PAUSE

Apologies for the service disruption. I just don't have the time to blog, what with our impending (2 days to go!!) house move. I miss the blog!! I keep thinking of great stuff to write about but then another box needs packing.

So, I'm taking the pressure off and saying "farewell for now". Who knows when I'll be back, as BT seem determined to shun my attempts to become one of their customers and have cancelled my order for the second time in a week. But that's another story which no doubt I will tell you if I ever get online again.

Wish me luck as I wave you goodbye. See you in the new house xx

DISCUSS.

WE HEART KYLIE

Kylie Minogue Live o2 402008-07-26.jpg, originally uploaded by paulmonkeypaul.

With a 2.5 hour long show and 2nd row seats for £50 each, Kylie showed Madonna how it should be done IMHO.

More on this later... there are boxes that need packing.

Full set of photos here http://tinyurl.com/6lgsmd

DON'T STOP MOVIN'

I hate moving house with a passion matched only by watching an episode of Totally Calum Best. Seriously, I really can't stand it. With 9 days to go until our house move, life at Monkey Heights falls into two distinct modes: packed or chaotic. If something is packed, it sits neatly in a box waiting for M Day. Occasionally we discover that a Packed item shouldn't yet be in its hibernative state and have to disturb it and the community it has formed in boxworld. Then it's brought back out into Chaosville. This term covers everything that is not packed. If you're living in Chaosville you have 2 designations. The first, blissful state, is 'awaiting packing' which means soon you will reach Nirvana and be wrapped in bubbles before resting in a cool dark place. If you're not awaiting packing, sadly it's a different fate for you. Perhaps you will join the ever growing pile of items marked 'Boot Sale' (yeah, right), or maybe you go straight into a plastic bag. Red means recycle, shine your halo. Black means straight to hell. Time, as ever, marches forward and nothing can stop the impending Move Day. Ready or not, here they come. I just hope the removal men have a sense of humour (and nice pecs would be good too).

HERE COME THE HORSEMEN

That's it, I give up. TV is dead - I'm calling time of death at 22:52. It's over. Pack up. Time to go home boys and girls. Cause of death? One reality show too many. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for Totally Calum Best.

But hang on I hear you cry. Let's put aside the BADLY photoshopped advert and look beneath the surface. The best is yet to come? Does that mean this is all about Calum improving himself through spiritual teachings? Is he going out to Africa to build a school? No. Not quite.

The premise of the show is, wait for it, "can Calum Best go without sex for 50 days". Seriously. Cameras will be following him for 50 days and 49 nights to see whether or not he can be celibate. Frankly, I couldn't care less. And even if I did care, what's so exciting about watching a programme where someone doesn't have sex? And if he does have sex are we going to see it? Will the series be cancelled if he has a wank? I just don't understand. Really, I don't. How can expectations be so low in the UK today that this is considered entertainment. It makes me feel kind of sad to be honest. It's come to this. Or not, as the case may be.

Calum, good luck in your quest to avoid having sex. Tell you what, why not get married in episode 1 and the rest of the series will be a breeze. Or how about only sleeping with women who have a PhD. I hope your talented and respected Dad is looking down on you with pride. The rest of us are just looking down on you.

LET'S DO LUNCH

OH HAI CYPRUS

My iPhone GPS seems to be suffering from wishful thinking.

4 YEARS YOUNGER

Madonna must be working some serious mojo on Old Father Time. Yes there have been plenty of rumours about possible surgery or injectables, all of which have been ignored or denied. So imagine my horror, at the gym on the treadmill watching Richard & Judy, seeing a video of Madonna being interviewed in 2004. How, faithful reader, in 4 years does someone age like this? 2004:2008:

And yes I know it's all camera angles and soft lighting, but the Madonna of 2004 really did look like a pensioner! Frumpy shoes, hunchback, old lady hair...



Somewhere in one of her homes is a rotting portrait.

