HUBBERS BLOG

It’s been 9 years since I last went to Tiger Tiger in Leicester Square. Sixteen hours before I was due to make a return visit for a friend’s birthday some evil bastard parked a car packed with explosives and nails outside it.

Luckily the bombers are once again as skilful as they are sane and the bomb never went off. Thankfully in the UK there seems to be a high correlation between being a sadistic terrorist murderer and being a bumbling incompetent.

When will the bombers learn? Horrifically killing innocent people doesn’t get you paradise and virgins. It gets you a little concrete cube to spend the rest of your life in with a guy called bubba who makes you wear lipstick.

Glastonbury is a brilliant thing to do. The UK’s biggest and best festival has such an awesome vibe that you can host the whole thing in 6 inches of mud and everyone still has an amazing time.

Fortunately the high fence and even higher ticket price kept a lot of the riff-raff out and the whole festival was a rather chipper event. The great irony of a muddy Glastonbury is that is seems to be the most efficient way to make 120,000 middle class white kids brown for four days.

Saw loads of cool bands, ate loads of yummy food, danced in the rain, saw all sorts of hippy art and theatre (not sure how they got in). I also partied pretty hard for an old fella if I do say so myself.

Leaving was a problem as the exit near us was sooo muddy that three tractors had to tow or push cars across the last field one at a time. We spent five hours in a queue that never moved. Eventually that gate got closed because even the tractors were finding it too difficult to use. Tent flap to door it took us nearly 12 hours to get home. And then the car rental people charged us a £76 cleaning fee because the car was dirty. Well duh?

These are the photos I took at Glastonbury ;)

I am fortunate enough to have a ticket for Glastonbury 2007. The previous two times I have been to the festival the weather has been sunny or sunny intervals, as they say in weather circles. This time it appears that my luck has run out and the typical Glastonbury mud bath is expected. There have even been televised news reports of gumboot (wellingtons as they call them here) shortages in the UK.

This is the BBC weather forecast for the weekend.

My digital camer has recently started taking very overexposed pictures. I contacted Canon and they had this to say.

Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding your Canon product.

In response to your query, please be advised that from your incident description and from the two images we concluded that the over exposure effect the images have would be normal, even with the Automatic mode.

Please be advised that in case the camera would automatically set the balance to normal in the sunny sky area, the rest of the image would be even more massively under exposed.

Furthermore, in case in normal light conditions the images are not over or under exposed using the Automatic mode settings, most certainly there is nothing wrong with your Canon Digital IXUS 750.

Well I know there is something wrong with my camera so I have sent them this picture I took in Boston. There is no sky or bright light in this photo. Just more of the same building. And the sun is behind the building so there is no reflection.