One of the flowering cheery trees on the Greenford Road, near junction with Whitton Avenue, just round the corner from home. Taken today on what was a lovely warm, sunny, Spring morning. A definite improvement on Winter!
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12 Things on My Desk, Reprise
12 Things on My Desk, Reprise, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme is 12 Things on Your Desk .
These photos 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.
Having done 12 of the more unusual things on my desk, I wanted to do something more ordinary, so here are 12 common things from my desk …
1. Box of tissues
2. Big mug of tea
3. Eye drops (come on, you know I’m not going to resist putting pretty girl in!)
4. Papermate PhD ballpoint and pencil (these are the best pens ever; when I found them I bought several and I use these all day, every day)
5. Keyboard and mouse
6. Empty beer bottle; and yes it is a bottle of Adnams East Green, one of the most wonderful beers I’ve ever had
7. Palm TX
8. Coloured paperclips
9. My watch
10. My house keys
11. The Blackberry Pearl wot work provides
12. And the house speaker phone
1. tissue box , 2. my big mug, 3. The night, 4. The best pencil ever, 5. bash on the keyboard, 6. Suffolk beers, 7. Palm TX, 8. paperclips, 9. My Watch, 10. Keys to the Norman Keep, 11. Photo from BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip: Faces of LetsTalk.com 🙂, 12. Paint the Office Red
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12 Things on Your Desk Meme
12 Things on Your Desk Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme is 12 Things on Your Desk .
Except for #10, these photos are not mine . . . 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.
So I chose 12 of the less usual things you’ll find on my desk …
1. Bag of corks
2. Cedar cone
3. Dowsing pendulum
4. Pale blue cutting mat (which I actually use as a mouse mat: it’s easier to clean and much more durable)
5. An air duster
6. Pile of unused Hollerith cards
7. Credit card terminal
8. Diet Coke can of bits for metal recycling (ring pulls, old staples, bent paperclips, …)
9. Bottle of isopropanol
10. Sometimes a cat (yes, this is our Harry practising work avoidance on my desk)
11. Several bears
12. Moleskine notebook
1. Holy Corkage Batman!, 2. Cedar cones, 3. Serenity – Amethyst Pendulum, 4. Mosaic Photo Mat, 5. Fairy Duster Glimpse (4 of 4), 6. Weekly Notebook 08.3: Kidrobot (Inside Cover), 7. Gargoyle Conversion, 8. Tin Man, 9. 7760cm wine glass fire, 10. Computer Security, 11. Baby bear ~watches over my desk, 12. Manet Inspired in my Moleskine
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Things I Hate Meme
Things I Hate Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme is about things I hate.
These photos are not mine . . . 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.
As usual here are the questions and answers:
1. An animal you hate. Elephants. Not in the sense that I have a phobia about them but that I am so extremely bored with elephants and Africa that I’ve developed a dislike.
2. A job you had that you hated. IT Sales. I started in IT technical sales; clearly I can do it; but I hated it
3. A person you hate. Richard Dawkins. See #9 below.
4. Your worst date. Ann. Let’s say no more.
5. Your worst holiday. What holiday? Didn’t have many of them as a kid.
6. Weather that you hate (like you hate the cold or you hate thunderstorms). Cold, wet & windy
7. Worst nightmare. That it actually isn’t a nightmare after all
8. A food you hate. Egg custard. One of very few foods I truly hate.
9. An emotion or trait that you hate (eg. prejudice). Censorship, which for me equates with intolerance, bigotry, fundamentalism
10. A movie you hate. Pick any one; they’re all garbage
11. A book you hated. Anything I did at school; let’s start with Dickens, Great Expectations
12. A city you hate. Brixham in Devon. When I went there some years ago it was completely run down, scruffy and full of posing low-life villains on holiday.
1. The Elephant Tree – elephanttree.com, 2. the seat of authority, 3. All Saints, Oxford (Now Lincoln College Library), 4. For My Friend Jo Ann, 5. Artists at Work 1950s, 6. Carnaval in rain – I am cold!!!, 7. ..retromuta-, 8. Steamed Egg Custard, 9. Against Censorship on Flickr, 10. The super pink K, 11. Katie … great expectations for the New Year …, 12. Brixham # Trust me
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
One Word Meme
One Word Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme is just a single word answer to each of the 36 question.
