Seems he's now home and eating his dinner and his mother's moaning that he doesn't seem to understand that some folk need their beds [ she's up at 5 am every day ]

Wait till she asks about the fingers and toes message.

Talking of wine - the boy seems to have a palate - was able to make sensible comments about the wine he drank

OOOOOH good luck Gareth and Mrs Gareth

The redheaded fridge hoover is well on his way back to London - possibly will be about 15 mins late

However I've just sent a message to his Mum as follows

Any bets that she's going to ask about the fingers and toes thing ?

That's a fair amount of rain Gwyn .

Suspect you'd like what I have just seen

Red headed Fridge hoover and I will be heading to Town soon - to see him on his bus going South

I'll miss him around the place - it's been fun

Gentlemen

I, and I think I can speak for Gwyn here as well as myself , think I must really at this point say

WATCH IT YOU LOT

Tomorrow is the collection day here for garden waste

Thanks to the redheaded fridge hoover there are no less than 12 [ yes TWELVE ] bin bags with weeds and such assorted unwanted garden growing stuff which has been removed , and the Local Council will uplift tomorrow .

OK the bags aren't completely stuffed but my garden is just about clear of the nasties , together with the weeds growing on the walls by the pavement [ it's a corner house ] and all my part of the shared access at the bottom of the garden

Best of all has been the reaction of my next door neighbours , who employ a 'gardener' to cut the grass and weed their garden on a regular basis.

We have a sort of sunken semi-circular area covered with red chips at the front which goes in front of 2 windows - one mine and yes , the other is theirs .

By 10am today mine was weed free - their's was not . The ' gardener' doesn't touch it , not only were there about 3 times the amount of weeds , there was a young tree [ well a sapling ] about 2 foot tall growing up through a crack in the 'stone' of the steps up from this bed on THEIR side .

By 5 pm they had actually gone down and cleared the area on their side for the first time in the last 9 years that they have been in the house !!

Fridge hoover and I went out to our local Italian place for a , for him , a very well deserved dinner - and it was superb Bless the boy - he's been terrific and I've told his mother so

Those are really terrific - you really got my attention with the first , and as I looked I went greener and greener .

I'll never get anything half as good as those .

Congratulations - a set that really showed off the banners and the wonderful setting

# 5 - the church - always problematical because of the likliehood of converging parallels [ see I know the jargon - because it's happened to me ]

This can be sorted using Photoshop in post processing [ Aperture 3 which I use can't do this ] BUT try and be aware of this problem and try taking the pic from a bit higher up if you can - and that's not always possible . Sometimes you can avoid the pillars and then the convergance is not as obvious.

You can shoot from well back and then it's not as bad , and then take a closer look at the Altar area itself

Agreed with the above re another card - but try it with another KNOWN [ ie recently used with some shots on it ] good card

Fabulous set Great humour too.

As for the last pic - well what can one say

Best of luck trying bribery.

There are no real photos of daughter #2 from about the age of 5 - she would hide or once her hair was long enough sit there, hunch her shoulders up and let her hair cover her face - and she's still the same some 35 years on !!