otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

Joanne and I will be running in the Trees for Cities Tree-Althlon 5k on September 15th. We’ve been working toward this for a few months now.

Several lists of four things, including things to do before I die; jobs I’ve had; favourite movies; favourite food; favourite websites and more.

I have a bad habit. Occasionally, I’ll start a book and set it to the side with the intention of finishing the first book after I’m done reading the second. This is what usually happens. Sometimes, though, another book comes along, then another and so on. In the last two or [...]

We’ve finally started the Capital Ring. The first stage took us from Woolwich to Falconwood. Along the way, we got to see the Thames Flood Barrier up close, a run-down folly on top of Shooter’s Hill and a lot of ancient woodlands.