small blue hippo
hippos aren’t native to britain. especially not the blue ones.
the mystery moth
lynda sent me this mystery moth which she had in her house and couldn’t identify. is it a mothetore – the mythical mothical creature, half moth, half goat ?
sonning scarecrows
on Monday we went to see the scarecrows in Sonning on Thames which is a cool annual thing they do each year.
here are just a few of the 70-odd scarecrows people had made
Pirates of the Caribean
Rolf Harris
Sonning Zoo
Oh dear – i thought this one was a car crash which seemed a bit in appropriate. it was actually making a point about the queues through the village to get across the bridge (but of course!)
Alan Titchmarsh and their local MP (in the background)
Esther’s favourite was Winnie the Pooh playing pooh sticks in someone’s garden
Dobie (from Harry Potter)
i loved this Mighty Boosh one featured Milky Jo (and Old Greg out of shot)
what ?
it’s a fresh Banksy from Tottenham Court Road
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.
