here are two people who you’ll know but won’t. thanks to the power of the internet you’ll have read Alan (on the left) and Rascle’s comments (on the right) on funkypancake.
Alan is the nature expert and Rascle excells in the bad pun. Both excellent chaps.
well done. hoorah.
we had our annual summer party for people in any way associated with music at church this evening.
here is a pie we ate:
kezia and i stumbled across the reading waterfest. it was jolly good fun with lots of canal paraphenalia. Kez and i went on a canal boat ride which unfortunately crashed in to a bridge ! (luckily it didn’t break anything or anyone and we carried on our way).
the finale of the festival was the duck race where loads of plastic ducks were set lose to float down the canal (think about that for a moment). once the excitement was over and the winner was anounced people went home. we stayed to watch this little boat catch the remaining plastic ducks.
i took the day off today so we could go to Marwell Zoo as a family day out. we had a good day despite the 2 massive thunderstorms.
on the first one we sheltered in the giraffe house and the second one we were near the rhinos.
animals in a storm are always interesting. unfortunately it was all a bit too gloomy to get a decent picture. so you can have this one of some chairs instead.
what happened to all these animals :
temporary as in “it died but we’ll get a new one” ?
or temporary as in “it got away, but we hope to catch it soon”
i liked this one best. it’s like the old “this page deliberately left blank” thing in a printed report.
zzos always have loads of little animals which look a bit like mice but aren’t. he’s a classic example. no idea what it is.
i overheard someone say to their frightened (and if i’m honest frightening) child “how many times do i have to tell you, that is NOT the bogeyman, it’s Humpty Dumpty”.
the sign said one thing:
but we’ve all seen the invisble man. we know their heads have actually disappeared
in my day you were lucky with a guidebook. these days you can hire a PDA whilst you wander round the zoo so you look like a business man on his day off.
i was tempted from a technology point of view to hire one, but then i noticed you needed to leave a £300 deposit !!!
how do you deal with hooligans and other brutes ? if you are in a train station you have them dragged away by tractor.
but even tractors have limits.
prince william graduated yesterday in scotland. so this journalist did a report outside buckingham palace.
he could have stood outside a newsagents shop with all the prince william post cards. but he didn’t.
Hyde Park in london seems to be a very popular place for bands to perform. unfortunately it makes walking through the park a pain as you have to go round the massive cordoned off area.
here is where New Order will play on friday night. you can just see the stage over the barriers.
and there’s some lost people pointing as well to add the amusement.
this is a very strange thing. an 8 legged horse. fancy that.
