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	temp_gg - 22 December 2009 - 40 images.
	Moonlight silhouettes - 12 October 2008 - 2 images. A couple of night time moonlight photos playing around with the long exposure on the IXUS.
	New camera - 28 September 2008 - 14 images. I've got a new camera, an IXUS 960IS. It pleases me.
	Sunset rain - 31 August 2008 - 5 images. Not a peep from the sun all day. Then, just as it was going dark, out it came along with some very fine rain. The result - an intense yellow glow from the sky towards the sun, and a reddened sunset rainbow high in the opposite direction.
	Jonny and Farina in NZ - 9 December 2006 - 4 images. Miscellaneous photos from Jonny and Farina's move to New Zealand. Check out their blog at http://jcblogblog.blogspot.com/
	TV puzzle cons - 9 December 2006 - 4 images. These puzzles were just some of the many used to separate bored people from their cash on late night television. The answers were given after several evenings had passed with no-one getting them. And I'm not surprised - they certainly don't obey any mathematical rules I'm aware of. You have to know the secret for each one. What a con!
	The Ausburger - 20 February 2008 - 3 images. I went to Phil's and Lisa's for Ausburgers! Lisa took these photos, she's a great photographer. Check out her site at http://www.lisahuelin.com/
	Double rainbow - 25 August 2005 - 7 images. Walking back from the shops I got caught in a heavy shower and then observed the brightest double rainbow I've ever seen. Unfortunately the Nokia couldn't catch all of its glory but several features can be seen. See the descriptions on some of the photos for more details. For more info check out the excellent Atmospheric Optics site at http://www.atoptics.co.uk/
	2008 Grindleford Gallop - 8 March 2008 - 30 images. Photos from the 2008 Grindleford Gallop, a 21 mile walk around the Peak District to raise money for Grindleford Primary School. This was my third time on the walk and I was joined by a couple of work colleagues, Sue and John. It was overcast and damp but not as muddy as it had been on previous attempts; sadly we missed the sun which came the day before and after. John retired after the Eyam checkpoint and headed back to the pavilion, via a cafe for a full-English breakfast! This was my first long walk with a proper pole, a Leki Makalu Carbon, and it made a huge difference, making some of the steeper climbs and the final descent much easier. Sue and I took it easy going round and we completed the course in 9:20 hours which included a total of 1:20 hours of stopping time. At Edensor we happened to meet Lou "The Ancient Brit" from the Dead Runners Society, the oldest participant in the Grindleford Gallop at 81 years! He put us to shame as he disappeared into the distance with his fellow deads! Sue did really well in getting around the course, not having seen it before, and the thought of soup, tea and monkeybaths kept us going. However we just missed the cut-off and when we got back to the pavilion it was closing up. We made do with some cake, and Lou had left me a tshirt as a present! The GPS tracks were recorded with a Garmin eTrex and graphed using GARtrip.
	Skid pan training at Hixon - 9 December 2006 - 19 images. Manchester RoADAR organised a skid pan training session at the Staffordshire Police training facility at Hixon. The silver car is a rear wheel drive Sierra, the red car is a front-wheel drive Focus. The tyres are slicks, created by sending tyres away to have a special compound added to fill in the treads, and they are then inflated to twice normal pressure on the car. The skid pan is constantly fed with collected and recycled rainwater from jets around the side, and then collected in the central drain, filtered and pumped back into the main tank. Biodegradeable oil is manually added to the surface. This combination means that although the cars are driven in second gear at no more than around 15mph, the exaggerated skid effects are comparable to those at 30-40mph in a normal car. The front wheel drive car was much easier to control and correct, and you can see from the videos that it was able to drive around a lot quicker. I learnt a lot from the day and it was great fun! Many thanks to Manchester RoADAR for organising it, and to Rob and Steve at Staffordshire Police for their excellent training. There are some 3gp videos available at http://holosys.co.uk/hixon_skidpan/ although they are not good quality. Right-click and use "Save Target As" to download them.
	2006 Grindleford Gallop - 11 March 2006 - 37 images. Eric, Jon and I walked the 21 mile Grindleford Gallop, an annual event which raises money for Grindleford Primary School. The route starts at Grindleford and passes through Eyam, Housley, Longstone Moor, Great Longstone, Hassop, Edensor, Baslow then up onto Curbar Edge and Froggatt Edge, finishing back down in Grindleford. The weather stayed overcast, cold and damp and the ground was once again very muddy in places. Total time taken was 8 hours 35 minutes which included 1 hour's worth of stopping time. The track was recorded with a Garmin eTrex and the charts produced using GARtrip.
	Walk around Kinder Scout - 11 February 2006 - 33 images. I went for a walk around Kinder Scout in order to get in some practice for the Grindleford Gallop and Keswick to Barrow this year. It was cloudy, icy cold and windy for most of the walk, with the sun coming out towards the end. I picked up the wrong path on the way to Edale from the 633m trig point and ended up at Kinderlow End, tried to go south and ended up following a long fence. It took ages to get out and find my way back on to Oaken Clough.
	Ruth and I visit dad - 8 October 2005 - 35 images. Using the newfound technology of motorised transportation, Ruth and I went to visit dad and then went back to Ruth's for a couple of hours.
	Ultra 20 goodness - 2 October 2005 - 13 images. Building the Ultra 20 workstation for the Sun stand at the 2005 LinuxWorld Expo at London Olympia. Check out the brushed aluminium finish, this is the new look for all Sun's new systems.
	Looking for Leonids - 19 November 2002 - 10 images. A cold, November, moonlit morning. I took my Canon A20 and a tripod into the garden on the offchance of capturing a Leonid meteor trail. The camera only supports two-second exposures so I didn't really expect any results. The first photo shows star trails and is a composite of 99 shots taken from 03:49 to 04:20. The bright trail is Jupiter - the trails have been annotated in the second photo. The third photo is a Leonid trail caught during one of the two-second exposures! The remaining shots are looking through branches at the hazy winter moon.

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