it was sophie's 30th birthday party last night.
no smoking - does that includes hats ?
we had ben and jane round for a cheesy fondue last night. he kindly posed for my week 3 photo course assignment photo.
our friend pete sent me these photos from his holiday to cyprus. he wondered how well devonshire teas travelled.
extreme sandwiches
goat
but who is pete you ask. well, what better excuse do i need to show you this picture i took in june of him at a church event.
andy kindly modelled for one of my open university assignment.
if it wasn't for the fact that it was his beer, i would suggest a good way to persuade people to pose for you to give them beer. in andy's case he had already thought of this.
we went round to regular commenter rascle's house for sunday lunch yesterday. we had a lovely time with top notch food and conversation.
here is his front room, although i think he and his lovely wife managed to avoid being in the picture (they were out playing chicken i think). rascle's mum is the picture though.
lucinda and her cousing katherine, and richard drummer from church came round yesterday for fun and cheese. we went for a walk in the afternoon.
after lots of 'one two three weeeees' for kezia, katherine decided she wanted a go too.
we were invited to a friends house yesterday for a gorgeous lunch. so we went. and it was.
here is my dessert. strawberries in a strawberry jam tart (with obligatory cream).
i had a day back at my old office in central london yesterday so met russell (interesting2007 organiser) for breakfast. he chose eggs bacon chips and beans which delighted me no end. i had toast.
here is ian
here is ian's pea patch and kezia picking peas from his pea patch
and here is esther with a giant bunch of flowers. she emerged from ian and carolyn's garden holding this big bunch of flowers and we all thought she'd just pulled them up out of the garden. but then it emerged she had found them in their compost heap.
carolyn kindly said we could keep them. we didn't ask about the old tea bags which were also in the compost heap.
dave and em have got a new camera. dave was using it liberally yesterday so expect photos to appear here quite soon.
he seemed very keen to get one of me looking silly, which is quite easy as my sideburns are a bit out of control at the moment
my photography companion tony had a birthday yesterday. he's now reached an age.
here is andy demonstrating the problems he has reading funkypancake on his pda.
my work colleague toby is on this bridge. can you see him ?
here he is
and here he is with his cosmic head-dress
(i'm only posting this because i know he's got a pile of very embarrassing ones of me which i'll feel honour bound to post when the time is right)
here's a mid-key tony.
i asked him to pose doing a yawn. although i suspect my photographists patter would be enough to send anyone to sleep. you should see the one he won't let me show you. it's brilliant !
(photo taken by learner-gill)
as also seen here and posted with his permission (just in case you were worried)
here is regular commenter rascle giving instructions at a party at our house last friday evening. he'd arranged a number of excellent party contests which went down a treat.
the blur on the bottom of this photo is kezia's hair getting in the way !
here's a better picture
we saw our lovely friends andy, gill, adam and luke yesterday. we started off with a very wet bike ride which ended up with soggy kids sitting in our car boot (or 'trunk' for you americaners). then it was back to our house for fun and beer (dads only).
congrats to paul and liz on the birth of amy - a little sister for dougie.
on the first day of our holiday, which was in dorset, a few hours drive from our home, we bumped in to work colleague Mark and his family.
and the next day we were in a traffic queue on a thin road and looked at the car next to us, only to discover my cousing chris and his family were in it. they too were on holiday so we met up with them a few days later.
and then the next day, at slime regis beach, we made our pitch (blanket down, buckets out etc) and esther spotted sue and steve and their children sitting next to us !
so that was three totally unrelated friends/family on three consecutive days, all a long way from home !
tony last year
i was really pleased with this portrait. click for big (as you can do for all funkypancake pictures!)
we had a lovely afternoon with darren, miranda and rowena yesterday. top food and top company.
here's darren and rowena in some tall maize
