truman brewery, Brick Lane

Took this on my way to record some stuff at Rich's last weekend. Although the weather was predicted to be pretty bad, it was lovely, crisp and sunny as I walked up Brick Lane. 

commuter rush

Ended up taking a rather convoluted jouney in this morning. My Bike frame has snapped so I no longer have my own wheels to speed me along. Instead I'm taking the tube, which is awful, except that I get to read the Climbing Essays book by Jim Perrin that Becky bought me for my birthday.

This morning when I got to paddington the district line was ruined, so I decided to take the Hammersmith and City. This means crossing the whole of paddington, which would be annoying except that the sunlight was streaming in and made an interesting picture of the rushing commuters.

friday....I'm ready to go home

Man, sometimes days can drag on. Makes you wonder what you're doing. My job is cool - product design, but I find it hard to sit here and draw shape after shape after shape. Searching for some new design feature to seel to the client. Product product product. I'm ready to go home and chill. Well, out for dinner tonight at Sianny and G's house. I'm looking forward to that. Leah didn't get her Argentinian Visa yet, which is hampering our plans to dissapear, and quelling the excitement, replaced by anxiety.

MUJI design competition entry

 

MUJI SUMI

I entered the MUJI design competition this year with this photo holder. Unfortunately I didn't win! To see the winners click here. 

busy bazalgette

According to Wikipedia, Sir Joseph was a very busy man indeed, not only engineering London's sewerage system but also:

Albert Embankment (1869)
Victoria Embankment (1870)
Chelsea Embankment (1874)
Putney Bridge (1886)
Albert Bridge (1884; modifications)
Hammersmith Bridge (1887)
the Woolwich Ferry (1889)
Battersea Bridge (1890)
Charing Cross Road
Garrick Street
Northumberland Avenue
Shaftesbury Avenue
early plans for the Blackwall Tunnel (1897)
proposal for what later became Tower Bridge

Holy moly!

me dad and me brotha...

 

lovely!

 

A reservoir in Wales

Before heading home we went for a walk by this reservoir in Wales. It was lovely, but the Water levels are still very low! 

sparklers!

 

 

Pop - bang - whizz

 

Fireworks!

These rather small fireworks were made more exciting by the fact that they kept falling over and threateneing to shower us all in sparks... 

Bonfire night at Fforest

We spent saturday collecting wood that had fallen from the trees surrounding my dad's place and made a large bonfire. 

Tom in Rhonda

 

Me at the Helm

 

Two people who cant wait to get in the sea

 

MIddle Bay

 

Tom and Leah

Inside Rhonda it was warm and dry. Outside the wind was blosing, the waves were large and messy and it was cold. 

Leah, ready to rock

 

Sex Wax

 

Potential

Ronda the Road Trip Wonder, and her Cargo, ready to get cold and wet... 

the crispy crunch of newly fallen leaves: Autumn