Glass of water

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Part of my 2 litres a day.

Tex-mex, sort of

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Veggie chilli and margarita.

Storms

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Thunderstorms swept through London Tuesday evening.

Takeaway

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My wholly unsustainable takeaway.

Smile!

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Nice clean teeth.

St Paul's

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A trip to St Paul's Cathedral to view the recently restored dome (better than in Wren's day, they say). Unfortunately, the cathedral was closed for some religious thing.

Photo Friday - Orange

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Somewhere on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

More Baseball

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Mets fan from a very early age, though the Nats are my new love. Sporting the cap at Frederick, Md.

Flags 2

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How many Commonwealth flags can you identify.

Climate Change

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Climate Change installation in Trafalgar Square.

Flags

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We're generally not a nation of flag wavers thought it seems to change around the time of football matches and in imperial London. Union Jacks on display along the Mall. Yep, that's Buckingham Palace at the end of the road.

Birds

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Birds flock to me. Oriole bird at the back; bmi bird front right; and Hawaiian bird front left.

Garden blog

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Today - the hottest day of the year (33° in the garden) saw the first harvest of potatoes in our small vegetable garden. I lifted a few from one of the container plants and several more from one in the vegetable bed. Gave me a lot of pleasure even if it was small pickings and only potatoes. It's the first time I've grown potatoes and I'm surprised anytime I can get anything to grow be it alfalfa in a seed sprouter or strawberries in a container.

More beer

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You probably get the impression that I like beer, or something.

A leisurely lunch at the Hampshire Bowman down in Dundridge, Hants - just happened to coincide with a beer festival. I think this was Brewers Gold, from the Crouch Vale Brewery.

Photo Friday - Sport

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Jacobs Field, Cleveland. April 1998. A friend of a firend managed to get plum seats. Quite a feat given the Jake was getting sold out every game. The Angels clobbered the Indians.

That's the Halos Davey Hollins facing Jaret Wright of the Tribe.

Beer

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This beer had my name on it.

Life is a bowl of cherries?

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Life is not a bowl of cherries.

Shadow

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Evening sunlight on the bedroom wall.

The Drugs don't work...

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...they just make you worse...

Well, they've cleared up my rosacea.

Eye in the sky

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A great day to ride the London Eye.

Charing Cross

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Another nighttime photo from the South Bank.

Meltdown

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It's Meltdown time again on the South Bank. Patti Smith (cross between Keith Richards and a French poet, according to one report I read) is this year's curator. As usual, there's an odd collection of artists on the bill.


Singer/songwriter with bad beard, Ed Harcourt, opened Meltdown.


Ed on the guitar.


Main act on the first evening, the "notorius" Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Moody Blues

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St Paul's Cathedral, Wren's London masterpiece, in moody light.

Carlsberg

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Probably the best beer in the world. Well, when you're desperate for a drink it is.

Fruits of my labour

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Picked 5 strawberries today.

Pencil shavings

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You've seen the paper clips. Now here's the pencil case.

Tuesday

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[placeholder] Regular viewer(s) may have noticed a lack of activity here for the last week or so. Well, life's been getting me down. I have to admit that I've not been scrupulous about taking a picture a day for this blog. Work has been a distraction too.

Anywho, we're getting back on track here and also over at I am a Donut central. It'll never happen again*. Promise.

* - until the next blip in my life. [/placeholder]

Sweet Williams and Cornflowers

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The wee flower women at Embankment really is wee - about 4' 10", I'd say.

Funchal belly

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From the files...

Madeira, April 2004. Tummy troubles, rain and cold. Otherwise, a nice holiday.

Bags

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[rant] Tried Sainsbury's home shopping - groceries from the internet - service. 20% of what we ordered wasn't in stock. Can you believe no watercress, no strong cheddar, no yeast? To top it off, the delivery came in 19 (yes, that's n-n-n-nineteen) carrier bags. So much for sustainability.

We won't be trying that again. [/rant]

Photo Friday - Rare

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As in, it's been rare to see the sun this Spring. Tenuous, I know.

Red sky at night

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Clouds. Seen plenty of those recently.

Bangladesh

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From the files...

As the England cricket team are doing battle (hardly) with Bangladesh, an excuse for me to cull the Donut files. Stuck in traffic in Dhaka, January 2003.

Coppi

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From the files.

That's Fausto Coppi. He's on the left. Donut on the right with the baggy jeans and rucksack.