London experiences
A couple of weekends ago I met up with an old school friend, Jon, at Borough Market for what was supposed to be a brief meeting for coffee in the morning, but ended up being an entire day of catching up and walking around central London.
I hadn’t seen him in seven or eight years and it was great to catch up again. He’s one of those genuine, kind, funny, intelligent people you’re always happy to meet up with. I’ve also yet to meet anyone who enjoys walking as much as my old friends from Hereford do – aside from lunch and a break in Saint James Park, we were walking pretty much solidly for eight hours.
My girlfriend has graduated from university! She had her graduation ceremony last week – congratulations baby.
She and I bought unlimited passes to our local cinema a few weeks ago. So far we’ve seen The Bourne Ultimatum twice, Knocked Up Twice, and I saw 1408 with my flatmate Oleg the other day. Knocked Up is a lot of fun – well worth seeing. 1408 – well, you’ve pretty much seen it all if you’ve seen the trailer, to be honest, but if you like a fright, go for it.
Oleg and I spent the day walking around London with the aim of going to the Apple store to check out the new iPods. The new Shuffle colours are nice, the Classic is a good update, but the Nano is far more impressive in the flesh than I thought it would be. They’ve really put a lot of effort into the software this time and the screen looks brilliant. It’s a shame the iPod Touch isn’t released in the stores sooner – we’re obviously most interested in seeing that one.
September 9th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
That’s awesome about the new iPods. I’m curious about the Nano video now… saw the keynote presentation and Jobs does a good deal of enthusing over it. He’s very passionate indeed…!
September 10th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Steve Jobs is a brilliant presenter/speaker, although he says “amazing” probably as much as I do, which is not a good thing.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:37 am
I don’t know. I’m a bit dubious about the whole Ipod Touch thing. It looks fantastic, but for only 16gb? I’d rather have the classic and an Iphone personally…but the design team behind the Ipod range…bunch of clever little so and so’s.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I agree Caroline – 160 Gig in an iPod Classic? I’ve only got ten gigs of music and five gigs of video, but it would make a great secondary back up device I guess.
One of the many Apple rumours going round is that they’ll announce the release date of the iPhone in Europe at the Apple event on the 25th of Septermber. Hopefully they won’t leave us waiting too long.