May 2006
a family voyage
it’s not quite Moses parting the oceans and leading his people across the sea. instead it’s esther leading the family over some stepping stones across a pond in a National Trust property. It didn’t quite have the same religious significance of course.
this is never going to work
if you have to give priority to the slow pedestrian then you are going to be walking slower than them and you then become the slowest pedestrian and so it goes until everyone is stationary.
it’s probably best to walk down here on your own, or make sure everyone starts off by running so you’ll at least make some distance before you all grind to a gradual halt.
woodpecker outside our front door
jane spotted this and knew what it was.
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.
unauthorised shouting
georgina (you know, alvin’s wife) sent me this picture of a ‘no unauthorised entry’ sign because she thought it was amusing due to the severity of the expression. it is very good.
but i wonder if the chap looks a little alien like and he’s about to zap humankind with his powerful black hand. i can understand people not wanting that kind of thing happening and it’s surprising we don’t have more of these anti-alien invasion signs about.
univiting
this hotel front is very uninviting. every little bit says ‘we don’t care that much’. i almost want to go and stay to see how bad it is, so perhaps it does work on a certain level !
