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there were lots of people in fancy dress at the half marathon yesterday

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i liked this guy's subtle costume

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i'll post a load of photos of some of the other fancy dressers over the next week or so

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the chap below was another superman and he did seem to be actually flying (click on the picture and look at his feet!)

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wheeling out the emergency apparatus in front of all the anxious spectators awaiting the arrivals of their loved ones

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i spotted this chap standing on his own doing some strange dancing at the station.  then he stopped.  but luckily he started again.  then the train came.  the end.

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keep britain tidy ?

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it just materialised

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we went to see tunng and tinawiren last night.  a great combo ! (spotify here and here )

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sorry, i really must learn to edit my output.  here are loads of pictures of loads of daffodils

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didn't something like this happen in the wizard of oz ?

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that's the word on the street.  look around you.  (the heather is in the silver foil bottom left)

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this was my cunning way of preventing blindness

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but it's also a neat way of checking receding hair lines

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kezia spotted these two on a walk at the weekend.

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"it's a frog.  ooh.  it's a double decker" she said

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i like how the gentlemen brought a feather with him to woo his lady

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or perhaps it's fancy frog feather hat, which he's doffed out of respect for the situation

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they slowly made their way as they made their way across the path

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before hopping off together in to the undergrowth

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here's my mum talking to brother edd sitting in his hire car (stationary in a motel car park)

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bit blurred this one.  sorry about that.

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i'd rather drive than block

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(and a little bit of BT Tower)

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now i don't spend quite so much time wandering the streets of london i miss the latest foxton estate agents mini decorations.  here's 303 in the latest livery

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i spotted my old colleague harry walking down the south bank so i did my classic paparatzi in his face and finally revealed myself from behind the camera.

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readers who have been following funkypancake since the olden days may remember harry from such classics as here and here and here and here

(no harry was harmed in the making of these photos)

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come to london where the streets are paved with ... er ... vacuum cleaners

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there was a fire in london seeable from all over the shop.

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read more here

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all different, hand made, but strangely similar

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the person behind this door obviously likes magazines and menus though

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here's amazon from the gladiators. in our work canteen.
 
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we threw our xmas tree away last wednesday.  it was a shame as the needles were still attached, and despite us chopping it down in December it was all quite alive.

and jane finally took the last few christmas cards down which were stuck on the downstairs toilet door a fortnight ago.  so i think christmas is finally over.  oh well.

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yesterday it was back to the thames path after a few lots of months break over the winter (where much of the path was waterlogged or frozen)

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this stretch was surrounded by posh houses.  here is where uri geller lives:

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i'm not sure who lives here.  but they are a bit messy

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we would also have passed paul daniel's house somewhere.  this probably wasn't it, but shows the calibre of accommodation

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and there were kids of shiplake college messing about on the water (notice the 6 form girls on the bank urging the boys on)

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it was good to see some hand made signs rather than the usual proper stuff

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and near the end we saw this little lagoon thing

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with some speeding signs down the bottom

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the exiles sent me these excellent pictures of bollards that weren't springing back up.  an excellent series of shots.

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funkypancake may be getting a little more international next month or so as we do a family trips to both new zealand and minehead in april.  i'll keep you posted

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we saw this in hyde park last week.  it's a target for the local artery club

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there were some quality beards about too

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this is from my supply of older photos.  in my pre-psychedelic phase !



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well, i guess spring is on it's way. i nearly tripped over this quite large frog on the way back (probably about 10 cms long) and then i nearly squashed a snail. be careful out there people.
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i'd never heard of the elfin oak.  but here it is

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a snap shot of modern london

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or you can just arrive there and follow the signs

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here's slow portrait number 8.  it's trefor of philosopher on tap.  i gave him free range to do what he liked with his 4 minutes, so he decided to talk through some it, despite me telling him it would have no sound.  what did he say ?  lip readers, reveal all in the comments !

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strange fish.  or birds

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this local cat (or his twin) has taken a rather worrying interest in esther's guinea pigs

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he/she sits there by the bars looking at the guinea pigs just millimetres away.

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i've photoed the discount shelf in tescos before, but it keeps on growing.  it's now spilled out in to a basket on the floor ...

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and a whole new container

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it won't be long before even the good stuff is just thrown in to this giant heap and people can fight each other for the bargains.

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i've got my rps panel for my licentiatiship beginning of next month.  i used a big desk at work to lay my photos on to try to work out a coherent panel.

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i nearly got run over taking this picture

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that's esther and kezia through the hole.  (not to be confused with the other version of this picture which had a man walking through the hole)

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words and pictures that speak for themselves !

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sale, everything off

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this was taken in bath last month.  it used to be full of romans, so i guess 'est urant' means something to them.

update:  Alan emailed me to say that my hunch might be right, and it could actually mean something in latin.  his suggestion was a little wilder than i imagined, but when i looked it up here it said 'est urant' means 'is heavenly'.

a great roman word play from the great city of Bath.  excellent stuff.  well done all.

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in bath abbey

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they've only gone and closed the access road (i think)

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so, does this mean if you want to do some filming it's closed ?

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esther wanted me to show you this picture of her dressed up for st david's day which reveals her long arm, huge hand and withered leg.

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happy st david's day to all our walish readers !

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this is a bit of a mysterious hassock

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