These photos are not mine . . . 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.
As usual here are the questions and answers:
1. Yourself: useless
2. Your spouse: Norn
3. Your hair: coconut
4. Your mother: 93
5. Your father: dead
6. Your favourite item: stuff
7. Your dream last night: forgotten
8. Where were you last night: KF4248
9. Your computer: unstable
10. The room you are in: study
11. Your ex: physicist
12. Your fear: poverty
13. What you want to be in 10 years: happy
14. Who you hung out with last night: nobody
15. What you’re not: sane
16. Muffins: mule
17. One of your wish list items: PA
18. Time: dusk
19. The last thing you did: pee
20. What you are wearing: skin
21. Your favourite weather: sunshine
22. Your favourite book: Dance
23. The last thing you ate: apple
24. Your life: aimless
25. Your mood: depressed
26. Your best friend: who
27. What you’re thinking about right now: depression
28. Your car: invisible
29. What you are doing at the moment: surviving
30. Your summer: gone
31. Your relationship status: ring-fenced
32. What is on your TV: dust
33. What is the weather like: grey
34. When was the last time you laughed: septuagesima
35. Your pets: cat-fish
36. Your phone: functional
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
1. Useless Brain Usage 2, 2. Jora Norn Hero, 3. Coconut tree on the beach., 4. Free Bird (DUC 93), 5. Dead Great White Shark, 6. book shelf project 1
7. Forget me not, 8. …planetary colonisation…, 9. 10: Unstable Ink Zone, 10. study for dancing flame, 11. fluorescence, 12. Bollocks to Poverty
13. 55.365 im happy with me, 14. Nobody’s perfect …. not even Rose …, 15. sane-az 49, 16. John the Mule, 17. wreck of the prince albert, 18. Dusk
19. Pee, 20. 365: Day 261, And we shed what was left of our summer skin, 21. Sunshine for the Soul!!, 22. Sandhill Cranes dances at dusk (5), 23. Apple’s heart 10.080view,thanks!, 24. Aimless
25. Depressed Goldfish, 26. Who are you, 27. Living with Depression, 28. the train of the invisible passengers, 29. { trying to survive …, 30. Ogimachi, Shirakawa-go
31. With This Ring, 32. Gold Dust Woman, 33. Jane Grey miniature…?, 34. Compline at Septuagesima 2008 – 03, 35. japanise cat fish, 36. Functional ware
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Zen on Lyme Regis Beach
I think this is just brilliant! Enterprising and unusual. Why can’t people be creative and do more things like this?
In the Taxi
March self-portrait for Flickr 12 Months group.
World's Tiniest Meme
World’s Tiniest Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week we have a midweek Flickr meme, called World’s Tiniest Meme!
These photos are not mine . . . 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 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.
As usual here are the questions and my answers:
1. What’s your favourite quotation?
It’ll pass, Sir, like other days in the Army [Anthony Powell]
2. What’s your favourite book title?
How to Fossilise Your Hamster
1. Comics ‘On Patrol’ – Ottawa 2006, 2. “Horned Hamster”
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Meme
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme is about colours.
These photos are not mine . . . 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 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.
As usual here are the questions. Having, as I do, a skewy slant on reality here’s a strange take on colours! (And no, I’m not colour blind.)
1. Sun
2. Sky
3. Water
4. Red
5. Orange
6. Yellow
7. Green
8. Blue
9. Indigo
10. Violet
11. Rainbow
12. Your Name Keith Marshall
1. diamonds to the sun, 2. “good morning,today’s sky”, 3. Kongxincai, Ong Choy, Hollow Vegetable, Water Spinach, 4. April Snow in Red Square, 5. Orange Sulphur or Alfalfa Butterfly…, 6. A touch of Green..Bamboo forest, Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain) 2a, 7. Green Sea Turtle Being Cleaned, 8. Blue Hotel, 9. Indigo, 10. Violet 03, 11. A hint of RAINBOW, 12. Marshall’s Beach Sunset
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Daffodils in Our Garden
What I had forgotten, momentarily, when I took this is that these daffodils are growing on the spot where we buried the Floss Cat’s ashes — it was his favourite sunbathing spot. They’ve been there for 11 or 12 years now and are still going strong, unlike many naturalised daffodils.



