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New Developments

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Well, after reaching a level of stagnancy that would convince anyone who knows me to have accepted that this was another passing fad, things are finally beginning to move forwards with my personal blog…

First up, I have purchased a very sexy new toy, namely the Canon 350D Digital SLR. This is a serious piece of techno-wizardy (check out the review at Digital Photography Review) and should hopefully encourage me to start updating this this thing a little more often with the day to day visuals of my life here in Beijing and beyond.

Also, I have decided to ditch the old gallery tool, and switch to the excellent Flickr service for hosting my photos. So far it looks like this service will do everything I want from it, and more. It will also allow me to store hi-res copies of all my photos for you lot to download and do with as ytou please. If you are interested in using it for yourselves, check out the website.

I am starting off by uploading all the pics from my Thailand trip back in Feb. Stay tuned for more updates.

Olly. Out.

The Bumblies

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Our family holiday is never complete without one of my father’s poems and our trip to Thailand was no exception. Here it is in full…

THE BUMBLIES

(after THE JUMBLIES by Edward Lear)

They set out to sea in a sloop, they did,
In a sloop they set to sea;
And every one said, “You must be brave
To visit the land of the tidal wave
In a sloop that’s set to sea!”
“And when the sloop turns round and round,”
They said, “It’s the way to get perfectly browned.”
So they’d made their plan and their minds were set, And they got on a plane and arrived at Phuket
To a sloop that set to sea.
Far and few, far and few
Are the travels of this little group.
Their bodies are browned,
And their attributes round,
And they went to sea in a sloop.
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