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here's a photo that kezia took of me

it's new year's eve today so i thought i'd take the opportunity to thank you for continuing to visit

in the last 12 months funkypancake:
walked over 4,100 kms, (40km-ish of which was during the london marathon [and you helped me raise 1,838.68 pounds]), was featured in dogs today magazine, had over 380 thousand unique visitors to the blog causing 545G of traffic over 2.8 million pages served, was featured on radio, had a site upgrade and redesign, averaged over 1700 visitors per day, went curling with olympic gold winners, visited norfolk, the lake district, austria and belgium, posted a pile of photos every day (there's now over 10,000 photos on funkypancake, and as many spelling mistakes), and lots of other stuff besides.

i hope you've enjoyed it as much as i have !

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this is a giant eraser from a christmas cracker

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is your name chris ? are you merry ? if so, this is for you. someone's broken christmas lights.

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jane called me in to kezia's room to look at what she was doing
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she has her pretend camera on my tiny tripod and has set up a shoot with her doll (which she's put on some books so she's the right height). i was so proud !
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we've been to see these famous house lights before (see here and here), but we thought we shouild pay our annual homage to this fantastic house. one year i'll get a decent photo but for now, here's one stitched together from loads of smaller ones.

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it's pure jon

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my favourite mug fell out of the cupboard yesterday and smashed. it's now in the bin, but can live on in my memory thanks to this photo. oh well.

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here's a sign for those thinking about giving something up as part of a new years revolution.

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here is tony teaching liz how to use a little computer game. he was telling her in a very simple way as we all know how silly girls go when they try to deal with technology.

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actually, that's not what's happening here, and tony has only the utmost respect for ladies of all genders.

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jane suddenly realises that christmas is coming to an end.

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we went ice skating yesterday. there was much talk amongst the children of obtaining 'the balance' like it was some skating-zen nirvana.

kezia suddenly announced she could skate on her own (after being dragged round by the grown ups for nearly 2 hours) and we didn't believe her until off she went ! she had obtained 'the balance' and all was well.
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here are esther and i doing not quite as well
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don't wake dad as featured on Amazon's Toys (5-8 Years)

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ice rink changing rooms must be full of lost gloves. a reach seem worth picking i think.

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after playing in the snow we went to visit ian and carolyn.

here is ian:
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and here is carolyn:
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we were promised huge amounts of snow, but we got none. luckily we were visiting friends yesterday who live a few miles east of us and they had had a small frosting of snow.

not quite enough to do anything useful with, like build an igloo (esther's usual request when snow is mentioned), but the girls did their best to extract as much fun as possible.

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here's big eye tony, taken with my new 50mm f/1.8 lens which i am loving (ideal for the dark british winter).

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picture of a person in a hat with an apple. that's surrealism.

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there's definately a pun here somewhere, but i can't find it. can you help ?
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brother edd sent me this sign of a car falling on someone's head. worrying stuff.

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what a great christmas idea !

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it's traditional to set christmas puddings on fire. jane managed it and it was quite impressive. but unfortunately, by the time it made it to the table it was out. Jane's dad was intrigued.

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of course the most absolute best xmas lunch this year was our family lunch cooked by jane yesterday. terrific stuff.
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we had home made crackers
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kezia found the party poppers made good hats
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and also good play things
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kezia spent most of christmas day blowing up giant balloons and letting them go, making them one of her best presents.

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just over a week ago this tree was in the ground, but on christmas day it was surrounded by presents.

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yesterday started with a trip to church. here's kezia wearing her plastic pretend mobile phone (all call minutes are free)

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yeah, it's christmas day which is a day to celebrate, especially if you are a christian ! christians believe that jesus was actually born as a human in to the world. that's quite mad when you think about it. if it were true what would that really mean ?

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i believe it. and today i celebrate !
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kezia's friend anna made this sock snowman which hangs on her tree. i think it's brilliant !

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the poor angel at our friends house was squashed against the ceiling. ouch.
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here's the picture from this year's family xmas card in case you didn't receive a real world one. previous years are here

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if you're not checking funkypancake because you're off work until the new year then happy christmas to you ! i won't stop posting of course so you can catch up when you get back with the monthly archives.

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i think there might be a banana tree in this snowman. bizarre but true.

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my what big teeth you have (click to inspect)

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is there some zebra crossing pun in here somewhere ?

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we went for a family outing to the Cotswold Wildlife Park yesterday and it was very good.

i knew it would be good when i saw this sign, which covers so many different categories and includes the word 'poop' ! Expect lots of pictures of animals over the next few days.