SNAPS TWO

old photos

2008-02-03T13:38:00.000-08:00

old photos 2001 to 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

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last day of autumn

2007-11-30T13:35:00.000-08:00

last day of autumn - a photoset on Flickr

and building the school extension

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from home today

2007-11-28T08:52:00.000-08:00

from home - a photoset on Flickr

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illuminations from my window

2007-11-25T10:14:00.000-08:00

after sunset from my windows - a photoset on Flickr

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construction sites and autumn

2007-11-22T08:10:00.000-08:00

two construction sites and autumn colours - a photoset on Flickr

from my kitchen window looking north

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still using my handicam for stills

2007-10-03T13:11:00.000-07:00

home cooking - a photoset on Flickr

views in and from my kitchen

bread making machine

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needed new keyboard

2007-05-31T16:12:00.000-07:00

garden, roses, Brumleby, METRO, Fields, Vestamager until sunset - a photoset on Flickr

View as slideshow () the order is a bit odd - possibly because the handicam is on GMT and the videophone is on Danish Summertime or European Standard Time - small image numbers taken with handicam

rain stopped my walk

2007-05-29T15:32:00.000-07:00

Denmark Copenhagen to Amager and back with evening rain - a photoset on Flickr
handicam first

then the videophone images start with this

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round trip to Eugene and Ellen - a photoset on Flickr

2007-05-27T16:08:00.000-07:00

round trip to Eugene and Ellen - a photoset on Flickr
I did some gardening, then rode the railroad to Helsingør, Gilleleje, Hillerød and back to Copenhagen

the construction of the new permanent way at Hellerup continued and I used my handicam too (short numbers to pictures) to document the modern methods where a gang of 20 does the work of 75 men in the old days.

I found myself approaching Hillerød so I used my cell phone to arrange a vsit to my to fellow writers nearby

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Hellerup Klampenborg and Lyngby

2007-05-20T16:44:00.000-07:00

new permanent way and an evening walk in the deer park - a photoset on Flickr

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the moon shots were with my Sony handicam the rest with my K800i videophone

little mermaid at midnight in Copenhagen

2007-05-19T20:19:00.000-07:00

across the harbour the power station

the danish royal yacht MS Dannebrog

and the 200 year old mast crane at the old royal danish navy dockyard

see also photographs and walks: a quiet walk in Copenhagen which is before and after these images

kitchen window

2007-04-17T08:41:00.000-07:00

after another very early start at around 5.30 am
so I took a break at the kitchen window

one tomato and chilled black coffee with lemon and lime

I think they are buiding another new school on the other side of the valley

the ivy has been neatly trimmed this year

and this ivy is taking years to relax its gripafter it was killed

I could qualify for one of these little bungalows but I feel safer on the seventh floor of Merton House

floewrs are coming out all over the place

actually dandelions mean more in my childhod memories for me than cherry blossom

this lamp post is like a sundial
the angle of the shadow tells the time up to noon

and the lengh of the shadow the time of year
spring at about 28 days after the equinox
or autumn about 28 days before the equinox

I remeber when these were a new invention 4 cornered to replace the long clothes lines and clothes props in very back garden of my childhood

this garden by the footpath has a succession of flowers

this I blogged close up in snaps 4 a couple of days ago

arhitectural detail is good

CHELMSLEY WOOD
MEDICAL CENTRE

(in Fordbridge parish)

"my" brown birch by the community hall

CRABTREE HALL

there used to be a much needed youth club but it has died I have been told

the weeping silver birch - an alien species

beeping backwards from the day centre for old people

Sutton Coldfiald TV mast easy to see but hard to snap

two BIG birds nests in that tree

and Lichfield TV mast

sunrise after the videophone shots in SNAPS ONE

2007-04-15T01:34:00.000-07:00

these thin layers of low cloud replaced the morning fogs of a few days ago

I nipped the top shoot off
but this tomatoes still grew all it could

setting very small fruit

I am just giving tit water until I go on holiday then I will let nature take its course

my advocado tree is waking up now

spring is here

2007-04-12T13:50:00.000-07:00

this light made me forget eating and reach for my handicam

spring time

much later

Sutton Coldfield TV mast

birmingham post office tower and the third more distant tv mast near Stourbidge

cat

2007-04-12T13:45:00.000-07:00

from dramatic light on monday evening (flikr set)

I hope ths kitten never jumps from the seventh floor

my neighbours cat is keeping an eye on me

bungee jump in Fordbridge

2007-03-26T16:01:00.000-07:00

I was unpacking my shopping and I heard very loud music (a new ante-social neighbour?) and the roar of a diesel engine outside my kitchen window

about 15 floors high

my first thought was, "Is it a boxing ring?"

AHA
Bungee Extreme Club - Europes No1 Bungee jumping company book online from £48: "Bungee Extreme was established in 1993, and all our equipment is independently tested and insured. We are members of E.E.R.S.A. and have a 100% safety record, as such we advise and work closely the Health and safety executive"

the girl in green is to be the first jumper

vantage point Crabtree Hall roof

there seems to be a problem

school was out about two hours ago

nearly ready

even the pigeons are watching

there seems to be a problem

now the girl in green gets a chair

and waits
and time to get your money back

packing up already

the wannabe bunjee jumper is still green

unscrewing a safety pin

and this pin takes a sledge hammer to knock it up and out

and the upper pin comes out next

and the jib folds for transport
Jib stretching and folding device - US Patent 4953724: "a crane capable of folding a strut type jib along a vertical side surface of a boom . . . ."

sliding in the stabilisers

He has just hooked the safety line to the jib for transport

and all the people have gone

picking up a foot

tough guys coming by

I have not needed it yet - dial a bus for the disabled and he old.

by the brown birch tree

looks like the roadies / roustabouts / riggers get their pay in cash

getting off the site

into Crabtree Drive by Merton House

and the booking office - like a small horse box - with the green sheet and barriers aboard

all quiet again
and I turn back to my sink

and meanwhile I was giving the celery, spring onions, and asparagus from LIDL a good soaking

and my favourite cos and iceberg lettuces

and cauliflower greens
before preparing them and boxing them in the fridge for use prewashed during the week to come - fast food but healthy.

