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A few shots from my recent travels (Kauai and SF) - all shot on Portra 160 either on my Leica M6 or Hasselblad 500cm - lots more here should anyone be interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danburbridge/

Just been to visit a coffee plantation on Kauai in Hawaii, very interesting, the flowers on the coffee bushes smell and look a little like Jasmine and the fresh beans kinda smell like string beans....

Will pop some photos up when I am back

As mentioned - a couple of shots from the Kauai coffee plantation:

Coffee harvester:

img409 by Dan Burbridge, on Flickr

img410 by Dan Burbridge, on Flickr

Interestingly the different varieties of plant/bean all had very different smelling flowers - these ones were very Jasmine like, smelt great just after it had rained
You can just about make out the white flowers on the plants here:

img412 by Dan Burbridge, on Flickr

Green beans - not quite ripe:

img413 by Dan Burbridge, on Flickr

Sample roaster for QC and cupping/experimentation:

img414 by Dan Burbridge, on Flickr

Recently vistited LA and spent a morning touring Silverlake looking at Mid Century Modern single family homes from Richard Neutra, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner and Gregory Ain (mostly) - no interior tours (as they are peoples homes) but great to see some of these amazing houses and buildings

The Ohara House

definitely an affogato kinda day...

Milly looking like she's drunk my wine.... our hounds seem to spend ~50% of their time asleep upside down with their legs in the air, often with tongues hanging out - they are idiots :)

If we fill the food bowls up then Higgs will eat her own, then eat James' bowl, then vomit.

At the moment I am feeding both cats tiny amounts over a 20 minute period to stop this- I wait until they empty the bowl then refill.

Anyway to stop Higgs gorging and then the inevitable consequence?

We put a massive stone in the middle of one of our greyhounds bowls, as he does much the same and will just inhale his food... the stone slows him down a bit as he is forced to eat round it. Some people put a large link chain (like the type you lock up with) so the have to eat out of the links etc...

Obviously you would be looking for something smaller for a cat - but some kind of obstacle might help perhaps?

Had a great weekend wandering around and catching up with people

some snaps here: https://plus.google.com/photos/105555699190952813632/albums/5724137439207396961

I would agree with Velocio with regards to Robin - some of the finest craftsmanship I have seen on a bike.

sounds good - I live 10mins walk away from the show, so whenever is good really

Nice one, will see you there

Dibs on the flite if you will pop it in the post (or are coming down to Bespoked Bristol)

Don't think I am going to make this - something is up with my left ankle, tried playing around with cleat positions etc over the week but something is not right... :(

Welcome to my world though! I have the morning off tomorrow to go and try and work out if the electrics really need (expensive) professional attention or the surveyor was just being cautious and to try and work out if there are live wood eating beetles in some of the floorboards or the surveyor was just being cautious (or got this wrong).

And our survey was pretty much the dream survey result - valuation agreed and no serious issues at all, but we still need to weigh up the risk of any potential problems. As it is I think the electrics are absolutely fine (if slightly old) and the wood boring beetles probably departed some time around 1890. By all accounts the place we are buying seems to have been very well looked after, but buying a flat is a process full of potential risks and you need to logically weigh up each one in turn.

If he is reffering to what most people call "wood worm" then the very fact that there are lots of little holes in the boards mean that they have left :) as the holes are left by the lavae leaving and flying off. They also only attack live/sapwood rather than heartwood and only like damp/humid wood.

There are an awful lot of misconceptions/misunderstandings around woodworm and old houses in general and a lot that "surveyors" seem content to continue/propagate...

The Prendas stuff is generally pretty good, but its just standard modern synthetic jersey material like most other tops - so will probably get smelly fairly quickly..
The Torm stuff is sportwool like Rapha (ie a Merino - polyester mix) so tends to stay better smelling for longer.

Is it just me or does some of the finishing/stitching on those (particularly the white ones) look a bit sub-par...?

Tyres- I need some new ones.

I have been running Toyo Proxe T1R's, 215 45 17 W.

The front two are Savallased on the inside edge, and one at the back is FUBAR- so I would have to get 3, at (currently) £263.07 delivered from Camskill.

Or, I could get 4 Falken 452 delivered for £312.

Or- something else entirely?

falken ftw, awesome tyres regardless of price

do dogs respond to placebos?

Quite possibly : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10511866

although there doesn't appear to be much further research in the area

Just been to visit a coffee plantation on Kauai in Hawaii, very interesting, the flowers on the coffee bushes smell and look a little like Jasmine and the fresh beans kinda smell like string beans....

Will pop some photos up when I am back

Great, just pmed you

Will take them if they are still available

Currently driving down highway one in California (well I was earlier, currently stopped in a hotel in morro bay) unfortunately driving a Chevrolet Malibu hire car... What a shower of shit, terrible vague handling, heavy and with an engine that is all induction noise and no go. Horrible driving position too.

Greatly missing my Subaru legacy spec B, especially it's 6 speed STI gearbox

Nfu mutual, they have been very good for our hounds

hmm sounds like fun - would be on a cross bike however.

RS2 was for a long time the fastest production car from 0-30mph (1.5s or something daft) - quicker than a Maclaren F1 or so it was claimed.... bonkers :)

Probably obvious, but China'd? Que significa?

China Syndrome? Meltdown?

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