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Time for a spring walk in the forest today, the famous Bluebell Walk near Arlington.

Bluebell Walk, originally uploaded by Peter Carlsen.

The Eathracer is right now crossing the atlantic occean at high speed, past the Azores and is heading in direction of the Dominican Republic, you can follow the journey here.

Good luck to Pete Bethune and his crew xx

Profile, originally uploaded by findmelost.com.

Spring time in Sussex, I just love this time of year, when the Oilseed Rape fields bloom and offer some unforgettable and spectacular views. For those of you that suffer by hayfever… don’t forget you can stop your hayfever in weeks with SensiStop.

South Downs, originally uploaded by howzey.

Jamie, originally uploaded by metromalts.

How about a designer skin for your Google search? Users of IGoogle can now download a theme from the famous Danish clothing designer Mads Nørgaard. Mads has personalised this skin for IGoogle that anyone can download. Mads has joined an exclusive club of  culture personalities that have been offered this opportunity. Others are the Photograher Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Tour de France hero Lance Armstrong and author Jeff Koons. For those of your who haven’t heard of IGoogle yet, this is a great way to access Pagesflakes, RSS feeds and other cool gadgets. Go head, give it a try.

This weekend we finally felt the change in the weather, I guess better late than never. We took the opportunity to get out to the fab South Downs. While the kids were having fun in Peacehaven, Caroline and I brought my father in-law out with us. It was a photo opportunity to good to miss for him. He loves his new D-SLR camera and got some amazing pictures,  you can see them on his Flickr. We also visited the 175 year old Tea Gardens in Littlington. Lovely place and the fresh homemade scones, with strawberry jam and wipped cream…..my God, need I say more…absolutely awsome

For all you fans of the Soup with Joel Mchale you can now get a “condensed” version of the show here. The Soup is a satirical weekly television show on the E! television network. Throughout the show, Joel takes the audience through the oddities and ridiculous happenings of the week in television.

Have a look at the  Condensed Soup

Today, I want offer up another example of how a company that creates a pretty boring product (a blender) put a David Letterman style thinking cap and created a viral video sensation. For those of you how doesen’t allready know about Blendtec and their “Will it Blend” viral sensation, have a look here.

While we were away on holiday, Gøsta uploaded this image, a picture he took on the beach front at Sovereign Harbour in Eastbourne. It immediately sparked an unbelivable response, knocking Gøsta completely over, almost a hundred personal comments and several thousand hits. Including invitations to the Flickr Diamond award and Very Flickr. Well done Sviger, we are all well impressed, aaaaaaamazing pic xx

Almost unbelievable, originally uploaded by Gösta Enhammar.

I think most of you are familiar with David Carusso and his role as as Lt. Horatio Caine in the popular CSI spin-off series CSI: Miami. But what I bet you  haven’t seen is Jim Carrey having a go at him? Good fun!

Here I am on the plane, an Easyjet Airbus returning with Caroline and the kids from a fabulous holiday in Madeira. Thinking this is as a good time as any to reflect over the last 9 days in Madeira.  It was early in the year and we didn’t expect this to be anything like a summer holiday, just a great place for a proper getaway, away from the daily stress at work and school. Spending quality time with your kids is a precious commodity these days and we believed Madeira would do just the trick, we were not disappointed.  We had the best time with the kids, lots and lots of hysterical laughs and really good times, great food and just chilling.

Our base Quinta Jardim da Serra was a classy mountain hideaway just 15 min from the seafront and Camara de Lobos. Out of reach from any kind of WiFi or other sensible internet connection, allowing both Caroline and myself to simply rest and prey our fingers off the keyboard!  Instead we spent loads of time exploring the Island at our own leisure, including some spectacular nature walks, shopping in the island’s capital Funchal or just browsing many of the other great seafront towns around the island. We have been really busy with the camera and you can see the result of our efforts with the on my Maderia Flickr album and to top it off, we choose the hotel because they offered gym, pool, spa and the whole shebang, so we return, in much better shape and feeling good about ourselves. All four of us are really mellow now and ready to get back to reality again. Come on, bring it on ?`

Obrigado Madeira

We went on an amazing walk along one of the lavadas on the island of Madeira today. It was an absolutely amazing experience and had an opportunity to take loads of stunning pictures. This trip has been fantastic, we would defitely like to return to Madeira again sometime.

Obrigado xx

Madeira - Levada do Rei, originally uploaded by Madeira.

I will say no more…

A Mr Been fan too??

