The Vote Now Show

Went to the recording of the Vote Now Show this evening- very funny! About to air or Radio 4. This was projected onto the wall-






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Waaaaaales!

Things to Do while the planes are grounded

You have until 7 this evening to:

1. Fly kites at Heathrow, Gatwick etc
2. Listen to the birdsong at the London Wetlands Centre or kew Gardens (or any park near a flight path!)
3. Throw your windows open if you live under the landing path
4. Film an historical drama without worrying about planes messing up your sweeping sky shots.
5. Drag racing on the runways

Cest fini!

And so our time in Dancevoir has come to and end and we're motoring north again.

Brent and I manged to get another ride in on Sunday, which started in the pouring rain but turned out delightful, and a lot shorter than Mondays 50 miler!

We made another four legged friend too, tho' there's no way this fella could get up to 25mph...













Here he is chatting up Brent.



While we were riding Leah and Helena tried to find some ingredients for dinner in Chaumont, but the French seem pretty set on being closed most of he afternoon. Thankfully the local shop had some pizza dough, which inspired Jim and myself to construct a pizza oven in the garden.... This consisted of some rocks to take up the heat on the inside, flanked by breezeblocks on the outside and as a ceiling. It turned out pretty good in the end so we lit a fire inside and stood back to let it do it's thing.


In the mean time a delicious tomato sauce was cooked up in the house, along with whatever other ingredients could be cobbled together. Jesse rolled the bases with the tonic water bottle (which caused it to explode later when Jim went to top up his G&T...) Once the fire had died down and we considered the temperature sufficient set to cooking the pizzas, each one taking about 2 minutes to oook- an they went down a treat, despite the charred bases...


There followed an evening of dancing, Lungie-Trungie and general merryment until the booze ran out (except for the bottles that Leah and I bought to take home and stubbornly refused to qwaf...) at which point we
Filtered away to bed.

We awoke to a beautiful srping morning, filled with birdsong (and some hammering from next door)...and without further ado we packed up our shizzle and hit the road.

Swapping manly stories

Round the open fire in Dancevoir


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50 mile first day ride in champaign!

Brent and I did a fifty mile ride round the champaign region yesterday to break our legs in, but maybe we just broke ourselves. The scenery and roads were amazing, but the persistant head wind reduced us to base emotions- including swearing at the sky!

The garmin satnav took us off road onto forestry tracks, where our highly strung road bikes had to be carried, and we picked up a friendly labrador that we discovered could run at 25 mph over a surprising distance...

We're staying in an amazing house in Dancevoir, which we would all move into at the drop of a hat. Here's the view from the garden.

After our seven hour ride a we settled into a good deal of wine and merryment and a delicious spag bol whipped up by Jim.

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Alice in Wonderland

Went to see Alice in Wonderland last night, and the best bit of the cinematic experience was getting this snap of the hallway at Vue in the O2:



The film is pants.

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Street art

Saw this on the floor on my way to buy dinner- pretty nice the way the letters are projected onto the floor.


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Get Some Gears - T Shirt on TeePay

One for all you 'fixie' riders out there ;)

Chimovski on Road to V

Abu Dhabi

Been out for my first trip to Abu Dhabo on the Etihad job for work. It's been very interesting and really good to finally feel like I'm getting in on the project. We have a lot to do!

We've been up all night after getting back late from dinner, seemed like it might not be worth going to bed, instead opting to stay up and have a few more drinks. Not sure how great an idea this was, but i wasn't about to pull out.... pear pressure tastic!

We've been staying in the Al Raha Beach Hotel, t's so huge and impressive. We even got upgraded to a villa, tho' the Acumen boyz got here first and ended up in the presidential suit. Both spaces are twice the size of a huge London flat! Everything here is larger than life. Next door a massive building in the shape of a makeup mirror is being constructed. It looks like a planet or moon rising up out of the surface of the earth at dusk as it's silhouetted against the lamps of the cityscape. Amazing how much is being built here... and how big it all is!

Anyway, time to scoot - hopefully we'll get some sleep on the plane!

Bazalgette Sorts Sh*t Out

There is obviously a pretty strong 'fix-it' gene that runs in some of the Bazalgette family... Sir Joseph had it, and I reckon my dad Bobby definatly has it. So in a celebration of this my first Tee Pay t-shirt is an homage to the Bazalgette Fix It gene. If I get enough orders it will even get made and 10% of the profits will go to Surfers Against Sewage. It looks like this:

And you can order one here
They are printed by the lovely people at Howies on organic cotton - I have loads of their Ts and they're great!

Design for Dwell competition - shameless plug

Just to let you know that I've been shortlisted for the design for Dwell competition, and seeing as I'm not on Facebook this is my only outlet to try and get some more votes! You can see the design here and if you like it please vote!

Aid to Sri Lankan IDPs

I thought I should post some links to good people we know who are on the ground in Sri Lanka who can and are getting food and medical supplies to the refugees from the war with the Tamil Tiger Rebels. These guys need money and they need money now in order to help the many wounded, starving people who are the unfortunate victims of this terrible war.

Please help if you can.

http://www.actlanka.org/
http://www.grassroots.lk/

lost my iPhone :(

Well Elsie and Mark's wedding sure was a blast on Saturday, but the annoying thing is I managed to loose my iPhone somewhere on the way home. If anyone tries to sell you an iPhone with a Chimovski logo as the background image, please get in touch!

Some greeny product design stuff

Just been catching up on various blogs etc to do with green-design. Here is the current Greenpeace rating for electronics companies:

Also, I just discovered Worn Again, who are making stuff from old stuff. Awesome!

It's always sunny in Wales

Just on the train home after a fantastic long weekend at Fforest, where the sun shone, the lambs bleated, and we generally ate, drunk and were merry. Bobby is in the process of buying some land so the first thing I did was build a style over the fence to gain access. It's five acres of fantastic land that rolls down from the house to the road, and is currently occupied by the owners sheep and their offspring. Leah an I sat on the style watching the elambs play as the sun set over the hills on Saturday night - lovely!




Here are some of the (tasty) little dudes watching us watching them.

I went for a three hour rude up into the Brechfa forest trails on Sunday- it's amazing up there, and I'm starting to see lots more people. Most of the people I spoke to had made the journey down from London, and one bloke was from ipswich way!

Last night we had 18 for dinner, including my friend Frank and his partner Sally from the Eco design centre in Cardiff. They had bought along their chocolate Labrador, Marley, and bobby's friend marcus had bought his one, Rollo, so it was a bit like seeing double at times! Still, alisha and ffyon made good use of them by incorporating them into their show, which was awesome. Frank had bough some authentic Irish patchin so things deteriorated a bit as the night wore on, with peter polish even chosing frank's drink over his native vodka- a sure sign of it's authenticity!

It's a real shame that rob and claire don't feel that they want to hang out with us all and sort out the situation that has brewed over the last five years or so- they're really missing out and it's a great shame not to be a part of bela's life- I need to write to him but it's hard to know what to say....

Nerves

Pre gig pints!












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Maida vale drama

Two police vans and two cars have pulled up opposite....but they've all come put again empty handed....


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Amazing Maldives!

Just read that the Maldivian president is aiming to make the islands completely carbon neutral, which is such a positive step. They are hoping to do this with wind and solar power, which will hopefully lead to innovation allowing other places to follow suit.


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