Hope those 'pretty colours' stayed pretty much where they were supposed to, Copago!!!

Great pics everyone!

Jill ,next time just take a print or two
lay a piece of paper on the swirl
Very effective
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Victorian building, Douglas, Isle of Man

A modern house in Surrey trying very hard to look old

I've been up in the attic for the last couple of days. We're having new insulation
put in so we have to clear everything out by Friday morning. Over 50 years worth!
On the plus side, we keep discovering loads of 'family treasures' and one of the
things that have brought back most memories is a book - The ABC of the RAF. It
must have belonged to my dad and was published about 1943. It's packed full of
interesting information (some of which I thought would have been top secret with
WWII still going on). There are a lot of great photographs as well. I wish I could
post the whole book! But I'll stick to the front cover:



(And the back:

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r159/martin_cube/IMG00127-20100817-1454-1.jpg )

Martin, that is beautiful! What a great treasure to find!

That snail is soooo weird there, lol. Lovely colours copago. All these wonderful homes ... everything is so 'boxy' here where i live, nothing exciting like these. Digitalis is gorgeous, isn't it? Like little fairy bells, lined with leopard spots, Antiques road show coming up for your magazine .... will you still talk to us when you are a billionaire ? :P lol. Neat stuff. And i love the name of the reservoir.

The 102 leaves East Finchley station, my local one from 1965-93, and although heading to where I used to live I got the 143 heading the other way (despite being far less frequent) as it went to the top of the hill and saved me walking up.

However big London is if you go north 9 miles to Totteridge you hit the end, and it's just as same as everywhere beyond.

Another road I like in Golders Green, plenty of room in these houses as well.

Spotted this fellow taking a nap in the sun on the guardrail of my deck this afternoon.

More treasures from my attic clear-out. This is one of the plastic models
my dad made and kept. It's clear that a lot of care went into making it.



It's a 'Lago-Talbot' in case you're wondering.

Standley Chasm (Northern Territory, central Australia).

The flowers are back in what was my local park

Another of my dad's plastic models. This (if I recall correctly) is the City of Truro steam engine.

great pix. that squirrel looks mighty tuckered. neat models martin. wow, look at the wee man, sure puts the sheer size of the canyon in perspective. beautiful marigolds satguru.

this was taken with an optex digital microscope (a recent birthday gift for someone) ... it has a capability of 200X ...
http://b2b.gentec-intl.com/GentecInc/Support/4336305optex_digimag200_sell_sheet_eng.pdf

the canadian penny shown here is 25X.

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Great pics, everybody! that chasm looks amazing as does the close up of your Canadian penny!

Autumn is on the way and the blackberries are out (at least here in Brittany). I collected a lovely set of stings and bramble scratches with my youngest yesterday, but also collected enough berries to make four pots of lovely blackberry jelly:

Oh YUM!

This is the path the Wombles use to get in and out of Wimbledon Common

Now you have me humming 'underground, overground, wombling free ...'

If you want blackberry jam or jelly, you've got to start with some blackberries:

I do like this sporty little number (but don't ask me what it is! : ) )

It looks like an AC Cobra, if I could see an oval grille that would confirm it. Good to see more models turning up, they're all about the same age we are.

I'll dig it out & take a full-frontal photo for you David. The model car that is.
I suspect that it's older than me & was made before I came along & took up all my dad's time.

In the main street of Alice Springs - I thought of all my FT friends!

I just love that squirell - too funny.

And I hate SatG for getting that bloody song back into my head ..

we've been relly busy lately doing sheep work. I took this snap this morning .. really should have turned the flash off and stopped them looking like demons.


the wombles of Wimbeldon Common are we .. grrrr!

Here's the view of the model car from the front for you SatG:



I've compared it to some pictures of AC Cobras & have to say I'm not sure.
But what do I know about cars?

That is a nice one- the side is very much like the Cobra but it's the previous one I think is a lot nicer, the AC Ace, although I did need the book to see the difference I have to admit.

Cool sheepies .... and um,santanna? i hate to tell you this, but someone lifted one of your jelly pots ... how can something soooo good be such a pain to pick? Mother Goose, your signpost reminds me of the one in the *Mash* series cool.
nice photos everyone.

This is the monstrance (which holds the Host... the Real Presence of Christ)on the altar in a small chapel located inside the very old St. Peter's RC church downtown. Perpetual Adoration is held here 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday. As the Eucharist can not be left alone, there must always be someone there, and they schedule people who desire to spend an hour a week. There are six small pews behind me that you can not see.

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Our dogs enjoying a bit of shade under the plum tree. So far we've picked around 5 pounds of plums and there are plenty left.

Lovely. How is all Alsatians look so intelligent?
My Gnawra looks so loopy. She is a sweety but not so bright. It has been hot lately and she gets ice cubes. Always insists on taking one to her bed "to keep for later".

As you see she has quite an inane grin.