Donut's Daily Daguerreotype

Yes, this site is longer being updated...

2008-02-05T09:00:00.001Z

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...but this one is.

Life on the allotments.

Gone hiking...

2006-07-19T23:19:00.000+01:00

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Wot, no pictures?

The Donut points you to this Flickr site for more goings on, exclusively recent holiday snaps at the mo'.

It's a work in progress so visit early and often.

Here's a taster...

Chocolate

2006-05-20T00:01:00.000+01:00

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At mum and dad's nursing home today they threw a party - for no reason - and stuffed the residents full of chocolate.

Fly me

2006-05-15T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Back at Belfast City Airport. Next week the airport is renamed after one of Belfast's most famous sons, George Best.

Salt

2006-05-14T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Spicing up that weekend margarita.

Strawberry

2006-05-13T00:01:00.000+01:00

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First strawberry of the season! One of the runners that I propogated in the greenhouse running ahead of the rest of the plants.

Lightshade

2006-05-12T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Business lounge at Belfast City Airport.

Dubrovnik Special - Day 4

2006-05-08T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Dubrovnik - from the city walls, south to north...

I've had my picture taken so often I have an agent. You've got to pay royalties for my image, y'know.

Rooftop terrace: nice place for lunch.

Walking the wall.

Oooh, look at that lovely bay.

I need a bathroom.

Dubrovnik Special - Day 3

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The Old Harbour setting off for some of the Elaphiti islands.

The "hole in the wall" bar from the sea.

Koločep.

Šipan.

The Franciscan monastery at Lopud.

Pretty roses.

Blowin' in the wind.

Lopud's (no longer) Grand Hotel.

Our boat decides to go for a spin around the harbour without us.

Back to Dubrovnik.

Dubrovnik Special - Day 2

2006-05-06T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Keeping a beer company on the "hole in the wall" bar overlooking the Adriatic. When it rained, the owner gave drinks on the house.

Navy Seals (?) protecting fat boy Cheney.

The main drag heaving with cruise ship day trippers.

Every bloody city in the world has a bloody Irish bar. Dubrovnik has two (that we counted).

Dubrovnik Special

2006-05-05T00:01:00.000+01:00

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We arrived by plane rather than this vessel.

Watching out for the local police, sweeping the area in preparation for Dick "Shoot First, Ask Questions Later" Cheney. Cost of Cheney's trip to Croatian taxpayers: £400,000.

Uvala Bay.

The proprietor (and birthday boy).

Off to Dubrovnik

2006-05-04T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Packing.

Backlit flowers

2006-05-01T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Meh. When in doubt, post a flower photo.

Cherry Tree - 12

2006-04-22T00:01:00.000+01:00

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From below against a rare blue sky.

Cherry Tree - 11

2006-04-21T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Blossoms blown by the wind.

Cherry Tree - 10

2006-04-20T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Cloudy day.

Cherry Tree - 9

2006-04-19T00:01:00.000+01:00

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More cherry.

Cherry Tree - 8

2006-04-18T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Dusk.

Cherry Tree - 6

2006-04-17T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Closeup of the tree outside our front gate.

Cherry Tree - 5

2006-04-16T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Full bloom.

Road Closed

2006-04-14T00:01:00.000+01:00

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One of the utilities or the local council or someone has been digging up the road outside my office for months.

Cherry Tree - 4

2006-04-13T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Cherries in the gloom.

Cherry Tree - 3

2006-04-12T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Close-up in the morning sun.

Cherry Tree - 2

2006-04-11T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Further blossoming.

Cycling gear

2006-04-09T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Fat donut gets back on the bike.

Cherry Tree - 1

2006-04-08T00:01:00.000+01:00

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The cherry tree outside beginning to blossom.

Juggling

2006-04-07T00:01:00.000+01:00

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A loads of balls.

Covent Garden

2006-04-06T00:01:00.000+01:00

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The lovely deep red tile frontage of Covent Garden underground station.