It seems our little baby Mushu is having a blast while we are away on holiday… Ta Sviger xx

Mushu after another walk…, originally uploaded by Gösta Enhammar.

We have landed safe and well on the lovely island of Madeira, it’s quite extraordinary here, very different. But so was the flight here too. As soon as we boarded the plane we noticed some unusual activity when they prepped the plane for departure and our suspicion was confirmed when the captain then announced “We have a 60% chance of making it to Funchal today, we have strong winds battering the runway there, but as a precaution we have taken onboard enough fuel to be able to hover above the airport for an extra couple of hours waiting for a window of opportunity. If the winds are more than 25 knots, I have to abort landing”. Now when you get a message like that from your captain, just as you sit in your chair strapped in with no chance of getting off, you are sort of prepared for a rough ride. It turned out that half the passengers had been attempting to get to Madeira the past 3 days, but it had been impossible to land because of the strong storms. As you can probably imagine there were quite some tensions in the cabin, to say the least and as we approached people started crying and screaming as the plane went through turbulence like nothing I had ever experienced before, it was all over the place. The captain did an amazing job at calming people down and he managed to get us all down safely too… but what a trip, what a rush! We were all a bit shaken up, I think Caroline and the kids more than I was. So I can report we HAVE arrived and found our lovely hotel in Jardim de Serra, the weather however …..ahhhh…. not so good! Have a look here below. This picture is the view from our balcony at the Quinta Resort, they say the weather will clear up in the next day or so. But what do we care, we are here and we are chilling out big time in our lovely Spa hotel and that is what counts right? Now off to happy hour in the bar…I need that drink

The view from the hotel, originally uploaded by Peter Carlsen.

I haven’t really done a prober pitch for YouTube yet!  Most of you (all) have probably already been on YouTube loads of times and viewed the odd fun video.

But I can recommend creating your own account with YouTube and start creating a library of your best videos. Not only will you be able to share this with your friends much more conveniently, but you will also be able to keep track of the best stuff you have viewed and that will lead you to easier being able to find more of what interests you.

With a YouTube account you are also able to to create  playlists and you can more easily find pratical help about for example how to start a Flickr account or any other subjects that has your fancy. Even more importantly you will be able to share stuff with your friends in much the same way you do on Facebook.

Why not give it a try and create your YouTube account and start benefiting today.

Come on, get in there!
Peter  xx

Another of these wonderful “brezzy” spring days in Sussex. I was thinking perhaps it was time to move the lawn, instead I ended up building a snowman with the kids. Check out some of the pictures from today.

Can you believe it?, originally uploaded by Peter Carlsen.

This is proof that Jim Carrey is one of the funniest men that have ever graced the Earth, absolutely mental….

Spring is finally trying its best to break through, but it is still early days for a warm spring breeze here in the South of England. Next week at this time we have arrived in Madeira and just started our holiday, believe me when I say the entire family simply cannot wait to get out of this cold and miserable winter we have had. The warm and gentle climate of Madeira awaits us… ohhh yeh bring it on, that and a heck of a Monte toboggan ride…

Don’t forget the links below, for those of you who are interested in a taste of this wonderful holiday destination.

Part 1 of two of a popular travel show on Madeira    by Hall TV

Part 2 of two of a popular travel show on Madeira    by Hall TV

Madeira Island - The Atlantic Paradise    By Pedro Teixeira

Thanks to everyone who took part and all those who didn’t, well we hope it made you think a bit more about how you can save a little more energy and together with the rest of Sussex and the world - make a big difference.

Here you find some pictures from our Earth Hour and Chris’s homemade Earth Hour (Shepherds) Pie too…

Some of you might be thinking, what is he going on about? what is all this Web.2.0. nonsense ?? Well here is a little video to give you a little insight into what the Web 2.0 buzz is all about and what it offers.  

Yes, all you Flickr users you are allready living web 2.0 dream….

Perhaps not all of you are aware that I am maintaining not just this blog, but also my Business blog called Channels vs Bookings. Not that it was enough to author interesting articles for you lot, but my clients and potential clients requires some intersting reads too!  So I decided to give my business blog a cosmetic makeover today, it was starting to look a bit under the weather, pretty much how spring is progressing here. Hopefully you all agree it looks a bit more fresh now that it has had a spring clean :-) 

A bit of blue sky would do nicely just about now. After one of the most depressing Easters I can remember, weatherwise that is! We have decided to fly of to Madeirs/Portugal in a couple of weeks time… A bit of blue sky, sand and best of all warm weather would be fab right about now…