Listened to a really good documentary on Radio 4 today. Its called Archive on 4 and it’s about George Blake, who for 18 years, served as a trusted and senior MI6 officer. But secretly, in 1952, he became a double agent, betraying MI6 operations and personnel to the KGB. He was eventuallyexposed and was sentenced Continue reading

The fascinating documentary “Man on Wire”, which is about  Phillipe Petit, who did a wire walk in between the twin towers, is on BBC 2 on Sunday at 9pm. Don’t miss it! Continue reading

Jonny Depp is an amazing actor, he’s playing the Mad hatter in Tim Burtons “Alice in Wonderland” which is out next year. Continue reading

On Sunday we went down to Mersea with the Corkys for a picnic and a play on the beach. It was a nice day although a tad windy. We had a good old time, my sandcastle was just a-mazin! Corky took these pics with his new snazzy camera – want one! NB: Click on the Continue reading

 Eddie Vedder – Guaranteed Woke up with this in head this morning, its a lovely song from the “Into the Wild” soundtrack. [audio:http://www.wherewasshaun.com/audio/guaranteed.mp3] Continue reading

I did have a little snigger to myself when I read about Clarkson’s recent description of Gordon Brown. Its interesting how the media reports these sort of stories. If it wasn’t for the media reporting it, we wouldn’t be offended, so what Clarkson has said to a largely male audience before a show is recorded Continue reading

This afternoon Emma and I went for a bike ride. We went up to the airfield where she was very excited to watch a plane taking off and then we cruised round to the field nearby for a runaround. We all fall down…. Continue reading

Had a really nice moochy weekend. Went to the Wakes Colne and Chappel Fete on Saturday afternoon. It was organised by one K’s pals, Linda. She did an excellent job, there was loads of stalls, a bouncy castle, sumo wrestling, a beer tent, and all the traditional games like egg throwing, tug of war and Continue reading

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Very excited about this new Scorsese film“Shutter Island” starring DiCaprio, based on the excellent book by Dennis Lehane. Roll on October! Continue reading

Great post on Kottke of a collection of videos of people going….. really fast. Theres videos of crazy drivers, base jumpers, James May doing 253 mph in a Bugatti Veyron and a biker doing 240mph on Suzuki Hayabusa. Continue reading

Last week, as you were no doubt aware, was Shed week!! During the week “We love sheds” hold an annual competition to judge the best shed. There are some good entries but I really like the Disco Shed which is an 8 x 6ft garden shed which has been mounted on an old caravan base, Continue reading

I love this idea, for three weeks 30 pianos have been installed in the street at locations all over London for anyone who fancies a tinkle. There’s a website where people can upload videos, photos and comments. Continue reading

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we had in the lakes, the weather was a-mazin, well up in the 20’s every day apart from K’s birthday on the Friday. In pre-Emma days we used to just spend most of our time up in the hills but now that we are unable to do that we have been able to explore the Continue reading

In the morning, see you in a week! Continue reading

Still can’t quite believe he’s dead, I was a massive fan during the early 80’s and was lucky enough to see him at Wembley Stadium. Whilst incredibly talented, he was a tragic figure, who left himself wide open. You will never see another performer like him, this performance at the MTV awards in 1995, is Continue reading

I have studied this picture at great length to appreciate the photographers technical abilities…… Continue reading

Emma watching the elephants Piggies! On the elephant ride with Shani and Livvy Continue reading

Had a great weekend, indian at Spuds on Saturday night and on Sunday it was K’s open gardens. This year there was 15 open gardens and a total of £740 was raised in ticket sales which means 211 people came and a further £235 was raised at the various gardens doing teas. So K was Continue reading

Emma and some pals went strawberry picking the other day and they bought loads back. They were delicous!! Continue reading

Is the new upcoming American disaster science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich, who directed “Independence Day” and “The Day after Tomorrow”. It looks amazing, but we’ve got to wait until November to see it. I do love a good disaster movie! See the trailer Continue reading

Well I had my final exam tonight which, just for a treat, was electrical principles which is just loads of maths and formula’s but fortunately I passed with a credit whoop! whoop! Continue reading

Emma was very pleased to receive her “Be Cool” T shirt in the post this morning. She was so chuffed she played a riff on her air guitar! Continue reading

I am on a rural delivery this week. Its the later start of 6.20, which means I can cycle to work. Lurvely! Continue reading

Went to my folks for Dads birthday Lunch yesterday. He doesn’t want for much, all he wanted for a pressie was a lawn sprinkler!! Continue reading

I’ve been listening to quite a lot of Madness lately, particularly “One Step Beyond”. Just a brilliant album, I love “Night Boat to Cairo” and “In the middle of the night”, always make me laugh whatever mood I’m in. Quite unbelievably, this album is thirty years old this year! As K said “you can’t help Continue reading