7 Days is returning

And I have so many things to do before then. Like: pick the two themes; get the hair out of my eye; be less brown; eat more Mini Cheddars; drink more coffee. The 7 Days self-portrait project is a-coming back on Saturday 20th September 2008 You may have seen the Flickr group 365 days, in [...]

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Spudilicious joy

I was expecting to include a lot of complaining about backache in this post, but apparently the muscles in my back don’t give a damn that I spent hours harvesting my potatoes yesterday. Lots of digging, digging, digging and I discovered that out there in my vegetable patch just over 12kg of potatoes were hiding [...]

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An about Cologne photos telling post

The Germans, they talk a lot in terms of their impressions. Nice impressions, bad impressions, too many impressions to deal with. They also talk a lot about their circulation, but that’s by the by. With the translating I do (and my head being some kind of idiot sponge) I have a habit of absorbing German [...]

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Mmm nom nom nom

Lauren lived in Cologne for part of her university course (no, she wasn’t taking skiving to a new level, she was meant to be there) and so she seemed the perfect person to consult with regard to what one should see in the city. She had just two tips: 1. Don’t climb the steps to [...]

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Rockin’ the Rhine

As I begin to load more photos from my trip to Cologne it occurs to me that I never linked from here to my photos on Flickr of the concert I’d actually gone there to attend. Probably too busy translating German press articles about it to stop and do so. Now that the tour is [...]

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In which I plant more vegetables to complain about

Standing in my room in my all together last night the air, the world around me suddenly felt very autumnal, which admittedly may have been because I was standing there in my all together. And indeed outside the season does seem to be turning in my vegetable patch. Where, it should be noted, I do [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – Gone to the zoo

A day out at the zoo with Lauren. We saw all sorts and so once I have been through the hundreds of photos no doubt I’ll be flooding my stream with all kinds of crazy animals. Thanks for another amazing 7 Days week, you guys and gals. I’m currently incredibly behind on going through the [...]

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