Off work bored today. Developed shingles last week and although itssettling I feel rotten and the tablets are making me sleepy as anything. I keep forgetting what I am doing. Nearly drove my car into the back of someone else on Saturday 'cos I'm too sleepy. Anyway tablets finish on Wednesday so back to normal after that I hope.
I did make some fake tilt and shift photos at the weekend though and I think some of them are pretty good.
Some more are behind the cut and the rest are in my Flickr photostream.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39844762@N02/sets/72157620962462034/




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As part of my ongoing project of visiting the more obscure (and abandoned) parts of the Birmingham Canal Navigations system I visited the Tat Bank Branch this week.
The canal leaves the Titford canal at the Titford Pumphouse and the first part of the canal is used for moorings. The rest of the canal is unnavigable. The first part of the unnavigable section is still in water but has no accessible towpath; the second part is dry and has been sealed off with a dam.   
 
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These are photos of flowers I took while on holiday recently in southern Sweden. These are from the Botanic gardens in Gothenborg.

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I am trying to find my way around all the cnals on the Birmingham Canal Navigations system. These are some photos fom the Titford pools and the Portway branch of the Titford canal. I particularly like the more deserted parts of the system. The Portway branch is crossed by the M5 which has led to some of it being silted up so it is now unnavigable. It feels very desolate and remote up there.
I read "Three Miles Up" by Elizabeth Jane Howard a couple of years ago. A fantastic short horror story about deserted places and canals. I could not help but think about it as I was cycling around this canal.
If you enjoyed the pictures please do not hesitate to get in touch.

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I have decided to post liks to my postings in the abandoned places community as it does not seem to be searchable.
First posting
http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/2009/04/17/

Second posting
http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1785832.html

Third posting
http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1810555.html

Fourth posting
http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1813638.html#cutid1

Welcome to my Journal
I feel an incredible pressure to get this first entry right. Set a standard against which all other journal entries will be judged in the future (and I am wittering already).
I am working a night shift on the renal unit at UHB at the moment and it is pretty quiet (dull would be a good word for it). I saw a couple of patients earlier on in the evening and sorted them out for the night and since then I have spent most of my time either reading a book on statistical modelling and when that got too much (which didn't take long) surfing the net.
Most of the evening I have been in the Abandoned Places website admiring the photography of some of the people who post there and submitting my own first post of an abandoned prison for political prisoners I saw in Brazil a few years ago.
Fortunately this is my last night on call for a couple of months so I can get back to my far more interesting day job (medical research).
I think that is all I have to say for now.