later on 8 February 2007

2007-02-20T19:17:00.000-08:00

oops the DEFAULT SIZE

click any picture to see bigger
in any of my blogs

all quiet in Bosworth Drive in the night

more snow pictures

2007-02-08T19:22:00.000-08:00

and the snow only lasted two days

car park in Crabtree Drive

Bosworth Drive, Chelmsley Wood

all taken from the seventh floor in Merton House

snow

2007-02-08T19:03:00.000-08:00

work around for portrait format

2007-02-03T09:31:00.000-08:00

destined for the new blogger which can't do portraits yet
http://snaps4.blogspot.com/2007/02/city-with-vision.html

with todays snaps

breakfast before dawn

2007-02-03T00:49:00.000-08:00

I got up at 6:00 amd as usual and decided to take my breakfast in the kitchen by the open window to get a dip in the freezing cold air. I could hear some bird song and the crows, and distant traffic on the motorways sounding like the sea on the rocky coast of the Faero Islands

I found I could see the Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield TV masts and stuck my head out of the window to sse if I could se the 8 miles to the Birmingham Post Office Towet

And there to the west was the moon again - last night I had enjoyed the light of the full moon in the east shining into my bedroom - and so I rushed to grab my handicam.

the bright windows are the passages from the landings to the trash chutes

the plastic framed windows replace the original steel frames and the 4 windows to the right used to be an open balcony when th blocks of flats were first built

if you look closely there is tiny horizontal greenline of neon at the tank station nearby which i took th 94 bus home on Sunday after the very long walk

the edge of the kitchen window frame

click to enlarge and see the airliner climbing out of BHX

waiting for her lift on this frosty morning

and there they go

another early bird

and another plane

about one hour before dawn

2007-01-31T12:03:00.000-08:00

strange small distant cloud

well before sunrise here in Chelmsley Wood

just the view south east from my bedroom window in Merton House

throgh my Lidl binoculars

you could use this at 15% as a background

zooming in and chromatic aberration

chromatic aberration - Google Search: how I checked the spelling of "Chromatic Aberration" and chromatic aberration - Google Image Search - is even more informative for this subject

when I woke up on sunday

2007-01-28T02:11:00.000-08:00

I was excited to see a crane at Chelmsley Wood telephone exchange
0121 770 ****
because Talktalk is upgrading my dsl WAN connection from up to 2 mbs to 8 mbs as soon as BT get the mainframe organised

800 metres away as the crow flies

talktalk 8mbs - Google Search or talktalk 8mbps - Google Search

Free Broadband with our Talk3 Call Plan - TalkTalk - Join our Talk3 calling plan and get Free Broadband. - and a technician phoned to say that my swich over or upgrade was delayed.

and then this dawn led to a cloudy day

moon by day

2007-01-25T02:04:00.000-08:00

clear sky means pollution was colouring the lower atmosphere

and a vapour trail

buses at the stop by Macdonalds in Chelmsley Wood

chelmsley wood at the end of the rainbow

2007-01-24T14:12:00.000-08:00

the west window up on the tenth floor landing of Merton House

time to go home

Happy new year

2007-01-01T02:08:00.000-08:00

I awoke too early after a disturbed dream possibly prompted by the TV images of the execution of Saddam Hussein - Google Search and - Google Image Search

but the beauty of the pre-dawn sky made me feel better at once

looking south east towards Chelmsley Wood

she was talking loudly on her mobile phone

looking north east towards Coleshill

on Bosworth Drive

I am always looking for ideas for web page backgrounds

I feel better now
after a nice cup of tea and my breakfast

NaNoWrimo write-in 4 in Birmingham UK

2006-12-04T07:35:00.000-08:00

with our sincere thanka to our local organisers in Birmingham

National Novel Writing Month STORE :: T-shirts and More!

and to Starbucks Coffee Co
Telephone: 0121-643 6643
Address: 114 New St, Birmingham, B2 4JH

the smaller cup symbolozes the size of my uncompleted novel

thanks to Stephen for lendng this out

Keep NaNoWriMo and its Young Writers Program truckin' with an in USA tax-deductible donation today!

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after NaNoWriMo 4 Birmingham

2006-12-04T07:32:00.000-08:00

and it had got quite dark in Temple Street Birmingham

after climbing the steep hill and nearly at the "High Town" I sat down and took some snaps
google map

I remember these as gas lamps

Lower Temple Street zoom shot down to the bottom of the hill

across New Street to the facade of the Pallisades shopping mall and car park undernetha
with Ladbrokes PLC: betting shop in Stephenson Street
"14,000 employees world wide."

the lamp lighter had a ladder to rest on the crossbars when he needed to change the mantle or wind up the clock which turned the light on and off

a long shot down the the hill of Temple Street

LATER when I was walking towards the 97 bus stop , this photographed me through the Coffee Republic shop window near the Great Western Arcade.
so I snapped her back but I was a bit too slow to catch her with camera in hand

weather and stained glass

2006-11-03T03:31:00.000-08:00

latest handicam stuff
see re-entry todays phote blog

clean water and dirty air

done with my handicam got misplaced

and a backblog from September which was delayed by ISP problems victorian stained glass in St Mary's Church Temple Balsall

autumn in Solihull

2006-10-29T03:21:00.000-08:00

from autumn colours in photographs and walks

migrating blogs

2006-10-21T07:52:00.000-07:00

photographs and walks is now where most of my handicam photos are being posted over on the new blogger beta server, I am going to mix cameras from now on on the same blog

ferry to Sweden sunset over Denmark

2006-10-17T08:51:00.000-07:00

21 more pictures in this blog
two failed uploads - connection reset

views from Helsingborg castle Sweden

2006-10-17T08:26:00.000-07:00

seen from the top of the castle steps
8 September 2006

town hall
distant Denmark
from my evening in Sweden
I took the train to Helsingør, Hamlet's Elsinore
and a ferry to Helsinborg

climbed up to the old castle tower

and down a lot of steps (ow my knee)
http://slim2005.blogspot.com/2006/09/this-evening-in-sweden.html

blog back log 13 September

2006-10-08T02:46:00.000-07:00

click any of the place holder letters www to see bigger images

this was a flight from Zurich airport to BHX Birmingham airport on 13 September 2006

I got this camera out near the french coast when we were at 30 000 feet

leaving France
zooming in to a super tanker

the white cliffs of Dover

dd

London north of the Thames - I saw the millenium dome clearly but was too slow to snap it

possibly Luton airport

and possibly Coventry airport

our shadow

VATSIM-UK AVC/VSCS (80.249.98.88) | ASRC (80.249.98.88): "Minimum descent clearance is 2500ft due to the Sutton Coldfield TV mast at 1358ft and the Tamworth mast at 1501ft.
Taxiway Charlie is not yet in any scenery file, so all aircraft requiring the terminals will have to vacate at the end. For this reason, aircraft on approach should be spaced at least 5nm apart for runway 15.

From CHASE: Leave CHASE heading 180°, then right heading 330° downwind.
From GROVE: Leave GROVE heading 330° downwind.

