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My friend Martin & I went for a wonderful walk in the Suffolk countryside this afternoon. We enjoyed seeing the sheep and the deer, but at one point the footpath took us rather closer to this handsome chap than was entirely comfortable:

He's huge (that's quite a big fence) and beautiful, and more so when you're only 20 feet away, but those horns do look as if he's been sharpening them specially for you. He didn't make any threatening movements, though, and neither, I can promise you, did we...

...and man's.

In Seattle again - snow has been forecast for the last two days but hasn't arrived.

Meanwhile, at the Happels', dinner time is very cosy.

John has a nice picture of the dead Windows screen at Cambridge station. It's been like that for ages. Here's a picture I took more than two months ago using my phone. It wasn't the first time I'd seen it then, and it still hasn't been fixed:

My friend Tim Glauert jokes that they need three displays so they can display "Departures", "Arrivals" and "Please press Ctrl-Alt Del". This is why Newnham Research is going to do so well...

More shots from my recent visit to the Netherlands:






Farming the wind

Spent a day and a night in Bruges recently - a wonderful city. We stayed in a small hotel by a canal - here's where we had breakfast:

More pictures from that trip in due course.

Have just come back from a wonderful four-day trip with friends through Amsterdam, Delft, Bruges & Dunkirk. At one point we stopped at a beach on the Dutch coast not far from Rotterdam amidst tumultuous weather, and I took some pictures of grass on the sand dunes.

I was intrigued by how different it looked in different lights. These shots are of the same type of grass, within a few metres of each other and within two minutes of each other:

Just in case anyone thinks that I went to Seattle and spent all my time in a kitchen typing at my Powerbook, here are some photos from a wonderful hike in the Mt Baker Wilderness.

I'm in Seattle, staying with my very good friends Hap & C.D. Happel. You might be forgiven for thinking we were Apple enthusiasts, after this view of their kitchen this evening!

Just back from a wonderful week in Tuscany. Not long enough.