king of the castle
this is one of my favourite pictures from our recent holiday.
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April 2005
2 years of this
as the blog turns two it’s good to think of those who have to suffer so you can have a regular service. the main person who suffers is my lovely wife jane.
so, to thank her i’ve decided to use my This Is Pointless sign to introduce an interactive category and this is how it will work.
create and print off your own ‘this is pointless’ sign. cut it out and take a photo of someone holding it with a neutral facial expression in an appropriate location.
when you’ve got a nice one, email it to blog@funkypancake.com and if it’s fit for purpose i’ll plop it on the blog
here are a couple to get you going
my lovely wife thinking about the blog:
my brother-in-law doing the holiday washing up:
it’s a rag bag of blog readers
so what birthday greetings did you send the funkypancake blog (in the very short notice i gave you) ?
Rascale and unique eric, and a spider man burglar sent by clive and heather
princess carmen and maxx and brother edd
and cousin mike and catherine:
stuffed cats
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a dangerous parish
i was very frightened when i saw this sign. it tells us that shooting happens around here for the sake of ‘conservation’ (perhaps a reference to taxidermy).
but the thing that really worried me was the big black square by the words ‘affiliated to’. does that mean they got struck off by whoever they were affiliated to for reckless shootery ? or is ‘the black square’ some kind of fascist gun club ?
either way, things don’t look good.
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it rains a lot in england
this bridge marks the half way point of the marathon. rain and colness are forecasted for sunday so i suspect it’ll match this early morning picture i took last week (though possibly with more people about)
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st katherine’s dog
here is a no dogs sign from st katherine’s dock london.
it’s quite posh so the sign asks us to refrain from fouling
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what is this i see before me ?
here is my colleague harry. he’s just spotted that the fridge has moved itself out from its usual hiding place.
fridges generally sleep during the day and harry was concerned that this one might be ill or injured as it was out in the day.
harry adopted a soothing voice and attempted to woo the fridge back in to its alcove. unfortunately he was not successful and it remained for a couple of other colleagues to man handle it back.
i’m working from home today. just to be safe.
the family glove outing
esther and kezia’s grandfather reporting a glove sighting near our holiday cottage. so my brother in law and i took our children in search of it.
we found two. and a muddy old hat.
cousing thomas and esther
kezia and esther and glove 1
cousin thomas and kezia and esther and glove 2
esther and kezia and the very muddy hat
cola drink on railings (country style)
i occasionally wonder if i’d like to live in the countryside. it would be quite idilic i’m sure but i wouldn’t get the same sort of photos.
this is the country equivalent of a cola drink on railings. in london at least you know the street cleaners will be round later that day to clean the pavement palet for the next day.
in the countryside it’s just litter.
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swimming pool rules
no jumping in outlandish ways
and no diving (as demonstrated by brother-in-law kev)
royal taxidermy
dead animals wot ‘ave been shot by royalty.
makes you proud doesn’t it.
corporate dog sign
spar (a 24×7 local supermarket chain) has its own dog signs. a nice bit of brand extension.
funkypancake will be 2 on saturday !
hey. Funkypancake is 2 tomorrow (saturday). last year i compiled a page of photos of readers so as to turn the blog inside out for a few moments.
i’d be delighted to do that again. the blog averages around 1,400 different visitors each day (over 22 thousand different visitors last month) so we should be able to get a few photos together !
so if you are a regular reader or an irregular reader or even just a random picture looker, then send me a photo of yourself and i’ll compile a Readers’ Faces with links back to your blog if you want.
or you could send me a mundane picture in the funkypancake style if you like.
Send your photos and suggestions to blog@funkypancake.com
modern blasphemy
if you won’t do it for us, then will you do it for the cleaners ?
of course, if you’ve got a Daimler like this you can ignore signs like this as they are only applicable to peasants.
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registering for the marathon
i registered yesterday for the london marathon. i’ve now got my number, my safety pins and a magic chip thing to time my journey.
if only my knees would stop throbbing i’d be almost quite excited about this Sunday’s activities
by the way – have you sponsored me yet ? be great if you could, even just a small amount
here are the registration desks:
and here is an arch of balloons to increase the excitement level:
there was also a trade show type thing where you could buy any manner of marathon clothing and food and drinks. flora were there in force as they are the official sponsors. and because marathon runners love snacking on marge as they run.
but they did have some quite nice mini yoghurt things:
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