Aircraft on a GROVE arrival can normally be given a heading around 290° after HON, before right heading 330° downwind, if traffic permits.
From downwind: Right 060° base leg, descending to 2500ft minimum, then right heading 120° to intercept from the right."

down wind leg of the BHX circuit
the airport is behind us and to the right

the Warwickshire County Cricket Club ground - and the twin towers are at Horsefair with the new green glass SAS hotel

dd

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then we turn right and fly towards Erdington church

sss

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and turn right again towards the runway at BHX

www

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definitely the M6 motorway

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allotments in Sheldon

Sheldon Country park by the airport perimeter fence

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but many many failed attempts at uploads at last it all works

These pictures taken whilest taxiing to the terminal

after landing at BHX

of the wing flaps mechanism
Altitudes of Departing Aircraft

niose abatement roots to BHX

Welcome To The Official Birmingham International Airport Website
site:www.bhx.co.uk circuit - Google Search

BIRMINGHAM EGBB data from National Air traffic Services - needs log on to site

DialMET Meteorological Information Service: "European MET

with links to other European meteorological information service providers"
METAR Site Information for EGBB in Birmingham / Airport, United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland

Halfpenny Green - Google Search as a private pilot living in Wolverhampton, I once took off from here and overflew Birmingham Airport at 3500 feet

NATS weblinks

Boeing Company: "Birmingham International Airport
IATA/ICAO CODE: BHX/EGBB
CITY: Birmingham
COUNTRY: UK"

and VIRTUALLY VATSIM-UK AVC/VSCS (80.249.98.88) | ASRC (80.249.98.88)

MIDLANDS_STARS.jpg (JPEG Image, 1108x803 pixels)

sunsets

2006-09-08T19:14:00.000-07:00

CPH by Copenhagen airport on Thursday

one of the four winds

full moon attempt at Brumleby

and friday evening seen from the ferry from Helsingborg, Denmark, Shakespeare's Elsinore in Hamlet, to Helsingborg Sweden.

castle towers

late fishing
reflected in swedish windows

more SNAPS ONE

and one picture daily SNAPS 3

copenhagen park

2006-09-02T13:58:00.000-07:00

a nearly forgotten politician?

not if I spell him correctly
borgbjerg frederik - Google Search

F.J. Borgberg

Socialminister

23.04.1924

-- 14.12.1926

Undervisningsminister

30.04.1929

-- 04.11.1935

under Danske statsministre – Th. Stauning

"I en menneskealder har sparetørstende politikere, arbejds-hungrende kunstnere og den kunstelskende offentlighed med pressen i spidsen forenet sig i kravet om dobbeltscenen”
om Stærekassen, dansk teaterbyggeris problembarn nummer ét

and clearing up after a big party

more in SNAPS ONE
about my walk today

Rent A Tent - teltudlejning af festtelte til enhver lejlighed!

not much of a sunset I fear rain again

I really liked the brave Dannebog pennants but the wind was dyiung before I got a really good snap

thrilled

2006-09-01T09:33:00.000-07:00

my last bus stop is by the tree
and my phone cam had 87 pictures saved

this heron stood very still
so I grabbed my handicam and zoomed in

it looked burned out in the viewfinder so I took this too
a magic moment for me, and I was so very happy to end this Copenhagen day out with this rare bird.
SNAPS 3 is my new mobile blog - and the first post of the day was made on the bus to the archives

balcony seen from my bus stop

Grønningen 1 - 9
also the name of a group of danish artists grønningen site:dk - Google Image Search
and
Købstædernes Forsikring Grønningen - the insurance company - Google Search

a couple of original doors remain

the torch is an international symbol of insurance, and education

too bad about the tasteless new windows

comparison

2006-08-28T13:18:00.000-07:00

of my new Sony Ericsson cell phone and my five years old handicam
This is an introductary page in the old catalogue of FOARK
(Ministry of Defence) in the Danish national Archives

about the popular tourist location in Copenhagen Denmark
pictures on google

Søfortet Trekroner
Canal Tours sejler til Trekroner i dagtimerne fra 1. juni til 31. august. ... Søfortet Trekroner ejes og administreres af Kulturarvstyrelsen,
www.sns.dk/byer-byg/Netpub/trekroner/trekron.htm

good old handicam
and the lower case letter "o" is 10 pixels wide

new cell phone camera
and the lower case letter "o" is 16 pixels wide

so maybe I don't need to take the handicam to the archives anymore

KU LOB

2006-08-25T21:45:00.000-07:00

København Universitet (Copenhagen University) Logo On a Bed sheet

you can see the same branding on the header of this web page
http://www.ku.dk/

you can see a little of the great seal in this header
http://www1.hum.ku.dk/

I will look in http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ku.dk
no luck
but http://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Aku.dk+segl&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

http://www.ku.dk/universitetshistorie/generel/universitetets%20segl.htm
has the image the giffers of FOTW need
but does that mean there are six versions of this flag?

now I will post this and contribute to the Flags of the World Mailing List i- the official Mailing List of the Flags of the World web site (main mirror: http://fotw.net/).

Note: The pages of the Flags of the World web site are compiled from contributions to this mailing list, but that the process is in no way automatic and many times not particularly swift.

Københavns Universitet
Nørregade 10
Postboks 2177
DK-1017 København K
Denmark

Landsarkiv København LAK

2006-08-22T00:09:00.000-07:00

Copenhagen Overpresidium divorces and Sorø births
and the weather rain and thunder in Copenhagen with more about the building

and I have started some forensic genealogy
We are looking for female line of ancestors and cousins of
Borum, Kirstine b: 27 APR 1925 in Sorø, Alsted, Sorø, Denmark d: 17 OCT 1988 in København, Denmark

Sorø church book births and baptisms of females
Borum, Kirstine b: 27 APR 1925 in Sorø, Alsted, Sorø, Denmark d: 17 OCT 1988 in København, Denmark

left in detail
father is Borum, Allan Eugen b: 19 SEP 1885 d: 1935
mother is Møller, Kirstine b: 7 AUG 1895 in Sorø but not found i kirkebøg so far
possibly that it is her married name from a previous marriage . . .

right in detail
unusual a late baptism at home

at the start of the volume of Copenhagen divorces - register index G for GOTTLIEB see case number 184
not the names I expected to see http://karl-dane.blogspot.com/
possibly a brother in the same trade of Glovemaker

the wife in Copenhagen is suing her husband in Aarhus for a divorce

case number 184 the left hand page is blotting paper to enable a rapid entry in ink

