancement, it is only the amount of memory, the look (ergonomic and form factor) and the functions that show how we have advanced to the present day. My point is best proved by the picture of the Motorola M66. This still is one of my all time favorite phones. Not because it had a ton of features, but because it was and is so damn small. Its footprint is still unmatched even today. I have not seen many other phones that are as attractive and as small. If I remember the ring tones that were available, I was more than happy with it. Its only the phone I now own called a Hermes, which is released under the Orange network as an M3100, that has since become my favorite phone. This is simply because of the amount of expandable memory, the video and photo software and many other functions and applications that have made it something more than just a phone. The Hermes is with me so much as it is as handy to have to hand as a laptop would be.

Below is a pictorial time line showing the phones in order of there place in my phone-history.