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i just love the golden glow in this tin.

i don't walk much in a regular day so i've now got a noticable beer/chocolate belly. so i decided to see what i could find within a speedy walk from my office. and i found the thames near Syon House. And it's very nice. i'll be back on a sunny day to get some nicer photos.

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i like how they need to point out this is naturally beautiful ... and how its not compatible with rubbish
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big eye is doing a big job in his bathroom and wanted to share it with us, which is nice. he's going to keep us informed so we can offer help and advice as he goes. it's going to be an opportunity for some really bad puns which will no doubt drive us round the bend. eventually i'm sure he'll be flushed with success

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if you were superman, this would be a really bad place to get changed.

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our friend big eye (him who has his own category), sent me these pictures. i think it's a do it yourself people carrier, and he's demonstrating an ideal way of carrying extra passengers.

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miss president sent me this excellent bollard picture:
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she wrote: " I emailed you a few weeks ago about the following pictures. These were taken while on a walk in Hewitt, New Jersey, USA. I think that the poor bollard looks like he has been sick. :) My fiance and I have now found ourselves on the lookout since I have been following your blog - we see bollards/cones everywhere now! "

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it's very rare for me to post a link to something, but this is an exception. what a fantastic way of getting other people to categorise photos - you never know a funkypancake photo might appear there sometime. i think i'm addicted to random word association with an unknown stranger !


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has this person been stabbed by the wrong end of an arrow ? or are they lying down struggling to put up their umbrella ?

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i can highly recommend The Water Poet in Shoreditch. fantastic place.

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they were recording midsommer murders at this train station on monday. if you look carefully you can see john nettles in a big jacket.

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i spotted the crew fiddling about with a ladder by the normal station sign
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and by the magic of gaffer tape, it was converted in to Causton station
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seconds later (once they'd all got off the ladder and moved to the other side of the platform) and small gust of wind blew the sign back off. i'm not sure what happened next as i viewed this through my train window which was only parked up for a few seconds
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esther got baptised yesterday. what a fantastic thing it was !

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and afterwards we had a big party cake

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thursday night was our industry awards night. this year hosted by lee hurst who was quite hilarious (not a word i use lightly).

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Keith (other half of pootlecat) sent me this and says "I was at my Niece's Christening a few weeks ago when I saw this quality "mind the step" sign in the church and thought of funkypancake (St Michael's in Linlithgow, if you're interested)"

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as also seen here and posted with his permission (just in case you were worried)

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answer:
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not quite a no photography sign. it's simply not one.

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this advert is often found in underground trains and it's a bit weird i think. Cheryl Baker is a D list celebrity in the UK and has been for 25 years. Her little bit of 'proper' fame was being in Bucks Fizz doing the Eurovision skirt thing back in 1981.

However, i'd say she's of Bucks Fizz fame, or formerly of Buck Fizz. The wording on this advert suggests she's known as someone who used to be famous for once having been in a famous band.

it's a shame of fame that these days you can be famous for once having been famous for being famous. 3rd generation fame in the same person if you will.

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(that was quite wordy for me)

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(i liked the champagne bottle in the frozen water at the bottom of this eros fountain in hyde park)

just added to davescollections

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a hybrid poster showing a dinosaur attacking a spaceman. you might need to click on it to inspect proper-like.

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they should enable this bell. it'd work better.

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here is regular commenter rascle giving instructions at a party at our house last friday evening. he'd arranged a number of excellent party contests which went down a treat.

the blur on the bottom of this photo is kezia's hair getting in the way !
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here's a better picture
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jane did the wokingham half marathon yesterday in 2hrs 5 minutes. most impressive !

here she is dressed as a piece of rubbish (note the lack of arm holes)
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yesterday was a good day for gloves
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i had a business lunch last week and at the end we were brought teeny weeny little ice-creams. nice tough i thought.

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this photo looks super-imposed, but is real. i've just changed the contrast a little, but the strange effect is just snow on it. the original is here if you want to see.

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how to put visitors to an aquarium at ease - display the venous fish incident procedure. i wasn't comforted, but i was doubly encouraged not to shove my hand in with the rays. (not that i would have anyway)

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can you spot it ?

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i got an extra early train in to london yesterday so i could enjoy the snow. we had a fair bit at home, but it had mostly gone slushy by the time i started my walking adventure (even though it was 7am when i reached london). still, i got some ok photos.

this snow man knows where he's come from. unlike a slug/snail he's gained as he's gone rather than slimed

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we remember blaine in a box. now it's rich is a box.

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Julie sent me this photo with this email:

"I took this picture this morning while leaving the dentist's office. I think I am getting better at finding odd things all over the place. I think I would have taken a better picture if I was a few feet to the right but I was in my car at the time with another car pulling out of a parking spot and was about to come behind me. You can use this picture if you want. It's a recent ambition of mine (for the past 7 or 8 months) to take a picture I thought was good enough to send to you, and one that you would use. If this one isn't good enough I will just keep trying."

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It took me a while to realise why this is such a fantastic picture. it's worth studying. julie took in the picture in Utah, USA so you UK drivers will have to thing the other way round.

i can't say i recommend moving car based photography (if you are driving at the same time) but julie's done a good job !

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we've all been ill with a stomach bug, but somehow kezia managed to hold off getting it until after her birthday party and had much fun. anyroadupdown here's dora waving goodbye.

i've been trying to expand my camerist skills a bit and trying to get in to lighting. i'm completely rubbish to be honest, but it's worth a go. so far i've managed to get a remote trigger for my canon flash, seen here bungied to my monopod.

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kezia loves being camerist's mate, holding the extended monopod to the side of the thing i'm photoing.

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i took the girls up to london a few days ago.
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we went on the london eye
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admired (and got drawn on) by street performers
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then we got the tourist boat
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which dropped us off a greenwich
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then we walked under the thames before getting the driverless DLR and tube back to the train station.
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much fun was had by all !

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which one in this picture is robert the robot ?

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this person seems so bored by the whole airplane disaster thing

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glasgow car park

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stop shutting down.

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the barbican is like some weeds growing up the side of st pauls. i think.

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answer here

some good general advice here

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it's kezia's birthday party tomorrow and jane has built this magnificant dora the explorer cake. fantástico

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pictures i never got round to publishing from monkey world a while back.

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i'm not sure how confident you'd feel if you were treated by a skeleton with a first aid kit.

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there's a brush hiding here. can you see it ?

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this little shop is still a little shop. less curious (if you're curious) though. unless you find shoes curious

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u are missing. licensed to fill. i wonder if they really are.

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