"Let's take a cup of kindness for Auld Lang Syne"

That's life, Think on.

Spanish market. No plastic wrapping

This electric train has been running between Palma and Soller on the island of Mallorca since 1912 and is the one attraction visitors should not miss. It runs on a narrow gauge track through the mountain pass.

All the coachwork is original varnished wood.

Fishing -My friends Mathew and Rizk

Two fish together..Smiles..Hammali

Fishing teaching learning about the waters

Seeing the sea in a different way, when one fishes...Tripoli Fishing Club...Cheers

Watching Pelicans-Our favorite holiday pass time

..has meant that I have been able to do today what I didn't manage yesterday. Vis. My walk along 'The Solent Way'. The photos I was going to improve upon, well, that didn't really work out but there were some other good'uns. I'll post a link to these when I straighten out the horizons in loads of them as at the moment many of them seem to be suitable only for Irish water skiers. Here's an unaltered, non tarted up one to give you a taster.

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So that's me completely knackered and as soon as the kettle has boiled and I am in possesion of a mug of tea and a slab of cake, I shall resume the Arse/Sofa interface situation.

Or a portable toilet

HELP RESCUE POLA'S LIFE

IF YOU PAY FROM ABROAD - OUTSIDE POLAND

BANK ACCOUNT EUR: 23 1160 2202 0000 0000 3436 4677
Bank Millenium S.A.
Al. Jerozolimskie 133, 02-304 Warszawa
S.W.I.F.T. BIGBPLPWXXX
TITLE (SOS Dzieciom dla Poli Wesolowskiej) means SOS kids for Pola Wesolowska

BANK ACCOUNT USD: 23 1160 2202 0000 0000 6663 1212
Bank Millenium S.A.
Al. Jerozolimskie 133, 02-304 Warszawa
S.W.I.F.T. BIGBPLPWXXX
TITLE (SOS Dzieciom dla Poli Wesolowskiej) means SOS kids for Pola Wesolowska

BANK ACCOUNT GBP: 23 1160 2202 0000 0000 7332 7236
Bank Millenium S.A.
Al. Jerozolimskie 133, 02-304 Warszawa
S.W.I.F.T. BIGBPLPWXXX
TITLE (SOS Dzieciom dla Poli Wesolowskiej) means SOS kids for Pola Wesolowska

ORIGINAL POLA'S WEB SITE

http://www.polawesolowska.pl

We are helping little Pola from Poland to raise the funds to save her life…

POLA WESOLOWSKA WAS BORN IN POLAND IN 14.06.2004.

SHE IS HAPPY AND FULL OF LIFE LITTLE GIRL EVEN AFTER HOW SHE SPEND MORE THAN HALF HER LIFE IN HOSPITAL.

WHEN SHE WAS 9 MONTHS OLD DOCTORES REMOVED KIDNEYS CANCER.

AFTER THAT WHEN POLA WAS 2 YEARS OLD SHE GOT RIGHT EYE TUMOR,DOCTORS REMOVED ASWELL .SHE WAS NOT EVEN 2 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE STERTED TAKING CHEMOTHERAPY.AFTER ONE YEAR CANCER START GROW UP THIRD TIME.

NOW POLA IS IN DUSSELDORF WHERE SHE IS WAITING ON ANOTHER OPERATION.

POLA NEEDS 6 OPERATIONS ,EACH COST 12 000 EURO.PARENTS CAN NOT AFFORD TO EARN SO MUCH MONEY

PLEASE HELP THIS CUTIE LITTLE GIRL SURVIVE AND HELP HER LIVE NORMAL LIVE

She fell ill with cancer when she was 9 months old. Since then she has spent half of her life in hospitals. In December 2007 she had an operation and eye excision. Unfortunately the fight with her disease is not over… Pola needs a special treatment which she could not find in Poland. At the moment she is staying in a clinic in Düsseldorf (Germany) with her parents. However, the treatment is very expensive and not refundable from the Polish National Health Fund. The cost of one treatment cycle is 12 thousand euro and Pola needs at least six such cycles.
For saving Pola’s life, time and money are very important.
We are calling for help to everyone who can support Pola financially.

EVEN A SMALL SUM OF MONEY MATTERS

http://www.help4pola.freewebweb.com/
http://www.polawesolowska.pl

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One of my desserts yesterday, 25th., yes really YUM YUMMYYYYY and I did it Nice huh?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS and HAVE FUN

Kiki

I just wonder if it's a Southampton thing, but is there anywhere else where they put slates on exposed walls, as in this fine example?

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I went there last year and spent a week in Bangkok, Phuket & Pataya. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

Inside a Temple, Bangkok

Feeding Fish from a boat, Bangkok

Food Market, Bangkok

View from my Dad's suite in the Baiyoke Sky Hotel. 74th Floor!
Taken around 6am, Bangkok

My Brother and Monkey, Phuket

Beach, Phuket

Rain, Pataya

the Photography Group:

Here my greetings for you:

http://www.dancingsantacard.com/?santa=2006651

Or

http://kikita.blog.co.uk/2008/12/23/friends-and-all-ho-ho-ho-here-am-i-dancing-for-you-all-5263484

HO HO HO hope you like it it is a great FUN
...and yes i also post a photo for sure cz i am here i must
I didn't take it, was given to me, it is the Xmas tree in Lisbon my town, the biggest in Europe yet

Hugs2U all
xx
Kiki

My mate Darren got on webcam for me to show me his cool light and every time it flashed in his face, it looked really good so I kept taking screenshots and it turned out like this. It's made better that he was unaware, but I asked if I could use them and he was fine with it:

...and the stupidity of people laying paths in Southampton.

