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cow picture outside a utchers
have a look at what you are eating.
friends for lunch
esther's guinea pig had a friend round. you can make your own story up about what was said
hassock of the week
look at these great hassocks we found whilst out geocaching yesterday
a fantastically high one (for vicar kneelery). And this long skinny one for choir kneelery
additional toilets
quite what is going on here ? are the additional toilets really up that pole ?
smoke going in every direction
which way is up ?
henry convention
these vacuum cleaners were hanging around near st james' tube station looking quite pleased with themselves. you can see their shepherd who was guiding them in to their night time pen to the top right of the picture.
he wondered why i was taking pictures of them so i told him.
belated easter
what with the server meltdown, i didn't get a chance to wish you a proper happy easter and i forgot to post these pictures. i imagine if you thought you had a drink problem that this little tableau might finish you off.
underlined prop and not
two signs opposite each other with different typographical properties. interesting how it changes the meaning. there's more capitalisation in the lower one too. i wish they had version markings on so we knew which one is the improved model.
tackling london's leakage
i can use the lack of comments to my advantage !
award winning charity shop
it's a shame comments aren't working as i'd love to get your thoughts on how a charity shop can become 'award winning'. perhaps they excelled in odours. or colour coordinated clothe rails, or retro vinyl, or number of salad spinners held in stock, or most used wedding dress, or ...
everyone remembers their first wimpy
kezia and i went to a posh riverside town and after duck feeding and play-parking we went for lunch in Wimpy. it had everything i remember - knife and forks, disappointingly untasty burgers and poor service (they never brought our drinks and the waitress couldn't have seemed to have cared less about us being there) !
still, it's great to know Wimpy is still going strong and hasn't changed in all these years !
bloggy badness
just a quick apology for the lack of comments and slightly more random arrival of daily updates on funkypancake at the moment. it seems funkypancake is causing serious problems to the webserver, so whilst we're working on ways to make things better, all comments are off i'm afraid.
hopefully, when it gets sorted, things will be much faster and betterer and lovelyier than they were before and we can all be happier and live longer lives.
so apologies, especially to the brilliant commenters, for the short term disruption to your funkypancake service !
and especially many thanks to matt the web-landlord for all his helpingnesses
hopefully, when it gets sorted, things will be much faster and betterer and lovelyier than they were before and we can all be happier and live longer lives.
so apologies, especially to the brilliant commenters, for the short term disruption to your funkypancake service !
and especially many thanks to matt the web-landlord for all his helpingnesses
page 84
this is such a great picture of the people who are HERE TO HELP YOU at paddington station. it's taken in the station showing them actually helping. And it's page 84 from their giant book of station signs.
chenniss
ah. the classic combo. chess and beach tennis
art
we went up to london to see the crack in the tate modern and the exhbition in the bargehouse. it was very good.
hassock of the week
zoomy-inny
the testing unit
it's a generic testing unit. testing what and whom do you think ?
wildlife photography
tony gets up real close to a heron. click to admire in full glory
rrescription
neon writing is tricky
joined up Ps looks like Rs.
photo courses
i was delighted to get my results back for the Open University course i did last year. you can read about it here I was pleased to get 97% ! These photos were my final portfolio
i should also thank all you kind readers and even kinder commenters who have encouraged me taking photos. i'm simply loving all the comments at the moment - they are the funniest bit of the blog i recon.
i'm now thinking of doing this course at the Open College of Arts Would anyone be interested in enrolling at the same time to swap notes as we go through and each save £100 on the fees ? could be good fun to have a group of us doing it at the same time.
drop me an email if you are interested. enthusiasm more important than skill - the less you know the more you'll learn !
my first pain au raisin
being chocolate free is still a nightmare and i regularly dream of scoffing the stuff. i've still managed to keep it up for several months (i can't remember when i actually decided to stop).
anyway, i've been having croissants for breakfast instead of pain au chocolat, but a cafe i went to didn't have croissants so i had to have either pain au choc or pain au raisin (both seen here).
it was alright, but nothing can ever be better than chocolate. humph.
bargehouse
there's a great exhibition of things at the Bargehouse art gallery in london until the end of the month. i loved it so much i'm going to go back at the weekend.
updated: website here
affordable art gallery
affordable, but to whom ?
page 51
for those who haven't been following the page thing, most of the posters at Paddington Station seem to have page numbers on at the bottom left hand side.
brush
this little white brush was on a white wall with a white background, so i converted it to black and white.
man in the moon passage, london
occasionally when i'm walking across london i see a street with such a fantastic name i have to detour down it. this was one such place, and i ended up getting a bit lost as a result, but well worth it !
