Darren Beale

Flood panorama

24. July 2007

The flooding is really getting on my tits now. Anyway, here’s a 360 panorama that I created using a great photo stitching and panorama hosting service called Clevr. This was taken on my phone, a Nokia N93, as I was standing on a wall on the side of The A4104 between Holly Green (where I live) and [...]

The island that is Upton

23. July 2007

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I found this photo last night and it confirmed just how bloody lucky we’ve been, so far. Original photo found on the BBC website. Update: Thanks to Oli at ic360 for sending me this picture which I’ve since doctored.

Still rising?

22. July 2007

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We recently watched a guy from BBC News 24 doing an interview outside our house telling us that the levels are likley to rise, which is worrying. Anyway, here’s some photos plus more on my facebook Above: the car parked closest is outside our house

Very lucky, so far

21. July 2007

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At around 9pm Saturday evening standing at the end of our little layby on the A4104 looking over the fields into Upton and over to Malvern the scene was pretty remarkable with there being water as far as one could see.

Upton floods (again)

27. June 2007

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Who’d have thought it, lots of heavy rain and then the next few days the River bursts its banks, amazing. Yes for the third time this year it’s flood time here in not-so-sunny Upton. Thankfully there are some excellent flood defences in place so the town is still usable (unlike the main road to Malvern) and [...]

Uptonbury 2007

24. June 2007

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Wow, what a superb weekend. The bash at ours loosely based around the Upton Jazz festival was a cracking success with the red wine flowing, the parents getting a rest, the meat burning production line not missing a beat and everyone getting along famously.

Upton Jazz Festival: mashup at ours

18. June 2007

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The Upton Jazz Festival is this coming weekend and we’ve thrown open our house for people to stay over, either in the house or camping in the garden. If the weather holds out then it should be good family fun and a weekend long BBQ. If I already know you and you’re going to be in [...]

Why I didn’t like Center Parcs

12. March 2007

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Cathie and I spent last week at Center Parcs, Penrith, in the Lake district with the kids. If I had to sum it up in one word then without question that word would be Babylon. It would be an understatement to say that I didn’t rate the experience: it was overpriced - but I was expecting [...]

Scorchio

17. July 2006

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Buono estente. Acording to the BBC local weather page for my area it’s going to continue to be hot for the coming week: Heatwave conditions with very hot sunshine and light east windflow. Very high temperatures expected for all. Warm muggy nights. Hazy early each morning-tide. Humidity low at first then rising later. Maximum temperature 31-32c 88-90f [...]

One week in

7. July 2006

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So, I’ve lived ‘in the country’ for a week week now and I can’t say that I miss London that much. My summary of the past week is as follows: Living out of boxes really sucks The kids are pretty hyper. They’ve spent the past 3 years in nursery most of the time and now they have to [...]

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Flood panorama

The island that is Upton

Still rising?

Very lucky, so far

Upton floods (again)

Uptonbury 2007

Upton Jazz Festival: mashup at ours

Why I didn’t like Center Parcs

Scorchio

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