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
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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 #2 which is mine) but please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!
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This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 45/52 (2009 week 01).
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
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This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 44/52 (2008 week 52).
Harry the Cat dozing on my knee on Boxing Day afternoon: “Please I do like it when the humans sit down by the fire and do nothing!”
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 à 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!
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This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 43/52 (2008 week 51).
Ran out of time this week, so here’s one from the archives!
This weeks meme can go one of two ways! Are you still decking the halls and excited about Christmas or are you being a Scrooge this year? You can do either your Christmas Likes or your Christmas Dislikes Meme!
Well I’ve done both. So here first are my Christmas Dislikes:
1. A present you’d hate Sox, handknitted
2. Worst place to spend Christmas Anywhere religious
3. Hated carol Away in a Manger
4. Worst Christmas food Too much chocolate
5. A non-Christmas tree It isn’t Christmas without a tree!
6. Your worst ever present A tacky plastic shoehorn from my aunt in Canada; I wrote her a poem of (non) thanks and haven’t had a present from her since!
7. Worst thing about Christmas Day itself The rest of the year
8. Nasty Christmas Drink Pernod; disgusting at any time!
9. A non-decoration A crib; isn’t it idolatry?
10. Annoying Lights Illuminated inflatable santas
11. A seaside postcard OK here’s one I’ve not seen before
12. Person you least like to spend Christmas with Any religious maniac
1. christmas socks, 2. the reason Jesus came the first Christmas.jpg, 3. Lindsey & Sydney singing Away in a Manger, 4. Chocolate Fondue Fountain, 5. No more Christmas tree 🙁, 6. Dice.jpg, 7. Winter, England., 8. Pernod 2, 9. Christmas Crib from Ortisei, 10. Inflatable Diptych, 11. Postcard from Dick, 12. aah, Capitol Hill in the springtime…
1. A present you’d like £2M
2. Favourite place to spend Christmas At home
3. Favourite carol The Boar’s Head
4. Favourite Christmas food Smoked salmon; we’ve made ourselves a tradition to have smoked salmon sandwiches and champagne at lunchtime on Christmas Day and then our Christmas meal in the evening
5. A Christmas tree Oh there has to be a well decorated tree
6. Your best ever present Noreen, my wife; we agreed to marry just before Christmas and told our parents over New Year
7. Favourite thing about Christmas Day itself Snow, not that I’ve ever seen a white Christmas
8. Favourite Christmas Drink Champagne, or beer!
9. A decoration A wreath on the front door
10. Fairy Lights Yes, and lots of them
11. A Christmas card or greeting OK, here’s a Christmas card
12. Person you most like to spend Christmas with Noreen
1. Hidden Money – Can you see what I see?, 2. Christmas Home, 3. Boar’s Head Carol, 4. smoked salmon, 5. Golden Christmas, 6. Just exactly what DOES happen when you kiss a toad?, 7. Harz Railway Winter 2006 #8, 8. Celebration toast with champagne, 9. Christmas wreath, 10. Day 265 : Fairy lights, 11. Christmas card, illustration, 12. Norn Albion
As always these are not my photos but please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!
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This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 42/52 (2008 week 50).
This week I’ve been feeling remarkably scaly.
An extra Flickr PhotoMeme this week: A New Twelve Days of Christmas …
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is an English Christmas carol which enumerates a series of increasingly grandiose gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. It has been one of the most popular and most-recorded Christmas songs in America and Europe throughout the past century. [Wikipedia]
Create your own series of 12 gifts you would want …
One true love
£2M
Three ravishing concubines
Four miles of my own private sunny, sandy shoreline with nudist beach
Five stone less weight
Six winning lottery numbers
Seven days a week, every week, of warm summer sunshine
Eight hours good sleep every night
Nine percent interest on our savings
Ten green bottles of wine a week
Eleven acres of natural ancient woodland
Twelve month-long holidays a year
1. Mon Amie la Rose – IMG_1165a,** 2. Red Head, 3. Heart,** 4. Morning Light,** 5. 5-peace-stones, 6. lottery, 7. Too good to eat?, 8. tsukareta nya~,** 9. leon’s nine lives,** 10. wine bottles-10, 11. Buche bei Oberbantenberg,** 12. Wintery Temple**
As always these are not my photos but please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!
(The starred ** photographs are from my Flickr favourites.)
And it is worth viewing this on black to bring out the colours!
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