Good weather, bad game

We've been having nice weather lately - so far, it's been the nicest summer I've spent here in England! Of course by "nice" weather, I mean it's above 70.

Unfortunately, Salford lost their game today. But I got good pictures and it didn't rain so it wasn't a total loss for me, lol.

Happy Birthday Me!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! Today was a great day - I spent all morning doing a fun photoshoot in the sunshine and then Steve and I went to lunch at the Red Lion, the place that does the awesome carvery.

The photoshoot I was working on was for the posters we're doing as a "countdown" to the new stadium. There's 18 home games lefts in our current stadium so we've decided to use numbers on the backs of the playing shirt to represent how many games are left. You can check out the first image and read more about it here. So this morning I was doing the shoot for 17. I can't reveal it yet, it's top secret!

You may also notice I slightly changed the blog template... that olive green background was starting to look a little more like puke green to me.

Thank You Rain God

So, last night we had a game - don't get excited, we lost. But I got some good pics despite having a bit of a panic before kick off that the rain wasn't going to stop. You see, all day - pretty much all week - the weather here has been nice again (this is our 3rd "nice" phase, thrown inbetween "bad phases" of highs in the 50s). And when I checked the forecast, there was no rain until Sunday. So I left my rain cover for my camera at home, thinking it wasn't going to rain and the lighter I can make my bag, the better.

Well, 2 hours before kick off and it literally starts POURING down. This is unusual for England, normally our rain is just a depressingly slow drizzle. And if that were the case, I could get away with covering my camera with something else besides my rain cover. But a down pour? I can't shoot in that without something designed for it. And by this point, I can't go home and get the cover because the pre-game sponsor shots were already in flow. So for the next hour and a half, the rain would let up but then pour down again and I was anxiously looking out the window hoping it would stop.

Amazingly, because my luck is usually not this good, about a half hour before kick off, the rain stopped and the skies cleared up. PHEW! So here are the photos I got thanks to the rain god who decided to favor me that day (click for larger versions):

Flight

We have finally booked our flight! Only about one month to go!

Stop the Presses!!!

It's supposed to get up to 81 today! I can't believe it, this must be a world record or something - 81 degrees in May!


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Life is Good

Last Friday, we saw a comedian live, Dara O'Briain - he hosts a show on TV called "Mock the Week". He was really funny. Then, on Saturday, Salford won an unexpected game against one of the best teams in the league. Pictures at my flickr site. So it was a good weekend.

Since then, the weather has actually been really good. This whole week is forecast for sunshine and highs in the 60s - even one day in the 70s! I think this will be the first time this year that the temp has reached above 70! Can you believe it's mid-May and this is the first time it's broken 70 degrees?

Volcanic what now?

So you may have heard that a volcano is erupting in Iceland and all the volcanic ash is flying over the UK and northern Europe, grounding flights for the last 2 days and no sign they'll be back in the air anytime soon. Here's the latest news on it.

Well, you could have fooled me because it's been really sunny here for the passed 2 weeks and there's no sign of it clouding over anytime soon! In fact, it was just after James and Ange left that the sun came out, lol, sorry guys! But at least the volcano waited until you were back home to erupt and didn't leave you stranded here!

Steve is sticking to his conspiracy theory that they're just using the volcanic ash as a cover and there's actually a terrorist plot they're trying to foil.