here’s something outrageously british. apologies to any american’s still in shock from janet jackson’s superbowl outing ! It’s the Cerne fertility giant
It’s best seen from the air, but you can see it fairly well from a viewing point. unfortunately we went on a very foggy day.
notice the giant’s scissors.
on our recent holiday we went to Monkey World. It’s fab ! Go there. now.
there’s mad violent scarey things:
Free range Lemurs (you can go in to their enclosure with them):
chimps:
and of course (!) chickens:
here is a sign up a tree. but what does it say ?
squirrels and owls please take note.
Behind our holiday house was a wood where we went for an early morning pre-breakfast walk.
here is a sign to the lovely sounding puddletown:
here is a pond (highly reflective):
and a nice loverly path:
and here is kezia all dressed up puddle jumping:
here is kezia:
have you ever seen a sadder donkey ?
this must be how bees see street cleaners
here are some lads on a stag night. the one at the front is playing bagpipes and dressed in all your classic bag piping garb (scottish readers can feel proud).
the long shutter speed (caused by the rainy conditions) and negative effect (thanks to negative photo day) cause a nice trippy effect i think.
remember the mole hole ? well it’s now got two gloves on it and even some blue string. it’s a summary of the week’s blogging in one steaming pile !
also there’s an identical pile of dirt in the street where i live at the moment. perhaps i should dig down and see if they are connected by a tunnel.
the gloves and string don’t show up to well because of my choice of photography style for today. sorry.
here is a slightly threatening post-it note. it says “next time something is going over”. is this a note from hit man to a client regarding a contract to throw someone off a bridge ? should i phone the police or investigate myself ?
contractual information displayed in an empty shop. notice my matrix like appearance in the reflection. that’s what i actually look like.
is it ever appropriate to have beer for breakfast ? i occasionally think i might fancy a pint when i’m walking to work. but by then i have been up a few hours. what’s the cut off point before which drinking is unacceptable and you have to admit you have a problem ?
Here is a van advertising Honey Dew, my favourite honey based ale.
it was snowy this morning. here is a no entry gate
and here are the allotments by the station:
it rained one day on holiday so we went to a dinosaur museum in dorchester. it was a bit dull to be honest. the posters claimed it was a multimedia museum, but that meant a few computers with picture databases on which were built in the 1990s.
here is a dinosaur head:
in amongst all the factual dinosaur stuff they had these to scare little (and big) kids with some imaginary life sized people dinosaurs:
crazy 3D effects were courtesy of red and blue glasses (very 1980s):
and i was happy to see some jurasic computer history:
here is another comedy hotel (real this time). to encourage you to stay in their lovely hotel they had installed an ancient crumbly photo montage showing what the rooms were like. if the quality of the photos was anything to go by, they won’t be having many happy visitors.
left is the board for the board (and lodging) and right is the bedroom
There’s a mini-science museum called Discovery in the Brewers Quay in Weymouth and it’s great. it’s three smallish rooms choca with physics stuff you can play with ! esther and i went and it we had the place to ourselves.
esther loved the mirrors best – there was a room where you could go in and shut the door and see yourself off to infinity in all directions.
and i always love a fish eye mirror
highly recommended !
my first nautical glove
