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Thing-a-Day #16 : Boys on the Tube


Thing-a-Day #16 : Boys on the Tube, originally uploaded by kcm76.

Today we took our friend Sue and her two boys Sam (with book on head) and Harry to the Museum in (London) Docklands. Here’s a montage of two frames I made of the three of them on the London Underground – with Sam and Harry wrecking their copies of Keri Smith’s This is Not a Book.

The Museum in Docklands is well worth visiting; there was much more to see than I’d expected and it was almost all interesting. It charts the history of the Port of London from Roman times to the present and currently has an exhibition on “London, Sugar and Slavery”. Admission is £5 for adults (which entitles you to free entry for a year!); free for under 16s. Follow the link for museum details.

They also have a good café (called 1802) where we had coffee, lunch and afternoon tea with the boys devouring copious quantities of chocolate brownie. And the café does hand-cut, really chunky chips to die for. We all enjoyed the food and I doubt any of us need to eat again this week!

The downside? The Underground ride home was horrible: unstable, wet (it was pouring with rain all day), stuffy, humid, crowded, hot. Yeuch! It was a good reminder of why I hate the Underground and why I used to have panic attacks when I had to use it regularly. But I got to go on the DLR, which somehow I’ve avoided up to now.

But otherwise a good day!

memes, photography

Winter Meme


Winter Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

The weekly Flickr meme currently has a seasonal theme. This week is WINTER. So here are my 12 photographs on the subject of winter.

1. Winter Be Gone
2. Winter’s Story
3. summer or winter?
4. winter meditation: loving-kindness
5. … a touch of yellow …
6. The Long Winters
7. Winter blues?
8. Winter Beach Huts
9. It’s Winter Time
10. Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)
11. Winter Party Beach Party 2008
12. Penultimate Winter Rose

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys

memes, photography

Thing-a-Day #15 : Spring Meme


Spring Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

The weekly Flickr meme currently has a seasonal theme. This week it is SPRING! Here are my 12 photographs on the subject of spring. (And I still have to catch up on last week’s Winter Meme, too.)

1. Clip Spring
2. Spring
3. finally… Spring!
4. Spring!
5. Untitled
6. Rusty Spring
7. Plastic pegs
8. Metal Spring
9. Rainbow Magic Spring
10. Pegging Out
11. springs
12. Inward Spiral

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys

memes, photography

Thing-a-Day #14 : 60163 Tornado


Thing-a-Day #14 : 60163 Tornado, originally uploaded by kcm76.

Today I went for a trip on a train pulled by the fantastic new steam loco, Tornado. Yes it is a completely new build but to the original A1 design from 50+ years ago – the last real A1 was scrapped in (from memory) 1966. There is more on the building of Tornado at www.a1steam.com. It is a fantastically big brute of an engine, but incredibly graceful too; and it runs like a dream.

This shows 60163 standing at Platform 1 of London Paddington at the end of today’s tour.

[15/02/2010: corrected the link to the Tornado website.]