other stuff
Poles Apart
Daniel Hoffman-Gill, a chap who comments at my other place, has a new show. It’s called Poles Apart…
Officially 600,000 Polish people have come to Britain to seek work since 2004. Two British lads (Dan & Mark) are reversing the trend and trying to get work in Warsaw, Poles Apart is their story.
This unique show about a 2000 mile adventure from the U.K to Poland following the journey thousands of Polish people have made over the last 70 years. Poles Apart is the story of two nations who have fought together, worked together and now live together.
This innovative show brings Hard Graft’s unique blend of entertaining comedy storytelling to help us all understand what it means to be an immigrant in the World today.
You can get more info and watch a couple of trailers for it here and here.
Go on. Treat yourself.
Vote for me!!
I’ve entered my first photographic competition.
I’ve entered this picture as the theme was ‘At the waters edge‘, and, at the time of writing this, currently in fifth place.
So, do me favour. Follow this link and click the big green button.
Cheers. 
Update 12/09/2009:
I got a third place. I am well chuffed at that.
Joiners
Here’s some excellent images made from several images by Jon Compson.
He calls them Joiners, and they are made with proper photographs, as opposed to putting the final images together with software.
link-lurve
Link-love for a friend.
Jon Compson is a professional photographer and finally got his website up and running.
Check it out. It’s here: www.joncompson.co.uk.
How to be prepared…
I found this on my scanner. I didn’t realise it had been that long since I had used it last…
Glastonbury in photos
I’m not going to Glastonbury but if I was, I would be very grateful for Chris’ tips for photoblogging it.
Simple stuff that you don’t always think of because it’s so obvious.
Brown and marshmallow ice cream
Mrs -O and I have been out for meal tonight. All I can say is, disappointed. In a ‘now what?’ kinda way.
Recently we’ve been to some restaurants in town and been let down with the quality of the food and/or service.
There’s the Italian place that was a bit hit and miss, but generally hit, but then started missing a bit too often. The familiar, kid friendly you-know-what-you’re-getting Pizza Express that suddenly decided their pizzas were too good and didn’t want to put the competition out of business and the Chinese that had a reputation like no other that could do with it being warmed in one of it’s microwaves. The rest, aren’t worth mentioning, apart from one, I am told, that we haven’t visited because once you’ve had the only vegetarian starter of mushrooms, you don’t really want mushrooms again for your main course*.
Where we went tonight is a little the pricey side, but then when the food is good you don’t mind paying. But it wasn’t. It was mediocre. We are also running out of decent places to eat out, too. As far as we see it, there’s a curry house and a Thai restaurant.
The only upside was, they forgot to put £15 worth of drinks on the bill. Oh and the pudding weren’t too bad either, if a little sweet…
*Thinking about it now, that was a while ago and I’ve just looked at their new menu, which we might have to give a go. There is still surprisingly little choice for vegetarians.
