This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 37/52 (2008 week 45).
1. Cat’s eye, 2. Jaguar im Manu Nationalpark in Peru, 3. Steve-O, Which Channel is CNN ?, 4. Eeyore, 5. Not Afraid, 6. Alice Liddell and the Cheshire Cat, 7. Aquarium, 8. Sporting Lucas Terrier – Wandle Peter, 9. Morgana a fada!, 10. Animal skeleton, 11. Little Black Cat, 12. Small Fish from the Amazon
Questions and Answers:
1. What is your favorite animal? Domestic cats
2. Laws have changed, you now can own an exotic or wild animal as a pet. What animal would you own? Jaguar, they’re just slightly more manageable than tigers
3. Some people are cat fanciers and some are canine cuddlers. Which is is for you cats or dogs? Cats, every time; no question; cats are magic
4. What one word best describes your personality? What animal do you associate with that word? Depressive, so it has to be Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh tho’ I’d much rather be Tigger
5. Confess! What animal/insect/reptile/amphibian are you secretly (or not so secretly) afraid of? I don’t do “afraid”; I’m certainly in awe of the big cats; and I hate maggots; but I’m not afraid of anything
6. What was your favorite animal character from a children’s book when you were younger? Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland; I never did work out how to do that gradual disappearing trick. 🙁
7. You’re spending the day at the Zoo, it’s getting close to closing and you’re tired, but you’re definitely not leaving until you see the . . . Aquarium. Hah! Caught you! You thought I was going to say the big cats, but I’ve already seen them. 🙂
8. What kind of pet did you have when you were a kid or do you remember a particularly unusual pet you had? When I was 7 we got a small dog, a Lucas Terrier; but there were always cats at home too.
9. If you were to be reincarnated as an animal, what would you want to be? Why? Domestic cat with me to look after me
10. Animals in films always seem to tug at our heartstrings. What cinematic animal was your hero or a favorite? No animal hero or favourite ‘cos I don’t do films; I never did; it isn’t in my culture
11. If you had a stuffed animal as a child, what was it (extra points if you remember its name)? Little Black Cat and yes here he is, the original, snapshotted (can I say that?) specially for this occasion!
12. National Geographic has hired you to go on a photo shoot anywhere in the world you choose. What animal would you want to showcase in your full-color magazine spread (and where are you traveling to)? Fishes of the River Amazon and while we’re there we’ll have a few jaguars and parrots for good measure
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This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 36/52 (2008 week 44).
1. Meet the cat: VIC, 2. Sand Sea Sun – Snorkel!, 3. The meaning of Photography, 4. Happy Nude Recreation Week!!!, 5. my wine and Brad’s beer, 6. My wife’s hairy cunt, 7. 8×6 frosty morning railroad, 8. day one hundred five, 9. Longing for Spring, 10. ordinary pic, but really tasty salad, 11. Reading A Buyer’s Market, 12. Katsuo-ji Temple bells
This week’s question: Just tell us 12 things which make you happy, and a picture for each.
Answers:
1. Cats – because they’re magic
2. Sun, sea and sand
3. Photography – it’s about the only creativity I have
4. Warm sunshine on my skin
5. Beer and wine – two of the essentials of a contented life
6. Noreen, my wife (perhaps I should not say explicitly what I was going to!) and that after almost 30 years of marriage we still have great sex
7. Bright frosty mornings
8. Nudity – it’s normal and it’s comfortable
9. Spring green and blossom on trees
10. Good, tasty, fresh salad
11. Books, especially Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time
12. Bells
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1. Pudge – Leave Me Alone, I’m Sleeping!, 2. SPAM – Enjoy your meal !, 3. blue string pudding, 4. Sticky toffee rat onna stick., 5. Bull’s Blood, 6. Not sure, but I think there’s Mexican food in there somewhere., 7. Unsalted Butter Cone, 8. Eating the hanging meat, 9. 12×12 Happy Cats, 10. the little colorful Paki, 11. iCI – Independent Curators International, 12. The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat
Having done a fairly boring response to this week’s meme, I thought, as I have a reputation to keep up, I’d better do a more mischievous one! So here, in the spirit of Zen Mischief, it is …
Questions and Answers:
1. What is your favorite breakfast? Sleep
2. What is your favorite lunch? Luncheon Meat
3. What is your favorite dinner? Blue String Pudding
4. What is your favorite snack? Sticky Toffee Rat onna Stick
5. What is your favorite drink? Bulls Blood
6. What is something you eat everyday (or often)? Food
7. What is a food you hate? “It was the best butter”
8. What is your guilty pleasure (as far as food is concerned)? Eating
9. What food smells gross to you? 144 of Anything
10. What is your favorite ethnic food? Sub-Continental
11. What is your favorite restaurant? Ici
12. What was the last thing you ate? Genesis 3:13
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1. Large Breakfast, 2. chish n fips, 3. The rock fishes, 4. Nuts to Christmas, 5. Adnams “The Bitter” (Cask), 6. Homemade Bread, 7. DSC11784 – Cow stomach (beef tripe) in meat market (Laos), 8. Too much f*cking pizza, 9. pernod, 10. my sister, the blue-eyed Indian bride, 11. Hinder, 12. Gala Apple
Questions and Answers:
1. What is your favorite breakfast? Fried cholesterol
2. What is your favorite lunch? Chish ‘n’ Fips
3. What is your favorite dinner? Bouillabaisse
4. What is your favorite snack? Nuts
5. What is your favorite drink? Adnams
6. What is something you eat everyday (or often)? Homemade Bread
7. What is a food you hate? Tripe
8. What is your guilty pleasure (as far as food is concerned)? Too Much
9. What food smells gross to you? Pernod
10. What is your favorite ethnic food? Indian
11. What is your favorite restaurant? Tilley’s Bistro, Bath
12. What was the last thing you ate? An Apple
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This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 35/52 (2008 week 43).