CHEAP AS MICROCHIPS

I do miss Doctor Who. Saturday nights aren't the same without it. And I miss the Apprentice. In fact there's not much on tv at all that I watch right now. Occasionally I'll watch Big Brother if I'm having a bad day, but I always have that post-BB shame feeling like I've sat and laughed at an old lady being taunted in the street by a gang of hoodies. Anyway,back to the point. The BBC has been negotiating its new contract with David Tenant for Who5 and it has emerged that he has been offered £1.5m. My first thought was bloody hell he is expensive! Then I noticed that it was £1.5m for the whole series, not per episode. What an effing liberty, as Donna would say. Now I know the BBC is publicly funded blah blah guardian article, but Doctor Who is consistently one of the most watched programmes on TV. The series finale was the highest rated programme of the week - a first in 45 years of Dr Who. The series is sold to networks around the world, DVD boxsets cost upwards of £50 each, and if you can't buy a miniature figure of even the most minor characters then you are not looking hard enough. It's a total cash space cow. So on this occasion, I think the BBC can legitimately go above and beyond the market rate and pay Mr T a world class salary. Remember when the CastofFriends (TM) used to command $1m each per episode? Get him in that ballpark and then we're talking. Come on Auntie, start respecting your flahship show, otherwise Ten leaves, and the only person you'll be able to afford for Who 11 is Jeremy Edwards.

CHECK THIS OUT

IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR

Ouch, this is going to sting and someones' xmas card list has just gone down by one. 



Madonna's estranged brother Christopher has written one of those 'warts' books about life with his sister.  Chris is (or was) an artist and designer who Madonna used on several of her tours in the 90s, including what many people believe to  be her best: Blond Ambition.  He featured heavily in "Truth or Dare" and seemed to be one of the few siblings that had transitioned with her from normality into celebrity.  Sadly he has struggled with drug and alcohol addictions in the last few years and seems to have fallen out with Madonna big time.  Note to Chris: this won't help. 

In the book he talks about their fiery relationship, her diva like behaviour, Guy's homophobia and generally brings out every bit of dirty washing that could possibly be aired.  He talks about calling her an "evil queen" in an email, which seems slightly ironic given the circumstances.  I'm sure the fall out is not entirely one sided and I hope that Chris takes some responsibility for his own life and choices.  I'm sure he has caused a fair amount of grief to others with his own behaviour in recent years.  On one hand I am not particularly interested in another grubby book about Madonna, but Chris is (was) an intelligent and sensitive man so this book may actually have some depth to it.  Of course all we see at the moment in the papers is the headline grabbing scandal, and with a bit of luck the book will be more balanced.  I'll let you know once I've read it!

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DON'T TOUCH MY BUM

Sadly the end has arrived for CheekyMonster as the NOTW announces the split of Gabriellaellaella and Lemsip Oldspice.  Nothing at all to do with the current Living TV reality show "Life with the Cheeky Girls" which to me sounds more like a sentence than a series.  Oh no, apparently they have been arguing hammer and tongs for weeks and the pressure just got too much.  My favourite line from the story is "Lembit tried to buttonhole Gabby in the green room but she was ice cold."  Tee hee.  Maybe some flowers and a romantic dinner beforehand would have helped.

So who's next for Lemsip?  I would say it's a choice between Britney, A-Rod's estranged wife, or at a long shot Carla Bruni.  The latter because she has a record coming out.

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WE KNOW WHERE U LIVE

iPhone 3g GPS is watching , originally uploaded by paulmonkeypaul.

The GPS on 3G iPhone is so sensitive that it knows which part of the house I am in. Gulp!

iPWNED

Two words to describe Apple today, which I never thought I would use. Epic Fail. It hurts me to say so, but really it has been an exercise in 'how not to do business' not just here in the UK but all over the world. Epic Fail of Global Impact. Ooh, sour taste there. So what happened? Well, in mho, Apple set themselves up to deliver a totally integrated experience centred around the iPhone 3G which ended up falling over at every hurdle. I really hope someone does a more informed and critical analysis because I would love to find out what really happened.

The amazing MobileMe was launched yesterday and ended up being online for about 3 minutes in the last 24 hours. Fail. iTunes 7.7 was released, which was great, but then using it to activate new iPhones overloaded the system in every country around the world. Fail. The iPhone went on sale at 8:02 in the UK and by lunchtime, roughly 3 people had working phones. Fail. As of this evening, customers have paid for their phones and had to wait for hours for shops to get them working, only to be told 'sorry can't do any more today'. Fail. Absolute disasters every step of the way.


