Month: November 2013

  • Ashes Highlights This Winter

    Returning to a familiar topic, I note that there are no Ashes highlights on Channel 5 this winter. Instead they’ll be broadcast on Pick TV – Sky’s free-to-air channel available on most platforms including Freeview. They’ll be broadcast nightly at 10pm, just before play begins the following day. Live coveragewill of course be on Sky…

  • BT and Champions’ League Football

    I must admit that like many others, I was surprised to learn over the weekend that BT had bought all the Champions’ League live TV rights exlcusively. At a stroke they’ve knocked both ITV and Sky out of the picture starting from the 2015 season. I’m going to try to unpick the subject a bit…

  • Kite Aerial Photography #2 – Trent Park in the Wind

    A few weeks after my first failure to get a camera airborne, I had another go in a local park. This time there was enough wind. But I was faced with a different problem – too much wind, and too gusty! The kite went straight up without a hitch. But the next problem was really…

  • Kite Aerial Photography #1 – Not Very High in Norfolk

    For a while now I’ve been wanting to try something I’ve read about for a long time – Kite Aerial Photography. The idea is that you send up a kite, and from it you hang a camera that you set to somehow take photos while it’s up there. This is a record of my first…