Exiting London

It's the eve of our trip to Spain, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to reflect on the last few weeks in foggy London town. And what a few weeks it's been! Spring is on the way and the weather has gone troppo!

The first signs of spring sprang up a few weeks ago with the onset of hoards of daffodils.

This is Sarah outside the terrific War Museum. That's a big gun she's wielding.


This is Corey Mahar in our lounge room.
Clapham Common had it's annual fair a few weeks back so we went along for spot of fun.This picture portrays Corey and i screaming for our lives 100ft off the ground.
What makes this shot is not actually my face, but the face of the happy chap behind me.
Tea at a local french tea house.



It snowed at Easter, which was nice but it didn't last long, whereas last weekend it bucketed down till about 2 in the afternoon! It was great fun, hanging out in the park with the kids, building the lamest snowman there, snow fights and other assorted mayhem.




We finished work on friday. The window at the top was where i worked.
This was the view out the back window. I like the door off it's hinges.
This was some art we stumbled across in the park during lunch last week.


Some street art near Sarah's work in Camberwell.
Finally, this is the design team eating our regular sushi friday lunch. Alex left & Marrisa right. Thanks for everything guys!

Irish Road Adventure

Oversized novelty map, Check.
Sweet hire car, Check.
Full tank of petrol, Check.
Entire Neil Young back catalogue on ipod, Check!
We took off on our Irish road trip one wet and windy weekend late in February. It turns out wet and windy pretty much covered all the weather conditions in Ireland - windy rain and rainy wind.
We drove our brave Opel from Dublin to Galway, then down the west cost via a few unplanned backroads to the stunning Killarny, then across to grundgy but charismatic city of Cork and THEN back up to Dublin. About 700km's in four days! And we did it all unscathed and without causing any major road incidents.
Anyway here is the proof:

Argh the Irish! Maybe this kind of thing is a problem here. Could be because of the drink.

I'M HAVING A GREAT TIME!

It's all just so Irish.

Killarney National Park

Can you see the deer in the bushes? He was completely still and didn't take his eyes off us as we walked past.


Another blue door. See, it's not just me who thinks they're interesting!
Cork

As we left Cork for Dublin we came through snow flurries and snow covered fields. It was the first snow we'd seen all winter and at the beginning of Spring!

Manchester

We are slowely but surely working our way through the last few months adventures and now we find ourselves in January when we took a trip up to mighty Manchester.



We spent one grey weekend in the Northern City. It seems to be a creative hub in amidst of an aging industrial landscape.
Did you know that Manchester was the worlds first industrialised city?
In the northern quarter we felt right at home among the graffiti-ed streets, book shops, record stores, and general crafty goodness.






This is Andy in classic the yoga pose: “boiling kettle, lead too short”



We came across a few ace tea houses. The first of which, we happened to eavesdrop on a philosophical discussion between 2 very northern blokes in a very pink, floral tea house.
It was pretty miserable on the Sunday too, so we spent a few hours in this super cool cafe/record store/sweet vintage tea set shop/t shirt shop.




And that concludes our brief visit to Manchester.