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I’m so ready to depart. Having that nervous fit of energy, where you pack and repack, and unpack and pack again!

Holy crap! Space photos from ESA in 3D on flickr! Must be a Flickr Friday moment :)

Upon making my routine chicken mayo sandwhich today I discovered a Biro embedded in my loaf of bread! However Tesco were extremely good at making up for it!

Drought has been officialy declared in some parts of the country this week. It’s a good time to get in to the habit of saving water, the West Midands could be next.

Many of my closest friends and family will already know that I’m now happily engaged and it being Valentines Day, it seems like the best day to mark it on my blog!

A very brave man is about to fall to Earth from the edge of space. Having seen this on the news today, I just had to investigate further, although I wouldn’t make that quantum leap myself.

I stumbled upon this great article today highlighting the benefits and suspicion of introversion. Author Susan Cain explains the fallacy of “groupwork” and points to research showing that it can reduce creativity and productivity.

With welfare reform on the political agenda this week, it might be easy to skim over just how cruel the government are being to the chronically ill. I’m going to be very frank about this and it should be a good read.

Desert Island Discs was 70 yesterday, it’s charming that even if we can take thousands of songs with us on holiday these days in our pockets, that we still feel the want to highlight those special ones.

I’m taking seriously the action needed to reduce my energy costs. There’s really only one area that can now be tweaked in my home and that is lighting. Let’s look to the new toy in town, LED!

If a picture says a thousands words, this is how I’d choose to honor Martin Luther King …

There’s a great reason for having not updated a lot recently. Christmas preparation, not only that but I’m looking forward to a very positive 2012!

Protests, are a lot like buses. You don’t get one for months and three come along at once. This weekend Birmingham saw the unwelcome arrival of the English Defence League.

I was walking through Walsall one day and thought, wouldn’t it be great to showcase some photos from local people, in those empty shop windows? Find out how we smartened up town.

Digital Switchover is here, finally. What do we do now to get our channels back? Anyone remember the retune for Channel 5? Well not like that.

I got the impression the BBC were planning to cease broadcasting BBC4, but digging deeper it might be a good thing, here’s why.

It struck me today how to explain what the EDS (Excessive Daytime Sleepiness) part of Narcolepsy is like. It’s like a computer program that reboots and starts over every 3 hours.

Following on from my previous post on my recent travel photography, I’ve a few live music shots to share with you too!

Recently I’ve been inspired to photograph some landscapes and being as I’ve traveled a bit this year, I should really blog a few photos! From Shropshire on the Welsh border to Tennessee in the south of North America.

It’s fair to say that I’ve had a lot on my mind these past 12 months and somethings have been held in a processing queue.

Recently I’ve been spurred on to take to the saddle again by a GPS tracking application on my smart phone. Creating an artistic map of where I’ve cycled, focused on Walsall Town Centre.

I finally got a black and white diagnosis of my “mystery illness” yesterday. Indeed I do have Narcolepsy. Look surprised everyone!

So I’ve been away for a few months, two of those were spent in Middle Tennessee in America and it wasn’t a typical holiday, oh no, there’s more to this. It’s a fairytale!

With rising energy prices back in the picture recently, I’ve been keen to reduce the amounts of watts that I use in my home, my target? Lighting!

Oh boy is this exciting! Alex Nackman returns this month with an awesome new album!

If my twenties are anything to go by the next decade promises to be further material for a gripping novel when I’m, 50 full of twists!

The past couple of months have seen a few new arrivals onto my super fast servers. Say hello to a journalist and two awesome singer songwriters!

Today mega Hoar Frost touched most if not all trees in Walsall. So I headed down to the Arboretum with Ian Egner to capture the scenes with our cameras.

Walsall has Freeview HD! Coverage is not yet official, recpetion is hit and miss, but line up with Lichfield with a HD capable box and you could get 1080i pictures!

This week I had the definitive test for Narcolepsy called the Multiple Sleep Latency Test and had confirmation of my sleep scores from way back in July.

Some interesting experiences this week, which included meditation. The results may lay the groundwork for control of my sleep attacks, which may turn out to be Narcolepsy. It seems I can be entraced easily :)

With the amount of photos online these days it’s often hard to have a wow moment. However this night picture made with light painting techniques really stood out amoungst the crowd.

It has been a while since my last Flickr Friday and I’m keen to get back on to my archive of faves to share with you all and to recall some inspiration too!

Hi peeps, I said I’d be back in August with some big news! Here’s some of it. Things seem to be racing along at 100mph at the moment!

Pleased to say that so far the domain transfer and site migration have gone smoothly. You may have seen a slight disruption Friday 9th July 2010, but if you didn’t that means I did good on this one :)

I’m just about to start a migration of this site to a new hosting account. Please excuse any downtime over the next few days. It’s a big job and I’m sure as every web person will know, not a nice job but it has to be done.

Is it really true? OMG, squeeeeeeee, we saved the best radio station in the country from being closed!

Time is a currency that seems to being spent before I know it at the moment. There’s so much going on in my life right now and it’s all rather very exciting! I can tell you it’s gonna be awesome!

On the way back from a trip to Weston with photography friend, Ian Egner, we dropped by the Severn Suspension Bridge. Ian found the best spot via GPS and we found ourselves in quite a location as the day was fading!

Flickr Friday then is going to be a raid on the pics that I’ve faved over the 5 years I’ve been on flickr, having amassed over a thousand faves, I think it’s about time they were shared too!