Travelling man

Dear All,

Having made various promises about being social on Ipernity (http://www.ipernity.com/blog/supercargo/165241), circumstances have confounded me. I'm travelling in England at the moment, and despite having a fine, new (very nearly) state of the art netbook (http://www.ipernity.com/blog/supercargo/165917), the available technlogy in Britain to connect to the Internet has been less than satisfactory.

Wallander 1

Here's a tip - if you want to buy a pay-as-you-go mobile internet connection in Britain, DON'T buy T-Mobile. Or if you do, get someone in the shop where you buy it to install it on your computer, because otherwise you risk finding yourself, like me, forced to make expensive mobile telephone calls to rings of automated answering messages round and around till you can find a human being to talk to. Then, if you are really lucky, it might be someone who speaks English in an accent you understand and who can actually help you with your problem.

But I don't want to complain. Really!

Award winning beach

I've been here a week now, around in London, to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition among other places, and down to my home town (Brighton). A walk along the sea front in the face of a warm, pre-storm wind brought back happy childhood memories. Brighton beach (and indeed Hove next door) is made up of shingle - hundreds of thousands of small stones. Brighton tourist authority still has its publicity photos taken from far enough away so it looks at first sight like the beaches are sand!

I've met up with old friends and long-lost relatives, and I'm off to see my mother in Northampton later this week and down to Salisbury in Wiltshire tomorrow to visit the cathedral there. Some photos I hope to complement my recent pictures made in the Cathedral at Skara.

I've also been on the look-out for photos in England that I can reasonably add to the Sverige, Suede, Sweden group. I had planned to add a new photo there every day of the week for a year and I was managing quite well until I came to England and ran into the technical problems I mentioned above. Plus some others I can't blame T-Mobile for. Still, with the help of Léa d'Ipernity (Big THANKS, Léa! :-) ) I seem to have a functioning work-around now. So, I'm catching up ...

Wallander 2

Last night - amazingly - the BBC broadcast a Swedish language TV film based on the Henning Mankell detective books about Kurt Wallander and Ystad. I snapped that and have added two pictures to the Sverige, Suede, Sweden group for yesterday and today. More Sweden-in-England pictures to come!

Well, enough of this rambling.

Cheerio for now!
John (aka Supercargo)