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Wonders of the World Meme


Wonders of the World Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s meme is to say what you think the 12 Wonders of the World are? This can be man-made, natural, things you’ve seen, things you haven’t! Or a mixture!

So here are my twelve …

1. Power of Natural Forces, especially the sea
2. Existence of Life. Even as a scientist just the sheer chemical and anatomical complexity blows my mind
3. Diversity of Life, from amoeba to elephant; from top of Everest to ocean depths
4. Amazon: the rainforest, the fish, the parrots
5. Cats, from domestic cats to terrifying tigers
6. Human Intellect / Mind, without which we wouldn’t have any of the following …
7. Agriculture. How do you get from being a hunter-gatherer to a settled community growing rice and pigs?
8. Stonehenge, being a representative of all incredible building by ancient peoples who as far as we know had no writing and no recognisable mathematics
9. Bread and Wine. How did anyone go, A, B … X to discover them; bread especially
10. Writing, without which we wouldn’t have society or literature
11. Medieval Cathedrals: complex architecture, brilliantly built with no advanced mathematics or science
12. Zero, without which we wouldn’t have maths or science

1. Stormy Seas, 2. Coral Reef, 3. Bugs life, 4. Rainforest Parrot, 5. Wild Jaguar, 6. The Labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, 7. Terraced Rice Fields of Sapa, 8. Stonehenge, 9. Wine and Bread, 10. Book of Hours : Use of Sarum, Prayer to St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury (circa 1330), 11. Focs artificials gòtics, 12. zero

As always these are not my photos so please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

medical, memes, personal, photography, science

Eye-Eye!

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Eye-Eye!, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 47/52 (2009 week 03).

I had my annual diabetic retinopathy scan today, where they take (digital) photos of the back of they eye. This entails having eye-drops to dilate the pupils so you can’t see properly for several hours afterwards – not invasive or nasty, just a damn nuisance ‘cos you can’t focus. This is my eyes 3 hours after the drops when they are starting to wear off – and look how dilated my pupils still are!

memes, personal, photography

12 Ways to Win Your Heart Meme


12 Ways to Win Your Heart Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s meme is to tell us 12 ways to win your heart!

To win my heart you need to …
Be my friend
And my sister;
My mother
But not my father.
Share my interests
While remaining true to yourself.
Bring me food
And bring me wine (but the pine logs are optional).
Be my jester (but not my knave, and definitely no strawberry tarts),
My muse
And my soul-mate;
But most of all be my lover.

1. A Rose For My Friends, 2. My sister enjoys the morning sun, 3. mother-baby bathtime – dscf8133, 4. Super Angry Father, 5. Object #1, 6. Siamese Toast Twins, 7. miniature food en masse, 8. wine, 9. Clowns & Jesters at Alexandra Palace, 10. my muse…, 11. soul mates, 12. If u were my lover

As always these are not my photos so please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

arts, memes, personal, photography

Hockneylated & 13 Artists


Hockneylated, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 46/52 (2009 week 02).

I think the time has come to do another 13 things, so here are 13 painters I admire:
1. David Hockney
2. Nicolas Poussin
3. MC Escher
4. Leonardo da Vinci
5. Hans Holbein
6. Albrecht Durer
7. Eric Gill
8. Willem van de Velde the Younger
9. My mother
10. Rembrandt
11. Mark Boxer
12. Osbert Lancaster
13. Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

food+drink, memes, personal, photography, sexuality

Guilty Pleasures Meme


Guilty Pleasures Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s meme is all about those events, foods, hobbies, people, restaurants, beverages that we love, but bring about a little (or a lot of) guilt.

As usual here are the questions ans my answers:

1. Breakfast cereal — As I don’t do breakfast cereal as such I’ll have to say Sausage and Bacon Sandwich
2. Cheap Restaurant — Nico’s
3. Expensive Restaurant — If I must The Ritz is as good a candidate as any!
4. Alcoholic Beverage — Beer
5. Non-alcoholic Beverage — Hot Chocolate, with Cherry Brandy!
6. Sad song — Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant
7. Convenience Store item — Food
8. Tabloid Magazine — Nah, don’t read them!
9. TV Show — Anything with one of my heartthrobs in it!
10. TV Celebrity — Oh let’s go for Michaela Strachan; she’s been around forever and is still as luscious as when she started!
11. 80s Movie — Emmanuelle, well it’s 70s actually, but who’s counting?!
12. Way to completely waste time — CENSORED

