funkypancake

urban camouflage
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if you're lost, just try and blend in. find a wall the same colour as your jumper and you're sorted.

avoiding the ditch
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oxford street temporary signage
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amongst all these roving signs on sticks (whose days are numbered i think) is a men at work sign. which is very apt

church reformed. cancelled
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i could make some comment on the current debate within the anglican communion right now. but i won't.

buildings that look like they should be from the future
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this is a building by my office. it looks like what you'd hope buildings would look like now in the future when we were back in the past.

happy birthday mrs funkypancake
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the tragic story of the teeny weeny baby hedgehog
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this looked like a heartening scene. the teeny weeny baby hedgehog had found its mum.

but sadly it wasn't. click on the title above to see the full, sad, story.

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elton's olympic message
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my good friend elton sent me a link to a video he's posted on youtube.

i thought i'd share it with you as even if you're not an athelete you can make the sign whilst sitting and watching it on the telly box.

eye eye
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to the trains
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strickly no bills
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good use of selective underlining and a classic _______ ! ______

the answer to life, the universe and bollards
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yves sent me this intriguing picture of two belgian bollards. he writes "I spotted a contraption involving bollards and a hand-drying paper box, painted with a number."

very mysterious. perhaps it's a bollard weighing station ? or are they worshipping on a numerical altar ?

thanks for your quandary yves !

please mind your head
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man dressed as a foot
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a teeny baby hedgehog
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after the sparrow hawk visit of last weekend, we've now got a teeny baby hedgehog whizzing aimlessly around our garden eating the lawn

he's only about the size of a hamster. and seems to have his eyes closed.

he's very quick, but spent a lot of time going round in circles so i carefully moved him to a safer place in the undergrowth.

but an hour or so later he was back near where we started. and a cat was sniffing round the place. so hopefully he'll make it !

funkyphoto - big ben bonanza
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my first geocache will say something like this:

It's fairly easy to come to london and take the standard tourist photo of london landmarks like the one above of Big Ben. This cache is to help you get a slightly more unusual picture you can be really proud of.

The coordinates are for The Clock Tower itself (Big Ben is the bell inside the tower). You won't need to go anywhere you shouldn't and you probably won't need your satnav ! Nearest tube station is Westminster (which itself is a fantastic site if you arrive by the Jubilee Line).

You need to work out where to stand to get the photo shown below. To claim the cache you need to take and upload a photo to prove you found the right spot.

You'll get the best results if you take your photo in the afternoon as the sun moves round to illuminate the tower from the right direction. And if you're lucky enough to have a really nice day, get there just before sunset to watch the houses of parliament glow a glorious yellow !

Photoing tips - always take a few shots so you can chose the best one, why not include some people in the foreground to give it some scale ? if you've got an SLR camera, use a small aperture to get Big Ben and the foreground nice and sharp. Landscape mode will probably do the same on a compact camera.

Most of all, enjoy taking photos, and always look for something a little different !

spoiler:

looking the wrong way !

update: but it appears the rules of geocaching might not actually allow this type of geocache, so never mind. still, you might find it useful. or something