Apple Pumpkin

I'm going to a Halloween party tomorrow and we all have to bring a pumpkin to light up the garden, which should look pretty cool.

So I have just carved my pumpkin and obviously I chose an Apple theme.

The front is a slight variation on the Finder icon on Macs to make it look more traditional and on the back is a glowing Apple logo. Instead of just carving the Apple out I have just taken the skin off so that it gives off a glow like on the back of MacBooks.It is probably the geekiest and best pumpkin I have ever carved!

Update

I'm getting bad at keeping my blog up to date and there is only one thing to blame... Twitter.

I have been updating this blog and documenting my life since Jan 2006 and it would be a shame for it to be neglected and slowly die. Because it is so much easier to just type up a short sentence and maybe a picture about what I am doing, Twitter is much more convenient but it lacks any depth, so I want to try to start updating my blog more often again like I used to, starting from... now.

So this week me and Zoe went away to Cornwall. It was really nice weather every day which was lucky as it has been getting alot colder and wetter recently. The journey down was not that fun as it was supposed to take just over 4 hours and it actually took 6 and a half hours!
The various coves and beaches along the coast are really nice down there and I often felt like I wasn't in England. The picture above is of Mullion Cove where we sat for a few hours watching the sea while eating a picnic. It was really nice so I wanted to capture it but it didn't all fit in the shot and I didn't take my video camera. So instead I took about 15 pictures panning around me and then when I got home joined them all together to create this panoramic view.

We went to quite a few little places and had a nice relaxing week away and I also tried some basic rock balancing on a few of the beaches, I will try and get the pictures up on Flickr soon.

I'm just waiting for my new Apple Crumble video to export as I type this, so that should be up soon.

Brilliant Coach Trip Clip

Ok so I admit it, I have a guilty pleasure and it's Coach Trip. For anyone who hasn't ever seen this it's a sort of gameshow where there are about 4 or 5 couples on a coach trip around Europe and they vote each other off each day, the prize being that the longer you stay the longer your holiday is!

For some reason I love this program and I rarely find others who share my passion for the show. I think what I love about it is that it isn't that good, I know that sounds ridiculous but that's what makes it brilliant.

Anyway I was watching it yesterday when this happened at the end when they have to vote another couple off. The man in the black shirt is like a mix of Russell Brand and Will from the Inbetweeners when he argues.

When I was watching this I was laughing so much, am I the only person who finds this funny, let me know in the comments.



Then to top it off in the 'coming next' bit the deaf comment is priceless, get this man on more TV now!

Jaida Video

Last year me and Zoë babysat our friends little girl Jaida and as a surprise I filmed her eating dinner and going to bed etc. Then gave her the DVD as a present and she liked it so much she asked us to do it again this year to capture her a year older.

So here is this years video.



I was thinking this would be a cool businesses idea, Zoë babysitting while I film and then they buy the DVD of their child to keep as a memory. But obviosuly the surprise element would be lost as the parents would have to know I was filming their children!

Fillerz On BBC News

My brothers sandwich shop Fillerz was on the BBC News this evening as a redevelopment plan which threatened to shut their shop has fallen through. I managed to track it down so thought I would upload it here.

You can see the shop in the background at the start and then my brother Steve, Dave his business partner and their friend Ben chatting outside. After that they were both interviewed and they put Daves in.

Google Street View Car Chase

At around 12 my Dad rang me saying he had just seen the Google Street View car driving around near where I live. At first I thought I'm never going to find that as where I live is like a maze of roads, but then after a minute I thought this is my once in a lifetime opportunity to be caught on Google Street View for what could be forever (or before they decide to take new photos of every city in the world) how can I not at least try!
So I rushed to get ready and got in my car in search of a black car with a tripod on the roof and the Google logo on the side . It was lunch hour and there was quite a bit of traffic on the road so this was going to be a very hard task.

I headed towards where my dad had spotted it but this was at a t-junction and he didn't know which way it had turned which made the task even harder! I just drove up and down the nearby streets in the hope that I would catch a glimpse of the strange looking car but nothing.

Then I tried the neighbouring estate and then the other side of the t-junction and after about 20 minutes gave up and headed home, bearing in mind I was driving randomly round big estates in a very built up area with lots of possible routes, I thought the odds of seeing it where very low.

BUT THEN as I was driving home along the main road I saw a black car with something odd on it's roof driving right towards me! Then as we passed I saw the tiny Google logo on the side and couldn't believe my eyes. I then turned around in the next possible place and tried to give chase but this time it was at a roundabout and while turning I didn't see which way it went and after a few more minutes of searching couldn't find it again.

I would have liked to have followed it to have guaranteed getting on there but I'm not too bothered as I still got to see it and hopefully my car will be on Street View when they upload Swindon! For future reference (and so you can see how hard it would have been to find it again) this is where we crossed and I have now parked my car out the front of my house so that if it comes up our street it will be on there again, if it hasn't already done up here.

Weird Lights Near Barbury Castle

Tonight Green, Kev and I went up to a local hill fort called Barbury Castle and as we were walking up to the hill fort we were playing frisbee and just as I threw it I noticed some odd lights in the sky in the distance.

When I pointed them out to the others we all just turned, stopped and stared at them for a few minutes without anyone saying a word. It was like we were all trying to think of a rational explanation before talking about it but none of us could.
They were orange and really bright, at first I thought they might have been those floating lanterns that have been getting more and more popular in the last few years. But it wasn't as they keep on rising up and are no where near as bright as these. These lights were mostly motionless and would just appear and then disappear again. It started off with 3 and then 1 or 2 more would come and others would die, it was very eerie.

Then after they all faded we carried on walking and then Kev heard this deep booming sound, much like the army sounds you often hear over Salisbury Plain way, but this was at 9:30 at night, a bit of a strange time for them to be firing anything and not fireworks as they were stationary in the sky. Then a few minutes later they appeared again but in different numbers and different locations so they were not attached to anything static. They went and came about 3 or 4 times each in a different pattern and no trail up they would just appear midair.
It was times like this that I wish that I believed aliens do come to Earth in spaceships, as I would have just put it down to this, reported a sighting to the police for them to 'file' in the bin and gone to bed. But I have a rational mind and knew there must have been a normal explanation for this, but none of us could come up with any kind of "oh it's just...".

I am kind of annoyed none of us had a video camera or good camera as all we have is some crappy mobile phone pictures which are hard to see. Another walker was as baffled as us asking if we knew what they were, I really wish we could have answered!

So if anyone has any ideas to what this could have been I would love to hear from you as it is hurting my brain. If you need to know anymore information just ask in the comments.