1. 3/365, 2. Nico’s, 3. Putting on The Ritz – Reworked, 4. German Beer Girls, 5. koko black hot chocolate, 6. Alice’s Restaurant, 7. A seminar student choosing Convenience store food, 8. Day 47 of 365 Days of Music, 9. Paul Shirville (Heart Throb) Rose, 10. Michaela!!, 11. Pierre Bachelet and Herve Roy / Emmanuelle, 12. Some of my photos have been CENSORED by Flickr – Here are the instructions to see them:

As always these are not my photos (except which is mine) but please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

memes, personal, photography, thoughts

My Game Meme

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My Game Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This mosaic is for the Flickr group My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and 12 questions which you have to answer with a photo from another Flickr photographer — it makes you look some of the other great work on Flickr!

This week the theme is games.
I found this quite hard as I don’t generally do things like board games and party games; they aren’t part of my family’s culture.

Questions and Answers:
1. What is your favorite board game? Scrabble
2. What is your favorite card game? Shopping (with someone else’s credit card) 🙂
3. What is your favorite TV game show? University Challenge
4. Who is your favorite TV game show host? Roland Rat
5. What was your favorite childhood game? Monopoly
6. What is your favorite computer/online game? Flickr
7. What is your favorite Monopoly game piece? I don’t recall what we had, but it wasn’t these modern silver tokens; anyway I always preferred having hotels on Mayfair and Patk Lane!
8. What game do you consistently win at? Failure 🙂
9. What is your favorite party game? Drinking!
10. What is your favorite video game? I don’t have one
11. Who do you like to play games with the most? Me! — that way I get to win
12. What game does your life most resemble? Chaos

And here are links to the individual photos:
1. Scrabble Tile Charm – Theme: Winter, 2. credit cards, 3. University Challenge, 4. Roland Rat Rat Rapping, 5. I LOVE Photo Editing! — Girls Playing Monopoly, 6. Flickr meltdown, 7. Park Lane Hotel, 8. Cascading Failure, 9. Cat drinking at the tap 1, 10. Book of secrets, 11. Color Me Crazy, 12. An Oil Painting of Organized Chaos

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

amusements, memes, personal

Name Meme

So here is another meme which I came across quite some while ago courtesy of Katyboo.

1. What is your name? Keith

2. Complete the following statements using the first letter of your name to start each answer.

A four letter word: Kite
A Girl’s Name: Keeley
A Boy’s Name: Kingsley
An Occupation: King
A colour: Khaki (it’s the only one I can think of)
Something you wear: Kilt
A Beverage: Keemun Tea (can anyone think of another?)
Food: Kiwi Fruit
Something Found in a Bathroom: Key (well there’s one in my bathroom!)
A City: Köln
A Country: Kazakhstan
Song With a Girl’s Name in the Title: Kate, Ben Folds Five (1997)
Something You Shout: Kill!
Celebrity: Kylie Minogue
Cartoon Character: King Rollo
Flower: Kalanchoë
Animal: Kiwi
Fruit: Kiwi
A Book Title: King Arthur’s Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation by Martin Biddle
A Film Title: King Kong

3. And now tag 4 or 5 of your friends. I tag anyone who wants to take up the baton!

beliefs, memes, photography

Modern "12 Days of Christmas" Meme


Modern “12 Days of Christmas” Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr photo-meme …

OK so we all know the old classic “12 Days of Christmas” but let’s bring it into modern times and rewrite this classic for fun! Because who even wants those milking maids? [Well I did put in a bid!] In the classic each gift gets more and more extravagant – let’s see what we can do to top each item in modern terms!

So here is my choice …

Twelve Lamborghinis
Eleven soccer players [tho’ they probably cost more than the Lamborghinis!]
Ten crates of bubbly
Nine magic carpets
Eight morris dancers
Seven deadly sins
Six lotto numbers
Five special tarts [“Oooo, you are naughty, Mr Horne!”]
Four million pounds
Three lucky wishes
Two digicams
And whole pile of really good books

1. 200510 lamborghini gallardo, 2. David Beckham, 3. Champagne Mercier Ă  Epernay _ 2, 4. Magic Carpet, 5. Morris dance, Whitby, 6. 365 Day 195. 7 Sins Week. Lust., 7. Magazine page numbers #1, 8. strawberry tarts, 9. The Four Royal Portraits, 10. Make A Wish, 11. my new olympus, 12. A Rainbow or Just a Pretty Pile of Books?

As always these are not my photos but please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.