Now I'm not just saying all this to be controversial or get peoples' backs up, I just genuinely feel really shocked and disappointed that a company so obsessed with the customer experience could fall at every hurdle possible, and still not have it fixed at the close of business. If Steve Jobs doesnt order a root and branch investigation then the company could be in choppy waters with shareholders. It's really not good to launch the biggest product of the year and generate such stress and anger among customers.


Me, I'm happy with my new iPhone even though iTunes killed it dead for a while this afternoon. That was a stressful couple of hours! Miraculously, it was resurrected and is now happily doing its thing as it should. I hope we have long happy lives together :)

SPIN ON IT

There are times when only the phrase "what a bloody nerve" will do. Cast your mind back, faithful reader, to the great Broadband outage of 2008. Virgin Media responded with little more than a "are we bovvered" when I rang to complain. 4 days I had to wait for an engineer. 4 days! The customer service manager promised to call me back with an update but never did. The whole thing sucked big time. As we are moving house, it was a good excuse to give Virgin the finger and cancel the account, which I have. When I rang to cancel I was immediately offered £20 a month off my bill which I refused, because if they can do it now why didn't they always offer a cheaper service. And look what arrived today.



Aww, a cutesy little Virgin eye mask, and a glossy brochure telling me that I can change my mind, and everything will be better. Cheaper. Faster. It just confirms even more that I was right to cancel. If they went to half the effort with existing customers as they do trying to stop people leaving maybe they wouldn't need glossy brochures. It costs a lot more to attract new customers than keep current ones, and Virgin really should pay some attention to that. When you ring to report a fault, you go to a call centre in India. When you ring to cancel, you go through to Glasgow.

To top it off, a letter arrived addressed to "The lucky new occupier" which made me suspicious. It was a 'welcome pack' from Virgin saying hi and good luck in your new home which is already supplied with Virgin Media. That's going in the bin, next to the eye mask. Sleep on it? No thanks.

iPHONE LAUNCH DAY: THE WAIT

05:50 Released from storage.
07:37 Out for delivery.

10:20 Still waiting, which is painful. However, it's not as painful as having to queue at an o2 store where systems crashed within minutes, and it took over an hour to serve the first 2 customers. Most o2 shops have less than 30 iPhones in stock, and massive queues outside. Ouch!

11:01 Approaching tantrum velocity

11:39 My neck hurts from the whiplash effect of looking out of the window at EVERY passing engine based vehicle. I am turning meerkat. At least nobody in the street is going to get burgled today without me seeing it.

12:27 IT'S HERE!! Very randomly, delivered by a man in a Vauxhall estate car, with his wife in the passenger seat ticking names off a list. Off to play now :)

*SIGH* OH APPLE YOU ARE SPOILING US

I'm spent, and we haven't even had the money shot yet.

So tonight we have had....


iTunes 7.7 update, which on its own isn't particularly exciting but it does have the amazing new App Store! Squeal!


These are some of the Apps I have downloaded so far. Ranging from the silly (turn your iPhone into a Lightsabre) to the practical (Remote control for Apple TV) and the essential (Facebook).

Next arrival was a bit on-off, but for a while MobileMe was live. It's down again at the moment but it sure looks purrty and all Me.Com email addresses are up and running.


For those uber-geeks among us, why not go to www.twitlive.tv where Leo Laporte is single handedly covering 24 hours of iPhone launches all around the world! It's like Children in Need for the rich and nerdy.

iPhone software 2.0 has kind of unofficially leaked out, but I'm not touching it yet. I did (very easily) hack into and unlock my current iPhone so that might come in handy but I don't want to kill it off with a dodgy upgrade!

And with that, I'm done in and heading for bed. The DHL Stork is bringing a bundle of joy tomorrow and I am paranoid that I will oversleep and miss the delivery. Luckily the doorbell noise box thing is personal, so tonight it's sleeping next to my head.

Hopefully the delivery will come early, or I'm gonna be liveblogging every single second of the day with things like "not here yet". Cross your fingers faithful readers.

ENJOY THE FEEL IN YOUR HAND

All you non-geeks out there can just skip right over this entry.  Go on, off you go.  Why not go do something sporty or attractive. 

Have they gone?  Right then.  Geek Pride!  OMG it's so exciting at the moment.  Within the next 24 hours the world will have iPhone Software 2.0, iTunes 7.7, a brand new shiny App Store, new and improved MobileME and last but not least the new 3G iPhone.  I can barely contain myself.  I honestly think I might wear our the 'order status' button on the o2 website at this rate.  FYI, it's 'complete'.

