The competition is on!

Maurie and I had a great time swopping technology and Web 2.0 bits and pieces while we here as he had been doing a lot of looking at that stuff while tripping around the US. So I now have an RSS feeder set up on my Mac (which I have at work, but hadn't bothered to do that at home until now), Maurie is much more Facebook literate than he was, and most importantly I have downloaded a visitor counter to my site!

So while Maurie is a few thousand ahead of me, I'm keen to get my numbers up - so if I promise to update regularly you have to all promise to keep visiting me so he doesn't thrash me!!

Arrival number two...

Was Maurie on the Tuesday morning. I met up with him and Leigh after work - given he'd done the evil flight from the US, he was in pretty good shape and lasted until just after 10pm before having to go to bed!

Now where should we go...?

I was struggling with this question as I knew Leigh had done most of the big main London sights in her previous two visits.

Fortunately I discovered that she hadn't been on the Thames or to Greenwich so that was the day sorted!

Firstly though we went to the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which was fab. Then we cruised down the river, had a stroll around Greenwich and the Queen's House, before a spot of dinner. Very nice!

Very cool spiral staircase in The Queen's House

Very cool spiral staircase in The Queen's House
Originally uploaded by Megan Shields.

I got told off for taking this photo - no pics in The Queen's House... But it did look cool!

Leigh in the West and East longitude

Leigh in the West and East longitude
Originally uploaded by Megan Shields.

What a time to arrive...

8am on a Sunday morning!! I had to get up VERY early to get to Heathrow to collect Leigh from her flight...

It is just plane (geddit??) wrong to have to get up that early on a Sunday!!