These are a few general observations that might be of interest to some people.
Christmas card 2011. “Ebenezer Goose discusses his Christmas dinner.” More goosy nonsense courtesy of Mr.Goose’s infamous Webfooted Weblog:- https://garfnet.org.uk/mrgoose Take a trip down memory lane and browse all our earlier Christmas cards in our special on-line Christmas Card Anthology:- https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/category/christmas-cards/ Image was created/edited using GIMP, a free, open source graphics package bundled with many Linux…
I seem to have accumulated quite a lot of old wrist watches that have no straps (or “bands” if you are American). So I needed to figure out a way of being able to use them. Then I saw these straps on eBay. They are genuine leather and they only cost a few quid a…
Christmas card 2010, “The Old Cemetery in the Snow.” The Old Cemetery runs alongside Southampton Common, about 800 metres from where I live and work. It is a beautiful and peaceful place at any time of year. However, it seems particularly photogenic after a heavy snowfall. Earlier Christmas cards:- https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/category/christmas-cards
Spent the day in Pécs, watching the summer concert and dancers.
Another warm afternoon in Pécs.as a pair of very noisy biplanes buzzed overhead for an hour or two spraying insecticide over the city. Their purpose was to kill mosquitoes. The aircraft were single-engined, twin-winged PZL-Mielec AN-2R, tail numbers HA-MDT and HA-MAM. They looked and sounded like something that belonged pre-World War 2. However, they were…
Today we took a day trip to the Candovers in Hampshire with old friends. While there, I took a few snaps of Church of the Virgin Mary, Preston Candover. We the went on to Alresford.
Just spent a fine spring days with friends photographing Houghton House in Bedfordshire, and some of its environs.
Christmas card 2009. “Ebenezer Goose does his Christmas Shopping” Earlier Christmas cards:- https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/category/christmas-cards Mr.Goose’s infamous Webfooted Weblog:- http://garfnet.org.uk/mrgoose
Today I took a walk around Hong Kong Cemetery. I then took some snaps around Central and caught the Star Ferry to Kowloon. Kowloon is away interesting especially after dark. Then I caught the bus back to Hong Kong. Its route included Hong Kong’s famous Harbour Tunnel.
I found myself in Central Hong Kong today, as I stumbled upon a protest. Seems some of Citibank’s customers are not altogether happy with the banking corporation.
[jump to gallery] Back in Hong Kong for a few days. Today we’re in Kowloon visiting the Hong Kong Museum. I must be getting old because I remember seeing a lot of this stuff for sale in Woolworth’s when I was kid. But before we look at my photos, this was the song playing at…
Mui Wo is generally a quiet place. However there was one hell of a noise outside this evening. It sounded like a herd of raging bulls. But noise wasn’t bulls, it was bullfrogs.
I hopped aboard a catamaran and took a day trip to Macau today. I took a camera too…
Went to Times Square, Hong Kong today, and took a few snaps…
I decided to take another wander around Kowloon today. Nathan Road is always fun at night. The gaudy neon signs are surprisingly photogenic, if you like that sort of thing. And you get excellent views of Hong Kong from across the harbour.
Today we took a wander into Honk Kong hopped on a tram and took a look at the Museum of Coastal Defence. Then we went on to Tung Lung. Tram ride was fun too. I managed to grab a seat right at the front of the top deck, and took lots of photos. Shame it…
Decided to take it easy today. So we spent it wandering around Mui Wo again.
Today we took another trip to Tai O on Lantau – the strange village on stilts.
Decided to wander up the Mid Levels Escalators on Hong Kong Island. This took us to Mid Levels and then caught the tram to The Peak.
Wandered across to Kowloon today, then up to City One Shatin. I also took a some snaps of a few of the “10,000 Buddhas”, on the way.
Spent the day wandering around Mui Wo, on Lantau, Hong Kong.
Today we had a fairly big brushfire up in the Mui-Wo Hills. A helicopter carrying a large bucket of water was dispatched to put out the fire, along with several fire engines. The helicopter, tail number B-HRN is a Eurocopter AS-332L2 Super Puma Mk2, owned by the Hong Hong government. More about this aircraft https://airport-data.com/aircraft/B-HRN
Wandered up to the Hong Kong Train museum, took a few snaps then went on to City One Shatin.
Today we enjoyed a pleasant cable car ride in Lantau, Hong Kong up to the Po Lin Monastery and the Giant Buddha.
