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Tag: January

My Year in Photos – January 31st – “HOW MUCH?!”

Posted on January 31, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 31st – "HOW MUCH?!", originally uploaded by henweb. Being a fairly quiet day (an increasingly rare occurrence in our house these days), we opted to go out for a nice pub lunch at the Crown at Playhatch – a very nice pub if you’re ever in the area. The…

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My Year in Photos – January 30th – “Here’s one I made earlier”

Posted on January 30, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 30th, originally uploaded by henweb. On a day whose highlights will include a visit to Tesco, two visits by plasterers, a trip out to look for a new oven and numerous loads of washing, I figured I probably wouldn’t get any good photos out of any of those activities….

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My Year in Photos – January 29th – “Building up to bedtime”

Posted on January 29, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 29th, originally uploaded by henweb. At the end of what has been a pretty fecking tiring week, I was pleased to come home and find that Robert was feeling much better, so much so that when I walked in he was treating his mum as a trampoline. For those…

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My Year in Photos – January 28th – “Not a plane funeral”

Posted on January 28, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 28th, originally uploaded by henweb. Today was a bit of a sombre day, being as it was the funeral of my wife’s uncle, who died a week or so ago. The funeral was a very nice service which I won’t dwell on, but the wake was very different to…

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My Year in Photos – January 27th – “Battersea or bust”

Posted on January 27, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 27th, originally uploaded by henweb. Busy day for us today, starting with an early appointment at Starbucks in Clapham, where Milly and I were covering the DAVOS social media session for the Tamar blog/twitter feed. After that we headed over to Battersea for a workshop we were running with…

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My Year in Photos – January 26th – “Red sky at night”

Posted on January 26, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 26th, originally uploaded by henweb. This shot was taken as I walked through Chiswick this evening, at the start of what turned out to be a really nice sunset. Apart from having to explain the “Red sky at night” concept to my American colleague Milly a few weeks ago,…

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My Year in Photos – January 25th – “What shall I paint?”

Posted on January 25, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 25th, originally uploaded by henweb. Today’s photo is of something I saw very early in the day, at around half seven on my way to the M4. I don’t *actually* know what it is, all I know is it’s been erected on the massive building site next to Junction…

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My Year in Photos – January 24th – “A classic evening”

Posted on January 24, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 24th, originally uploaded by henweb. This evening was a momentous evening in chez Elliss – it marked the first time that Sara and I have been out (without Robert) for well over a year. Thanks to Katy, who very kindly babysat for us, we went to see the Royal…

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My Year in Photos – January 23rd – “Feeling broody…?”

Posted on January 23, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 23rd, originally uploaded by henweb. Today we headed over to Hertfordshire to visit our Uni friends Dave and Claire, who recently became parents for the first time. We had a lovely day out, followed up by a lovely pub lunch in Maidenhead and a trip to the Sheeplands farm…

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My Year in Photos – January 22nd – “How not to save money”

Posted on January 23, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 22nd, originally uploaded by henweb. I headed down to the trendy shopping street in Chiswick today (I’m assuming there’s not many of these streets, or I’d have found them by now!) to buy a baby gift for some friends of ours who have recently had a baby. As you’d…

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