The picture says it all, or rather says most of it at least. I’ve bought a microSD memory card for my GPS, and now it can take extra maps on it. And of course, what map would I want on it, other than OpenStreetMap? Dave and I have spent ages cycling round, doing our local area, and now I get to put the results on my GPS and make up for the terrible basemap that comes with it.

For the technical amongst you, I used JOSM to download and save a .osm of the local area, and then converted that into a Garmin .img file using mkgmap. I can then transfer it to the microSD card using a card reader (thereby avoiding the non-opensource cGPSMapper and sendmap, which doesn’t work on linux for my GPS anyway). It’s interesting that the area bounded by Richmond (W), Hammersmith (N), Clapham (E) and Wimbledon (S) takes up 35K, and my 1Gb card cost £25. There plenty of room for more where that came from.

Ant, can I interest you in the .img file?

Photos from this weekend’s trip to Cambridge are now online.

If you’ve lost the little eyecup for your Canon EOS 300D (like I did a few months back), you can buy a replacement from Amazon. The product link is here: Canon CUPEF Eyecup EF for EOS 300V – even though it’s not quite the same model camera, the eyepiece fits fine.

Don’t, whatever you do, try finding a definitive answer from any official Canon pages. Unless things have changed recently, you’ll spend ages looking at product charts to find that they continually reuse product names, product numbers and irritatingly close variants thereof!

A week ago Ant and I finished off the Pennine Way – a 270-odd mile trek from Edale (near Sheffield) to Kirk Yethom (near Berwick) in 15 days. I’ve been putting off writing the regulation blog post about it, wanting to do it justice, but I haven’t got round to it. So I won’t bother trying to make this comprehensive.

It was long. It was hard. It was hot, sunny, raining, hazy. It was exhausting. You can see all my photos from the Pennine Way on Flickr, along with bits and pieces in the photo notes.

An old favourite of mine, that came up on my random-picture desktop background recently. Anyone want to explain the logic?

Last weekend a group of us went to Bruges. We took the EuroStar on the Friday after work, having a picnic on the way, and stayed at a hotel within a few minutes walk of the centre. The weekend mainly involved drinking, eating and being tourists – a brewery visit, climbing the Belfort, visiting the chocolate museum, going on a boat around the canals – and of course, me taking lots of photos.

(And please join in with Mr T’s call for a caption competition!)