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Picked for the Book

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The Waiting is Over

I had to wait a bit to blog this, just to make sure that Jo and Drew were happy for it to go forward, but I got an e-mail from Flickr yesterday saying that my picture had been selected to possibly go into the book and exhibition for 24 Hours of Flickr.

Since submissions are open until 21st May, it is still possible that the picture might not appear, but I’m really chuffed to have made it through to the final stages. Participants were only able to submit a single shot, and had to try and sum up the whole day, and I felt that this shot pretty well explained the way we spent 5th May 2007.

There is currently a discussion going on in the group itself amongst people who have received one of the selection e-mails. Certainly there seems to be a good mix, right across the spectrum of pictures you get on Flickr. For example there are some shots that are just fantastic pictures, like this shot of Chesil Beach by petervanallen. Alongside this (and I suspect my picture falls into this category) there are event shots, not necessarily great pictures, but important moments captured, so there are several graduation pictures, and other than mine several wedding shots too.

So maybe the picture will end up in a collage – not that I particularly mind, I’m just chuffed to have been picked!

The Chesil Beach at Portland – Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site originally uploaded by petervanallen.

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A Hotel that Does Read the Feedback Forms

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After Jo and Drew’s Wedding last week, rather than drive back home we spent the night in another local hotel, the Richmond Gate Hotel. Basically the choice was somewhat limited when we booked as I wanted a hotel where we could actually park the car – a number of the hotels in Richmond have little or no car parking at all – and the Richmond Gate was about it.

You can read my review of the hotel on TripAdvisor, what I wrote on there is pretty much what I put on the feedback form. Looking at the other reviews for the hotel, and also for it’s sister hotel next door for both the experience does seem to depend very much on which room you get.

In terms of the Richmond Gate there are rooms in the nice Georgian part at the front of the building, but the majority of the rooms are in the modern three-storey block out the back where we were – and they charge extra for the bigger ‘feature’ rooms anyway. Being a modern design though, all of the standard rooms in the block out the back are the same size – small. Looking on the hotel’s website some of these do appear to have been refurbished, but they won’t have been able to do that much about the size of the rooms. They could shrink the bathroom, but that won’t do that much good really as fundamentally I think the basic room is small for the amount they are charging, however many toys they try to add.

So whilst there was nothing overly wrong with our stay, I thought it was expensive for what we got. The room was small, and basically a bit tatty as it had yet to be refurbished. I filled in the form, but didn’t much expect a response. However a couple of days ago I actually got a letter from the manager at the hotel apologising for the room and highlighting that they were refurbishing the rooms, and that our room hadn’t been done yet and offering us a complimentary upgrade to a superior room the next time we stay there in the next year – not that I think we’ll have call to use it though… But it’s nice to know somebody reads those things.

The Richmond Gate Hotel originally uploaded by justindz – who also thought the rooms were small…

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Wedding Pictures

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The Waiting is Over

If you’ve been reading Beth’s blog recently you’ll have been following her making the cake for Jo and Drew’s wedding which took place yesterday.

She has actually written up the day, well it’s actually about fifty-percent about the cakes, but there are details from the wedding too!

If you’re wondering about the comment about my foot – which I realise I haven’t mentioned on here, at the moment I’ve got an infection in my left foot, which I’ve had since the beginning of the week. The doctor said it was either an infection, or could be gout – saying that if it were gout the pain would be worse later in the week as the antibiotics he gave me would be ineffective. Anyway, the good news is that it isn’t more painful, so hopefully it’s not gout, but the bad news is that with it being in my left foot changing gear in the car is rather uncomfortable, as is wearing anything other than a slipper on that foot, so Beth did the driving yesterday.

Anyway, I’ve uploaded the pictures that I took yesterday to Flickr, or alternatively you can browse them in our gallery.