All posts by Stephen Brennan

About Stephen Brennan

Computer Scientist, Network and Communications Engineer and former Professional Photographer, located near Cardiff, South Wales.

An overcast and cold Thursday

Received the images from Denise Foggett, Community Relations at RAF Marham taken by SAC Ashley Keates during our recent visit, here are a few.

This one is of me in the front seat of a Tornado GR4.

Marham#1

And here’s one of the Basketball Trophy presentation.

Marham#3

We had a terrific time that day and are very grateful to everyone at RAF Marham especially Keith Watson, Claire Johnson, Cpl Greenfield and ‘Rem’ Merrick for all their work in making it such a memorable day.

I spent the morning creating the web gallery for Neil and Michelle’s wedding album design and processing their print orders.

This afternoon I bought a new Nikon D2X camera and spent quite a lot of time familiarising myself with the menus and options. I’m very pleased with the initial testing – colour accuracy and autofocus are excellent but the 12 megapixel files are significantly larger and slower to process than the 6 megapixel ones from my existing camera system.

Drove David to a job interview at Cardiff Gate, while I was waiting for David I called into Asda for a cappuccino and bumped into Paul Howe, one of my former IT work colleagues at Lloyds TSB.

A cold Wednesday

An exciting day spent doing my accounts, nearly fully up to date again! Nowhere near as much fun as the last few days. πŸ™

Welsh class this evening, more work on assessments but only one more set to go.

Created the initial album design for Neil and Michelle this evening.

A damp Tuesday

Claire and I went to Caerphilly this morning and visited Caerphilly Castle and then we had a stroll around the town. Claire left at around 5:30 for the long drive back to RAF Marham. πŸ™ It’s been lovely having her with us again, she really is like a breath of fresh air.
Here are a few photographs from our visit to Caerphilly.

Caerphilly Castle #1

Caerphilly Castle #2

Caerphilly Castle #3

Neil, Michelle and Michelle’s parent called around this evening to order their wedding photographs and album.

Had a text from Claire at 10:35, she’s arrived at Marham πŸ™‚

A cold Monday

Claire and I went to Newport this morning and travelled on the Newport Transporter Bridge it’s a superb way to travel over the river and a real snip at 50p each way. Here’s a photograph of Claire taking some photographs at the bridge.

Newport Transporter Bridge

We then had a walk around the grounds of Tredegar House and then to Cardiff for lunch at KFC followed by shopping at Tesco and a visit to Cefn Parc to take fresh flowers.

We all went to the Showcase Cinema this evening to watch The Hills Have Eyes it has some very good effects.

A wet Wednesday

I had breakfast at the bakery in Church Village this morning then walked to the bank. Called in to see my cousin Glen at his garage in Graigwen, he’s still up to his eyes but hopefully he’ll be able to have a look at the red BMW in a couple of weeks. Welsh class this evening, more work on the current round of written assessments.

Claire rang to let me know she’s on her way from Norfolk, she’s spending the next week here. πŸ™‚ Claire arrived at around 10 o’clock.