This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 27/52 (2008 week 35).
This is the one of the windows of the pub at 7 Shepherd Street in London’s Mayfair district. Taken on a very wet August Sunday morning. With the photographer caught unawares on the right.
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25/08/2008 Pet Meme
25/08/08 Pet Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
1. Gianduia occhioni, 2. Mutant pickles, 3. Thirty years old…, 4. Almost Nothing, 5. Rallying Point… In The Middle Of Nowhere…!!!, 6. Paper & String, these are a few of my favorite things, 7. Relaxing is good!, 8. Emergency Rescue, 9. Near Humphrey’s Peak, 10. Kissie … just arrived back home from the vet …, 11. A hunter Russian blue, 12. pussy 3875
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste the html into your blog or Flickr stream (the easiest way is to copy the URLs and then head over to the fd’s flickr toys link above and use the mosaic maker).
The questions and answers:
1. What was your favorite pet? Calico (tortoiseshell & white) shorthaor moggy
2. What was it’s name? She was nicknamed Pickle
3. How old where you when you got your first pet? The first to be really mine was when we moved to our own house when I was 30, but there had always been pets at home, including a dofg which came for my 7th birthday and was nominally mine.
4. What do you feed your favorite pet under the table? Almost nothing, the current 2 cats aren’t that interested in human food
5. Where to you like to take your pet on trips? Nowhere, they don’t like travelling
6. What is your pets favorite toy? String
7. What is the coolest trick your pet can do? Relax
8. Did you adopt your pet or buy it from a breeder? Rescued, all four of our cats (2 now long gone and the current 2) were rescued from The Blue Cross a charity which we continue to support
9. Where is the furthest you’ve taken your pet on a trip? For the current two, 7.2 miles from the rescue centre to home
10. What is the most extravagant thing you’ve purchased for your pet? Vet care
11. What is your favorite breed? Russian Blue cats
12. Describe your pet in one word. Pussy 😉
I guess I should explain that our first two cats were Floss (white & black; male) and Bubbles (aka Pickle; tortie & white; female) were rescued from Blue Cross at Victoria in August 1981. They were followed by the present two Harry (grey & white; male) and Sally (tabby; female) from Blue Cross at Hammersmith in December 1998. H&S appear from time to time on these pages. Notwithsatnding that there were always pets around home: cats, a dog, a tortoise, a duck. Oh and of course we also have fish. Now I know we’re mad!
Determined to do this without a human in any frame!
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Wedding Ring
Wedding Ring, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 26/52 (2008 week 34).
Sadly this isn’t my original wedding ring (that’s now too small, cracked, and on a chain round my neck); this one was made some 15-20 years ago by a local craftsman goldsmith. It still astonishes me that I’ve been wearing a wedding ring – yes since the day Noreen and I married – for almost 29 years (anniversary in a couple of weeks time)! We often look at each other and say “how did we do it?”.
Inside the Actor's Studio Meme
Inside the Actor’s Studio Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s entry to the Flickr My Meme group
1. To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, 2. process_diagram, 3. sun, sea, sand…….., 4. Stressed Poser Friday, 5. Seeking Seashells On The Sunny Seashore, 6. Pathway to sirens, 7. fuck art bomb everything, 8. Retirement Cake, 9. Butchery 2, 10. Oh ye of little faith!, 11. Tranquility…, 12. Capricorn
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste the html into your blog or Flickr stream (the easiest way is to copy the URLs and then head over to the fd’s flickr toys link above and use the mosaic maker).
The questions and answers:
1. What is your favorite word? tintinnabulation
2. What is your least favorite word? process
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? sun, sand and sea
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally? stress
5. What sound or noise do you love? sunshine and seashore
6. What sound or noise do you hate? sirens
7. What is your favorite curse word? fuck
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? retirement
9. What profession would you not like to do? butchery
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Oh ye of little faith
11. What is your favorite emotion? tranquility
12. What is your zodiac sign? capricorn
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
From Below
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 25/52 (2008 week 33).
My Olympic Meme
My Olympic Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
As I don’t believe in the Olympics — not as they are currently run and administered anyway; the ideal is fine — here is a rather jaundiced view …
1. olympic-games-1948, 2. Field Hockey-Washington, DC: PhotoID-97421, 3. poussée bobsleigh, 4. kelly holmes, 5. Ancient Greece, 6. way to heaven 天堂口。, 7. Day 196: That’s Logic, 8. Sunrise – River Dart, Totnes, 9. Dorthea, 10. commonsense, 11. Heirloom Tomatoes, 12. road to nowhere
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste the html into your blog or Flickr stream (the easiest way is to copy the URLs and then head over to the fd’s flickr toys link above and use the mosaic maker).
The Questions & Answers:
1. What is the closest the Olympics has ever been to your hometown? London, 1948
2. What is your favorite summer Olympic sport? What Americans call “Field Hockey”
3. What is your favorite winter Olympic sport? Bobsleigh
4. Who is your all-time favorite Olympian? Kelly Holmes
5. If you could go to the Olympics, where would you want the games to be held? Ancient Greece; and all the contestants would compete in the nude just as in Ancient Greece
6. What is the symbol or predominant color on your country’s flag? A cross
7. If you were a member of the Olympic Committee, what sport/activity would you add to the games? Logic
8. What sport is your least favorite to watch? Darts
9. You get two tickets to the Olympics, who would you ask to go with you? Whoever buys them both
10. Hey, you made the team! You’re going to the Olympics – what’s your event? Commonsense
11. The Olympics asks you to bring something to represent your hometown or home country – what would you take? A tomato; well my home did used to be one of the largest areas under glass in the country, growing glasshouse crops etc.
