Blogmeet, and a Santa Invasion
The blogmeet on Saturday was good fun. There was me, Paul of Mars Hill, Tim of timrollpickering, Lisa of Rullsenberg Rules, Neil of A Cloud in Trousers, Matt and Baby W of Fisking Central, Andrew of Bloggers4Labour, Andrew of someday I will treat you good and Paul of Never Trust a Hippy.
Conversation ranged from soul music to politics to Firefly, and we all eagerly polished off three large platters of food. Everybody was very friendly and pleasant, and it was nice to put faces to names. After a few hours I headed off to meet my uncle. I wandered up from Westminster to Leicester Square and found a fairground being invaded by Santas:
I've no idea why, but there were hundreds of them! Not long afterwards I met my uncle at the square, by which time they'd all gone. Thankfully I had the photographic evidence to prove I wasn't completely barking. Flickr's clever geotagging feature allows searches based on date and location, and finds at least one other person taking pictures at the same time; this shot was only three minutes before a very similar one of mine.
On the way to Covent Garden we came across one of the stranger Christmas decorations I've seen:
I quite like the effect, it's just strange that it was the only decoration in the entire street.
Hello!
Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often meander around humanism and photography, but they're flighty and you can't trust them, so anything is possible.
Do feel free to email me - I get lonely:
Your hair looks swish, by the way - have you done something new?
Recent Comments
- vicky: going up this weekend having done all the welsh peaks except 4 snowdon, cant wait
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: what, how can u live in the 21 c and say that, probably a sexist thing
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: da iawn laura, cant believe what im hearing, all this fuss, anyway love the site, and i agree, normal people who swear and curse clomb mountains cos we live in the...
on Climbing Snowdon. - Andrew: Did a few quick test shots to check the light levels, then balanced the camera on the arm of a bench, set it for a 20s exposure and hoped for the best
on ISS. - lynsey: Wow, how did you take that photograph?
on ISS.
December 12th, 2006 - 07:22
I know that lady. Where in the hell have I seen her? Aaaarrrggghhh! Don’t you hate it when you can feel it at the edges of your recall? O.K. Let me think, I’ve met her…
…forget this let me just check the blog…
O.K. now I remember. I met her while she was doing her PhD. last year, only once though. Isn’t that strange how I recognized her? Such coincidences blow my mind sometimes. Now that’s two people I know, who you know yet we’ve never met and come from seperate parts of the country. Incroiyable.
Maybe we shall meet. I can assure you I’m much more agreeable than previous evidence suggests…and more stable. It seems like fate Andrew and we have to play one another in articulate.
December 12th, 2006 - 08:32
Speaking of friendly bloggers – Any relation? http://www.blogwonga.com
December 12th, 2006 - 09:01
“I know that lady.”
Lady? Lady? Hmmm…? Surely can’t be referring to me? Paroxysm, ‘fess yourself where we met?!
Great pics by the way!
December 12th, 2006 - 09:38
I cannot recall exactly where, a coffee with my various phD. newbies Mark, Mike, Keith?. Or maybe a fleeting meet in the department stopping to talk to Celeste? Either way I’ve talked to you for around one minute and thirteen seconds in the company of others. You wouldn’t remember and I’m no longer there but it was fun while it lasted.
I’ll surprise you if I receive funding for my PhD. next year by randomly saying ‘Terry Wogan is God’ as I walk past you.
December 12th, 2006 - 11:04
Firefly? That must have been before I got there.
Was it THIS Firefly people were talking about? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(website)
If it was, I’m sorry I missed it.
December 12th, 2006 - 12:42
Paroxysm – that is quite the coincidence! Who’s the other person we’re connected by?
johninnit – heh, hadn’t seen that before. I completely forgot about the money-related meaning of the word ‘wonga’ when I named the blog. I just thought it was a funny word.
Paulie – sadly not. I can’t decide whether that conversation would have been more or less geeky, mind
December 12th, 2006 - 13:57
Why it’s Helen Fryer of course.
December 12th, 2006 - 15:16
Aha Paroxysm, we have a professional connection (via Celeste!) in which case you know the institution I work at and my blogger profile does include an email. Good luck with PhD funding and I will listen out for someone muttering ‘Terry Wogan is God’ whenever I walk down the street!
December 12th, 2006 - 23:01
Nice photos Andrew. Good to see you, as always.
December 13th, 2006 - 18:20
Love the photos (although I look a bit rough, but then I was slightly unwell). Came across an army of Santas in Trafalgar last year, must be an annual thing!