Copenhagen arms and some flags

2006-08-11T18:21:00.000-07:00

When I use my handicam in the archives the results go in for example
http://karl-dane.blogspot.com/

on the way out of the city hall this coat of arms in the enquiry office by main door caught my eye

what are these yellow or blue flags with the Dannebrog quartered?
see Flags of the World but unknown

INSIGNIA REGIA CIVITATIS UBERA HAFNIENSIS
Hafnia is latin for Copenhagen well Kjøbenavn or Köbenhafn to mention a couple of the early spellings

a square Dannebrog suggest an early date if authentic

waterbus stop

2006-08-03T13:35:00.000-07:00

my water bus will be here soon

this is my favourite bus stop by the Royal Library in Copenhagen

backing out

bridge between old and new libraries

her she comes with a bone in her teeth

see SNAPS ONE FOR THE REST OF MY DAY

ROYAL LIBRARY COPENHAGEN

2006-08-03T11:17:00.000-07:00

Krak Veiviser 1925 Brumleby
with only "important people listed"

KRAK 1922 Østerbrogade 57 Kjøbenhavn

typical clothes of a danish working man in 1922

Hof og Stadt kalender 1737
who was who in Denmark. king and court, lords and ladies, officers and ministers

bigger

bigger

in german I think

lake view cafe

2006-07-26T15:28:00.000-07:00

This afternoon I enjoyed sitting with fellow writers Eugene, Ellen and Linda by Sortedams Sø - the lake with the black dam - outside Den Franske Cafe

I love the texture of water seen on a hot day with a digital camera

Copenhagen with Østerbrogade running along the dam to the left
the vanishing point at the break in the horse chestnut trees is "The Little Triangle" Lille Triangel

evening walk in Copenhagen

2006-07-22T14:19:00.000-07:00

I sat on a bench by the Langelinie marina for visiting yachts

and watched the world go by

the sound of music at a distant party

from Norway and Atlanta USA

outward bound

and back - trips around the harbour - havn rundfsrt

chelmsley wood is cooking

2006-07-19T00:42:00.000-07:00

balcony

2006-07-19T00:20:00.000-07:00

went to pIck my last lettuce for lunch

avocado

sunday tv

2006-07-02T15:47:00.000-07:00

Das Erste satellite Astra 1B 19.2 E - Signal Intensity 78% Signal Quality 71%
I reached out the window and had a twiddle to get a fine adjustment

foto blitz on Sesame Straße

Ernie and Bert in Germany: Helping Preschool Children Learn for 30 Years
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) was the first broadcaster in the world to purchase the rights to the American format.

Only the Bavarian broadcasting company Bayerischer Rundfunk refused to screen the programme – on the dubious grounds that German children would not be able to identify with the “negroes appearing in the programme”.

sesamestrasse
NDR has secured the rights until 2010. New episodes will continue to be shown on ARD every Sunday at 7.30 in the morning. However, daily repeats are now only to be found – in the morning and at midday – on the children’s channel “Ki.Ka”.
“Sesamstraße” on NDR
"Sesamstraße-Live"
Ki.Ka: the ARD/ZDF public children’s channel
“Sesame Street”: the original American version

in Switzerland
with http://www.bahn.de/
a TV channel all about shopping for railway tickets - and what to see

eisenbahn-fan - my new word for today in english a train spotter http://eisenbahnfan.oyla.de/

BBC ONE Wimbledon and a good signal from FreeView digital

LIVE AUDIO WITH SEAN KELLY AND DAVID HARMON:
underway. You can listen to them LIVE on Eurosport or by clicking on the link below:
LIVE AUDIO: 2006 Tour de France

break away group tête de la course 1 minute 32 seconds in the lead
Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner), Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel), Stéphane Augé (Cofidis), Benoit Vaugrenard (Française des Jeux), Matthieu Sprick (Bouygues Telecom), Walter Beneteau (Bouygues Telecom) and Nicolas Portal (Caisse d'Epargne)Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner), Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel), Stéphane Augé (Cofidis), Benoit Vaugrenard (Française des Jeux), Matthieu Sprick (Bouygues Telecom), Walter Beneteau (Bouygues Telecom) and Nicolas Portal (Caisse d'Epargne)

these helicopter shots recall manyhappy memories of my time as a pilot

break away

the peloton saves energy by reducing wind ressitance, and finally catches number six of the break away - on the right

the red car carries the chief judge Directeur des Compétitions follows all on his own Walter Beneteau (Bouygues Telecom) who is nearly worn down
he came in number 138 in 4 hours 10 minutes plus???? for 150 km

final sprint the yellow jersy seconds before the accident is on the left
Jimmy Casper far right sprinted right past world champion Tom Boonen to claim a shock win in the first stage of the Tour de France
1. Casper
2. McEwen
3. Zabel
4. Bennati
5. Paolini

the yellow jersey down and bleeding Thor Hushovd after the finish and losing his yellow jersey by 2 seconds to American George Hincapie from Discovery Channel Team
http://www.thor-hushovd.com/ and read his bio

Strasbourg and when will the church be finished?

flash back showing that Thor Hushovd was too close to the barrier and one of the crowd waving the green cardboard hands

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/livefullpage_mtc129660.shtml

commentator Sean Kelly (himself a TOUR sprinter and a hard cyclist) explaining his ideas about the team strategy for tomorrow

Le tour

Site officiel du tour de France. Actualité, base de données historiques, légende du Tour. Présentatio...
www.letour.fr/ -
English version - Le Tour 2006

Équipe : TEAM CSC
Code : CSC
Directeur sportif : RIIS Bjarne

011 -	JULICH Bobby	USA
012 -	LOMBARDI Giovanni	ITA
013 -	O’GRADY Stuart	AUS
014 -	SASTRE Carlos	ESP
015 -	SCHLECK Frank	LUX
016 -	VANDEVELDE Christian	USA
017 -	VOIGT Jens	GER
018 -	ZABRISKIE David	USA

the small numbers mean a high rating second only to Discovery

more numbers to watch

058 -

RASMUSSEN Mickael

DEN

139 -

WIGGINS Bradley

GBR

146 -

MILLAR David

GBR

in 2007 LONDON
Le parcours de la première étape, entraînera le peloton, en ce 8 juillet 2007 to CANTERBURY

stuck indoors

2006-06-27T12:35:00.000-07:00

so I reach for the zoom lens

half size sportsmen at Bennetts Well school

the new owner is clearing weeds with a noisy strimmer and the dog is barking, but the last owners were less than thorough when they painted the fence

I could not see what this pretty pantechnicon was here for

Weird Words: Pantechnicon

The story behind the Weird Word 'pantechnicon'. ... Alas, the scholarship of the Pantechnicon’s proprietor was not matched by his business acumen

