Superman saves the day

Superman fearlessly rushed to the assistance of a lady in distress while the lady's over-heated looking dog watched proceedings with a somewhat supercilious air from the comfort of her bike rack. The lady in question had been multi-tasking furiously: talking into her phone, balancing the top-heavy bike and negotiating her way across a busy bike lane (it was the London to Brighton ride yesterday - there were more cyclists around than you could shake a stick at). It went wrong when the back of the bike started going over. Reluctant to allow her idle dog to be injured in the fall, the noble lady allowed her phone to drop instead as she made a grab for the handlebars. Alas, the phone was trashed, but Superman helped her pick up the pieces and gave her a little pep talk on health and safety issues before flying off to the next crisis.

Magical moment at work

Some days it's just impossible to get out of the house to indulge in photoseeking, more's the pity. Luckily I was forced to endure a really quite dull 78-minute conference call, during which I was struck by the idea of capturing the moment that my phone's clock reached the magical hour mark. Yes, that's how bored I was.

It was a slightly trickier challenge than you might think because I was using a tripod and timer to avoid any camera shake, so I had to press the shutter with just slightly over five seconds to spare. You'll see I erred slightly on the cautious side. This is because the alternative - waiting another hour to capture that elusive 59:59 moment - was simply too much to bear (I should perhaps add that the phone zeroes itself each hour, perhaps because it simply can't believe that any phonecall could possibly last longer than that. Pah! to naive telephone equipment I say).

Tomorrow I have both kids to look after as they're on their Easter holiday now - not sure if this will make it easier or harder to grab a shot. We shall see.