Gjon Mili

In a preview for the exhibition, "On The Move: Visualising Action" at the Estorick Collection, I came across this fab photo by Gjon Muli.

Trained as an engineer, Gjon Mili arrived in America from Albania in 1923 and began working for LIFE. He later collaborated with Professor Harold Edgerton, the father of electronic flash, to pioneer strobe photography. In 1939 Mili began dissecting movement with rapid-sequence firing that showed multiple images on a single film frame

Lightning fireworks

The world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates , was inaugurated on 4th January this year with a spectacular firework display and lightshow.

Yet nothing man-made compares to the picturea that are circulating of the lightning storm that hit the building earlier this week.

White Wine in the Sun

Greeted the new year morning listening to David Tennent's "Desert Island Discs". Among the 8 tracks he chose, alongside The Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, the Kaiser Chiefs and Billy Bragg, was your own "White Wine in the Sun" - and not only that, it was chosen as the one David would chose above all others if pushed to save one from the onslaught ofwaves.

This song has a feat that it shares with Elgar's "Nimrod" - it reminds Rachel of her late dad and always brings a tear to eyes, It reminds us of a wonderful Christmas we spent with family in New Zealand in 1998. John was in his atheist version of heaven, eating sausages from a barbie on the beach on Christmas Day. I can understand his joy...