Carousel

2006-04-05T00:01:00.000+01:00

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I think this guy's a bit too old for this ride.

Water

2006-04-03T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Rain water collected in our makeshift water butt. Beats the hose pipe ban.

Washing line

2006-04-02T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Nothing like line dried clothes.

Don't use!

2006-04-01T00:01:00.000+01:00

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There's a hosepipe ban here. Caught using your hosepipe to water the garden or wash your car and you will wind up with a fine.

Rails

2006-03-31T00:01:00.000+01:00

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The Piccadilly Line at Hounslow Central to be precise.

Millennium Bridge

2006-03-29T00:01:00.000+01:00

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There's something satisfying about walking across the Thames.

Spring sunshine

2006-03-28T00:01:00.000+01:00

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Get out and soak up the vitamin D!

Health & Safety

2006-03-27T00:01:00.000+01:00

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A recent fire safety audit of our office showed up a few deficiencies such as the lack of fire door signs. I feel so much safer.

A33

2006-03-25T00:01:00.000Z

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Driving back from my parents on a wet Saturday afternoon: entering Four Marks, Hants.

Printer

2006-03-24T00:01:00.000Z

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An expensive way of printing digital photos, but hey it was state of the art four years ago.

Still life with man on silly unicycle

2006-03-23T00:01:00.000Z

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Not to mentions man with wild grey hair, man with stripy hat and man on mobile phone.

Arabian sweets

2006-03-21T00:01:00.000Z

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Honey, nuts, sugar, pastry: calories.

Gloves

2006-03-20T00:01:00.000Z

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Still cold enough to keep wearing my nice warm gloves.

Stuffed tomatoes

2006-03-18T00:01:00.000Z

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Vegetarian food is not boring.

Lettuce pray

2006-03-16T00:01:00.000Z

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Home-grown, greenhouse lettuce.

Chair

2006-03-15T00:01:00.001Z

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Early evening later winter sunshine.

Flowers

2006-03-11T00:01:00.000Z

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Anenomes.

Belfast

2006-03-09T00:01:00.000Z

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That's Harland & Wolf in the background, the shipyard where RMS Titanic was built and where until recently Catholics were blacklisted.

HMV

2006-03-06T00:01:00.000Z

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Going to the dogs - His Master's Voice - to buy some tunes.

Sprouts

2006-03-05T00:01:00.000Z

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And, this is not modern art, but a closeup of Donut's kitchen garden of alfalfa sprouts.

Installation

2006-03-04T00:01:00.000Z

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No, this is not ants climbing over sugar cubes, it's an installation by Rachel Whiteread at the Tate Modern.

On the way to Brussels

2006-03-02T00:01:00.000Z

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Obscenely early start to the day.

Chinese medicine

2006-03-01T12:01:00.000Z

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For all those smelly teas and poultices.

We apologise for the delay

2006-02-28T00:01:00.000Z

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One of Covent Garden's main attractions, the London Transport Museum is closed for like 2 years. A bit like London Transport's buses and tube train really. But, the shop is still open.

Some stupid clown thought I wanted to take his picture. Message to street performers: "Feck off! You are not funny! Get a life and a proper job! Take that stupid outfit off and clean the gunk of your face."

Coffee

2006-02-27T00:01:00.000Z

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The contents are extremely hot.

Spring is just around the corner

2006-02-26T00:01:00.000Z

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Which is why I'm still wearing a winter coat, scarf and gloves. Nearly wore a woolly hat too.

Wings

2006-02-25T00:01:00.000Z

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Dad with his new model aeroplane.

Butterfly

2006-02-24T12:01:00.000Z

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(from the archives) Somewhere in Western France, September 2002.

Rain

2006-02-23T00:01:00.000Z

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Traffic and pedestrians dodge the evening rain.

Cone

2006-02-22T00:01:00.000Z

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(from the archives) Somewhere in Western France, September 2002.

Money

2006-02-21T00:01:00.000Z

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My brother works at a bank. Unfortunately he was not the subject of the Evenning Standard headline.

