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this day

I feel I’m in some sort of waiting phase with all sorts of trips and adventures just around the corner. I think it’s partly because there ARE trips and adventures around the corner hopefully. I’ve been planning for a big trip next year and some things before this year is out (fingers crossed). Also I have some projects that I’m getting on with that are at their beginnings. This weather at the moment is also very waiting-ish neither very summer nor autumn.

So I thought I would shake things up for a week or so by taking and posting daily pictures if I can. These are today’s.

1. I was sitting on the back door step looking at Twitter on my phone with my feet in the rain while the rest of me was in the dry. Beep came to see what I was doing.
2. Weeds
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4. The kitties like to take running jumps onto the new carpet so its usual state is all bunched up like this.
5. Brief bit of sunshine.
6. Making pizza dough. I use this recipe.
7. The garden is a bit overgrown at the moment.

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tin can pots still going strong

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I don’t know if anyone remembers from a zillion years ago (ok actually 3 years ago) when I wrote out the tin can tutorial? I thought it worth mentioning that all the cans that I bothered to paint with acrylic back then are still going strong. I think they have weathered up nicely, there is hardly any rust. This year they are being used for nasturtiums.

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I noticed I had 84GB of photos on my hard drive (ouch!) so I had a good old spring clean. I currently don’t take pictures in Raw purely because of the storage issue even though I should and want to. Now I have had a tidy I might give Raw a go and I’ll just have to get more savage with deleting pictures not used. While I was tidying I noticed there were some pictures from the past month or so that I liked that hadn’t yet appeared, just random things.

1 Botanic gardens pond
2 Hedge
3 A barge
4 Beep!
5 Snack
6 Rooftop gardening
7 Oxford Castle mound
8 A serious kitty
9 Bedside table
10 In the neighbourhood
11 Simon learned this gesture when we were in Japan :D
12 The shire
13 My friend Dan takes really good band pictures. I was behind him and timed my picture so I could use the light of his flash going off.
14 Organic cider. Not mine.
15 Looking up at a magnolia
16 There are so many crows around here :o It’s called a ‘murder’ of crows isn’t it.
17 My washing line and wisteria
18 Sometimes it is so difficult to find a small meal in the countryside on a Sunday.
19 Looking up
20 Looking up
21 I like the green of this packaging.
22 Hair is like Queen Elizabeth I :)
23 Field

I’m not going to be posting for the next week as I’m off adventuring.

TTFN!

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today two things

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spcinv_jun10_0011. I grew some roses and now I get to pick them :)
2. Space Invaders ice cubes, I got the tray for them from Bristol Guild. The glass is Aranzi Aronzo and I bought it from their shop in Tokyo [Google street view]. Longtime visitors to this site might also remember the Lego ice tray, it is still going strong.

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flowers

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More pictures from last summer/autumn, I grew the top sunflower and my dad grew the lilies.

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