Dom Pannell's Blog

Merry Christmas to me!

So, I'm starting Crisis Christmas tomorrow. But this year there's a slight catch: my centre (centre 2) will be in Stratford, which is several miles away from where I live. London's already dodgy public transport system effectively shuts down over Christmas and besides, I have to be at the centre by 6am for the next eight days.

But I have found a solution...

Santacon 2008 is tomorrow!

Here's the official email communication:

You’ve been waiting for this message for pretty much the last 364 days, so we won’t mince our words. Here’s the deal Santa.

Start points:

WEST
Meet at the Market Bar in Notting Hill at 11.30am. We will leave the bar at 12.30pm to start our trek. Did someone say market? Oh you said carnival, I thought you said market. That’s fine.

Bring a travelcard as this route involves a tube ride (Santa loves the Tube!)

Market Bar, 240a Portobello Road.

Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove (yes we know it’s very out of the way…but it’s also very worth it :-) )

SOUTH
Meet in the Horniman Pub at Hays Galleria at 12 midday. We will be leaving at 13.00 to start our trek. No! We won’t get to steal HMS Belfast…well if we do we have to promise to put it back again afterwards!

Horniman’s Pub is actually on the South bank over looking the Thames and HMS Belfast. You can also get to it via Counter Street, off Tooley Street.

Nearest Tube: London Bridge

[Santa Dom: I'll be in the South posse]

Off out into Stockholm's archipelago

Here are those pics.

Actually, I've been to Stockholm twice this year.

In August I went over with John because he's been working on a website translation project called Parlence.

So I'm sitting in an office in Cairo

Well, Smart Village next to Cairo, to be perfectly clear.

It all seems very European really. Even the room temperature is quite cool, despite the weather outside - it was about 30 degrees celsius at 9am this morning.

How to shuck an oyster

I'm back in San Francisco and as I'll be heading back to the Ferry Building again, I had a quick whizz around the web to see what there is about the Hog Island Oyster Co. where I had lunch when I was here two years ago.

I stumbled across this video gem in which Greg Hinds shows a San Francisco Chronicle reporter how to shuck an oyster.