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This Arctic Monkeys thing is getting out of hand. First Monday’s NY Times writes a gushing feature on them complete with a picture on the front of the Arts section. And Tuesday, sitting in a hotel in San Francisco, after the newscaster has dealt with the death of Coretta Scott King, they segue as neatly as they ever segue (i.e. not at all) into coverage of Arctic Monkeys, comparingf them to the Beatles. Do you think they might have meant the Monkees and got confused? S’possible. Granted a CBS local affilate in one city is not a measure of the zeitgeist as a whole, but this is getting a bit silly.

We’ve been very lax in the past few months in both posting pictures and pointing you at them. So over the weekend we uploaded a whole lot more, including some from this very weekend, when we took advantage of the balmy weather on Saturday to go to Central Park to play football, although given most of the major areas were cordoned off for the winter, that is somewhat tricky to do.

So if you click here you’ll be taken to all the page where we host all the kids pictures and when you login you’ll see them arranged by month. All of the pictures in November 05, December 05 and January 06 are new. As usual you’ll need a username & password to see them so if you don’t have one already, please email us and we’ll send you one.

By way of a taster this was taken in late December in a London store while Dad was shopping…

…and this one was taken atop Belvedere Castle in Central Park this past Saturday – and I like to think it has a sort of Morrissey-esque quality to it.

We escaped briefly last night to go and see Hard-Fi at the Bowery Ballroom, maintaining that fine Brit-in-NYC tradition of seeing great British bands in much smaller venues that you’d get to see them in NYC. They wre at the Bowery Ballroom, which probably holds about 500, I’d guess.

But were trying a bit too hard to impress the crowd and create an ‘atmosphere’. At one point Richard Archer, the singer said something along the lines of, “I heard you lot in New York were too cool for school, now prove them wrong and make some noise,” to which the bloke behind us said (and I’ m paraphrasing as this is a family website) “%^$#^&@* mate, half of us are from London you @&%*!” Someone else took pictures here