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cool mannequin
a very cool mannequin on oxford street
danger men working overhead
a nice round sign. you don't see many of those round here.
autumn abandoned jumper
i took this photo whilst on the phone, so i didn't inspect it too much. it looked like an abandoned jumper. watch out as at this time of year anything yellowy or browny can just drop off.
autumn
autumny colours are looking great at the moment.
no chocolate
the chocolate dispensing machine at my local train station was all smashed up this morning.
this must have had a subliminal effect on me as later i decided to buy a couple of bananas from tesco's for my breakfast instead of my usual pain of chocolates (i usually have two window's worth). i've decided i need to sort my diet out again else risk becoming ill again. So we'll have to see how i get on ! 24 hours without chocolate so far !
stamp your feet to prevent foot and mouth
i believe this remedy works for many modern day ailments
test scheduled entry
ignore this. just a test !
blue man
always be sure to give these chaps a few quids before taking their photos. if you do they are happy to stand still, especially if they are a statue. this chap was genuinely on the phone though and had temporarily left his plinth to make a phone call.
clive's jumper of harmonious colours
not the best picture of clive, but just look at his jumper. this week i've been learning about colour on my OU photo course and his jumper contains 'harmonious colours' around the theme of blue !
cold rice pudding with bombs
good food and company yesterday at the vicarage for lunch. pudding was multiplus, including this rice pudding
danger - no fishing
you're bound to notice the blog is falling apart at present as we precariously balance between two versions of the blogging software (funkypancake was designed for the old version and i'm having some real problems adapting it for the new version).
if you are a CSS guru and can make this page look like this one, then please let me know ! (and sorry the comments and various archives aren't working properly. please bare with me). that was a deliberately spelling mistook.
once again - apologies for the mess ! i think if you just stick to the front page or rss feed you'll be ok !
me by kezia
kezia took these pictures of me (above) last week. you can see her shadow in the lower one
keep clear of lockside
things haven't gone great with the upgrade, so lots of things aren't working. oh well. i've spent 12 hours solid sitting in front of my computer trying to fix it, and it's time for bed !
(apologies - still upgrading. things going particularly badly. things are gonna look weird for a while i think)
funkypancake - upgrade
just so you know, i'm going to attempt to upgrade the blog today, so apologies if things go wrong. i'll let you know when things should be done. expert weird behaviour in the interim !
update: things are taking much longer than i expected !
two faced
(demonstrating the compression effect of a long focal length - yawn!)
river signs
any idea what these are for ?
Dolly Varden
Our friend Ian put on a gig on Tuesday night. i was in charge of live sound, and audio and video archiving. unfortunately i stuffed up on the audio archiving (i can give you a load of excuses if you want), but i did manage to get some good headshots of the band.
i've been experimenting a bit more with people shots, so this was an ideal time to try a few different things. these have had quite a lot of post-processing.
i've created a little Dolly Varden page with Lightroom here if you want to see them bigger
here's an action shot of the band in motion. they were very excellent by the way.
this is a temporary sign
i guess it's not always slippy.
thames path - part 14 culham lock to days lock
another day another thames path walk
more geocaching (three passed, three found)
more didcot power station
plenty more walking
even more didcot power station
more gorgeous scenery (this one spotted by kezia who asked me to take the photo
more pollution (and cheap boating gloves)
more lovely bridges
and more upmarket pill boxes
more pooh stick bridges (in fact this is home to an annual pooh stick competition which happens every year)
and plenty of lovely churches (although this didn't have any decent hassocks)
back to work today. humph.
the thames in 3d
it's a funkypancake 3d wobble landscape picture.
thames path - part 13 lower radley to culham lock
it's half term week so i've taken two days off work so we can crack on with the thames path.
we picked up back where we started off in lower radley, this time heading for culham lock
i liked this stretch as there was lots of variety of countryside - woods, open farmland, a town (abbingdon shown above), posh houses on the side of river ... and geocaching opportunities
it was also nice to see didcot power station on the horizon for much of the walk. i love it's dramaticness and electricitynes.
usual signposts along the route so we didn't get lost.
we were joined by Mike and BR this time too which made our party to 8. here are some signs.
kezia befriended some snails about half way round so carried them the rest of the way. she liked their wigglyness.
ooh. another sign.
we're back to the path tomorrow to pick up where we left off.
geocaching
mmm. think we might be getting hooked on this. we passed 4 geocaching points on our thames walk yesterday. we found two and failed on another two. the problem of doing them in the middle of a 7ish mile walk is that you can't stop for an hour and do a thorough search. but it helped break the walk up and was all good fun.
here is esther with one of the caches.
and here is a bridge where we didn't find one.
