Fantastic photo printing

I’ve just set up and done my first photo printing with the Canon Pixma IP4000 I got as my leaving gift from Simmons & Simmons, and it’s fantastic!!

Set up was painless (once Phil had raided his box of “cables and stuff” to dig out a USB cable to connect the printer to my Mac) and I’ve just printed off 5 copies of this photo to send to the porters in the picture.

The quality’s great and I’m going to spend the rest of the afternoon playing around with the various settings. Well, I would if the printer came with more than a photo printer paper sample of more than 5 sheets…..

Magic mouse

A long overdue purchase for my eMac, which came with a bog standard, albeit aesthetically pleasing mouse: a scrolling, right-clicking mouse, courtesy of Saitek, by way of MicroAnvika.

And soooo easy to install – just plug in and play. Bliss.

Fashion victimisation, OC-style

Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.

What were they thinking?

Season Two, Episode 4: The New Era, as screened this afternoon on C4 – Marissa’s cockernee stylee baker boy cap, with green velvet derriere bow, waistcoat over white puffy-sleeved shirt, and Rupert-the-Bear/golfing-closet-of-shame checked trousers.

Sadly the looks-lovely-but… The OC official website from Fox won’t let me link to anything, so you’ll just have to go and find the gruesome evidence for yourself.

Phew – you’re saved the trouble, but not the trauma.

Thank heavens for the internet.

Delhi to Kathmandu: The photos

I’ve been getting my photos up online, slowly but surely, over the past couple of weeks. Next step: set up my S&S leaving pressie photo printer, and to print off the best. In the meantime, here is my day by day pictorial record of the Exodus trip, Delhi to Kathmandu: 22 January to 5 February 2005.

22 January: Delhi – Humayun’s tomb, Lotus baha’i temple and Qtub Minar
23 January: Delhi – Gandhi’s tomb, Gurdwara Bangla Sahib sikh temple, New Delhi
24 January: Delhi to Jaipur – En route, Narain Niwas Palace Hotel, Jai Singh’s Observatory, the City Palace
25 January: Jaipur – Albert Hall, Palace of the Winds, Amber Palace, Jaipur Old City rickshaw ride
26 January: Taj Mahal, the Red Fort at Agra, Fatepur Sikri and the Magadh Express
27 January: Allahabad, Village school visit, Vindachal Temple Mirzapur, Chunar Fort, Boat ride down the Ganges, Barry’s and Maria’s birthday
28 January: Varanasi
29 January: Adieu India, Namaste Nepal
30 January: Bhairawa to Safari Narayani Lodge Ghatgai, Chitwan, and our first elephant safari, traditional Tharu dancing
31 January: Chitwan – Dawn safari, Canoe trip, Elephant briefing, Tharu village visit
1 February: Chitwan – Elephant breeding centre (Elephants there, canoes back)
2 February: Chitwan to Kathmandu
3 February: Kathmandu – Pashupatinath hindu temple, Bodhnath tibetan buddhist stupa, Swayambhunath “Monkey” buddhist temple, Thamel, Durbar Square and the Kumari, Giovana’s birthday
4 February: Kathmandu – Walking around Thamel, Durbar Marg and Durbar Square
5 February: Kathmandu – Thamel and the Rum Doodle 40,000 ft bar

Previously…
Delhi to Kathmandu: Part 2
Delhi to Kathmandu: To summarise ….
Home sweet home
Delhi to Kathmandu – interim report from Varanasi
Delhi to Kathmandu resources
Delhi to Kathmandu, here I come!
Holi- Holi- Holiday?

January 2012: Following fotopic’s demise, I’ve uploaded my photos for this trip onto Flickr: Delhi to Kathmandu, January/February 2005.

Richard Herring’s ‘The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace’ – Go See!!

Phil and I went to see Richard Herring‘s one man show The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace last night, and the £4.60 (ouch) return tube fare to Hammersmith was worth every penny.

It was a last minute decision, and I’m v glad that we decided to stir our stumps and head west to the Riverside Studios. Not only did we get to enjoy a very funny show, but we had plenty of time for a tasty meal beforehand, courtesy of the very fine Riverside Cafe/Bar. We almost ran out of time for dessert though, which would have been the second time that particular ill-deserved, non-dessert disaster would have befallen us at the Cafe/Bar….. Top tip: order pud well in advance of when you think you’ll want it!

But back to the main attraction – Richard Herring, and his twelve tasks….

Phil introduced me to Warming Up a while back, so some of the material in the show was familiar. But seeing the writer in action and delivering their own work changes everything. For starters, I’d thought RH was rather taller than he is (Sorry!), and as he recounted the background to his taking on Hercules Terrace, and the Twelve Tasks, the self-depreciating humour of Warming Up became tinged with the sadness of reality: the tasks were a means of working through a period of depression, not some juvenile jolly jape.

Go see it, and discover the joys of CNPS – there’s another whole sub-culture out there, just *waiting* to be discovered…..

LONDON RUN OF THE TWELVE TASKS OF HERCULES TERRACE:
February 8th – 20th February 2005 (not 14th) at 9pm
(except 13th and 20th Feb at 5.45pm, 11th and 19th Feb at 7.30pm)
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith.
Box Office telephone: +44 (0)20 8237 1111

Nationwide / Gig listing