FUNKYPANCAKE – Page 722 – an eye for the mundane

why growing a beard is like global warming

Wednesday 03 Oct 07

here is the evolution of my scottish holiday beard over a 2 week period.

i was thinking of doing a post along the lines of ‘why growing a beard is like global warming’

growing a beard is like global warming because if you don’t do anything about it it’ll get worse

growing a beard is like global warming because just admitting that there’s an ugly problem staring you in the face isn’t enough to solve the problem

growing a beard is like global warming because your own actions have a negative effect on other people

growing a beard is like global warming because it makes you all hot, itchy, scratchy and a bit stinky.
can you think of any of (better) reasons ?

(this last picture was taken in the evening after 2 long days of driving in a post-holiday traumatic state. the beard was removed shortly after)

polish traffic

Wednesday 03 Oct 07

digging

Wednesday 03 Oct 07

in the worm climate of new zealand

Wednesday 03 Oct 07

funkypancake interesting 2007

Tuesday 02 Oct 07

remember interesting 2007 ? well, i’ve synced my live commentary to the photos

see here if the thing above doesn’t work
thanks again to russell for letting me speak.
the little video with me prancing about is here

a square in Warsaw old town

Tuesday 02 Oct 07

a still evening on the clyde

Tuesday 02 Oct 07

a sign about ordering meat

Tuesday 02 Oct 07

village life is brilliant

serious penalty

Tuesday 02 Oct 07

alien

Tuesday 02 Oct 07

this is what aliens should be doing. wandering around in space suits spraying mysterious substances

rascle’s carpet

Monday 01 Oct 07

rascle’s carpet would make ideal desktop wallpaper

thames path – part 12 iffley to lower radley

Monday 01 Oct 07

after a few months off due to the bad weather (this sign warns of flooding making walking dangerous), we were back on the path. it was just me and the ladies this time as jane’s dad was ill, so i had no one to talk about computers to.

we picked up the walk where we left off in May back at iffley. a lovely little village south of Oxford.

a key feature of this section of the walk was the electricity pilons

and the fishermen

the main lock interest was Sandford Lock which has the greatest fall of water on the Thames (and an attractive pub, but alas we didn’t stop)

it was a fairly short, but worthy stretch. weather nice and warm, and no moaning from kezia

i’ve booked a couple of days off work in October to do some more thames path walking, so hopefully we’ll get the momentum going, although i think we’re over a quarter of the way along now.

flower

Sunday 30 Sep 07

i don’t really like taking flower pictures, but this one came out quite nicely, especially with a little post processing colour boost. i wonder if i over cooked it a bit ?
i used this flower on the label of some home made CDs last week and it worked quite nicely.
here’s the unedited original so you can compare

spare emily pictures

Sunday 30 Sep 07

i’m doing an open university photo course this term, and it’s jolly good fun. i’ve submitted my weekly assignment photos, and here are a couple of spares i didn’t use. we’re encouraged not to publish our course assignments until the end in case anyone nicks them, but i might share some along the way !