The building next door

In a house at the end of the street...

The usual suspects

Try walking in my shoes. In Moscow. Right now.

... but the snow is still here

What a lovely reminder of the winter... love it.

The spring is finally here

The view from around my local Italian

Young Maya Freya is set for the tour de Moscow

The winter is finally here !

Moscow is enjoying its so long awaiting snow... Just about bloody time, it is Chistmas after all!

Grisha Perelman, the men who knows the way

  

This is why ze Russians do well in basketball

  

Happy with Mum! 

We can flick "up yours" with elegance! 

Hello there! Maya is watching my back! 

We are one month today!

We are 1 month today! Got all reasons to be proud. 

And what are you looking at?

Baby Maya asking

... and here we are...

Miracle

On 29th of August 2006 around 9.57 (Moscow Time) this lovely baby Maya Freya was born.

Next time you see a street cleaner... has he come clean?

On account of possessing cocaine in his New York home when cops came to investigate a claim he was robbed, Boy George will spend the next five days sweeping New York streets as part of a community service sentence.

So, what can we learn from this? Rule number one- do not call police when your friend Charles is visiting you. Rule number two- see rule number one again. Unless you are about to do George.

One hot summer day, 95 min drive from Moscow... 

The Game

The game is over... 

One very military window in Moscow... 

Some conceptual creature 

My birthday girl 

ENGINEER... courtesy of академик А. Павлов

For those unlucky enough not to be able to read this- sit down and relax...

Routemaster

An icon of London is about to disappear from our local landscape. We're talking about the Routemaster bus, a design classic and a symbol of London for more than 50 years. The Routemaster was the last and best bus purpose-designed and purpose-built for Londoners. From Friday 9 December, this quintessential London scene will disappear forever as the last of the capital's veteran red Routemaster buses reach the end of the line.
The conductor, 61-year-old Lloyd Licorish, originally from Barbados, was kept busy selling tickets - although mostly as souvenirs since most on board already had bus passes. At the wheel was Jamaican-born Winston Briscoe, 62, who had his daughter, Natasha, and two grandchildren sitting behind him. On that day the last Routemaster route - the 159 running from Streatham to Marble Arch - will convert to modern double-deckers, and barring two tourist friendly 'heritage routes', the 53-year old buses will be gone.
The number 13 bus route to the West End will cease to be operated by the Routemaster for the last time on 21st October. The 13 route is one of the last three routes still to be operated by the Routemaster.

Elevating Jasper

Jasper, the flying Dog. He jumps for Great Britain in Dog's Olimpics. 

These two destroyed almost all American cartoons. Single-handedly.

Wallace and Gromit