The Institute of Cancer Research
we met this chap yesterday at the end of our thames path segment. He is walking the thames for the Institute of Cancer Research and kindly let me take his photo.
summer finally arrives in October ?
we had our harvest thanksgiving service at church yesteday. then we went for a walk with friends to a vineyard where there were plenty of grapes. and a bee
the guards museum
living exhibits
more success with geocaching
paul took us geocaching with a proper satnav. here he is with the cache.
here's a tap fitting which roves the country
here they all are on their way
and finally, we also found our first microcache.
sophie's 30th birthday
it was sophie's 30th birthday party last night.
no smoking - does that includes hats ?
emily
this is kezia's doll emily looking over the banisters down at me
english autumn
the weather has been so fantastic over the last couple of weeks (except for the rainy tuesdays). yesterday was particularly great and i loved every second of my walk from paddington station to westminster, taking in hyde park, green park and st james' parks.
by the way, do you use walkit ? here's the walk as they calculated it. if you live/work/walk in london you need the walkit website !
nicholas negroponte
i was lucky enough to hear mr $100 laptop speak at a conference yesterday in westminster. here he is with his back to us.
messy abbey
this photo really is a mess, but i quite like it.
3 trees
i'm not sure which of these three pictures of the same tree i like best. please sir/madam, what are you thoughts ?
snail
looks better big (so click on it!)
eccentric british gardens
this garden is just near paddington in central london (near a sign saying did you witness as gun shooting at 5pm a few weeks ago). it's a classic british garden scene - but still a surprise to find in central london.
i wonder what it's like to be a gnome garden. probably over rated i'd imagine.
wicken fen
i had a meeting near cambridge yesterday so i got up 3 hours earlier than i needed and got to Wicken Fen by 7.30am in the morning for an explore and a photo.
the windmill is a wind pump don't you know
i spent ages seeking the bird hides which were quite well hidden. after playing seek the hide for a while i found one and went in for a my petrol station bought prepacked chicken sandwich. the only birds i saw were 2 pigeons and a crow. oh well.
when i arrived i went the wrong way and ended up going on the adventurers' trail. although i didn't see many other adventurers. so it probably should have been adventurer's trail. am i being preposterophe ? that's a new word i just made up, combining apostrophe and preposterous.
eventually i found the nice boardwalk bit which lead to the windmill
but not before seeing lots of nice ditches
here's a final picture of the wind pump
rural umbrella
can you see it ?
this is not a dog
i'm no good with animals, but even i know this isn't a picture of dog
s
we found this s in our holiday house in scotland. or should that be cotland ?
tate modern floor gash
i wasn't sure what i'd make of the new turbine hall exhibit in tate modern. but i thought this was fantastic.
you should go for a look-see
our first geocache outing
we went on our first geocaching adventure yesteday but it was a bit of a disaster. we had a nice walk round a lake collecting clues to give us the final coordinates, but we must have gone wrong somewhere as the final location couldn't be found. oh well. we'll try another time !
still, we did find a mobile phone. after phoning the number marked 'home' and leaving copious details on how we would return it to the owner, a lady walked by looking around for something. and it was her phone. here she is walking away with it in her hand
and finally, here is the lovely meal tany and tonya provided before our adventurous began.
emily
one of my OU T189 course assignment pieces
bens
we had ben and jane round for a cheesy fondue last night. he kindly posed for my week 3 photo course assignment photo.
debbie mcgee
i saw debbie mcgee at a train station yesterday. she kindly let me take her photo and was very nice.
pete's photos
our friend pete sent me these photos from his holiday to cyprus. he wondered how well devonshire teas travelled.
extreme sandwiches
goat
but who is pete you ask. well, what better excuse do i need to show you this picture i took in june of him at a church event.
andy the model
andy kindly modelled for one of my open university assignment.
