Freddy Teddy - In Paris Airport (Again) :|
Another photo of Freddy in Paris Airport, sent to me by the Teddy Nappers this morning. They won’t get away with this!!
Honeymoon Video - Zip Wires Through the Jungle!
OK 
Thought I’d encode and finally post some videos from the honeymoon. First up - we went to a place in the jungle/rain forest/vegetated area on Koh Samui where we could walk up through the jungle and then go on zip wires from platform to platform down towards a waterfall at the other end.
Very cool!
Kat’s first slide across. (1.62MB - Streaming Windows Media 9)
Kat’s last slide (tilt head 90 degrees to left. sorry!). (0.6MB Stream Windows Media 9)
Chilling out in a hammock afterwards. (1.25MB Stream Windows Media 9)
Enjoy!
Freddy Teddy - In Paris Airport :|
This is just so wrong. The teddynappers have sent by childhood friend and teddy bear, freddy teddy, off to what genuinely appears to be Paris Airport. Sent to me by email, with the subject of “Au revoir!” 
Gigs!
Gemma Hayes - KCLSU (Kings College London Students Union), 7th October.
As part of my effort to re-educate my wife into an appreciation of decent music (her last live gig was attempting to see Westlife for pity’s sake), we went along to see the lovely Gemma Hayes on her triumphant return to the UK, preceeding her new album to be released at the end of the month.
The new material was great, the new band are certainly different, but a change can do you good, and it’s good to have Gemma back from the musical wilderness, having temporarily lost her mojo. Fortunately she found it after a 2 year absence from the music scene in L.A.
Awesome to see Gemma live again.
We had a good view from the balcony above the door (overlooking backstage). Never been to KCLSU before - good venue.
Loved the new material.
Wasn’t too sure about the new keys to begin with … I’m not sure if his levels were screwed slightly (and that damn buzz!) - I noticed him more than any of the other band, and occasionally that was a distraction to Gemma, but I think he redeemed himself on Hanging Around. The man looks like he’s gonna collapse every time he gets up to play. That or his forehead’s gonna hit the keys before his hands do. Think his name was Adam (”also known as the White Black Man” according to Gem.)
I love Happy Sad.
Go the guy that shouted out for “Stop The Wheel” (only to elicit a response of “Oh yeah …” from Gem. You reckon it’s been consigned to the old school Gemma Hayes days?). Also well done to the bloke around the bar shouting out that she was, indeed, “Easy on the Eyes”
I’m glad she got such an awesome response from Evening Sun. She seems to get so nervous - bless Smile
We were laughing about the crazy dancing white haired dude 3 from the front. No one else seemed to be in his groove …
Anywho - next up, KT Tunstall, at the Shepherds Bush Empire, this Friday (21st). Fresh from winning best single for “Black Horse and The Cherry Tree” at this year’s Q Music Awards, I’ve just found out that the support is gonna be Ed Harcourt! Hooray! I own two of the mans albums (”Here be Monsters” and “From Every Sphere”), and it’ll be an awesome bonus to see him play live.
We’re off to Wales for a week the day after to gig, but we’ll blog upon our return.
Laters!
George Constanza Quote
George Constanza, prob best known from the Seinfeld Show:
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating…
…and you finish off as an orgasm.”
Some other quotes which may, or may not have been attributed to another George, George Carlin, but they’re still funny.
“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it”
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live”
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me … they’re cramming for their final exam.”
hee hee!
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/quotes/george_carlin.html
http://www.ariga.com/frosties/georgeconstanza.shtml
Selection of Random Photos added
There are some amusing photos of us getting drunk in various places posted up to the photo site now!
Keep checking there - we’ll be adding to them when we can be bothered!
Enjoy!
The wonderful world which is Flickr
Am getting used to the idea that random people from across the globe are stumbling across our photos and enjoying them enough to add them into their own favourites, or writing comments against them as they have a look through.
It’s a completely different kid of community I guess - people browsing through looking at photos - I guess we have the worlds largest shared photo album here, or, judging by some of the truly superb artistic photos on Flickr, the worlds largest “Fine Art Photography” gallery.
I’ll get around to doing comments and tags properly eventually.
The tag idea is very cool - who’d have thought someone could make keywords and meta data (something I deal with on a daily basis as part of my work) fun and groovy! (and more useful too).
That said, I’m suprised that people have pictures of Kat and I on their favourites list. I’m even more suprised that they’re not the ones with Kat wearing her bikini in waterfalls/sea! I’m sure those people will come along evetually 
I think the flurry of activity was driven from the “recent additions” feature from the Flickr homepage which may have caught some peoples attention. Can’t think how else they came across us, since nothing’s really been tagged yet.
Photos are up!
http://photos.edgillett.com now takes you to our site on Flickr!
Will be posting hundreds and hundreds of photos here, so keep coming back to browse
All the photos on the blog from now on will be hosted on Flickr. I’ll also get around to putting a Flickr “badge” on this site, so you can see a flash preview of all the latest pics. Well worth the £15 a year membership (although they do a free account, but that’s limited to only uploading 20MB of photos a month, and I wanted the 2GB a month limit on the “Pro” account.)
All the wedding photos have been uploaded in hi res, so go to the “All Sizes” link and you can download the hi res originals for printing by your favourite online photo printer (we use www.ofoto.co.uk which is run by Kodak these days).
You can see them all in a cool slideshow format by going straight here if you want:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgillett/sets/976863/show/
We promise to blog the wedding and the honeymoon soon. We really do!
The main website will shortly be getting an overhaul to link to the blog, the Flickr photo site and other projects better than it currently does.
TeddyNappers
Yes.
It’s time to tell the tale of the TeddyNappers.
My childhood companion, Freddy Teddy - having made a suprise appearance at our wedding during the Best Men’s speech - has been Teddy Napped (it’s nothing to do with sleep I assure you - it’s like kidnapping, but with teddy bears.)
He was entrusted into the care of my sister Caroline, who apparently was overpowered by the Teddy Nappers and forced to relinquish him from her protection.
The Nappers have been communicating with me by email (with random taunts directed from teddynappers@gmail.com), and have also recently taken to sending me photos and threatening letters in the post. The last photo shows Freddy in a hole dug in the sand in what appears to be Cornwall, with the tide on the way in. He does not appear to have been harmed or restrained in any way, but I fear for the integrity of his fur (and his dungarees for that matter. Poor lil chap).
I will scan and send up copies of the ransom letters and photos in the hope that the relevant bear napping authorities will be able to assist in the retrieval of my bear.
A certain Mrs Michaela Kelly (my other sister!) is believed to be involved with the teddy nappers, and indeed was shown to have been using the teddynappers@gmail.com account from her computer after some remote sleuthing by Ed.
The email trail led from her to … my father! Who has apparently been stowing the bear away in his home. I have yet to investigate whether the bear has been moved on, although he probably has since my communications were intercepted and the password to the gmail account was changed away from the incredibly obvious “freddyteddy”.
Only time will tell when my bear shall be returned. I’ll keep you informed as to our progress.
In the meantime, Kat’s toys are raising a small army together, much like in Toy Story 2. Tigger is acting as ringleader currently, but it looks like too “cutesy” a band of toys to have any effect at intimidating the TeddyNappers, who have already proved themselves to be a cruel bunch, with far too much time and creativity on their hands.