I uderwatered these tomatoes to make their roots grow and they survived

milk before dawn

2006-06-20T10:00:00.000-07:00

I got up at 4:15 am and saw the milkman delivering to the doorsteps of just a few houses. I have wanted to blog this for a while as a bit of old England fast disappearing

I love this light and tend to get up at this time before sunrise

the moon above Alcott Wood and the new Solihull College

zooming in to the new northern campus

not my best moon shot

seven floors below me, roses in the Merton House garden

I am in the spare room and looking north past my bedroom window flung open to ventilate the flat and my bed clothes

this milkman's round is very very wide spread and thin most of us get our milk at supermarkets these days and on saturday's he will come later to collect the money for the weekly accounts.

first bus driving out to its start position

from my kitchen window looking left, the back door of the next block

behind the shops no deliveries yet

milk float

milkman at work he will also have bread butter, bacon and eggs.

cleaning up at the doctors'

and on to the next customer - I remember horse drawn deliveries, then electric milk floats and this is a diesel

accident at home

2006-06-20T07:35:00.000-07:00

I saw the milk float at 4:20 am and rushed to grab my Sony DCR PC100 handicam from 1999

the camera was on the blue cushion

and I caught the middle toe of my left foot on the steel chair frame

I had grabbed the camera in my left hand and its battery with my right and rushed towards the window

I stubbed my toe here began to fall and let go camera and battery

I got both arms out and broke my fall with my forearms so neither banged my face nor hurt my wrists

but my right knee hit hard

this is my eye view as I laid on the carpet

with my 350 lbs and sore knees (the left has an old injury from falling on ice in Frederiksberg Allé in Copenhagen and previously in about 1957 in the Haymarket , London, it is difficult to get up again.

My eye fell on this radio table of oak from the panelling of Trostrey Court

(My granny had it made and a 1930ies radio on it)
so left hand there

and with my right hand I grabbbed this cupboard door handle

heave ho and getting my feet under me

I use this for drying sheets and towels

ow my right knee

I used a pain reducing trick I learned from the Scientologists when I took a student hat to learn what it was all about

In the fifties Ron Hubbard was a respected science fiction writer in the same class as Asimov and Arthur C Clark, and after I met danish journalists in Bobbi Bar who had only bad things to say, awoke a wish to find out for myself what it was all about

an "assist" touching this bruised knee to the cold radiator

at first gave a sensation like a mild electric shock, which when repeated some how signals to ones nervous system to reduce the ache from the bruise

Ron may have picked it up from a faith healer somewhere but it works
I got it by reading a book in their Copenhagen bookshop (I could not afford to buy it)

I wear rubber (now plastic) stockings to reduce water retention in my legs

the camera ended on the floor behind the radiator but still works

giving my sore toe an "assist"
reduced the pain but not the swelling which is still quite colourful

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/cooper-scandal.txt
the negative views
http://www.lermanet.com/edgard-negron/index.htm

Scientology is essentially a pyramid sales organisation distributing books and services - very american I fear

reducing bruises assist scientology - (Google Search) could not find any references

composition

http://www.bridgepub.com/index.html

book sales scientology - Google Search

dawn desktop

2006-06-20T05:49:00.000-07:00

the view at 4:47 am when sitting on the bed in the guest room (with sore toe and bruised knee)

hawk looking for breakfast

looking towards Coleshill, North Warwickshire

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old vapour trail

my current desk top image

my plants this morning on the balcony

2006-06-15T12:29:00.000-07:00

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tomato lycopersicon mermanda transplanted last week

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transpalnted 3 days ago and not yet settled

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only two lettuce any good lactuca sativa Atraktion

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suffering from the heat 30 degrees and transpalntation - but with wet feet

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cucumber restina just flowered today

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I found some very old darning wool to tie it to the five bamboos,
next time I will put the rods in from the start

never seen cucumber in a greenhouse before

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now should I take a brush and pollinate them?? HELP!!!

monday at home

2006-06-14T06:32:00.000-07:00

4:40 am

playing with the zoom lens

AND much later

dustman at work

loaded up

and emptying the tub to await pick up

Merton House garden

on my balcony before I started some gardening amd replanting and thinning out

cress gone to seed and I found that I could manually focus for a close up

where I will plant out my tomato plants when I go on holiday

blossom over and all green

Solihull College North Campus is nearly complete

Alcott Wood mostly oak trees

Bosworth Drive
you can hardly see the Macdonalds at Chelmsley Wood shopping centre

oops 12:05 pm false colour because in the rush I hit the back light button

loading the dust cart

one minute later

car with two flags which increase fuel consumption and frighten the horses (reported by riding schools)

square bins from under the rubbish chutes

of MertonHouse

exit to Crabtree Drive

skip and building rubble behind the shops

tow truck with a dead red car

late evening light

on Bosworth Drive

8:05 pm

sunset and time to take down the flag

St George's Cross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The standard of St George only recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity fuelled partly by football-inspired nationalism, but also by the devolution movements in Scotland and Wales asserting a separate identity. Until the mid-90s, it was the Union Jack which was used to support the English football team - even bizzarely at games against Scotland where it was literally the flag of both nations.

The Standard of St. George was adopted by King Edward III who declared St. George patron saint of England and his banner as the English flag FOTW

New Street station Birmingham

2006-06-14T05:58:00.000-07:00

at 7:30 am Saturday 10 June 2006
The west end of New Street station, which was constructed as a joint station by the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway between 1846 and 1854 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street_Station

very worn track double slip switch AKA double slip points AKA double compound points Railroad switch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -- Double Slip Switch -- A diamond crossing having slip roads on both sides of the diamond. from Steve's Railway Glossary

London and North Western Railway, LNWR Society

fire after sunset

2006-06-01T20:47:00.000-07:00

and I dialed 999 and called the fire brigade -then I grabbed my HandiCam and zoomed in

out of my kitchen window 2006:05:31 20:36:26

by the Kingfisher project boat house arson and a stolen car?

looking left to the north east after sunset

lightened by gamma corrrection to show the foreground 20:39 31/5/2006

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weed on a pub roof

2006-06-01T09:09:00.000-07:00

zooming from the top deck of a 97 bus near the Blues ground

resurfacing Yorklea Croft, Chelmsley Wood

2006-05-27T19:35:00.000-07:00

B37 5EG google map and you can see Merton House in Crabtree Drive which is my viewpoint - I call these events mechanical ballets - the dance of the machines

the tarmac has been stripped off by this machine

this pneumatic drill woke me up

driving up onto the low loader

and drilling
my upstairs neighbours from hell? no, the red van belongs to electricians rewiring the flat over my bedroom, and they have been bashing and drilling into the concrete and dropping tools on the floor above my bed starting at 8:00 am.

