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A photo (or three) a day for 2012.

Archive for the month “October, 2012”

Eeek! Halloween shop window displays in West Street, Fareham…

Bats and witches in a (Debra) charity shop window…


Verelle Hairdressing shop window…


‘Debra’ charity shop window…’Working for a life free of pain’…;)

Portsmouth dawn skies…

A Big Issue seller, a tug on the Thames, and Embankment Tube station…

Sid, a Big Issue seller I’ve known for a number of years, on his current patch near Concert Hall Approach, South Bank.


A tug making its way downstream, as seen from Hungerford Bridge at lunchtime today…


Awaiting a High Barnet train at Embankment Tube station…

At the Great South Run 2012…

Not sure how much training for the event this trio put in, but they seem happy enough 😉


Helpers for one of the many charities with sponsored runners in the race…


Saw some sights in the runners’ costumes today (including a bloke in a mankini), but I think this was my favourite ;)…PS. And well done to Jenny and Dave :).

A Soccer Saturday in a Surbiton pub…and a Kentish thing…

The Victoria pub in Surbiton…and no. 36, AFC Wimbledon 0 Gillingham 1….(alas, I missed my Norbiton train) 😉


The Coronation Clock Tower (for Edward VII in 1902) in Surbiton. Originally erected in 1908, and restored in relatively recent times…


‘The Milkmaid’ a self-portrait by a West Malling photographer, Freda Barton, who would have been a young woman at the time of Edward VII’s Coronation Picked up a 10 X 8 copy of the photo in Kent this morning, and bought a frame for it in Surbiton this afternoon 😉

The perennial fascination of the Great Wen…;)

Living statue in James Street, Covent Garden, around middayish today…


Luxury flats in Princess Park Manor, Friern Barnet, north London…formerly Friern Psychiatric Hospital….and in Victorian times, known as Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum.


We’re going to a party…at a bus stop outside Tesco’s, Finchley Central, around eight-ish this evening…

A candle, some timber, and a Fratton cat…;)

Candle on a lunchtime table, at the Talisman pub, Park Gate, Hampshire…


Acadia Timber, Goldsmith Avenue, Fratton…


…and it’s goodnight from me…and goodnight from her ;).

A quiet night in…and a few charity shop acquisitions ;)

Gosport and the Spinnaker Tower after sundown…

The Great Wall Chinese Restaurant, and Fryday’s Fish and Chips, Gosport.


A distant Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth Harbour, seen from aboard the Gosport Ferry


The Spinnaker seen closer to…

Autumn leaves and berries…

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