James Salter

Finally

I’ve finally finished with my photos from Greece, which can now be seen in the photo album.

Games for Everyone?

A bit of a tongue-in-cheek London-centric view of the latest Olympic kerfuffle…

The Olympic lottery game is launched tomorrow, with the hope that money raised from the sale of the scratchcards will go towards funding the Games. That money will join up with the massive contribution Londoners are making through their council tax payments over the next few years. But is it fair?

The original argument for the council tax levy was that Londoners will benefit most from the Olympics coming to the capital in 2012, so they should pay for it.

Now though every time I see any coverage, we’re told we shouldn’t think of this as the London Games but as an Olympics for the whole country. So shouldn’t the whole country pay?

The only other solution I can think of is that we should build an Olympic wall around the city and not let anybody else in.

And That, Is That … For Now

I’ve just finished Harry Potter 6. Very good. Very, very good.

I know more about Harry than before. I know more about Lord Voldemort. I know many things were not as they appeared. I know the identity of the character who has been killed.

I know its going to be a frustrating wait for book 7…

Catching up…

It seems there are an infinite number of things on my To Do list. I’ve been slowly catching up with some of them over the weekend, but there’s still a lot to do.

I’ve done an update of the CinemaScreen database, but there are still a whole list of reviews to write and DVDs to watch over the next week. I’m working on my Greece photos, so hopefully they’ll get online before too long.

Then of course there’s all the “real world” stuff I still have to do. I swear going on holiday is a bad idea!

Claygate Flower Show

It was Claygate Flower Show this afternoon. I’m pretty sure Ollie and any other Claygatians will be able to guess who won most of the prizes in the vegetable section (GG)!

I forgot to take my camera, but here are a few scenes shot from my phone cam:

Shhh… I`m reading…

Our wonderful postman delivered a package from Amazon this morning - one of over 200,000 apparently. A book about a certain boy wizard. I wonder if you’ve heard of it?

I’m only 100 or so pages in: I’ve been slacking a bit today, but it seems ok so far…