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My Year in Photos – November 30th – “The Tunnel of Eternal Stench”

Posted on December 1, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 30th – "The Tunnel of Smells", originally uploaded by henweb. I use this underpass under the A4 twice a day, on my walk to and from the place I park. Usually it’s a fairly unpleasant experience, where one is confronted with either a ripe stench of wee, or a…

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My Year in Photos – November 29th – “3D graffiti”

Posted on November 30, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 29th – "3D graffiti", originally uploaded by henweb. I spent this evening babysitting for my brother and his family – including my sweet neice, Sophie – pictured. Sophie doesn’t always look like this – her uncle Stephen appears to have gone a bit crazy with some spare (as we…

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My Year in Photos – November 28th – “Christmas Common FTW”

Posted on November 30, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 28th – "Christmas Common FTW", originally uploaded by henweb. If you don’t live in or around Berkshire, you’ve probably never heard of the village called ‘Christmas Common’, let alone been there. It’s a beautiful little village north of Reading, and is surrounded by places with names like “Beacons Bottom”…

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My Year in Photos – November 27th – “Star Wars? Figures…”

Posted on November 27, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 27th – "Star Wars? Figures…", originally uploaded by henweb. A trip to Toys’r’us this afternoon (Christmas shopping, obviously) reminded me quite how much I miss being a nerdy teenager collecting Star Wars figures. There’s bloody THOUSANDS of them now!

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My Year in Photos – November 26th – “Room to breath”

Posted on November 27, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 26th – "Room to breath", originally uploaded by henweb. I spotted this lonely fella as I was leaving our office building tonight. He appears to have rented one of the largest office-spaces in the entire centre, just for himself. I guess he must have used all his money up…

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My Year in Photos – November 25th – “Leaf them on the street”

Posted on November 25, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 25th – "Leaf them on the street", originally uploaded by henweb. I don’t know if this happens everywhere, but in Chiswick they seem to use the bin men to collect up all the leaves that have fallen from the trees and put them in green big bags…. then leave…

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My Year in Photos – November 24th – “Quiz time”

Posted on November 25, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 24th – "Quiz time", originally uploaded by henweb. Today was the day of our annual Tamar TLC Charity Pub Quiz – a quiz which I usually host, but this year I took a step back to let some of the whipper-snappers have a go. It was a great quiz,…

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My Year in Photos – November 23rd – “Kid + Toy Shop etc”

Posted on November 23, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 23rd – "Kid + Toy Shop etc", originally uploaded by henweb. I had the afternoon off today, due to another parent’s evening that Sara had on at school, so Robert and I wandered in to town for a look around. Our original intention was to buy some (as Robert…

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My Year in Photos – November 22nd – “We not got this one daddy… or this one!”

Posted on November 23, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 22nd – "We not got this one daddy… or this one!", originally uploaded by henweb. This is the sight I was greeted with as I walked through the door tonight – Robert and Sara going through his ‘Cars’ box, placing all the cars he owns next to the relevant…

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My Year in Photos – November 21st – “What a load of balls”

Posted on November 23, 2010February 24, 2011 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – November 21st – "What a load of balls", originally uploaded by henweb. Another Sunday afternoon, another toddler’s birthday party. We’re getting quite good at rating and contrasting the different birthday party options around Berkshire now – today’s party was in Crowthorne near Bracknell, at a school sports centre. The ball…

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