if it wasn't for the fact that it was his beer, i would suggest a good way to persuade people to pose for you to give them beer. in andy's case he had already thought of this.
the gas museum
i went to a reception in a gas museum in poland. here are some pictures
a night out streaking
tony and i stood on a motorway bridge taking pictures of car lights. i flashed him whilst he we were both streaking.
that's the kind of thing that can happen if you flash at someone unexpectedly on a motorway bridge
cyclist crossing
this was quite literally shot from the hip with my slr as i ran across the road to avoid being run over by cars. (lots of running). i was quite pleased with the results seeing as i wasn't even looking.
i should look less more often.
children's play area, more animals arriving soon
lots of interest here. it seems more animals are arriving. except they aren't actually arriving right now, because if they were, that would be interesting and worth stopping to see.
so to make it clear, they've added the word "soon", but that still implies it's wait-able.
but then we see the children's play area and all becomes clear. we are being advised to get our kids to enjoy the play area before it gets too busy, as more unruly kids (ie animals) will be arriving soon.
at least that's how i interpreted it
halloween graffiti
funkypancake doesn't do halloween, but i was interested in this chap who was spray painting a plastic covered wall.
he wrote halloween from October 13th.
"what next?" said paul, who was there with me "Christmas from the 52nd December?"
hassock of the week
rsw anyone ?
a bad case of wind
last monday was a rainy and windy day in london. as i walked past this human statue the wind blew and her umbrella flipped inside out. she was doing her best to not fall off her box ! i grabbed a photo as i went back, but it doesn't really depict the scene properly. oh well.
my verdict on the new wispa
fantastic. straight from the fridge. brilliant. let's hope they are back to stay.
available windows - page 75
the giant wordy poster signs at Paddington Station are often numbered. here is page 75.
this sign would work well for popular double glazers too.
return of the wispa
all week i've been hearing of sightings of the new returned Wispa bar, and yesterday i found a newsagents who was selling them. he was charging 50pence each so i haggled and got a discount by buying 10. here they are in a carrier bag.
matt, the weblandlord, emailed me a picture of him with a wispa earlier this week. i asked him for a review and he said he was slightly disappointed as they were lacking their original girth.
i've put all mine in the fridge for tasting this evening. i'll let you know how we get on.
meanwhile you can enjoy them virtually here
what the future could have been
an eastern european car outside senate house. big brother would have had a field day.
uncle david by esther
here's a picture from our scottish trip. esther drew the picture of uncle david. good likeness i'd say.
why growing a beard is like global warming
here is the evolution of my scottish holiday beard over a 2 week period.
i was thinking of doing a post along the lines of 'why growing a beard is like global warming'
growing a beard is like global warming because if you don't do anything about it it'll get worse
growing a beard is like global warming because just admitting that there's an ugly problem staring you in the face isn't enough to solve the problem
growing a beard is like global warming because your own actions have a negative effect on other people
growing a beard is like global warming because it makes you all hot, itchy, scratchy and a bit stinky.
can you think of any of (better) reasons ?
(this last picture was taken in the evening after 2 long days of driving in a post-holiday traumatic state. the beard was removed shortly after)
funkypancake interesting 2007
remember interesting 2007 ? well, i've synced my live commentary to the photos
see here if the thing above doesn't work
thanks again to russell for letting me speak.
the little video with me prancing about is here
a sign about ordering meat
village life is brilliant
alien
this is what aliens should be doing. wandering around in space suits spraying mysterious substances
rascle's carpet
rascle's carpet would make ideal desktop wallpaper
thames path - part 12 iffley to lower radley
after a few months off due to the bad weather (this sign warns of flooding making walking dangerous), we were back on the path. it was just me and the ladies this time as jane's dad was ill, so i had no one to talk about computers to.
we picked up the walk where we left off in May back at iffley. a lovely little village south of Oxford.
a key feature of this section of the walk was the electricity pilons
and the fishermen
the main lock interest was Sandford Lock which has the greatest fall of water on the Thames (and an attractive pub, but alas we didn't stop)
it was a fairly short, but worthy stretch. weather nice and warm, and no moaning from kezia
i've booked a couple of days off work in October to do some more thames path walking, so hopefully we'll get the momentum going, although i think we're over a quarter of the way along now.
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