Street works

2006-02-20T00:01:00.000Z

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Preparations for some digging and laying of (fibre-optic) cables.

Macao - 2

2006-02-19T00:01:00.000Z

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(from the archives)
My boss got lost.

Macao - 1

2006-02-18T00:01:00.000Z

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(from the archives)
Those business trips to the Far East are real tough. You have to sample all the local culture, which is tedious.

Photo Friday - Baby

2006-02-17T00:01:00.000Z

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My work colleague's 6 week old nipper.

We have the power

2006-02-16T00:01:00.000Z

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The power's back on, but there's still a hole in the street awaiting the obligatory styrofoam cups.

Leffe

2006-02-15T00:01:00.000Z

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If it's Wednesday, then it must be a Leffe beer in the Brussels airport lounge.

Filming

2006-02-14T00:01:00.000Z

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Filming in Traflagar Square, which appeared to consist mainly of people standing around drinking coffee and talking into walki-talkies or mobile phones. Eventually there was some action, but it looked exceedingly dull.

Power failure

2006-02-13T00:01:00.000Z

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Our street suffered a power outage which hit half of the office. It struck the offices but left the stairwell intact. So, it was rather useless staying in the office after my laptop ran out of juice.

Drink up!

2006-02-12T00:01:00.000Z

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My dad in happier times, sampling the local beer in Neiuwpoort, Belgium, March 2001.

Dome sweet dome

2006-02-11T00:01:00.000Z

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(from the archives)
The Millennium Dome at Greenwich, April 2002.

Nuts

2006-02-10T00:01:00.000Z

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Hot roasted chestnuts.

Frozen pipes

2006-02-09T00:01:00.000Z

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This is liquid nitrogen or something like that for freezing pipes at the building site across the road from my office. "Why do you need to frreze pipes?" my work colleague asked.

I dunno.

Blue sky

2006-02-08T00:01:00.000Z

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A slab of the clear stuff over the Adelphi. It makes a welcome change from the grey skies of January.

Exchange Court

2006-02-07T00:01:00.000Z

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One of the quirky little alleyways close to work.

No flag burning here

2006-02-06T00:01:00.000Z

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The EU 12 stars limp against the pole.

Sundried tomatoes

2006-02-05T00:01:00.000Z

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Do you like sundried tomatoes on your pizza? We do.

Glug

2006-02-04T00:01:00.000Z

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Shopping for French wine on special at Waitrose.

Big Issue

2006-02-03T00:01:00.000Z

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A rather blurred picture, I'm afraid. This is one of half a dozen or so Big Issue sellers near my office. Not all of them are characters like this guy. He stands in the street, in this pose for five minutes or so. At least he's not the agressive type.

Pigeon hell

2006-02-02T00:01:00.000Z

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Ahhhhhhh!

Hell for humans, not for rats with wings.

Copier

2006-02-01T00:01:00.000Z

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Eerie light from the office helper.

Covent Garden

2006-01-31T00:01:00.000Z

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Spot the tourist.

Pictures and stuff

2006-01-30T00:01:00.000Z

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The National Gallery: culture, gift shop and a nice cafe.

Rust

2006-01-29T00:01:00.000Z

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Time to get out the wire brush and metal paint.

Fixing the gate

2006-01-28T00:01:00.000Z

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My hands were numb after this little effort in 5 deg C and frozen north wind.

Photo Friday - Vanity

2006-01-27T00:01:00.001Z

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One of my neighbours loves himself.

Getting your kicks

2006-01-27T00:01:00.000Z

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To Trafalgar Square at lunchtime to win a rugby shirt kicking the ball through the hole.

More here.

Flock of seagull sh!t

2006-01-26T00:01:00.000Z

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Decorating Trafalgar Square along with those rats with wings - pigeons.

St Martin's in the Field

2006-01-25T00:01:00.000Z

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About as close to church as I get.

Yes, this man is breakdancing

2006-01-24T00:01:00.000Z

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...outside the National Gallery.

