I was so amazed by this BBC story about Seahorses in the Thames that I had to blog it.
Colonies of rare seahorses are living and breeding in the River Thames, conservationists have revealed.
Experts at London Zoo said the species had been found at Dagenham in east London and Tilbury and Southend in Essex, over the last 18 months.
Here’s photos from our trip to see Dan, Pilar, Alex and Marco in March this year. The photos are from around Nairobi, Aberdare National Park, Amboseli National Park and Maasai Mara National Reserve. I got quite into taking photos of birds, as you will see.
Spring seems to have arrived very early this year. We’re getting into photography again in readiness for the trip to Kenya, so we’ve been out and about the house taking some pics of the early spring colours.
We went to Hurghada at the end of October with Jon, Katia, Tom and Hannh for a week. We managed to get in 7 dives (including one night dive) – here’s some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulandbecs/sets/72157602912393082/
I have some videos including octopus, a giant moray and some silly underwater antics that I’ll upload to Youtube soon.
Here’s some photos on Flickr from our camping trip to Cornwall:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulandbecs/sets/72157600937723721/
Of special mention is this little video of Peter limbering up for the water:
Hilarious little video to go along with Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq–Nw
We bought a Wii on Sunday. I’m not into gaming but the ingenuity of the Wii Remote controller and “Nunchuk” got me curious and, as they are relatively cheap, decided to buy one.
They are great fun =) Only got some basic games (Wii Sports and Wii Play) to start with – however these include boxing and tennis, which you play standing up using the controller like a tennis raquet or holding in your fist during the boxing. It’s energetic and the game play is excellent.
Here’s a video of Katia knocking someone cold in the boxing. More vids coming up soon. Unfortunately the one of Jon seems to have been deleted, not sure how!
Paul.
Hurrah for Google’s caching!!! It’s cached almost every post we’ve ever made! I will be copying the text over and repopulating the blog over the next few days. Meanwhile, take a look at this lovely link and click on the Cached link:
Phew!
EDIT 15/06: All content copied over. I have now worked out how easy it is to back up the database so will be doing so regularly.
Paul.
Hi everyone
This morning I received the following email from Web Mania, the people that I use to host our web site:
Unfortunately an attacker has been able to gain access to server 18 by using an exploit in a php script that was installed on a users website.
As a result they used the exploit to gain access to the server and delete databases from the server.
If you have been using a database, we would ask that you check your website and if necessary replace the database with a copy.
Unfortunately we do not take backups of user data, so we are not able to do this for you.
We have now reset all the mysql user permissions on the server and would also ask that you check any third party scripts that you have on your website to ensure you have the most recent versions.
If you run into trouble in trying to get your own backup restored, please let us know and we will do our best to assist.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
From the team at Web Mania
I didn’t realise that I needed to take back ups, so EVERYTHING that we wrote whilst we were travelling has GONE.
As you can imagine, we’re a bit upset.
Paul.
This yummy, hot and tangy soup is zero rated on the Weight Watchers scale. It’s also incredibly easy to make.
Sweat the peppers, onion and garlic in a covered pan over a low heat until softened – about 10mins. Stir in the tomato puree and chilli; add the stock. Transfer the whole lot to the processor and whizz until smooth. Add more stock if required. Just before serving, stir in the lime juice and rind.
