Geocaching in Billericay

My scouty friend, Colin and I went Geocaching today. Essentially this requires the use of a GPS device to pinpoint the location of a box. One activity for our Scout Troop

Shouldn't this be red?

A telephone box in London.

Summit... the Old Man of Coniston

We reached the summit in atrocious weather conditions, wind and rain with visibility very short.

Lake Windermere from the hotel room

Team Stepping Stones has arrived in preparation for the Total Objects challenge tomorrow.

Steve Jobs talks of a new iPod, the iPod Touch

Sitting here at the BBC in London.

Apple Special Event, BBC, London

Arrived at Apple Special event. Lots of people in studio 1 waiting in anticipation. Video stream already working - phew. Will update you all when it starts at 6

Off to New Zealand

Here is the Boeing 747 parked and being loaded.

Cracker has her hull scrubbed

Rudi volunteered to do this very important job.

Happy Birthday Stephen

We are helping our skipper celebrate a birthday today. That probably means more drinking tonight.

The Folly Inn

Here for dinner after a fantastic day of sailing.

Man up the mast

Quite often we need to send someone to the top of the mast for maintenance.

Early morning at Cowes

The Laser SP3's

Cowes Week has begun already

Skandia have laid on a great event once again.

World Jamboree Scouts descend on Billericay to complete community project

Some 40 boy and girl scouts participate in a community project. Nationalities include Brazilians Mexicans, Irish, Americans and Dutch.

Meals from my neighbours

Such a generous gift, and very tasty!

One of the fastest monohull yachts in the world, Leopard

It's not every day that you get to see a really fast yacht this close up. She was having her hull scrubbed ready for Cowes Week.

Bill's 60th birthday

In sunny Hamble

Stepping Stones goes to see Sweeney Todd at the Royal Festival Hall

Imperial War Museum, London

Mini enthusiast

Had pink windscreen wipers. Hmmm

Wet outside the beer tent.

Cracker team shirts

Round The Island race results

10th in our class

Round The Island race, 2007

As 1799 boats head to the line for the Round
The Island race, a large car ferry entered Cowes. It was quite hairy. We finished 10th in our class.

Computer hard disk in the freezer

The hard disk refused to spin up, so i popped it in the freezer for an hour.

...now working.