In the US, they are taking no chances on the duff salesperson front, and have issued guidance for staff at AT&T who are selling new iPhones.  I particularly loved this part of the transaction. 




The countdown begins here and now.

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CASSIDY, PWNED!

I'm totally having an impact on the Celebrity Fitness World.  Look at what happened to Jeremy Edwards after I said he had man boobs?  Off he went, no carbs after 12 and instant six pack.  So imagine my surprise, after slating Natalie Cassidy for throwing in the fitness towel, only a couple of days later she is selling another story to Now magazine where she was "in tears over weight gain".  Apparently she doesn't want to be one of those celebs who makes loads of money on a DVD and then goes back to normal. 


The power of the Monkey Blog!

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ERRATUM

The Management at MacMonkey Towers would like to thank 'Anon' for pointing out an error in our post Who Review: 4.13.  While we endeavour to ensure our submissions are accurate, occasionally mistakes do happen.  In this case we mistakenly referred to the Raston Warrior Robot as the Rassilon Warrior.  The author concerned tried to explain his cock up by saying that in all fairness, the Robot was guarding the Tomb of Rassilon but his pitiful plea for mercy went unheard and he was decapitated by said Robot.
We thank you for your dilligence and appreciate your feedback.  Without you, we're nothing.

Whatever happened to the Raston Warrior Robot?

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3Grrrrrrr

Bloody o2.  Seriously.  What a waste of space.  Tasked with launching the new 3G iPhone, they created a total frenzy among current customers.  Texts were sent out telling us that the new iPhone was going to be limited stock, so head on over to o2 and Pre-Register for information!  Once that was done, emails came out saying more information would be sent at the beginning of July.  As of this moment in time, there was apparently no reason whatsoever to pre-register. 

This morning just before 8:00, o2 emailed and sent texts to all its customers, saying iPhone could be ordered online as from this morning.  Impact?  System crashed within about 1 minute.  They created a really complex process where you had to enter a mobile number and wait for a code to be sent to you (why?) then go through lots of confirmation pages.  It took me 17 attempts to generate a code which would get me into the system.  By 8:30 the whole system was frazzled and taken offline.  Nobody had managed to order a new iPhone at this point.  Great job.

Cue much gnashing of teeth and shaking fists at a vengeful god.  Eventually, by some fluke of nature, I managed to get to the order confirmation stage just after lunchtime and shortly after that the website went down again.  By 2pm o2 were saying all iPhones had now sold out.  I keep checking my order status just to be sure it's real. 

So what can we learn from this?  Lesson one: If you want to sell a product, make it possible for people to buy it.  The 900 or so posts on macrumors.com show that 99.9% of people who tried to upgrade today were unsuccessful.  They are not happy, and neither would I have been, in their situation.  Lesson two: Don't make people do pointless sign up for information things if there is no benefit whatsoever of doing this.  Lesson three: Don't have your customer service line tell people that the only way to buy is online, when the website has been taken offline.  Lesson four: Don't scare people into a panic by sending texts about limited supplies, 2 week waits and first come first served, and then blame 'overwhelming demand' for crashing the system.  You created the demand, so be prepared for it.

I feel nervous about jinxing my order, but am glad I can (fingers crossed) sit back and wait for a delivery on Friday.  All this chaos today will simply increase the number of people who feel forced to queue for hours outside o2 shops on Friday morning. 

Clever of them isn't it.

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HELLO BOYS

There's been a fair bit of male flesh on show lately here at the Monkeyblog, so in recognition that not all of my faithful male readers want to be seen at their desks with photos of Gethin in chains, here's a picture of Cheryl Cole drinking a cocktail while wearing a bikini and cowboy hat.  Never let it be said I don't meet the needs of my reader demographic.

Oh and does anyone believe that Cheryl and Dannii Minogue are already sworn enemies after being on the X Factor together for a couple of weeks?  The whole fighting women thing is just so Dynasty-1985 and I would like to think the world has moved on since then.

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EDWARDSWATCH

Update on the Jeremy Edwards 6 Pack Situation:  Now that he has lost the flab there's one of those Cosmo Centrefolds this month where Jezza strategically hides his frank and beans behind a cocked knee.  You know the sort.  When asked how he got his six pack, the magic formula is revealed:

A six mile run before breakfast.
Two gym workouts per day.
No carbs after midday.

