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hail

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it hailed the day before yesterday and it just stuck where it landed.  my car looked like it was covered in the stuff you have on top of an apple crumble.  what do they call that stuff ?  also made the roads rather crunchy slidey.  bit like skiing on rice crispies (in my experience)

esther’s foot prints

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our back lawn has been mostly untouched by human feet as everyone has been playing in the street.  esther let herself out yesterday afternoon and ran round this bucket lots of times, just because.  jolly good.

tomato ketchup

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we went to a restaurant for kezia’s birthday yesterday.  it was ok, but not great, although she had a good time !  the ketchup bottle had this rather fetching label on it.

bollard

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out of control water fountain

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i fiddled with this for ages to try to get it to stop.  everyone walking by thought i’d started it off, but i hadn’t.  i was just trying to do the right thing.  ho hum

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snow glove

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the real london always shows through

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snow sculptures

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i suspect this one below wasn’t a snow man

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no idea what was going on here though

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burnt snow bollard

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the continued story of the barbie head

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a dusting more snow arrived and started to melt, but the head remained, looking a little colder yet sweaterier than yesterday.

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transport permitting i’ll not see her during daylight hours tomorrow, but hopefully we’ll catch up with her later in the week

trolley ambitions

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like it or not, this chap just isn’t going to fit.  (note the mysterious pipe in the lower picture)

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light through a passage

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the south bank space station

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big ben busker

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final reductions

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the poor old barbie head

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well, what with sunday’s excitement of watching the poor barbie head making its way down the hill, we woke yesterday to find the street covered in deep snow.  we went out to see if we could locate her, but this is as close as we got.  the lump was actually a leaf

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later in the day a group of yooves arrived and started a giant snow ball fight.  no problem there except they were in the exact vicinity of the barbie head

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luckily they didn’t spot her, or if they did, they left her where she lay (“they wouldn’t let it lie”, except they did).

we went out about 5pm as it was getting dark and there she was in the now melting snow

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kezia carefully kicked her over with her great big boots to reveal her still smiling face

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we’ve expecting more snow and certainly freezing temperatures overnight, so we’ll have to see how she fairs.  her hair certainly isn’t as nice as it once was


snow on the christmas tree

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snow on a doorbell

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ambient cooling on my outside computer

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snow on one of those numbering helicopter pad things

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