We had a lovely meal, and lit the Menora, a modern trendy menora, not the traditional shape, which was a surprise to me, a Honeka newbie, but I was touched by the prayers, which were good, after the meal we played video games and watched TV while the girls chatted, ah.. the life of men.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Jess Jill and Buffy
Surprisingly it was not Jess, or jill, (both pregnant here) that made the massive leap forward for the 'Bring Buffy Home' Campaign but a trip to Target, where she was heard to exclaim "Its so cheap....and so BIG!" well done target. This was a whiel into the trip, sorry these are not in order.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
information aesthetics - bar countdown
IF you ever needed a crystalised idea of the British attitude to drinking, here it is>>information aesthetics - bar countdown
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
The finished Mural
This a mural I did for a family that Buffys knows up in St Martin D'Uruage, it took me and Jenny, who lives with them, and who is my new best friend, two days to do, then the family added their own animals, fun, and very rewarding. I am very pleased with how it turned out.
Friday, November 25, 2005
Snow out the window of my office.
Now this is nice, I woke up late today becasue my stupid Windows PDA thinks it is in some other time zone and I cant get it to switch back. So I am running round the flat trying to get my stuff together and I finanlly make it out the door about 15 mins late, so I get to work after thew slowest ram journey abut half an hour late, and I am the first person there! what luck, the picture is the reason, and its friday, and the boss is out of the office today. perfect day to be late.
Snow on the way to work
It just looked foggy when I woke up this morning. but on closer inspection, (after I put on my glasses) it had been snowing all night! yay! it doesent have the same efect as it does in england, ie. everything grinds to a halt, people just took a bit longer to get to work, no problem. So there is about 6 inches in town, and about a foot upstairs in St MArtin D'Uriage, but the town is pretty good about clearing the mountain roads, but they do wait till the snow stops before they do it. apart from that its just fun!
Friday, October 21, 2005
BUFFY'S FIRST POST
Hello, this is my first entry. Ben has finally showed me how to do my own enteries! HOORAY BEN!! So now you can have my perspective about life here in France and in particular Grenoble. After a stressful two days of teaching I am happy to say that I am en vacances, on vacation for all you anglophones. This break will last until the first week in November. Thank goodness, I am beat! But seriously, I have been quite busy, tutoring, babysitting, working for the Potdevins and trying to see Ben when I can, but it is mostly on the weekends. Heading off to Dublin the 29th, going to be trying my hand at my fourth marathon, I am equally unprepared for this one as I have been for the rest, but I will give it a go none-the-less, it is in celebration of my friend Jenny's birthday, the big 3-0! Should be a fun girls-weekend on the island! Should have my official residence permit on Tuesday, hard to believe it this is my third one, I think the French might be catching up to my ILLUSION STUDENT status, I do not know how much longer I can keep this up! Please stay tuned for our continuinig adventures!
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Lac Acharde
nice lake in the hills about an hour fairly streneous walk from the ski resort . V popular with family sorts, many kids in baskets on backs etc. nice.
Dead cable cars...
where they all come to die.... you can see the rust so I hope this was pre-emptive of a mass failure, or just some precuationary measuer, I am becomeing so risk averse in my old age, I might have to counter it by gambling (kidding!) or some extreme sports... chess? nice rhythm to this photo.
Embrionic cable car
Just feel the tensile strenght! I was standing in front of this reel, about three feet away, its huge! obviously made by trefileurope, who I imagine have a VERY tight QA procedure. I can imagine the spotty student intern on the customer hotline "Yeah, well we're supposed to check every reel that goes out, but you know, everyone's human, and some guy brought a PSP in, it is totally cool!, OH, right... so let me write this down, how many? OK, and all dead, right, I'll let my supervisor know....yeah, now, sure"
Sunday, September 25, 2005
ice cave in the glacier!
as you would imagine, its pretty cool inside, and way blue. the cable are slowly melting troughs in the ice, very slowly, but then not much happens quickly in a glacier. Thanks Dad for a nice colourful counterpoint.
Glacier_ICE_cave
This is a pic I took of the Glacier up close and personal, every year they dig a tunnel, sloping upward, so it doesn't fill with water and drown tourists, although that would have its uses. So each year the cave moves, with the glacier, as you can see. I have helpfully annotated the photograph....nice.
mer du glace, a glacier
This is the Mer de Glace, the sea of ice, the largest Galcier in France, second largest in Europe. Amazing sight, and much more tangible than the Mont Blanc experiance. Is looks like a sea of rocks because it hasn't snowed for a few months, but there is a river of Ice moving at 90cm a month under there. eirriee!
Top of the world ma, and Buffy
We had this sign made, and I put my mum and Buffy next to it, we are standing in the sun, in my back yard, we never went up a mountain, I stole these pictures from the web, what do you think I'm stupid?
The context of a lunatic
And this is the camera NOT on full zoom. i mean the person looked small before, but this is just rediculous. and the lift closes a few hours from when this photo was taken, GET A MOVE ON!
a lunatic
this a person (too small to tell who, or what sex) walking around at the top of the Aguille du midi.
looking down
I think this is the best one I took that really captures the height, that's Chamonix in the valley below, a whole town! And the Aiguille du midi cable car station below me. with the combination of the staggering height and the thin air, it made us all very light headed. I saw some elderly people passed out in the corridors, unable to get enough air to breath, and small children running around and blacking out, it was horrible, and the guides just stood there with their oxygen tanks, laughing. There should definatley be a health warning somewhere... or something.
arriving at the Aiguille du midi cable car station
Taken through the old perspex of the cable car window, gives a nice impression, this is us coming into the station at the top of the Aguile du Midi, sillhouetted by the sun, I'm looking almost straight up here as well, man it was steep.
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