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ABC Meme


ABC Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme was an alphabet meme … a word for each letter of the alphabet (but we were allowed to drop one letter to make a 5×5 square. Of course yours truly has to do it all — and put a different (I hope) slant on it by doing the English comic alphabet as first produced by the variety duo Clapham and Dwyer in the 1930s. So I give you the not entirely original …

A for ‘Orses
B for Mutton
C for Yourself
D for Dumb
E for Brick
F for Vescent
G for Police
H for a Beer
I for Novello
J for Oranges
K for Restaurant
L for Leather
M for Sis’
N for Lope
O for a Pee
P for Relief
Q for a Bus
R for Askey
S for Teeda
T for Two
U for Me
V for La France
W for a Bob
X for Breakfast
Y for Husband
Z for Breezes

The two centre images are the first and last Greek letters, Alpha and Omega, so beloved of Christian symbolism.

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.

1. Horse Eating Hay, 2. Assorted Beef & Mutton satay, 3. The day the little rocket hit a tiny little planet, 4. Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 5. Heaved bricks, Glencoe between Reading Way and Kings Way, 6. Sweet and Bubbly, 7. Chief of POlice, 8. Felix having a beer., 9. Ivor Novello Plaque, 10. Jaffa Oranges, 11. Caff, 12. Gerald Tobin Hells Angel Funeral , 13. Tiny? Bite me! (101/365), 14. A (alpha), 15. Omega, 16. embroidery envelope 1, 17. Mannekin Pis, Brussels, Belgium, 18. Cafe Achteck (Pissoir) am Chamissoplatz, 19. Bus Queue, 20. British Film Icons, 21. Ferula asa-foetida, 22. ~Tea for two~, 23. 365 day one hundred & fourty-nine: will you for me, 24. vive la france, 25. 100708_Shilling_1955, 26. Egg for breakfast on pain complet in France., 27. husband and wife, 28. zephyr

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current affairs, memes, personal, photography

Mini Sports Meme


Mini Sports Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is about sport.

1. Your favourite sport. Cricket — really good club cricket; I’ve given up on professional cricket: not only has it been dumbed down the idiots running the game seem totally inept
2. Your least favourite sport. Darts; the only place it belongs, if anywhere, is in the pub
3. A sport you use to play as a kid. Cricket was my first love, followed by hockey
4. A sport you like to watch. Rugby; I hated playing rugby at school, but always enjoyed watching it
5. The most stupid sport. Netball; how stupid is a game where you have to stop when someone is holding the ball?
6. A sport you wish you could play. Squash, although I’d settle for almost anything now my knees have given up; I used to play a lot of squash as a student, not that I was ever any good!

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.

1. Village Cricket, 2. 127/365: Dart board, 3. The Fever named Cricket!, 4. Mini Rugby Tournament Cooke Rugby Club – 4th April 2009, 5. neilhodgins_volley_netball-18, 6. squash

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amusements, memes, photography

Fictional Meme


Fictional Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme allows our imaginations to run wild by providing an imaginary/fictional name for each of::

1. Pub. The Beaver & Dyke
2. Fictional character. Willie P Gentleigh
3. Steam engine. General Puffin A Long
4. Passenger liner (or battleship). SS Lieutenant
5. Place. Rutting-in-the-Wold
6. Company. Kidney, Scrotum & Codd, Debt Collectors
7. Restaurant. The Twist of Lemming
8. Cosmetics range. Poof
9. Railway station. Muddefield Parkway
10. Army camp. Camp Tutu
11. Model of car. Nissan Hutt
12. Pet animal. My late friend Victor always wanted to call one of his cats after the Georgian artist: Pirosmanashvili

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.

1. Beaver Lodge, 2. Hold my world gently, 3. Puffing Billy, Emerald Lake, Victoria, 4. SS Great Britain, 5. Ashridge – the Rut 2, 6. debt collectors, 7. Garden Critter Yellow Mouse, 8. the poof tree, 9. Manifest on mud flats, 10. Pride 2009 (42 of 82), 11. shed on wheels, 12. Niko Pirosmani

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memes, photography

1 to 12 Meme


1 to 12 Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to use the numbers 1-12 and see what we come up with! Here are mine:

1. One Minute Manager
2. Twins
3. Three Bridges
4. Four Feet
5. The Famous Five
6. The Prisoner; Number Six
7. Seven Dials
8. Eight-legged Arachnids
9. Nine Men’s Morris
10. Ten Little Nigger Boys
11. M-Theory, a variant of String Theory and one of the contenders for the cosmological “theory of everything” requires 11 dimensions of space-time.
12. Dozen Eggs

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.

1. Winter Break – Think Spring!!, 2. The Twins, 3. Railroad Bridge – Three Rivers Point, 4. Four feet, bottom view, 5. Vintage Famous Five Books Card Game, 6. THE PRISONER Vintage Steampunk Necklace by 19 Moons, 7. Seven Dials – London, 8. Spider, 9. Nine Men’s Morris, 10. Ten Little Nigger Boys, 11. M Theory, 12. 101:365 One Dozen

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memes, personal, photography

What's in Your Bag Meme


What’s in Your Bag Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to share what we call carry with us day after day! What’s in your purse, bag, pocketbook, briefcase, backpack, etc.? Here’s my selection:

1. Moleskine notebook
2. Two mobile phones
3. Glasses cloth
4. Fuji F40fd camera
5. Keys
6. Coins
7. Sanford/Papermate PhD pen
8. Wallet (credit cards & cash)
9. Handkerchief
10. Extra strong mints
11. HP iPAQ
12. Pocket lint

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.

1. 24 aug 09 “ostrich”, 2. Sister two, 3. Utata IP72 – Easter Weekend, 4. Fuji Finepix F40fd Gunmetal, 5. Skeleton Watches & Pocket Keys, 6. 10 ancient Indian gold coins, 7. Paper Mate® PhD™ Multi™ Multipurpose Writing Instrument, Pen/Pencil/PDA Stylus, Medium 1.0 mm Point Pen, Fine 0.5 mm Point Pencil, Blue, 8. Tea wallets, 9. Julian waves it up, 10. extra strong mint, 11. HP iPAQ 210 Enterprise Handheld, 12. WTJ pg35/36 07/03/09 Collect Pocket Lint

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memes, natural history, photography

Garden Meme


Garden Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to find 12 things you would plant in your garden. As usual here’s my rather liberal interpretation of the theme:

1. Old Roses
2. Woodland Glade
3. Herb Garden
4. Big Koi Pond
5. Blackberries & other soft fruit
6. Chillies
7. Scented Geraniums
8. Bamboo
9. Fruit Trees
10. Flowering Currant (Ribes)
11. Walled Vegetable Garden
12. Pine Trees

Except for and #10 which are mine, 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.

1. Apothecary’s Rose, 2. Spring arrives in the woods, 3. Herb garden, 4. Koi Pond, 5. September Blackberries, 6. Chilli plants, 7. Scented Geranium, Walsall 13/09/2008, 8. Kyoto bamboo, 9. magic fruit tree, 10. Flowering_Currant, 11. The Vegetable Patch, 12. Buttermere

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