6 posts tagged “uncategorized”

Random TV jottings, in no particular order:

• Why show The Wire with an episode every day? It’s far too hard to keep up with so many episodes at once.  Especially as the V+ box only takes 80 hours and we do want to record some other stuff too!
• Damages series 2.  I’ve stopped watching.  The first series was pacy, and the use of flashbacks/flashforwards really kept me guessing along the way.  By contrast, the second series seems to plod a lot more and doesn’t work anywhere near so well.
• Desperate Housewives.  Still fluff.  Still enjoyable. Even if I can do something else at the same time.
• The Apprentice.  No, I don’t like any of the candidates.  Yes, we are still gripped.  And it’s even better with the live blog from the Grauniad.  And with this too:

• Law & Order: UK? OK.  But the quality let it down - “He’s been granted a bail?”  What – a crook goes to court to argue that he has been unlawfully deprived of a piece of cricketing apparatus?
• Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant.  David Starkey.  Will no doubt be a bit provocative, but always interesting.
• Lewis: Not quite as good as Morse.  But Hathaway and Innocent are growing into being good characters. Now if only Lewis and Hobson could get it together…
• Genius. A work of genius! Titter along with this:

The start of March.  Spring has sprung, so out and about a bit more – when work allowed.

67/365 It’s been a hard day’s night…	68/365 Murphy nose
69/365 Blossom	70/365 New specs
71/365 Rooftops	72/365 Red red nose

After the fun and frivolity of Red Nose Day (limited, sadly, to sitting and watching on TV rather than doing anything particularly funny!) we headed down to my parents…

Brussels was too wet to venture out at lunchtime.  So that left England when I got home for today’s picture.

St Pancras is a wonderful temple of engineering and architectural achievement.  And it does generally look pretty light inside the Barlow train shed.   But flicking over to manual meant I could snag this, which gave it a far more film-noir quality.

Technical notes:

Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200mm f3.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR DX @95mm. 1/200 @ f/8 IS 800. No flash - way too long a distance!

An ornament I picked up from the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years back. It seemed quite appropriate for today’s momentous events.  God bless America!

Phoebe prepares to read.  She’s looking for new fish recipes, naturally.

Technical notes:

Nikon D90. Nikkor 50mm f1.8 AF 1/60 @ f/4 ISO 200. SB-800 flash.

We failed to get Sarah a Pimm’s teapot, Pimm’s Winter for the warming of, before Christmas.  Largely because when she decided she wanted one they weren’t there!  Anyway, I ordered one for her online and it has finally arrived.   For some reason the various bits of the kit (scarf, gloves, tea cosy) were all a slightly different shade of orange. So I thought I’d try this one in Black and White.

If you like normal Pimm’s then you really should try the winter variety – it’s delicious.  Based on brandy rather than gin, and served warm with apple juice rather than on ice with lemonade.

Technical notes:

Nikon D90. Nikkor 50mm f1.8 AF 1/60 @ f/4 ISO 200. SB-800 flash.