Happy Halloween!

Pumpkins
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

New fiskies!

New fish!
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

The Evolution of the Geek

This is a great diagram.. oh I am so many breeds of geek all in one!

Asda Pizza Call Customer Complaint No Toppings

Skywatch Friday: Hooray! Finally some beautiful Autumn sunshine!

Box Hill

Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

I'm just enjoying sitting outside, eating my lunch in the nice warm sunshine! All the trees on Box Hill have turned beautiful shades of yellow and red, I hope the weather stays nice for some weekend photography!

I should have known it was going to be a nice day from the sunset..

Horsham Sunset

Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

Have a good weekend all!

Location:Dorking,United Kingdom

For more skies from around the world, check out http://skyley.blogspot.com

An Evening With the Stars at the Royal Observatory

Before I forget, check this out:

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/events/observing-evenings/

It looks brilliant! You get to use the biggest telescope in the UK, and look at the stars from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, you get to see one of the shows at the planetarium, and get mulled wine and hot chocolate too! It costs £20 per person, I don't think that's half bad. I might book something up for half term!

The Mulberry Inn

Here's one for my wishlist..

http://www.evanspubs.co.uk/

I didn't know Chris Evans owned a gastro-pub, it looks rather nice! I'm not too sure how much he knows about food, but presumably it's not him doing the cooking! It's only 25 miles away, we'll have to give it a go one day, once we've saved up enough to buy a pudding too of course!

Red lentil, chickpea & chilli soup

I found this recipe on the BBC Good Food website, it's absolutely delicious! I've made it a couple of times, the first time using red onion, and again today but with normal onion - very nice both ways! It's a good way to use up stuff you've got sitting in the cupboard. I just love the smell of the cumin seeds cooking too, it makes the house smell so nice! Definitely recommended.

Only in M&S..

will you find pre-filled glasses of wine in the lunch section! It's not just any lunch, it's an M&S lunch!

Location:Crawley

Oh dear, Facebook is dead!

Aaah.. It's just like work, I feel like I should be raising an Assyst with the IT helpdesk!

Chinese Moon Festival 2010

Chinese Moon Festival 2010
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

Finally the cloud cleared enough to get a picture! It is pretty glowy tonight..

Conkers

It is well and truly Autumn today, I went for a walk in the field across the way from work, and I found my first conkers of the year!! I can't help collecting them! =)

Conkers
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

The leaves on the trees are just about starting to turn too..

Autumn
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

..OK, they were slightly more impressive at Wakehurst a couple of weeks ago! Dorking is lagging behind!

Wakehurst Place
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

I noticed all the Chinese lanterns were out in the gardens at Fishbourne Roman Palace on the weekend as well.. I love all the orange colours around at this time of year!

Fishbourne Roman Palace
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

I just found out that today is also the Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival - it's a beautiful day for it! I will have to get out the camera and see if I can get a picture of the rabbit..

Update: I take that back..where is the moon?! I can't see it at all tonight behind all that cloud! It was really bright last night though, it was actually quite hard to sleep with all the light coming in through the curtains.. the festival's definitely a day late this year!

Waiting for our new pets..

Waiting for our new pets..

Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

English Milk Tea Haagen-Dazs

English Milk Tea Haagen-Dazs
Originally uploaded by tom.betts

The things you can get in Japan.. hehe.. now how am I going to get hold of some of some of this?

Skywatch Friday: Shaping up for a nice bank holiday weekend!

Skywatch Friday: Shaping up for a nice bank holiday weekend!
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

Have a good weekend all! The cloud is finally lifting, so with a bit of luck, we're in for some nice weather for the bank holiday weekend! For more skies from around the globe, take a look at http://skyley.blogspot.com

German McDonald's: Nürnberger

German McDonald's: Nürnberger
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

I was just going through the photos I took on my phone while we were on holiday, and I came across this! When we went to McDonald's in Bremen, there was a different menu to normal - as an alternative to the Hamburger, they had a Nürnburger, full of sausages! Hehe.. it looked really funny so James bought one. I can't say it looked exactly like the picture on display!

Check out this too - some weird and wonderful McDonald's menus from around the world..

Grab & Go

Grab & Go
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

OK, you may need to zoom in to see the full glory of this sign spotted in the shop at work..

Grab & Go SWEETS
Grab & Go READ

so, they're obviously talking about the kind of thing you can get in there.. and then..

Grab & Go DISTRESS

?! Well, at least they're honest about the quality of their food I guess!

Vader Project

Check out what happens when you give 100 random artists each Lord Vader's helmet to re-vamp. I'm still trying to decide which one I like the best!

Eurotrip 2010: Hardangerjøkulen glacier, Norway

Eurotrip 2010: Hardangerjøkulen glacier, Norway
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

On our drive down from Flåm to Kristiansand in Norway, we took a slight detour to avoid the tonnes of ferries our SatNav was telling us to take, and also to see a glacier! That's the thing about Norway, zoom in on a map, and you will soon see why the Vikings ended up so good at rowing! There are so many lakes and fjords, it totally makes more sense by boat.

We actually struck really lucky with the Hardangerjøkulen glacier we chose to look at, it turns out to be the very glacier where Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was filmed (the ice planet Hoth)! How exciting! (thanks for the tip off Øyvind).

I love this picture we managed to get of it. We set off really early in the morning, around 5am, so we arrived on the top of this mountain in the early morning light.

Here's a close-up:

Eurotrip 2010: Hardangerjøkulen glacier, Norway
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

And here's Leia sleeping on it! (from starwars.com)

Eurotrip 2010: Scandinavia by car - Route

This is the route we took or our road trip to Norway, click to see it a bit bigger.

Eurotrip 2010: Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Originally uploaded by kipperfrog

Here's how it panned out:

Day 1: Home -> Dover -> Ferry to Dunkirk, France -> Amsterdam, The Netherlands -> Hengelo, The Netherlands (slept in the car)

Day 2: Hengelo, The Netherlands -> Hamburg, Germany -> Odense, Denmark (slept in the car)

Day 3: Odense, Denmark -> Copenhagen, Denmark -> Jönköping, Sweden -> Norrköping, Sweden (slept in the car)

Day 4: Norrköping, Sweden -> Stockholm, Sweden -> Karlstad, Sweden -> Ramstad, Norway (slept in the car)

Day 5: Ramstad, Norway -> Oslo, Norway -> Flåm, Norway (camping)

Day 6: Flåm, Norway -> Bergen, Norway -> Flåm, Norway (camping)

Day 7: Flåm, Norway -> Eidfjord, Norway -> Bø, Norway (Telemark region) -> Kristiansand, Norway (slept in the car)

Day 8: Kristiansand, Norway -> Ferry to Hirtshals, Denmark -> Bremen, Germany -> Amsterdam, The Netherlands -> Bruges, Belgium (slept in the car)

Day 9: Bruges, Belgium -> Dunkirk, France -> Ferry to Dover -> Home

We originally planned for it to take 14 days, but we managed to get around much quicker than we thought!