ready to go back to the depot and I have not had breakfast yet

"I've finished sweeping this gutter"

and still drilling

ROADWORKS START HERE 26/5/06 FOR 2

sweeper and water lorry

road roller on the grass and they laid the new tarmac on Saturday morning before I woke up.

they fixed the bus stop

2006-05-18T18:08:00.000-07:00

the noise of this edge trimmer made me look up and out of my window

two men, and a half truck with 10 large panes of glass to repair the bus stop

where I walk into Chelmsley Wood - the footpath goes between the red houses

and he got his yellow jacket out of the cab and put it on

serious rain showers

and the sun came out

and the pavement was dry again in minutes

screwing in the last of the window surrounds

lilac means butterfly time

golden rain was my childhood favourite

a job is not finished until the paperwork is done

writng up the paper work or a cup of coffee?

all done off we go

off into the traffic and they turned right towards Marston Green

waste disposal

2006-05-18T17:51:00.000-07:00

a bit blurred, but I have yet to walk this hill top on the other side of Birmingham Business Park

the red clay slash in the hill site is the landfill site at Packington which I blogged some time ago
GOOGLE MAP zoom out and track left to B37 5BX which is where I live

golden cloud

2006-05-18T17:46:00.000-07:00

I had packed up my cameras for the day but this cloud came by at about 8:30 pm

over Chelmsley Wood

night shots

2006-05-18T17:36:00.000-07:00

1:30 am checking "my" bus stop is still intact

Bosworth Drive

Chemsley Wood

breakfast in the kitchen

2006-05-06T10:18:00.000-07:00

The balcony was 34 degrees centigrade to day - a bit too hot for me

the carrot adds fibre and is important in controlling my appetite - the hardboiled egg is just a treat - not everyday

I like sitting on my granny's chair from Usk

unloading at the day centre to the right of Chelmsley Wood medical center

wheel chair time not so bad as staying at home

dandelion patch to the left, but it needs a path to be paved at the angle people chose to walk to the shops.

River Thames by Tate Britain

2006-04-30T13:13:00.000-07:00

amphibious //www.londonducktours.co.uk/index.htm

but the low freeboard makes me nervous

Army duck

Miyuki Maru
Cruise the Thames aboard the Miyuki Maru party boat

house boat

gasometer south bank

Turner Gallery - Tate Britain

sun and gilding on Victoria Tower

High Society played a loud slow bass drum beat that made me look for a marching band

Victoria Tower the Palves of Westminster - Parlament

sunrise over Coleshill

2006-04-26T00:49:00.000-07:00

Coleshill, United Kingdom Forecast : Weather Underground: "the SUN
Actual Times 5:45 AM rise
noon BST1:04 PM BST
and set 8:24 PM BST"

I said to myself no more sunrises
but as I was leaving my balcony after breakfast
this appeared

and these are the three originals before I used IrfanView to correct the gamma for this computer's screen

which look best on your VDU? Lighter or darker?

the -g at the end of a file name means it has been fixed

balcony breakfast

2006-04-25T05:53:00.000-07:00

the sort of yellow greens I used love making by mixing poster paints as a school boy

the art master Ledbetter always cried out "NO LOLLIPOP TREES"
and I used to enjoy drawing branches

the big crane has been taken down at the new Solihull College northern campus

these ducks were making a lot of noise - two drakes to one female , who is leading them up the garden path

QUACK QUACK ladies first - after you

QUCK QUACK shall we make a nest here dear?

QUCK QUACK and she turned round because she had changed her mind

they had walked along the pavement, through the open gate and up the garden path into the next garden

two more noisy ducks were quacking away
on this grass

the football fan's home which I blogged yesterday - the next door neighbour has sold up and moved out with their caravan and two cars

magpie
it is getting much greener in our shared garden beneath my window

the geometry of these porches caught my eye - the bush should balance the composition but looks a bit dark on this old Optiquest V115 monitor

misty this morning

2006-04-21T11:16:00.000-07:00

at breakfast time on my balcony

this watering can from Widney Lane is at least as old as me and is kept full of water so the plants will not be shocked by cold tap water. All except the geranium seeds have some germinations but are not very photogenic yet.

the first tulips I have seen out of doors this year

this light is very flattening

I had to brighten this one up, because for a better composition the camera is pointing at a light area
the -g after a file number means that I have used the gamma correction of IrfanView ALT + C

easter sunday at home

2006-04-16T18:12:00.000-07:00

empties from friday and saturday evenings
lidl cider - Google Search Woodgate or Scimitar
Bulmers Ltd. is the only Irish cider producer

this whisky simulates a straight malt packaging Glen Orchy whisky - Google Search
but was a PURE MALT blended in Glasgow by CLYDESDALE Scotch whisky
NAUGHTY NAUGHTY LIDL your lowland patent whisky trickery fooled me

large quantities of cider, made at Tilt's Farm, Woodgate. which had a big old-fashioned cider press. Cider was part of farm economy generally, issued almost as part of the wages of agricultural labourers. 1907 Quinton

new tree awakening
greening
blooming
short cut across the car park

Why ?

going to a birthday party and the pampass grass has been replaced by a palm tree

green willow
new roof on the new Solihull College campus

football fan flags from a sixth floor window
not a monday but sunday washing day

blue distant hills like a child's paint box
I love this yellow People's Express
beendng towards the light - seedling peppers, radishes, cucumbers

lettuce in about six weeks
and one tomato seedling

I slept in the afternoon and went in the kitchen to steam my rice and vegetables before the new Doctor WHO repeat started on BBC3 freeview

this pink light caught my eye
and I realised the sun was shining into my north facing kitchen window and full of glee I rushed to grab my Sony Handicam

the setting sun is now a little north of due west

sunset has passed the next block of flats

looking west out of my kitchen window

rubber deposited on the car park

999 - Midlands Today BBC

2006-04-12T02:41:00.000-07:00

drama from my balcony at about 10:00 am whilst having a late breakfast

smoke issuing from the roof of the Royal Mail
Chelmsley Wood Delivery Office, Birmingham, B37 5RA
0121 770 5616 of course when I dialed 999 (the emergency services) they asked for the street, 1 Stephenson Drive, which I did not know
multimap

then I called the BBC to ask if they would like this photo and was told if nobody was hurt they were not interested - how should I know?

Later I saw two fireman in yellow helmets and orange suits checking it out.

