I’ve been fairly quiet since I started my summer break. There’s some not very exciting detail behind the unusual hush on my part.

First of all, I was pretty exhausted. The last day of term I came home early, feeling fairly rough, high-ish temp, dizzy, nauseous. Swine flu, yes it pretty much was. I rested and didnt feel much better for several days, in fact whilst the worst was over within five days… I felt fairly rough for a good week. I missed out on getting to go and shoot some brilliant stuff at the E4 Udderbelly.

Just as I was getting the spring back in my step my Dad fell ill. I’m not saying any more than that, as it’s nobody’s business, but the wonders of private healthcare saw him in an operating theatre fairly quickly. These things tend to shake up family life.

So whilst all this has been going on, being at my computer or on twitter is one of the furthest things from my mind. I did manage to get out and shoot another film for What’s On Stage, open auditions for the Thriller – Live World Tour. That’s pretty much ready to go online, more news on that and my outing to see the show for my birthday soon

So now I’m getting myself back to normal business. I’m still tired – no time to rest, plus illness tends to knock it out of you. But hopefully the rest of my summer will be a blissful mix of work, rest and play.

x
ian

Everything’s still super-busy. Massive amount of work at the dayjob, setting up this site still and planing my photography exhibition – just over a week to go! The work on the next set of What’s On Stage films starts soon too. So haven’t had time to blog – not the best of starts with a new website.

So on here I’ve just setup the photography page, if you click on the link at the top right of this page you’ll see the high points of my ten years working as a live music and press photographer. Alternatively, I’ve archived my old asp site in glorious HTML here – ianmilleruk.com/OLD-IMP

Spent most of the weekend working on the photo album for the exhibition. My friends have been mounting the main pics, they sent me an MMS and they’re going to look beyond amazing. All the labels have now been written and printed, I’ve a rough idea of what I’m doing for finger foods and drinks too. Just got to sort out the remaining invites and write/print a welcome note before boarding up all the prints at the end of the week.

I’m also working on a surprise for the evening, not even 50% certain it’s going to happen, though it would be lovely if it did. So obviously won’t say any more!

Getting there.. slowly. Here’s to the week, I hope it’s going to be a darn sight cooler.

So I’m in the process of setting up my new site – the pages, plugins, widgets, the static pages, the categories…

It’s taking time, but I’m getting there with every random five minutes I find. I’d like to think I’ll have everything ready by the end of the week, but I’m in the middle of what’s been one of the busiest most intense few weeks work I’ve had at the dayjob… add onto that the current heatwave and I’m a very very tired person.

If  you’ve stumbled upon here before I’ve gotten everything ready, apologies… lots of test posts will follow as I work things out.

The weekend will therefore be very sweet indeed.