This was an amazing marble sculpture that made the veil look like the most fragile lace 
A Rolls-Royce engine of course!
Sculpture park
Alex and Luca 
Geordie, Evangeline, and friend Angeline in Singapore, a short mostly business trip on my way back to the UK from Aus.
Just hanging around the Santosa beach
I've just cheated on Christina just the once ...
Dec 08 - somehow in all my music making in Aus I managed to avoid most christmas carol type gigs (except for one Carols by Candelight where we played Japanese Taiko drums along with Humphrey B Bear...). But here in the Hathern Band we had something like 11 carols gigs in 2 weeks...
And that included walking around the village for 3+ hours on a cold Sunday morning playing about 6 carols over and over and over and over for spare change. The charms of village life, eh?
On the aiport road 
My drum teacher Matt playing with his soul funk band the Shakes at the Malt Cross, Nottingham And yes, I am envious of the hair!
Part of the birthday celebration, with Elisa, Kai, Roy, and Pavel at the Aussie restaurant Moomba which is one of the better eateries in Loughborough. All your Aussie favorites including Kangaroo steak and burgers, Ostrich (?) and Mediterreanean Chicken Salad are on the menu...
The new bass trombone, a Rath D9, with red brass bell for deep warm sound, nickel tuning slide and leadpipe for enhanced attack, dual bore yellow brass slide , independent hagmann valves... I was thinking of calling it Ghengis (a tenuous connection via Star Trek and the (W)Rath of Kahn).
The Stourbridge Glass Museum, in one of the last remaining glassmaking cones, which is effectively a chimney to draw in air for all of the furnaces located inside it. 
British Trombone Society event in Rugby, Mar 09, kinda like what I imagine heaven might be like... 
So I read in The Age that the ski season has already started in late April in Aus due to a cold snap... well in Zermatt it can continues on till about May which means that an Easter trip to the alps is a possibility... so we went! 
Zermatt town lies at about 1600m above sea level, but the slopes go up to 3883m: that's a vertical drop of more than 2km! This part of the alps is basically a bowl with 29 mountains taller than 4000m surrounding it, which on the sunny days we had up there makes for some stunning scenery.
Note that in Aus, the longest ski run we have is the Superrun which from memory is 2.7km and drops 600m or so. Ander's GPS measured that for every 1m drop we skiied about 10m horizontally, so the run we did was probably about 20+km long! It doesnt really compare.
At 3883m. I must admit to feeling a bit light headed up there. Bravo to Christina for being a non-skier and coming on a ski trip, for at least half of it! 
Anders from Sweden was one of the gang who joined, and after spending ages trying to get action shots on my slow pocket camera and with Anders actually in the action, not post action falling over, finally got this one.
A multicoloured brew from the Häxens Bar (Witches Bar) 
Hah!
The Gang: Andrew, Me, Winnie and Anders
We had a full day's snowfall on the 2nd last day, which meant brilliant fresh snow for our final day over the border into Italy
Still learning how to cope with it though!
Hi'yall,
Housemate Jorge (pronounced Hor-hey), Hirad, hand Phavel, hAmy and hAnna.
The remainder!
Ilias and Nel, a Russian couchsurfer who here for a conference, and found Lubor (my housemate and a would-be couchsurfer) on the internet and was sleeping on our couch.
Three's a crowd
Post dinner at the Amber Rooms
Fellow Cell Team members the Deltaforce (Phil), Charissa and her next generation cell teamer Katy, and Hirad.