29th June 2010

I walked past this ship in a bottle on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square this evening when heading back to Charing Cross after a work dinner. My colleague was rather perturbed though that the sail arrangement was inaccurate, personally I just thought it looked rather nice and was happy to allow the artist a little leeway.

28th June 2010

Today I went to Wimbledon with my Mum, where we enjoyed smoked salmon sandwiches, champagne, strawberries and cream and Pimms. Oh yes, and some exciting tennis matches, including Andy Murray beating Sam Querrey in straight sets.  How nice, after the pain of watching England's pitiful 4-1 loss against Germany in the football World Cup, to see a British sportsman actually winning without causing their supporters immense discomfort in the process.  There was a temporary blip at the end of the first set but fortunately after that Andy got his act together and we were spared the agony of a long-drawn out match wondering whether or not he would keep a nation's dreams of having a British champ at Wimbledon alive.

27th June 2010

Unfortunately, unless you go for one of those rather soul-less instant BBQs, the follow-up to a BBQ is the rather less pleasurable task of cleaning it.  Fortunately for me, this is a chore that Mr W is rather good at! :)

26th June 2010

This is one of my favourite summer sights - Mr W in charge of cooking lunch on the BBQ! Only trouble with having such a feast at lunchtime is that it makes you then want to spend the rest of the day relaxing in the sun. Nice for us but not so good for all the poor plants waiting to be transferred to more spacious pots - oh well, there's always mañana...

25th June 2010

This is the view from the rather scary floor to ceiling windows in my eighth floor room where I've been staying in Hamburg this week. I felt quite nervous when I first approached the windows to check out the view on Monday and even though I was somewhat reassured by there being the roof of the lobby area a couple of floors down I still avoided the windows for most of the week! I'm much relieved to be back in my bedroom just one floor up at home tonight.

24th June 2010

I get the impression sometimes that Mr W views my work trips to Hamburg as one long jolly and my photos from the last two days may be doing nothing to dispel that myth.  Therefore in an effort to set the record straight, today's photo is submitted as Exhibit A in the case for proving that we do actually to some work on these trips.  The main meeting finished at lunchtime today, but before we can return home and put our feet up there are more meetings to prepare the follow-up action lists and minutes - it really is quite an intense week!

23rd June 2010

This evening Germany beat Ghana 1-0 in the World Cup, however considering the celebrations on the streets of Hamburg this evening you could be forgiven for thinking they'd won the whole thing! Mind you I wonder what the celebrations were like in London after England managed to scrape through in their pool - next up is Germany - what's the betting that match goes to penalties! :)