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one of my OU T189 course assignment pieces
here is kezia's little owl floating down a river. let me explain how this happened.
we were walking by a river when we saw this tree had falled across it. spotting another path on the other side we decided to have a family adventure and see if we could climb over it. the water was quite deep and fast flowing, so we needed to be careful.
jane decided she and esther could make it over, but kezia and i would stay safe on our side. unfortunately jane had kezia's newly acquired owl in her pocket. this owl was a prize in a treasure hunt kezia had just completed, and kezia loved it.
as jane started to cross the river it dropped out of her pocket in to the water. for a while it lay still in a sheltered backwash
but then, before we could hook it out, it caught the current and off it went.
we all ran down the river looking for places to hook it out. the river was wide and too deep to wade in. the bank was very high so getting to water level was tricky too. here is jane trying to reach it with a stick
but before we knew it little owl was in the main current.
luckily esther spotted a big rock near the edge of the river and the owl headed straight for it. it was make or break time. i put my camera down, grabbed a stick and managed to coax it in our direction, and by some amazing skill managed to scoop it out of the river (without falling in myself)
owly survived the ordeal (and i got plenty of photos), but we never did cross the river.
let that be a lesson to all of you.
it's a spirograph. demonstrated by katie, who owns the contraption (and the hand)
i'm not sure quite how the numbering will work out but this is around my 6,000th post on the blog and we've just passed the 4,000th comment mark too !
if the stats are to believed funkypancake got 32,000 unique visitors last month equating to 47K visits and 48GBytes of traffic.
walking wise i've also just gone over the 3,000 miles / 5,000 km mark.
how long have you been reading funkypancake ? long enough to remember lazy eye when i first published her ? why do you keep coming back ?
here is a doll in the streets of hull. it was just tucked out of view, but was a good find i'm sure you'll agree.
one of these two characters is make believe.
and the other is the star of children's TV program.
this is jane's old toy train set. i had exactly the same train set when i was a lad so it's nostaligic for both of us, but it lives at jane's parents so we don't see it much.
we borrowed it for kezia's party last week so kids who didn't want to play the party games could amuse themselves.
it kept me amused, especially when i discovered that jane kept the track and trains in seperate boxes. i suspect they used to be all kept in the same box until the toy railways were privatised and the ownership of the rolling stock and track were seperated.