Smile!

2006-01-23T00:01:00.000Z

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People posing in Trafalgar Square.

Saturn

2006-01-22T00:01:00.000Z

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Another sky picture - at night this time and through a telescope - and another picture filched from my family - my bro. He's got a nice rig set up at his place and they don't suffer too much from light pollution. Pretty good shot, don't ya think?

Contrails

2006-01-21T00:01:00.000Z

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In the South London dusk.

Photo Friday - Pink

2006-01-20T00:01:00.000Z

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Pink. Audi TT. Hmmm.

Sorry it's a bit blurry. I was in a hurry. I'd just had an experience with the office burgular alarm. And, it was dark.

Tunes

2006-01-19T00:01:00.000Z

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Who needs an iPod? I got me 5 year old MD player which doesn't close properly and eats batteries. It's survived hitting the pavement at Dulles Airport and hours of abuse.

Words about music

2006-01-18T00:01:00.000Z

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This month's The Wire magazine just popped through the letter box, with free CD of computer art. Free-jazz guitarist Derek Bailey, R.I.P.

Only drug dealers have more than one mobile phone

2006-01-17T00:01:00.000Z

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Need some weed, man?

Wembley stadium

2006-01-16T00:01:00.000Z

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Teh old stadium with its famous twin towers is no more. Now the skyline around north London is dominated by the new steel arch crowning the new stadium. Another one of the big building projects in London. Unfortunately this one looks like being late and over budget. The builder, Multiplex, is in severe financial straights partly as a result of the cost overuns. Multiplex also built the Sydney ~~Olympic Stadium~~ White Elephant.

(photo by mrs donut) - more here.

Cosmos

2006-01-15T00:01:00.000Z

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"Franz on the 35..."

Venti americano mistake

2006-01-14T00:01:00.000Z

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Stopped for coffee and a sweet thing at Waitrose supermarket on the way to see my parents at the nursing home. Guy at the cafe was "time and motion" challenged. What should take two movements and 30 seconds, took four and two minutes.

The coffee was scalding hot, but at least had flavour. The coffee I mistakenly asked for at the home tasted like dishwater.

Photo Friday - Success

2006-01-13T00:01:00.000Z

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My Midget League baseball team was lousy before I went on vacation. Without me, they battled through the playoffs - I think every team qualified - and made it to the league final. By that time, I'd go back from vacation.

I got a trophy despite contributing to a loss in that final.

Donut's Daily Daguerreotype

Yes, this site is longer being updated...

Gone hiking...

Chocolate

Menu

Fly me

Salt

Strawberry

Lightshade

Dubrovnik Special - Day 4

Dubrovnik Special - Day 3

Dubrovnik Special - Day 2

Dubrovnik Special

Off to Dubrovnik

Backlit flowers

Cherry Tree - 12

Cherry Tree - 11

Cherry Tree - 10

Cherry Tree - 9

Cherry Tree - 8

Cherry Tree - 6

Cherry Tree - 5

Road Closed

Cherry Tree - 4

Cherry Tree - 3

Cherry Tree - 2

Cycling gear

Cherry Tree - 1

Juggling

Covent Garden

Carousel

Water

Washing line

Don't use!

Rails

Millennium Bridge

Spring sunshine

Health & Safety

A33

Printer

Still life with man on silly unicycle

Arabian sweets

Gloves

Stuffed tomatoes

Lettuce pray

Chair

Flowers

Belfast

HMV

Sprouts

Installation

On the way to Brussels

Chinese medicine

We apologise for the delay

Coffee

Spring is just around the corner

Wings

Butterfly

Rain

Cone

Money

Street works

Macao - 2

Macao - 1

Photo Friday - Baby

We have the power

Leffe

Filming

Power failure

Drink up!

Dome sweet dome

Nuts

Frozen pipes

Blue sky

Exchange Court

No flag burning here

Sundried tomatoes

Glug

Big Issue

Pigeon hell