abandoned shoes
there are many abandoned shoes in new zealand. people tend to take them off and walk barefoot round the place. they may then remember to return to their shoes. or may not
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there are many abandoned shoes in new zealand. people tend to take them off and walk barefoot round the place. they may then remember to return to their shoes. or may not
toe shoes
here are some shoes outside a maori meeting place. the top are toe shoes and the ones below are identical possible causing confusion on exit
party shoes
it's the custom to take your shoes off when you go to someone's house in new zealand which makes for comedy shoe piles outside houses, especially if there's about a million people attending. here is just some of the shoe pile outside a house we went to this evening.
fabulous selection of "boots"
why the "inverted commas" ? perhaps their foots are so loose they aren't actually shoes ?
drop your shoes here
i've glad they didn't have a similar sign for trousers
shoe
small country - big load of abandoned shoes
slippers
more mysterious lost kiwi shoes. i wonder if kiwis are being abducted by aliens
another kiwi shoe
what is it with kiwis abandoning decent shoes in the street ?
a fancy shoe
this is a fancy shoe in down town auckland. i wonder if it was lost or a very clever marketing thing ? looks like whoever lost it doesn't undo their shoe laces proper like.
why you should never throw away an old pair of shoes
these shoes have kicked themselves out of the inside of this recycling bin
lost shoes
i used to deliberately lose shoes, but i've managed to kick the habit
beach shoes at barafundle
whilst jane and i huddled together in our warm hoodies, raincoats and boots, our girls threw off their shoes, and threw on their swimming costumes to shiver in the sea.
only in britain would you find people wearing skimpy sunbathing clothes alongside those more suitably dressed for winter wind and rain
strange shoes
george sent me this excellent picture of "Two pairs of ladies' courts lined up in the gutter next to a car. No owners in sight."
brilliant stuff
shoe
every found object has a story, and that's why i like them.
as it's sunday i should also recommend this (click on the jukebox to listen to it). it's from our church service last sunday, and is worth listening to for the story at the beginning.
it also makes the point that God cares about the little things in life which is great inspiration for all you lovers of the mundane !
priceless shoes
this shop sells price less shoes which is bound to cause some customer confusion. i assume the shoes aren't free, just not marked up properly. "how much are these" would be a common cry.
wellies
things have been stupid hectic in the funkypancake household since early june. yesterday i thought i'd have a look through some of the emails i've been sent during that period of time as i knew there were a few photos people have sent me to upload.
so this week i plan to share those outstanding photos with you. whilst i love to see other people's photos it takes extra time to put them on the blog so i've let them slip for a while. this week is catch up week and apologies to anyone who's photos i've missed and/or delayed for ages.
thank you for not wearing sharp heels or stilettos
it was a pleasure not to wear sharp heels nor stillettos.
shoe refresh
this is my shoe attached to the pointy end of my leg. these shoes (for it's one of a pair) have taken me about 5,500km in the last year and a half which isn't bad really. i bought some new shoes last week which i'm phasing in.
kezia took this photo. she did a lot of zooming in and out before finally taking it, so i think we can safely assume she meant it to look like this. she even added the extra grass for effect.
lapping camera numbers
how's this for a weird thing. on monday i 'lapped' my Canon 350D
here is shot IMG_9999.jpg and IMG_0001.jpg
now, the very strange thing is my Sony DSC-W12 camera (my work-a-day camera - (link to the replacement version)
here is DSC09999.jpg
and here is DSC00001.jpg (notice the tail being chopped off - by a carving knife no doubt)
so what can we learn ? well, i take more shots with my Canon at weekends than i do during the week with my Sony camera, but i get a higher hit rate of usable blog photos with the Sony as they are more likely to be of nonsense. As shown by the two random samples above.
giant invisible man walking across a field
bernard sent me this photo with the title 'Giant Invisible Man in trainers'
shoes
here is richard with his camera, which is better than mine !
cleaning and curling
curling is a funkypancake sport. not because i'm good at it though, because i'm not.
look at his utility bin.
beyond brushes, which are an essential part of the game, you also get to wear the most fantastic shoes.
initially they looked like normal trainers:
but you can pull the rubber bottom off (called a 'kipper') and reveal a super-slippy teflon sole, enabling you to whizz about on the ice like a mad thing
and look at all the other gadgets and gizmos you can get:
glove and shoe (and soles)
here is a glove and some shoe parts on the banks of the thames. i assume this arrangement was (wo)man made. but you knever now.
shoe
my old house mate jeremy (who will soon appear on the blog) found this shoe on his travels. it's a nice sporty number. slightly retro feel.
a shoe on the bonnet
remember the car with the shoe ? i said it was no place for a shoe, but commenter jokey disagreed.
i therefore give you this as further evidence. the shoe has now slipped down on to the bonnet.
cars just don't get it. they have wheels, not feet. it's no wonder things go wrong when they attempt tricks with shoes. it's just showing off. plain and simple.
why cars don't wear shoes
here's a funny little car. what's funnier is it is wearing a shoe on its head
car's shouldn't be allowed to do this kind of thing in my opinion
shoes
shoes at esther's birthday party a few weeks back, taken by tony
boot on a stick in a forest
while on a walk a few weeks back we found this pink welly in a green forest. there's something very funny about things perched on the end of a stick. this was no exception
but quite how do you lose just one welly ?
or perhaps it was a modern footpath direction arrow thingymbob
shoes on the high wire
click for big
broken laces
it's common wisdom that you seldom break two shoes laces at the same time, despite them being an identical pair and they should have identical wear (because most people do both laces up on their shoes)
anyway, here are two broken lace ends. thus disproving the theory
(unless they are the two ends of the same lace in which case the theory remains).
soiled shoe
no wonder someone threw this shoe away. it's got a bird poo on it.
worn insole
how does something like this end up on the street ?
did someone get annoyed with it as they walked along, pulled off their shoes, grabbed the insole and threw it in to the street ?
pewari's found shoes
pewari is a regular reader.
i didn't know this and neither did most of the rest of you i'd guess. but she does and i know that because she told me. in an email.
but not only that, she also sent me this photo which contains not one, not three, but TWO different random shoes.
i've no idea of where she found them, but they look very good. so a big thank you to you (if you are pewari, which at least one of you is).
