Work in progress
The Pigeon Holes menu is very much work in progress. In fact it doesn’t work :(. I haven’t figured out how to do it yet, but I want you to be able to browse stuff by year (eg 1935-40, when Dad was working on the farm) and also by category ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next This was May 2000. Mobile networks, roaming arrangements and phone charges have improved a bit since then! The iPhone was still 6-1/2 years or so away. ~ Ian So here we are, leaving LA on Day One of our road trip, doing what I’ve always wanted to ... Read more
Previous | Contents | As we drove east across northern New York State the trees were in full leaf. Leaving Quebec, further north, everything had just been greening up, as the buds formed and opened. It would have been nice to go back for another look at Edmonton later in the Spring. ... Read more
Previous | Contents | NextI wrote my last 2000 despatches back in sunny Los Angeles. We’d spent the last four weeks driving through Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New England. Having flown back from Toronto we were lying low for a few hours before catching the flight back home. ~ Ian We’ve driven ... Read more
| Contents | Next Some time in late 1999 we decided it was time to go international. Ever since Stephen had set up the Queensberry website in 1994 we’d fielded enquiries from photographers overseas, especially Americans. We’d worked out how we could do business with them, but where to start? This was ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Before Canada, a little segue into food. It’s fair to say that sometimes we don’t so much sight-see when we travel as progress from restaurant to restaurant. This trip was no different. I’d always wanted to drive across America — and yes, I know that every generation ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Those of you with a literary bent will not be surprised to hear that I was reading Tom Wolfe at the time. Others will notice that it’s pre-iPhone and pre-mobile internet, and that take-out coffee hadn’t arrived in New Zealand yet. ~ IanWell, gosh — we’ve been ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next I first wrote home a few days into the trip. When I re-read it now I recall how struck we were by South California — it was just like we’d seen on TV. What strikes me now is how much things have changed in the past 25 years. I ... Read more