This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 34/52 (2008 week 42).
Yet more reflections.
Taken at Nico’s, the best “greasy spoon” in all London.
This week’s Flickr photo meme.
1. Small DSLR, 2. Popular Photography Magazine’s Featured Sunset *, 3. Eel in the smoke, 4. steam train through avondale july 07, 5. 1600×1280 – Morocco-beach – sun-sea-sand-pebbles, 6. Flowers for Mothers Day- UK 2nd March., 7. A locomotive To Brocken, 8. Winterwald, 9. Wellcome…into Alice’s Wonderland, 10. Bratwurst, 11. Mannequin Pis, 12. The most sacred place of Japan
Questions and Answers:
1. What is a must-pack in your travel bag or suitcase? (you just wouldn’t leave home without it) Olympus DSLR
2. What is your favourite thing to do while on vacation? Photography as an alternative to nothing with a bottle of wine
3. What is your great food/cuisine you have had or tried while traveling? Smoked Eel; heavenly
4. What is your favourite mode of travel – most enjoyable way to get there? Steam Train; first class, of course
5. What is your favourite way of “relaxing/unwinding” while traveling? Sun, Sea, Sand probably just edges out mountains and forest
6. Visiting friends and family sometimes involves travel – what relatives or friends do you visit most often when you go? (i.e. grandma, Uncle Bob, or Kate) My Mother
7. What was the best man-made wonder you ever saw/experienced while traveling? Steam Trains in Harz Mountains
8. What was the best wonder of Mother Nature that you ever saw/experienced while traveling? Winter Mountians and Forest
9. You could only take one book to read while travelling or on vacation – what would be in your bag? If I really can have only one volume then Alice in Wonderland; or more likely I wouldn’t take a book but buy something interesting along the way
10. Okay, you need a snack in that carry-on or backpack – what would it be? Bratwurst in a Bun
11. What is the “most touristy” thing you have done or place you have visited? Mannequin Pis; it’s such a horrible tourist attraction you have to see it once and be disappointed
12. You just won an all-expenses one-week trip anywhere in the world, where would you choose? Japan although it’s really too far for just a week
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This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 33/52 (2008 week 41).
Yet another reflection picture!
This week I’ve been eating out at the best “greasy spoon” in all London: Nico’s, 299 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL. Open Monday thru’ Saturday, 0645 to 1900. It is right outside Bethnal Green tube station on junction of Bethnal Green Road and Cambridge Heath Road.
Greek Cypriot, now run by the second generation. You can have anything from a bacon roll, through Egg & Chips to Dolmades or Kleftico. The food is cheap and the portions are large; do not order the mixed grill unless you are a real glutton or starving: it comes on two(!!) oval plates, one of meat the other piled with chips. A steak sandwich comes with (free) chips on the side — a full portion of chips that is! And they’re real chips too. Everything is cooked to order and the kitchen is openly visible from the counter. Needless to say it does a steady trade! Eat in or take-away.
It is very close to the V&A Museum of Childhood, where Noreen works; I was there too earlier this week and was taken out to lunch at Nico’s: I had: 2 (large) Sausages, Mushrooms and (a pile of) Chips; can Diet Coke. Noreen had: Double Egg, Beans and (a pile of) Chips; can Diet Coke. Total cost £8.50.
Highly recommended for restoring the soul but not for either the cholesterol levels or the waistline. Pure food pornography. 🙂