Easy isn't it.  I don't know why everyone doesn't do it.  In just six weeks you too can have a six pack.  Oh but there's that little thing called life that gets in the way, and a job, and what the hell do you eat after 12:00?  I hope he is pleased with his new body, and encourage him to keep up the good work.  Personally, I'll stick with my love handles if it means I don't have to get up at 5am and I can eat more than raw meat for dinner.

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WHO REVIEW: 4.13

Journey's End was certainly an appropriate title for the Series Finale.  So many loose ends were tied up it was like a night out with Jamie Theakston.  I have very mixed feelings about the whole episode.  Within 10 seconds the regeneration storyline was fudged and it was back to business as usual.  I wanted to switch off at that point!  Anyway on with the show.  Davros was absolutely superb.  Menacing, demented, maniacal.  I can't believe he was brought back for only 1 full episode.  If he was left to burn at the end I think it was a total waste.  However, if we get any more 'they survived' storylines in future series it will start to look like a Cher Farewell Tour that never ends.  I could have taken or left the whole 2 Doctors thing.  Preferably left.  Donna becoming part Time-Lord was an interesting twist but it seemed to go against the grain of the story's message.  We were meant to believe that all along Donna was special, more than just a temp.  But she only became special when she was DoctorDonna and I would have preferred her to be seen as special because of something she did not something she became.    Sadly Martha survived to enter another spin-off but you can't have everything I suppose.  I squealed a little bit when K-9 made an appearance for which I am always happy, but groaned a lot when HumanDoctor was left with Rose to live happily ever after.  Oh dear Russell T Davies what have you done there?

So a mixed bag of a last episode which was a bit of a lame ending to what has overall been an absolutely stunning series.  Catherine Tate not only grew on me, but fast became the best actor on the series since Christopher Ecclestone said "Run".  I will really miss her in future episodes and think she did a great job even though now and again she could easily have lapsed into 'what a fucking liberty'.  I would have given her bonus points for using that one against the Daleks.

And Cybermen for the Christmas special?  It does kind of feel like NuWho is based mainly on either Daleks or Cybermen a lot of the time!  Let's see some brand new scary beasties or go for some other old favourites like Sea Devils or my personal best the Rassilon Warrior. 

Allons y!

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STOP THE MADNESS (PART 726)

Not only has Jeremy Edwards managed to get off "the drugs", he's also managed to find time to go from flabby to fabby.  The picture on the left is Jeremy after following the Mens Health workout plan for 6 weeks.  And we are supposed to believe that?  Hey, why can't everyone get a body like that in 6 weeks?  These things really annoy me.  They make me want to ask simple questions such as:

1. Does it make a difference having a white / grey background?  If not, why change it?
2. Does it matter that in the before photo he is wearing jeans with a really tight belt?  Why not wear those in the after photo to show the difference?
3.  Why make him pose differently?
4.  Why is the lighting in the after photo complimentary and glowy compared to flat and harsh in the before shot?

I'm not saying it's all trick photography but let's at least have a level playing field and make him stand in the same position, wearing the same clothes, with the same lighting and same background.  Then we can really see the difference.

Good on him if it's all real. However, if once again it's a case of Sean Macguire "5 hours in the gym every day" syndrome then once more we are being fed unrealistic and unachievable rubbish.

On a related matter, now that Natalie Cassidy has made £300,000 from her fitness DVD I see that she has gained 1.5 stones and is telling Now magazine that she never actually enjoyed being thin and is now much happier.  Funny that.  It was only a couple of months ago she was telling the Daily Mail how she felt "happier, prettier and more womanly than ever".  Obviously she had milked all the money she could from thin paparazzi shots, and is now going to take the 'i was always naturally curvy' route.  Cheers for that one, I'll be sure to pass on your encouragement to everyone sweating away in front of your DVD.

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FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER

My poor heart skipped a beat today. At last, fame beckoned. The lights, the lights. Why, you ask, did I get so excited? Well faithful reader it humbles me to tell you that I am finally and proudly a published photographer. It's the start of a beautiful and immensely powerful career I can tell.

Well, kind of. In fact not really but bear with me while I tell you the story. Those of you who know me are aware of my budding photography hobby. So you can imagine how pleased I was to get an email from a company called SCHMAP asking if they could use one of my Boston photos in their new online tour guide. Woo Hoo! No money changes hands, but fair enough at least I can say I'm featured.

