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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.