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5 hours ago, Korky said:

Like back in the day when all we had to amuse us was a yellow yo-yo and summat that came free in a box of Shreddies.

Oh for the simple life pleasures of a free plastic toy in with your cereal, until the bloody do gooders and the health & safety police made them be removed  in case we choked on them.

Many thanks all for your congratulations. I suppose I was going to catch one of the POTW judges at a weak moment and after 10 days over 3 years and 643 photo uploads Rye fell for it.

As for my smile that lasted about a hour after arriving at work, 2 other peoples problems to sort out, a trip to Glasgow looming again meaning I may miss a planned evening out  Wednesday and possibly a missed concert Thursday evening.  I love my job.
Smiling is not all its cracked up to be.  Its no wonder I drink so much coffee.

Well my gob is well and truly smacked this morning.

Many thanks, the folks at work will wonder what I have been up to this weekend when I turn up smiling. It's Monday morning and I don't do smiling but today I have a smile.

#2 is my favorite visiting pigeon. Hes been visiting for a good 3 years now and has some lovely green and purple colouring on his neck.

4 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

An excellent image Simon, so simple yet so effective..... I reckon you could sell that image to any coffee shop or maker....

I know we're only on letter C but so far there's been such a great selection of images and everyone has been really creative with interpretations....

Thanks Rye. And I agree regarding the images so far it's been great to see everyone take on the challenge.

#1...I'm telling you its a Roach
#2.....No it's a Rudd
#3.......Well I think it's a Perch
#4.........You're all wrong..............It's a carrier bag.

1 hour ago, CanonChrissy said:

BALCONY VIEW - its so beautiful in this Eco hotel. Finca Vista Bonita,  San Miguel De Abona, Tenerife. Would you believe the airport is  only10 miles below us. Im having a G&T.....the nudist beach is beside that pointy rock to the right.. if you zoom right in...haha!

Bottoms Up............Maybe that's not such a good phrase seeing as its near the nudist beach. But then again.

21 hours ago, Hatter said:

Continuing my alphabetic tour of Hitchin, week 2 brings us to the "Bosphorus" Turkish restaurant in Sun Street.

I have actually eaten in this one - I recommend the "KAPADOKYA": a 500 year-old Ottoman dish consisting of marinated chicken, onions & mixed peppers in pomegranate, lemon juice, honey, apricot & almond. Served with rice & salad.

Is that the same two chaps from last week but a bit more safety conscious with the hi vis jackets now.

2 hours ago, Hatter said:

Ali-Baba Kebab House

It looks like two of the 'Forty Thieves' are trying to break in.

I'm sure that breaks no H&S rules at all plus his mate spotting the ladder probably has no idea hes moved down the building too busy texting. He needs to be ready with the camera in case he falls its £250 for a video like that.

We had the fly past up here in Sunny Sheffield to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the fatal crash killing the 10 us airmen to avoid the playing children recently which was an emotional spectacle if your day goes off with fraction of a success that was you will have an amazing day.

Wishing you all the best for your day tomorrow hope all goes well. You have done an amazing thing you and you friend should be rightfully proud of yourselves.

I'm sure I can find something other than the dogs to submit so add me to the list please.

An old photo newly edited.
The new digital heating control replacing the old dial type. Me and the good lady wife can now play temperature adjustment tennis via an app.

This picture was taken at the point of the female setting.

Look ....how many times do I have to say ?..... We don’t all have to hide in the same spot !

OK last weekly challenge it was either going to be end or old & new. And I decided as the thread announcing what the new format of challenges is going to be was out with the the old in with the new your last challenge is simply that old and new.

The picture can be either old or new and open to your interpretation. Pictures can be entered up to midnight Friday 28th and then voting will open the following week but you know the drill.

Good Luck.

Thank You all. 

I thought I was going to be the first winner who didn't have to set a challenge but I will take the honour of setting the last challenge. It's usually the difficult part picking a new challenge but I had 2 thoughts quite quickly which were obvious. So head to the new thread for the last weekly challenge to see what I go with?

How about a little half year challenge to get us through to 2020 I tried to suggest this before and didn't really get the point across properly so here goes again.

So a half year challenge starting around 1st July.  26 weeks there are 26 letters of the alphabet so each week photograph an item/subject beginning with a letter.

There would be a few challenging letters so maybe not to do it in order but say if in week 10 you saw a zebra walking down the high st, snap post and letter z is done or the ultimate challenge to try to do it in order.

There it is just an idea feel free to ridicule me at will.

Go to the supermarket she said, buy bread and milk she said. 
"But have you seen what you can buy at Asda" I said

The talking machines are bad they are listening constantly. me and the good lady wife had a discussion about going in to town on a bus recently we don't do buses and I have never googled buses no need too but the next day I was getting adverts on Facebook for our local bus company, not good.

Window Triptych
I did do some jigging and poking to clone out the central window frames to create a larger window

Thought I would be greedy and push my luck with an and not an or.
Fire & Ice.