6 months goes by and I totally forgot about the whole thing, until the other day. An email. The guide is now published. My photo is there! Quickly, I click on the link.

My heart sinks.

The photo they chose to use is one I took of the inside of my hotel room in Boston. It's horrid! Clothes are strewn over the back of a chair. And the worst thing? It's not even the hotel they have it listed as.

So, lessons learned: always check what photo is being used, and always ask what it will be used for.

Check it out by clicking the photo above, or look at their iPhone emulated version at:

http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=boston&sid=all_lodging&p=19351&i=19351_1

It's a humble beginning, but a beginning nonetheless. I am grateful :)

SO WRONG

I feel ashamed to say this, but doesn't Prince Harry look pretty hot in this photo?  Nurse, it's time for my medicine.

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MEAT DAMON

I don't care if it's for a film or not.  Matt Damon, get back to the gym NOW.

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WHO REVIEW: 4.12

So stunned was I at The Stolen Earth, I could barely bring myself to post a review.  Possibly one of the best bits of tv I have EVER seen, this had it all.  Daleks, Davros, every Nu:Who companion, and oh my time lord, a regeneration.  Or is it?  Of course there are millions of rumours going around about will he or wont he.  Frankly, I'm undecided.  On one hand I would be really disappointed if David Tennant bowed out at this stage, but equally how exciting and left field would it be to get a new Doctor at this point in time.  Russell T Davies is leaving, and this whole story arc has a sense of forthcoming ending-ness, so maybe we will get number 11 after all.  I for one can't wait to see the final episode.  I just really, really hope (and think I am going to be disappointed here) that Donna doesn't get killed off.  I've absolutely grown to love her character and it would be a tragedy if she went.  Need to bump someone off?  Take Martha.  Please.  Kill her twice if you have to, just make a good job of it. 

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BAD MATERIAL GIRL

I have to say I'm really not concerned about the state of Mr & Mrs Richie's marriage.  What does worry me is that Madonna seems to be wearing satin shorts, granny tights and high heels.  In public.  Someone have a word.  And while you're at it, whisper something in Guy's ear about his handbag.  Thanks.

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COME OUT BOY

Ahhhh Pete "Fallout Boy" Wentz, one of my guilty pleasures, has come out.  Kind of.  Well, not really.  You see, he got married to Ashlee Simpson (a laydee) a couple of months ago but has now decided it's safe to reveal his dabbling past.  A bit like brave Will Young coming out just after he won Pop Idol.
Pete describes himself as "half gay" and that he used to make out with men as a sexual rebellion.  I'm sure those men will be delighted to hear how fondly he remembers them.  Sadly he hasn't done any such rebelling since 2001 and details are scant as to whether his rebellion ended at Rebel Base 1 or if he went for a full on power to the people revolution.  We may never know.  But I for one shall sleep soundly in my bed knowing that should Pete ever start feeling rebellious again, the  gay world will embrace him with open arms and wear a jaunty Che Guevara hat in his honour.  Mr Wentz, we salute you.

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S.O.S(TARBUCKS)

Oh dear it's all going wrong at Starbucks.  70% of all outlets opened in the US since 2006 are about to be closed forever.  Blah blah credit crunch etc which is all very well and worthy but come on people.  You can't close a Starbucks!  The next time I visit New York I might actually have to cross a road to buy a coffee.  I'm not having that.  So, I beg you, people of the Earth.  Go out now and pay £4 for a coffee.  It doesn't matter that it's mostly froth, or that the production of plastic lids is killing the planet.  There's more at stake here.  I implore you.  Save our Starbucks. 

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WELSHMEN DO IT CHAINED UP

Let me start this (hopefully) mammoth blogathon with an apology for the lack of 'content' lately, which is due to all the prep going into our house move, a trip to Aberdeen, and a generally busy and full life.  So, allons y, and let's begin with a hot photo of Gethin from Blue Peter.  Now that he has left the show, I am assuming he is launcing a career as a gay icon.  Fair enough. 

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NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED

Feuch Bridge, originally uploaded by paulmonkeypaul.

Apologies for the lack of posts lately. Too much going on. Here's a photo from Aberdeen to make up for it :)