Hugh Sykes

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• 1. At 12:20pm on 03 Jun 2008, mygloriousleader wrote:

  Excellent pictures

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• 2. At 12:26pm on 03 Jun 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  Hugh, you are very, very good at this. What a tale you tell in your words and pictures!
  
  Is there a bidding war yet for the rights to your book(s)? There should be ..... !

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• 3. At 12:30pm on 03 Jun 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  PS - Can Pigeon Rocks join us on the Beach? It would be a wonderful addition! Is it really so like the Cornish coast as it appears in your photo, Hugh?
  
  PPS - Hugh, have you seen your buffalo lately? And Mrs. Slocombe?

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• 4. At 12:44pm on 03 Jun 2008, Otter wrote:

  Thank you Hugh. It is good to see hope again in Beirut.
  
  When you return to England, please can you bring back some of those beautiful blue skies and sunny weather, it looks fantastic.

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• 5. At 1:06pm on 03 Jun 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Big sis you are right. He's a damn good photographer.
  
  As regards to Pigeon rocks resembling Cornwall - Dorset's Jurassic coast has some similar examples.
  
  You can almost visualise a Dinasour paddling in this one:-
  
  http://www.studio18.co.uk/shop/images/photographs_on_canvas/durdle_door_dorset.jpg
  

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• 6. At 1:12pm on 03 Jun 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  Jonnie: Do you think they'll let us ride in the speedboat? ;o)

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• 7. At 1:24pm on 03 Jun 2008, thenicecatlady wrote:

  Wonderful pictures. What suberb spirit the Lebonese have, absolutely refusing to be defeated by the thugs who try to bully & terrorise them into submission. We need more positive images from the middle east to show that normal people can & do get on with their lives & rub along together no matter what their beliefs.

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• 8. At 1:42pm on 03 Jun 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  catlady: that's just reminded me of something I half heard on the radio recently from, was it Caroline Wyatt?, where somebody commented on the spirit of the Iraqis, who after every bomb came out and began sweeping up the debris and getting back on with their lives.

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• 9. At 2:13pm on 03 Jun 2008, jonnie wrote:

  I hope so Big Sis
  
  Out of interest I've just been Google earthing Beirut. Some interesting images.
  
  Here's one I've just saved of Pigeon Rock which is towards the bottom of the picture.
  
  http://tinyurl.com/5kunac

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• 10. At 2:19pm on 03 Jun 2008, mygloriousleader wrote:

  (8) & (7) 'Positive news' to dilute the media coup that a typical heinous crime attracts. What would Al Kayder and co do if every news report of something terrible was concluded with 'and then the local people came out and swept it all up'. Makes you think.

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• 11. At 2:19pm on 03 Jun 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  Thanks, Jonnie. I like the look of that pool to the left hand of the image. But it is very developed there, isn't it? More Shoreham on Sea than Studland Head.

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• 12. At 4:04pm on 03 Jun 2008, AllotmentJo wrote:

  On a wet miserable day, Hughe's photo's have really cheered me up- I found myself smiling back at the children. Pigeon Rock looks just like Durdle Door, off the coast of Dorset. All I could muster on my last visit there was a lilo - a speed boat would have been more fun! Thank you, Hugh!

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• 13. At 5:32pm on 03 Jun 2008, U11204129 wrote:

  7. Yes. Let's hope the Israelis don't invade again any time soon.
  
  10, and so 8. and 7.
  Yes. The Iraqis learnt it during the first gulf war, during the Blair - Bush terror bombing and now, courtesy of Nato, the Afghanis are going to have to learn how, I suppose.
  
  People who defeat invaders tend to win home elections afterwards. (We could call it the De Gaulle effect, but in the light of all his scams afterwards, does he deserve the honour?)
  Hezbollah stopped the Israelis in their tracks. So the in situ govt. doesn't call an election.
  
  Then on a pretext it suspends all Hezbollah's telecommunications systems - as a prelude to....
  
  Had the government reacted with democratic sensibility to the war outcome in the first place the recent unpleasantness could have been avoided.

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• 14. At 11:34pm on 03 Jun 2008, Dr_Hackenbush wrote:

  Thanks for the photos, Huge. Sorry, Hugh. Radio can now prove that is has the best pictures.

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• 15. At 00:24am on 04 Jun 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Hugh,
  
  For me you knock the likes of Jonathan Ross into a cocked hat!
  
  A very happy license payer!
  
  Thank you for taking the risks on behalf of proper journalism!

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• 16. At 09:14am on 04 Jun 2008, DI_Wyman wrote:

  Hugh, nice one son!
  
  Give the man a medal, once again he has brought the 'bacon' home. Just look after yourself though.

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• 17. At 9:22pm on 04 Jun 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Hugh -
  
  Tonights broadcast was as usual excellent.
  
  Thanks for taking the added risk and providing the photographs for us.

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• 18. At 9:32pm on 04 Jun 2008, gossipmistress wrote:

  Excellent report and photos, as usual, Hugh can always make me listen.
  The rocks look a bit like the ones of the island of Capri to me, but can't remrmebr what they're called.
  
  Isn't Durdle door attached to land?

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• 19. At 10:56pm on 04 Jun 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  Yes, I enjoyed tonight's report, too - and the sense of burgeoning hope, linked together and illuminated by Hugh's quiet, measured tones.
  
  Thank you, Hugh.

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