Go for it in 2006

Had a great time at the fireworks with Lisa, Mum, Dad, Joe and Lynne.

Whatever it is you want to achieve in 2006 I wish you all every success.

What holiday?

It's been all go this Christmas.. Picked up a hire car from Ringway ready for the big drive down to the Smoke tomorrow.

Manchester shopping

Shot some images of the latest additions to the Arndale and the pace of the shoppers.

Also bought a portable hard-disk memory card storage facility, 2x 2gig compact flash cards, a dvd burner, one hundred dvds and a P007 infrared Cokin filter P series

Temple

Lisa and I had a stroll around Temple Bar before taking the flight back to Manchester.

No rest for the wicked

I shot images around Saint Stephen's Square and Grafton Street. This is 'Tone Henge.' Part of the monument for Tone Wolfe.

Dubliners

A great Christmas Eve with Lisa, Mo and Rick at the Daveport Hotel.

Flying

The plastic palm and massage seats doing a roaring trade at Paderborn Departures.

Christmas Log

German's leave weird and whacky Christmas decorations outside their houses. At least it's not all flashing neon nonsense.. it's good old fashioned bits of wood nonsense.

Factotum

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
Charles Bukowski.
"Phew, that means I'm safe for now then. Must rekindle my soul the day after tomorrow."
Croz.

Justice for Bob

Okay, he may not be 'innocent' but he's hardly committed the crime of the century.
reinstate the Ginster to full privileges on the AlamyPro forum.

pplive rules

Loved watching City defeat Birmingham 4-1 as Lisa tuned in to her sad shows; Come Dancing and X Factor.. Give me live football on the Shandong channel anyday.

Snow return

Started in the early evening and just kept coming down.

Munster Christmas

Sporadic showers interupted the day's shooting at the four Munster Christmas market venues.

Dragon's Den

It's the only way of getting out of here..This is the modern way.. Time to watch the Dragons.

beautiful family and friends

This is only the beginning of our elaborate plans.. Thanks for anything and everything ever.. On my birthday.

castles in the sky

Got onto the roof of the hotel after having breakfast and shot some acceptable birdseye views of Wenceslas square in the misty morning. The Sky improved massively, even with some Wintry blue poppping through. I only shot with the 70-200 vr and the 17-55mm this weekend. Captured over a thousand images. Made it to Saint Vitus' cathedral and the Castle(Hrad).. We had a great irish coffee at a lovely cafe with a an aerial view of Prague and then lunched again with Steak at the Slavia Kavarna. We wended our way back through the streets before having another drink at the seedy and beautifully old fashioned Europa hotel.

Mission Impossible

Lisa and I shot the main sights of Prague in sub-zero temperatures. As Prague has never been bombed or ravaged by war the buildings are interesting and eclectic.. We even made it across the Karluv Most(Charles Bridge). Had a fantastic steak at the famous eatery, the retro splendour of Slavia Kavarna on Narodni. A brilliant place with excellent food, truly succulent steak(9 out of 10). After some respite at the hotel we discovered our luggage was now in Frankfurt so undeterred we went out into the crisp magic of the night and had another good meal at the Kafka restaurant. Back in the hotel I witnessed England being matched up with Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago and Paraguay in the World Cup draw from Leipzig. Awoken by the phone at 2 AM our luggage had arrived. I picked it up from reception.

Pragued

Despite hitting a massive tailback on the way to Hannover airport due to a smash-up , and sitting in a jam for over an hour we made it on our flight to Prague.. The courteous Czech Airlines held the plane for us and we boarded and set off immediately.. What a result we managed it against all odds.. Only one problem our luggage didn't quite make it on time! Our polite driver, Michael drove us to our hotel in Wenceslas Square.It's so cold in the Czech Republic that Christmas trees change colour.

Former Soviet state

Licensed a few images to the Russian Federation and one in Hungary today.. How the world has changed!

Art for art's sake?

Not even that.. I know it's just stating the obvious but I've still got to say it, This year's Turner Prize winner is total shite.. possibly the worst ever.. Art my arse.

Duvet mean us?

They surely do...Tired.. Only once place to be right now.

Graf Numero 12

Stencil Art
East London
Artist = Unknown

City on Fire

Loved watching the Blues annihilate Charlton this evening, 5-2 with goals from Sinclair, Barton, Cole and two from Vassell. This is a shot I captured of Darius Vassell at Manchester airport a couple of summers ago when he was playing for Aston Villa. Peter Crouch is also in the left of the frame with the defender Samuel in the middle.

What became of the Likely Lads?

Saw this sign in Arnhem, Holland recently flashback to Manchester in 1981...
The Arndale, The Underground Market, Adidas trainers rushed back from the continent on sale at Oasis. Stolen from Ivor, Marco Polo in the Royal Exchange, Fiorucci on King Street, jumbo cords, box cords, cord jackets, cord shoes, one eyes, bowlheads,

Happy Birthday Mum.

Love from Lisa and Dave.
xx

Christmas bonus

I didn't expect to have new tenants in the Cumbrian property until after Christmas.
I do miss living there sometimes.

Shouldn't that be Sweden?

Let me tell you about Deutschland.
Only country where the clouds are interesting.
Big Brother says it's the place to go.
Too much time to think too little to do.

Someone in a factory invented time.


The Stranglers