BBC Online - Midlands Today -: " If you have a story you think we should be covering then give us a call on our Freephone tip-off line. The number to call is 08000 969560 or email us at
midlands.today@bbc.co.uk

three sisters

2006-04-11T11:02:00.000-07:00

two starlings
eating worms

What is that dog barking for?

who are you?
said this watchful cat

with a half concealed fifteen inch iron pipe in his hand . . .

a madman came out of the house at number 27 and said "Are you photographing me?"

after visiting the three sisters I found the way to a new viewpoint on the footbridge over the railway

the three sisters the smoke is from an even more distant fire

not at ALCOA

I have just come along this footpath and up 36 steps to my newest viewpoint

moon zoom times ten and click to see bigger

two planes stacked up on the approach to Birmingham airport
one safely landed at BHX

Centro train going towards Marston Green and Coventry

gone
at about 1900 they turned on the runway centre line lights

stourbridge junction station

2006-04-09T23:12:00.000-07:00

oops clicked too soon

Centro Train Snow Hill to Worcester

this cock wood pigeon dominates with his loud cooing

he is in charge of the car park lamp posts

balcony and greenhouse

2006-04-08T20:39:00.000-07:00

INSPIRATION - these shelves just fit

I got these REMPLOY shelves fifty years ago to store my engineering drawings when I was at Loughborough CAT

inspiration completed with the old upright

kitchen thermometer resited

the southern end of the balcony
colder with the window open

filling up John Innes number 3 with a layer of fertiliser pellets

seeds planted but not yet covered

red peppers and cucumbers, radishes and parsley in the round pot
three kinds of lettuce, three kinds of tomatoes in the window boxes
cress on the green plastic, more tomatoes , red geraniums in the plastic mini green houses from LIDL

messed up Grand National horse race at Aintree

2006-04-08T19:49:00.000-07:00

another race over hurdles - which I learned were much lower than the Grand National fences

the grey horse at the start the commentator said some punters backed grey horses because they were easier to spot during the race http://www.aintree.co.uk/

stewards on standby awaiting the starters signal if a false start

40 horses milling around waiting the start note the grey facing the wrong way

number 38 the only grey - form 21411F ROSS COMM aged 10 years carrying weight 10 stone -05 lbs jockey Sue Smith

STOP STOP STOP STOP false start

mending the tape - not very quick with their knots

ROSS COM, which I had fancied betting on, caused the false start getting her nose stuck over the tape

going back to start over again
and ROSS COM fell at the third fence 31 horses fell altogther but not one was injured

http://www.aintree.co.uk/racing/fullresults.jsp?date=08/04/2006

winning owner Bernard Carroll, winning trainer Martin Brassil and winning rider Niall Madden, who is in only his first season as a professional, landing the 2006 John Smith's Grand National with Numbersixvalverde, who is named after the Clare-based winning owner's family home in Portugal.

the BBC race replay showed how well Niall Madden rode.
He held back for the first round, riding wide to avoid the fallen, a matter of survival at this stage one commentator said, but on the second circuit he gradually crept forwards into fifth place and then used the whip to drive to a decisive victory

bright morning

2006-04-08T19:28:00.000-07:00

my mother taught me to wonder at the shrubs which bloomed on the bare wood every spring

forsythia - Google Image Search Lian Qiao used heavily in Chinese traditional medicine.

the angle and lengh of the shadows from the still window-less bus stop on Bosworth Drive define the sun's height and positon

dazzling light reflected from the windows of Merton House see also
april 8 2006 weather SNAPS ONE

my diet on saturday

2006-04-08T18:17:00.000-07:00

my weight is around 350 lbs or 157.8 kg or 25 stone - stable or falling slowly

carbs for today - three portions of dry rice using the home made green measure
(I have run out of rolled oats and rye bread, but the lack of fibre may slow my bowels down later)

the steamer in bits with the rice just covered with water as I learnt from master cook ILK in Brumleby Denmark - takes 40 minutes of steaming

my four pills daily multivitamin with all minerals

(recommended by the danish pharmacist on the Faroe Islands where selenium is lacking because of the high rainfall)

a danish "water pill" with diuretic with potassium (english doctors don't prescribe the additional potassium) Diuretics - Drug Comparisons - Compare Drugs - DrugDigest

a mini aspirin to thin my blood,

and RAMIPRIL does something to my heart and blood pressure an ACE inhibitor Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme, Ramipril - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

at last breakfast on the balcony - 200 grams low fat cottage cheese - Twinings "everyday tea" (boring taste and not to be reordered) with skimmed milk - one third of the newly steamed rice with Worcesteshire Sauce and vinegar - a raw carrot

ice cold coffee with lemon for elevenses - the only fruit I have left is sliced frozen lemon

my LUNCH chopped raw cabbage with a chopped half onion, a glass of tap water (from Wales) and to the right the second portion of cold rice with a can of tuna in oil and wine vinegar from Italy (via Lidl)

and afterwards Nescafe instant coffee with cold skimmed milk

after the Grand National Race on TV, a snooze and "Flog It" whilst the pressure cooker was heating up, I enjoyed nostalgia with Banks bitter beer from Wolverhanmpton where I used to teach and live - the last two of a four-pack from yesterday

the third portion of cold rice with fish and reheated soup - carrots , onion, cauiliflower greens, diced cabbage

cheating again - after wards two pint glasses of 7.5% white cider left over from yesterday evening

Later four toasted slices of wholemeal brown bread (high fibre) with cottage cheese and a splash of Daddies Sauce.

Alcohol is a factor in my obesity creating an enhanced appetite, but relaxing and helping me to sleep well - I woke up tonight at 1:00 am after dreaming of PIZZA of all the dumb things, and started blogging and I will continue until I feel tired at about sunrise.

custard factory to dixon road

2006-04-06T15:46:00.000-07:00

Dixon Road school to the right - looking back and up at High Town

yellow sunset over Camp Hill threatens rain and wind

I don't know why this went all blue in the camera

main entrance of the mosque on the hill top

beautiful lettering

civic pride - left is a new medical centre - right the victorian parish church

zooming in the picture above to the distant next mosque

walk to Stechford

2006-04-05T15:51:00.000-07:00

In Fordbridge I loved

the sound

of a twitter of sparrows

STAND STILL darn you!!

above the footpath in Kingfisher project park

in a silver birch

big black crow

song thrush? was singing like mad

I call these chimneys the three sisters - first seen from the BHX airport to the east of the take off path

football with Dad on the Norman Chamberlain sports field

rooks or crows?

