« pipes | Main | planes »

places archives


100708_850_img_1040.jpg

just like the real british sheffield (where i spent 4 glorious years half my life ago and i still think of as my spiritual home), this Sheffield is based around a pie shop

100708_850_img_1041.jpg

in fact, the pie shop seemed to be the only thing in sheffield.  but what more do you need in life ?

100707_850_img_1018.jpg

i'm not sure if this is telling us to do something beautiful, or suggesting that lyttelton was/is beautiful.  i suspect it's a cry of desperation for the former

100707_850_img_1019.jpg

100724_850_img_1310.jpg

various signage

100724_850_img_1311.jpg

the lifejacket is particularly good for very short people

100610_850_img_0536.jpg

no wonder Thai people look so content.  it's the source of kama

090606_850_img_4115.jpg

this is stone at a place called stone.  not sure if it's the actual stone

081207_850_img_2093.jpg

080225_850_img_7085.jpg

do any of you live in or around belfast ? if so, can you let me know via email ?

071003_350d_img_4631.jpg

070623_850_img_3405.jpg

i think this might be keswick
070504_850_img_2216.jpg

i've no idea where this is but i like the fluffy clouds
070504_850_img_2218.jpg

we had a great day in portsmouth yesterday. we started by going up spinnaker tower, then we went to hms warrior (see in the foreground here) and hms victory which is near the middle.

070318_350d_img_6766.jpg

there's plenty more photos to come and we'll definitely be going again to see the rest of the stuff we didn't have time for on this trip.

070310_850_img_1227.jpg

we had a kezia and daddy day yesterday so we went to the living rainforest and then beal park. much fun was had by all

IMG_4121.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/09/IMG_3098-thumb.jpg
(click for big niceness)

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/09/IMG_3076-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/08/IMG_9180-thumb.jpg

when we were in minehead back in easter i went for a walk up a hill which looks back over the town. the image above is taken with my widest angle using my Sigma 18-200mm lens . the one below was at the biggy zoomy zoom end.

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/08/IMG_9181-thumb.jpg

i love that lens. and you should too !

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/07/IMG_0235-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/06/DSC09588-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/05/DSC09591-thumb.jpg

i'm not convinved dragging your family across a roundabout is a good plan. even if they are made of stone
http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/05/DSC09590-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/05/IMG_9185-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/05/DSC09552-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/04/IMG_9161-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/04/IMG_9344-thumb.jpg

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/03/DSC08672-thumb.jpg

jane and i spent our 10th wedding aniversary in the slaughters. good name. great place.

http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/03/IMG_7249-thumb.jpg

everyone in england is required to travel to the seaside on a sunny summer day. esther, kezia and i spent the day in brighton so we could meet jane when she'd finished her bike ride.

it was very hot and there were lots of people there:

this isn't always a great plan:

people as far as the lense can see:

DSC04049.jpg

there's a lovely village in south Oxfordshire called Hambleden. it's where they filmed some of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Vicar of Dibley.

You can walk from this picturesque village down the valley to the River Thames. you should do it sometime.


click for big pic

bracknell is a funny place. here is a gold building with a reflection of an equally attractive building.

DSC06526.jpg


click for bigness


26things


click for biggness

a trip to the vyne today. it's very nice and worth a visit if you are in the area (or even not as we aren't):
DSC05803.jpg

and again with tony's head in the way:
DSC05825.jpg


i got up early to arrive in Cambridge an hour before my meeting today so i could have a mooch about. it's a very nice place.

i got thrown out of King's twice as it wasn't open (i didn't realise - twice)
DSC04522.jpg

king's church with some nice music coming from it (but you can't hear it on this picture):
DSC04523.jpg

some other college that was open, but i found it too late to fit in a visit before my meeting:
DSC04533.jpg