This week’s photograph is one I took in Lyme Regis quite a few years ago. I couldn’t resist the symmetry between dog and owner.
Dog and Owner
Lyme Regis, August 2006
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Dog and Owner
Lyme Regis, August 2006
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Dog and Owner
Lyme Regis, August 2006
Buggerred Britain #20
Another instalment in my occasional series documenting some of the underbelly of Britain. Britain which we wouldn’t like visitors to see and which we wish wasn’t there. The trash, abused, decaying, destitute and otherwise buggered parts of our environment. Those parts which symbolise the current economic malaise; parts which, were the country flourishing, wouldn’t be there, would be better cared for, or made less inconvenient.
I could not resist this! The care home where my mother lives is having some building work done. This notice is posted outside their front door. Absolutely brilliant builder’s English!
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More pussy porn this week. Tilly had an interview with the vet on Wednesday and came away without her nuts. It doesn’t seem to have slowed her down any! On Friday I did a major reorganisation of my desk area, installed lots of new filing trays and a couple of plastic crates for holding the build up of filing. Small madam has decided the top crate, which is tucked under a shelf, is a good place to snooze., despite (because of?) the fact that she can only just squeeze in there one leg at a time and that via another stack of filing trays.
The first photo is of her bedding down; in the second she is on ther way out and looking for something to pounce on and destroy.
Pussy in a Box
16 November 2013
Pestle Pussy
16 November 2013
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This week another couple of shots from our recent trip down the Thames. And just for variety here are a couple of Thames dredgers.
Thames Dredger, Aasli
October 2013; London
Thames Dredger, Arklow Rebel
October 2013; London
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A few weeks ago, for Noreen’s birthday, we went on a trip down the Thames on the paddle-steamer Waverley, which is a magnificent boat. Leaving Tower Bridge in at the height of the morning rush hour we chugged down to Southend where we spent a few hours and returned up the Thames in the twilight and early evening.
It was a grand day out and needless to sat I took a lot of photos. Many aren’t very good — moving boats and cameras tend not to work too well together — and I’m still working on the better ones. Here’s one that I’ve finished working up: it is a montage of several shots taken looking north as we sailed under the QE2 Bridge at Dartford.
Betty’s Bridge
London; October 2013
Pussy Porn
I thought we’d have some more pussy porn, after all the internetz is reserved for pussy innit. So here is Tilly the Kitten — some kitten at 24 weeks! — reclining this morning on my desk. She has a promising career ahead as a paperweight — when she’s not being a demolition specialist, that is!
I can look quite cute and asleep when I want to
Let’s just have a quick wash
And now here’s my regal portrait
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I thought it was about time we had some more cat porn. So here is Tilly the (not so small) kitten taken earlier today. She is now almost 23 weeks and growing nicely. But as you see she is such a poor neglected kitten she has to sleep amongst the filing on the study floor! The rest of the time she’s charging around like Evel Knievel — or eating. Well typical teenager really!
Tilly
Greenford; 28 October 2013
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This week’s photograph is one I took about a year ago when we visited Norwich for the day. As at many cathedrals, at Norwich you get some interesting views of the tower/spire/crossing/etc. from the cloisters. There’s no special story with this photo, it’s just an image a rather like.
Norwich Cathedral Spire from the Cloister
Norwich; October 2012
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OK, for this week’s photograph we have something slightly different. A tiny little beast which although scary looking is harmless to us, but scary indeed if you’re a caterpillar as it is a predator and parasite.
This is an Ichneumon Fly. They parasitise caterpillars and other creepy-crawlies by laying their eggs in them for their larvae to eat from the inside.
These are the four best shots of a tiny ichneumon which wandered into the house. I suspect it if being a member of the Braconidae, possibly Apanteles glomeratus; almost certainly one of the Ichneumonidae. Its head and body about the size of a British black ant (so around 4-5mm) with the antennae and ovipositor each roughly the same length as the body. Its legs were definitely reddish. It liked walking about (it was quick too) and then suddenly flew off into oblivion.
Ichneumon Fly?
Greenford; July 2009
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This week’s photograph is one from our rail holiday in German’s Harz Mountains, February 2008. Here 7241 pauses in failing light towards the end of a steam charter from Quedlinberg to Wernigerode.
Admiration
Eisfelde, Germany; February 2008