The above link features my wife Alison Counsell the inventor of Wapenmap. I am so proud of her and would be pleased if you paid her a visit. You can visit her website from the link at the bottom of the article.
Many thanks
Monday 14 December 2009
Friday 4 December 2009
New York New York
We,ve been away in New York this past few weeks and then on getting back got caught up in life so its been awhile since the last blog.New York was wonderful. My wife Alison, took me there for my 50th birthday. We walked a lot, which is what I like to do in cities. I love the worlds top class cities almost as much as I like the countryside. We also visited some of the museums and galleries. And we kept just missing celebrities as we walked around, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Douglas. But we did walk straight in to Barry Humphries, Dame Edna.
I love the buildings of New York, my favourite being the Seagram building by Mies van der Rohe. It has such perfect lines and proportion and sits so well in its surroundings. Even the furniture is to die for.
Seagram Building
I wanted to find a walking gear shop and see how the Americans do it. But try as we might there were no outdoor shops at all in the whole of Manhattan. Something that surprised me. In the bookshops, there was no section for walking books, no guides, nothing it was really odd.
Flatiron Building
We,ve been busy on our return. I've finished my job and start a new contract next week for a short time at Youngs the seafood people. Then its off to work for the government next year.
Manhattan
Alison took part in the Sheffield Galvanized exhibition with her Wapentac stand and she sold lots of Wapenmap and also received a great deal of interest. Coupled with this Wapentac and the Wapenmap has just been featured in the gift section of the January issue of Trail magazine, and orders are starting to come in from this. So it looks as though December is going to be a busy month all round.
Nwe York
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