settling down to roost for the night in a poplar tree

I think they are wood pigeons

take off at sunset and I was under the glide path / circuit the whole time

when I got home yesterday

2006-04-04T15:21:00.000-07:00

the shadow of Merton House laid heavily on our neighbours to the east

I still want to climb this hill at Little Packington

googled route to CV7 7HN is OK by car but not bus and foot

www.multimap.com has red dotted lines for footpaths

Alcott Wood

2006-04-04T14:32:00.000-07:00

wood anemones only in spots not a carpet

rotting tree stumps are an important part of the ecology of a wild wood

water vole's nest in the bank of Low Brook

Solihull Website - Parks in Solihull
The original Chelmsley Wood is thought to have been sited on Alcott Wood, which can be traced back to 1086.

crane at Blythe School

2006-04-03T17:53:00.000-07:00

this distant crane has puzzled me for weeks

Blythe School - Google Search

Packington Lane Coleshill Birmingham B46 3JE on google maps

I followed the ox bends of the river Cole

SNAPS ONE: Blythe School

my kitchen window

2006-03-31T14:02:00.000-08:00

not too happy about this exposure - the sky was not white

all these pictures are as is bitmaps made into high res jpg in camare and the compression factor is 3
I am never bored by the endlessly changing cloudscapes

the Kingfisher project park is in the dead ground (a military term for a hidden valley) between the trees and the appartment blocks

looking north east

and from my balcony looking east

I always think I see a faint line beyond the violet - not visible on camera

morning and afternoon

2006-03-30T15:17:00.000-08:00

dawn this morning

was a yellow dawn

footpath towards Chelmsley Wood

our broken bus stop without glass and still not repaired for three months in Bosworth Drive

coffee at the custard factory

more coffee

Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham

evening at the kingfisher project

2006-03-29T12:59:00.000-08:00

singing away by a new built nest

the older camera does not do so well in this poor light

walking home from shopping

2006-03-27T15:00:00.000-08:00

blogger image server is down so a short blog with help from www.googlepages.com

boys toys in the car park

from the roof that glimpse of water tempted me to walk home

hesitant drake
and it started to rain

weather for ducks

after the rubbish corner

by Bennetts Well School

blossom time at last on the unswept foot path

from the beginning of my walk - the same antenna as the sunrise below - looking south from the car park after shopping in Chelmsley Wood

publishing archives

2006-03-26T06:51:00.000-08:00

GENEALOGE: Coroner's Court Birmingham

I just used my handcam to photo copies of old documents and put them on line

BHX and IKEA daffodils

2006-03-22T21:14:00.000-08:00

I got up just before dawn 22 March 2006 and the sun is just a fraction north of due east

order to see my guest off to Copenhagen from TERMINAL 2 Trident Road

zooming from the long stay car park at BHX Birmingham airport

note the two pitot tubes below the second cockpit window - these sense air pressure from which speed and height are calculated by the instruments

pitot tube - Google Search

up and away at BHX airport long runway

I live in Merton House, one of the three 10 storey blocks of flats to the right (left of the black tipped triple chimneys

B26 3QJ on the corner of the car park by runway 33

first daffodil growing wild seen in Walsall

by the roadside on a south facing bank

very difficult access by public transport with the nearest bustop in Wlasall Road, Darlaston was out of use

half way up the steep bank to the car park at IKEA Wednesbury near Birmingham

Address: IKEA Wednesbury Park Lane Wednesbury

West Midlands WS10 9SF

zooming at SVR trains on sunday

2006-03-20T13:19:00.000-08:00

BR stock from 1956 and 1957

svr severn valley railway - Google Search

blogger photo server is broken again

2006-03-19T12:22:00.000-08:00

Google Groups : Something Is Broken

has other users complaining too

crocuses at Bournville near Cadbury World

shops at Bournville near Cadbury World

guest photographer in Copenhagen

2006-03-18T06:46:00.000-08:00

Inger-Lise Kristoffersen sent me these two pictures taken with her new Nikon Coolpix 300i camera (black older model)

afternoon snow in the park in Copenhagen Denamrk

Nikon Digital Website

Ørstedsparken København

Nikon Coolpix S1 digital camera specifications: Digital Photography Review

Bourneville and home

2006-03-16T01:55:00.000-08:00

from the top deck of an 11c circular route bus in Birmingham
and time to change buses
Charlotte took these two, many times all the bare trees are catching her eye during this visit

seen from the bus stop, a police car at work

at last -- I was thrilled to see the number 97 on this bus in the zoom shot in my viewfinder

Birmingham St Patrick’s Festival

2006-03-12T14:28:00.000-08:00

The Kerry Man

GREEN lamps for the SELFRIDGES Bull Ring store flood lights

St. Patrick's Day Festival

Sunday 12th March with the world’s 3rd largest St Patrick’s parade begining at 12 noon - oops we were too late and missed the lot

the snaps were taken onthe way home

BHX SAS

2006-03-11T17:48:00.000-08:00

I got up very early, tidied up and left after checking that SK2533 had departed on http://www.cph.dk

But at Birmingham Airport SK2533 CPH-BHX was posted as being one hour late.

After taking some snaps outdoors I tired and went to this Birmingham Airport Prayer Room for the first time.

Behind a row of orange cupboard doors were these essentials:-

JUDAISM

BUDDHISM

CHRISTIANITY

and a big selection of different editions of Holy Bibles are on the shelf above (not shown)

HINDUS

with books from ISKCON - The International Society for Krishna Consciousness

of which I read and then I meditated

SIKHS

with The Khanda, one of the most important symbols of Sikhism

with a picture of the Golden Temple

MUSLIMS

on the door a Prayer Timetable from the Birmingham Central Mosque

and the arrow on the floor points to MECCA

after meditating I felt much better.

bus stop yesterday

2006-03-10T13:00:00.000-08:00

after shopping at LIDL Kitts Green

very difficult to see when the bus comes

shopping at sunset

2006-03-09T19:15:00.000-08:00

I love cloudscapes
expect many in SNAPS TWO

late afternoon

2006-03-08T14:06:00.000-08:00

at about 5:00 pm the grey skies receded over Chelmsley Wood

SNAPS blog has spawned SNAPS TWO

2006-03-08T00:57:00.000-08:00

snaps has got a daughter SNAPS TWO welcome

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grey dawn

2006-03-08T00:50:00.000-08:00

the cold weather has broken

Humidity:
96%
Dew Point:
46 °F / 8 °C
Wind:
6 mph / 9 km/h from the South

Coleshill, United Kingdom Forecast : Weather Underground
Pressure:
29.56 in / 1001 hPa (Falling)
Visibility:
3.0 miles / 5.0 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 1378 ft / 420 m Mostly Cloudy 5906 ft / 1800 m
(Above Ground Level)

stine with bow

2006-03-07T18:38:00.000-08:00

Stine is about 4 months old