bollard jetpack
i had meetings in london nearly every day last week, and walked a similar way each day, so i got to see some evolving mundaness - like this bollard wearing a jet pack
it all looked so good, but the next day i came by it had obviously all ended in disaster
toast wars
i like how cafes often have photos of the food they serve, just in case
you don't know what things like sausages, beans, coffee etc look like.
two cafes close to each other near farringdon station both had pictures of toast.
two cafes close to each other near farringdon station both had pictures of toast.
sad stories of have a go heroes
there's a little park near st paul's cathedral which has a whole row of memorial stones for people who died whilst trying (not all successfully) to save others.
the stories are fascinating yet really sad. well worth clicking on the pictures to read the inscriptions.
i've walked through this park loads of times but this was the first time i've spotted them. i was actually looking for this
many item
plural singular. perhaps something broke. or it's a jigsaw. i'm not sure if the headless mannequin will help.
lolly pop man taking it easy
here's a lolly pop map resting up
he's sitting on a nice velvet covered cushion.
lollipop people are the closest you get to human bollards.
old ski
there's definitely i pun in here somewhere. i'm losing my touch.
upper class graffiti
this is on a wall tucked round a corner from farringdon station
i spoke to some builders who were unloading some stuff from their van just next to it. they said they'd never seen it before.
it's jolly nice.
lighter
comments deliberately disabled !
that's not right
on tottenham court road for all to see
do you use to drink beer ???
what do you think about get your beer fruity.
i spotted this sign in possibly my new favourite cafe in finsbury square near the crown bowling green.
temporary
life is temporary. so is skateboard (as seen here)
a great list
this list really is a brain dump. any ideas on what it's about or who it's from ? (click lower version for readable size)
NOT a general seating area
is this then a specific seating area ?
plants on the move
see, i warned you. plants are on the move. these cactuses have got their own transport
there can't be many things in life which aren't made more jolly with the additional of googly eyes.
love
i had meant to use this photo on valentines day, but forget. sorry about that.
caged bird
i walked past this just a few moments after i'd seen the original (without wings) in the National Portrait Gallery. the bars are probably poignant on various different levels.
the history of word art
i looked at this for ages before i realised it didn't actually say Word Art. i think someone needs to write a book on Word Art and how it can bring powerpoint presentations alive. cough
100 geocaches and counting
kezia with a disposable camera
two adorable travel bugs
ironing service
supreme
st pauls in a window
i added a slight split toning to get the pinky hue (who?) but otherwise the magic was all as seen (including my legs (and?) bottom left)
river walk
make sure you are wearing your welliles
weight limit
6 people ? of average weight we assume.
bad use of space
perhaps they need to let the words and arrows breathe
prisoners
we saw these people heading for the starting line of the Reading Half Marathon yesterday
and then we saw them finishing - still going strong
running in the family
jane and esther did the family fun run things yesterday morning.
they got silver and gold blankets when they finished which was all you could ever wish for !
they got silver and gold blankets when they finished which was all you could ever wish for !
then jane went on to run the Reading half marathon and did very well indeed
when we got home i went to bed and slept all afternoon, despite being the person in our family who did the least exercise !
jen and leo
Jen and Leo have kindly allowed me to post some pictures from our recent photo 'engagement' shoot thingbob around bracknell to celebrate their togetherness (and as an apology for not being brave enough to take their wedding photos!)
we started near one of the many underpasses. as they posed a flourescent oomer-zoomer whizzed by much to everyone's delight
then we divided in to a bookshop for a photo with Lola
we looked a bald mannequins
and stood in front of signs with hidden wedding messages
jen ran in to iceland to stand by this sign, this time symbolising the courtship phase of their relationship.
and here's a wedding dress in the Oxfam shop window, worn by a green faced mannequin
and a giant diamond ring
and this was a bit weird from a perspective point of view. they are standing above some goths.
we did do a few sensible shots too.
marriage is a journey etc.
and finally we ended in this beautiful garden.
we ended up with a couple of hundred shots, which i narrowed down to about a hundred which were ok. these are just a selection.
thanks jen and leo for letting me experiment on you and being such good fun !
if anyone else would like a funkypancake photoshoot - let me know. it only takes an hour.
reasonable prices apply (probably).
welford park snowdrops
even if there had been no snowdrops it would have been a fantastic place to visit
humour failure
these two books had fallen down in front of a window in a Bracknell children's playgroup type place. Little Miss Fun vs Nobody Laughed. The fun's over it seems
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