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Eurovision

May 25th, 2013

Sadly not the best selection of songs this year. However I did rather like this little ditty from Romania. You have to wait a little while for him to get going…

Festivity

May 16th, 2013

I spent the May Day bank holiday back home in Hastings at one of the town’s pagan-themed festivals, Jack in the Green.

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Basically the big green fellow parades around for a bit and is then ritually slaughtered at the local castle, thus celebrating the arrival of spring. Also followed by a large amount of morris dancing.

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The bloke in the top hat is long-serving leader of the local council, Jeremey Birch!

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Windmill

May 11th, 2013

The ideal British bank holiday outing: we went for a picnic at the local nuclear power station (Dungeness). Upon arrival it began to rain so we ate in the car. The subsequent attempt to go for a wander along the beach was quickly abandoned due to rain, wind, and freezing cold.

Nevermind. On the way back home we stopped at camber sands which was also bleak:

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Bee

May 11th, 2013

Last weekend I beefriended a local bee in my parent’s garden.

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Taking photos of bees is rather hard as they move unbeelievably quickly :( .

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Here we can see the bee using its sucker to extract honey from the flower.

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A view from beehind the bee.

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Space Patrol

April 14th, 2013

Really enjoying watching this 60s pre-supermarionation puppet show called Space Patrol. Fantastic soundtrack too.

Cross

April 1st, 2013

And now for a vaguely religious theme, it being Easter and all.

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Marlow, Bucks.

Snail Conference

April 1st, 2013

What they all doing there eh? Looks suspicious

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Gloomy

April 1st, 2013

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Seriously had enough of this winter.

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Go me!

March 29th, 2013

So it turns out the best conditions for running a half marathon are freezing cold, a threat of sleet, and wearing just t-shirt and shorts. Comfort leads to slowness.

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Hastings, last weekend.

Visionary

March 13th, 2013

This guy has seen the future and no longer requires food.