I can now see why Twitter is so popular! Fewer characters = less chance of making yourself look like an idiot. Your childish and self indulgent musings and observations surrounded by safety in numbers of the equally badly written tweets from a an endless supply of tweeters. As close to makes no difference to anonymity, you only have a small space to condense your whole personality into a short bio. Blogging on the other hand, requires concise profound thought. Short on that at the moment. My most profound thought today was ‘I wonder if ice cream vending machines exist’. ...

No of course I didn’t actually buy this paper. There were several copies available at the cafe… It wasn’t so much the content of the paper that made it such a poor ‘read’. It was that they hadn’t even tried. No fireworks, no controversy, just a dated Amanda Holden story. No idea what the Sun was thinking. I suppose if you have a run of daily papers already, what’s the worst that could happen? The breakfast btw at the Blue Lagoon on Gloucester Road in Bristol was a good one.. ...

I love Bristol, don’t get me wrong, but…… ..pics I took of NYC make me reminisce of adventurous times much like the Hobbits at the end of LOTR.. ...

This is my Dad’s Pentax k1000. Modest, simple, idiot proof. ...