I saw this picture and thought it was quite cool,i can't take credit for it though,it is not one i took

Click pic  to make big! xx

My friends playing 'Rolling Races' on Brighton Beach.

Just a few good pictures I took of electro rock artist, Kindle straight from the camera:

There's no denying the fantastic potential in this property near the Marina in Southampton.

Ignore the credit crunch, cancel the move to France or Tuscany and invest here in good old Blighty.

Am I too late?

Do I look a bit of an ass in this?

Now we have one. It's at the Braehead shopping centre, just down the River Clyde from Glasgow.

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As it's nearing the years end I've cobbled together a few of what I feel to be the better photographs I have taken this year and that I've put on my flickr site.
It has taken me an absolute age, but I feel that I'm getting to the point where I can 'say' pretty much what I want to and am approaching a position that I wish to be in.

That all might sound highfalluting but when I was a student my old man looked at my work and said, "I'll know your any good when you can capture stillness". I think he meant tranquility, repose and above all, quiet. I think I'll get there at some time in my life, which is more than can be said about British Rail.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennypoos/sets/72157611371254516/

Best seen as a slideshow.

Thanks for looking and have a joyous time over the crimble debacle.

So a photo can't lie eh? They always do, they always do.

It had to be black of course.

But I just had to grab my camera!

This looks like a trough from a 19th Century quarry. It split down the side after the middle had been carved out so was abandoned. I bet the worker was happy! The whole site is fascinating. It has completed millstones abandoned where people were working on them. It is miles from anywhere near Sheffield overlooked by some of the countries earliest fortifications.Because of the sheer drop the area is popular with climbers.

Very Spectacular and Festive.

Harrods of Knightsbridge.....
This Photo was taken with my mobile.

Sloane Square Shopping festive style.
That reminds me where to start...
A coffe first me thinks!!!!

Ros reminded me of this pic I took in town yesterday..although not the clearest of photos, I hope you can see the small hand written poster written to clarify the fact that it is NOT 50% off all goods....in fact there wasn't 50% off anything

I went there to visit my friend & his lovely town whith its cathedrals...
here you are some photoes

 I took this from my living room window two nights ago and yes it was alovely day next day.

I will definately sort out date on camera later

As seen in a city street yesterday

Baby it's cold outside...

I am getting fed up of taking pictures of cold grey icy objects so I decided to post a few photos to warm us all up.
These were taken at Leeds Caribbean Carnival last summer which I didn't post at the time.

Roll on Summertime!!

What on earth do you mean, " all modern arcitecture is souless"?

He may talk to plants but perhaps Prince Charles is on the right lines with his views on architecture. Poundbury excepted.

Sorry about the camera shake but the colour of the sky tonight was just too good to miss.

No apologies for the misleading title though

A tale of two Souhampton window styles. The eldest being a bombed out church. The newest being the DWP building.

This is a single exposure not a photoshop composite as had been sugested elsewhere.

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Copyright-Dean Christopher,2008.
www.deanchristopherart.blog.co.uk

I found this on Sunday:

I had a good Sunday, the results of which can be seen here

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Some edifices for children plays in the park. December, 2008, by day:

"The Dams", Barrhead, Glasgow, now the central part of the new Darnley to Dams Country Park, on a December afternoon. Just realised that there are three waterfalls within two miles of my house, not Niagra size, but great to listen to.

And blue sky!

Hip ...

These roses are surviving the frost

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Hi to everybody...here's a better picture of the moon this time...it's been sitting in the sky since around midday but now it has got darker it's very clear..

Great big hugs to one and all...

Seen, and isn't everything odd, in Southampton.

Good bark definition though.

Hi to everybody...this is the sky from our house and 14.15...there's not a cloud anywhere and in the middle is the half moon seen very clearly by us...looks lovely...It's cold out but no wind...click on image to see large one and the moon...LOL...

Great big hugs to one and all..

Not a 'just what it say's on the tin' Amarylis.

Nice though.

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Three random pictures of Southampton.

Weedy roof, Giant woks and a scuzzy doorway.

Underneath the Mistletoe

In Scandinavian countries mistletoe was often hung over the entrances to homes of the pagans to keep out evil spirits. An old Scandinavian myth tells of the seemingly invulnerable god, Balder, who was struck down by a dart made from mistletoe. The tears of this mother, Frigga, became the white berries of the mistletoe, and it was decreed that the plant must never again be used as a weapon. Frigga, who was the goddess of love, henceforth gave a kiss to anyone who passed under the mistletoe. It may be that our present custom of kissing under the mistletoe derives from this old legend.

Legend holds that the Druids, who were members of a pagan religious order in ancient Gaul, Briton and Ireland, held the mistletoe in such reverence that if enemies met under it in the forest, a truce was declared for the day. It was their belief that only happiness would enter a home when mistletoe hung over the door. When the Yule season approached, the mistletoe was cut down from the sacred oaks by the Prince of the Druids who used a golden sickle. The mistletoe was distributed to the people who believed it possessed powers of the protection against sickness and evil.

I took this photograph on a very hot day in Albania. The dog was doing two jobs, protecting the chickens and was tethered with a chain that enabled him to guard the perimeter fence's as well, but, stopped him from getting to the chickens.

As can be seen, his "bed" was a hole in the ground.

As seen on Weston foreshore, Southampton.

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Seen in Southampton.

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1st of December, 10.30am, Gleniffer Braes, Paisley.