12. Congratulations! You won a medal! Where are you going to display it when you get home? Nowhere
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Finish this Sentence Meme
I stole this meme from Girl with a One-Track Mind and Troubled Diva because I liked it’s zen mischief potential. My objective is just to complete each of the following sentences. Your objective is to work out which are serious and which aren’t.
- My uncle once: sailed the ocean blue
- Never in my life: have I taken illegal drugs
- When I was five: I looked like Prince Charles
- High school was: much better than I realised at the time
- I will never forget: and that isn’t the only resemblance I have to an elephant
- Once I met: a man in a kilt
- There’s this girl I know: who is unattainable
- Once, at a bar: I met a Colonel with a dog
- By noon, I’m usually: in need of lunch
- Last night: I didn’t have sex on the beach
- If only I had: the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen
- Next time I go to church: I’ll be taking photographs
- What worries me most: is politicians
- When I turn my head left I see: something sinister
- When I turn my head right I see: a right tit
- You know I’m lying when: I keep quiet
- What I miss most about the Eighties is: not very much
- If I were a character in Shakespeare I’d be: a lion whelping in the street (Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene ii)
- By this time next year: I might be retired
- A better name for me would be: Zanzibar
- I have a hard time understanding: why people need religion
- If I ever go back to school, I’ll: be in a time machine (’cos neither of my schools exists any more)
- You know I like you if: I kiss you
- If I ever won an award, the first person I would thank would be: grateful
- Take my advice, never: admit that you know
- My ideal breakfast is: a full English
- A song I love but do not have is: a John Mayall mouth-music track from the ’60s that I can’t now identify or find
- If you visit my hometown, I suggest you: search out its history
- Why won’t people: think
- If you spend a night at my house: you’ll be solicited by a pussy (or two)
- I’d stop my wedding for: a KitKat
- The world could do without: religion and politicians
- I’d rather lick the belly of a cockroach than: do a bungee jump
- My favourite blonde is: Michaela Strachan
- Paper clips are more useful than: a grapefruit and Marmite sandwich
- If I do anything well it’s: only to lull you into a false sense of security
- I can’t help but: be a perfectionist
- I usually cry: inwardly
- My advice to my child/nephew/niece: if it harm none, do as you will
- And by the way: there’s always toast at the end of the dragon
I’m not tagging anyone for this, but feel free to borrow (or steal) it if you like it. If you do use it, it would be nice if you left a comment here.
Getting to Know You Meme
Getting to Know You Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
1. A perfect weekend watching Tom & Jerry on tv and laughing…, 2. Amur Leopard, 3. A TRIBUTE TO A DEAR FRIEND. (KILKENNY, IRELAND), 4. Untitled, 5. ₪ Rhizomatic in-between typewriter ₪, 6. “Timemachines”, 7. 14th August 2007 / Day 226, 8. The cake i Made for my mother’s birthday, 9. Embracing the sun … {}, 10. day 151 Caught with crabs in my merkin! , 11. Walking in the rain 1_2499, 12. Smiles of Tibet in Exile
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste the html into your blog or Flickr stream (the easiest way is to copy the URLs and then head over to the fd’s flickr toys link above and use the mosaic maker).
The Questions & Answers:
1. What makes you laugh? Cats
2. What makes you cry? Animal suffering
3. Who is the one person you trust the most in the world? My Mother
4. Who broke your heart? Jill (no, not you Mistress Weekes; long before that!)
5. Where was your first kiss? I really don’t remember
6. What body part do you love most (your body)? My mind
7. What body part do you love least (your body)? My fat
8. What candy fits your personality? Coffee creme chocolate
9. What color would you paint your room if you could pick any color? Magnolia
10. A word that makes you laugh? Merkin
11. What emotion do you express most often? Depression
12. Who inspires you? The Dalai Lama
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys. for the Flickr My Meme group.
The Tipping Point
Gulp! For some unknown reason, lunchtime conversation turn to how long we’ve been married. Yes it’s a long time: 29 years come early September! And Noreen commented that we must be close to the tipping point where we’ve been married for longer than we haven’t. I said I thought we should both have passed that point — having done a quick order of magnitude guestimate in my head. And so it turns out on doing a proper calculation using a spreadsheet. Noreen (being slightly the younger) passed the tipping point in the middle of August 2007. Whereas I didn’t get there until 5 May this year. That, plus the prospect of our 30th wedding anniversary in September 2009 and that I am rapidly approaching 60, suddenly seems quite scary. Oh and I passed the tipping point with my employer back in December 2002! Eeekkkkk!!!!!!!
Today I've Been Mostly Half S(h)aved
Today I’ve Been Mostly Half S(h)aved, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 23/52 (2008 week 31).