The Republic of Heaven

wh- th- .. who gave you our gooses?

wh- th- .. who gave you our gooses?

We like it here. Mild climate, as much free bread as we can eat, many coffee shops nearby and ready access to the M4 and Heathrow airport.

A few pics for you

my money's on the bee in the second picture to win

nice shots!

my money's on the bee in the second picture to win

nice shots!

He buzzed off...

Thankyou

Ok, a few more, slightly different theme.. I got inspired to add these, and dedicate them to Alexandra, as I had dreams of doing Astronomy for a living once...til I realized I did not have the brain of Carl Sagan.. so I just stuck to looking at them

Finally got around to uploading some holiday pics.

Singapore



Stinky durians that almost made me puke...



Recreation of the surrender of the Japanese



Found this in the toy museum ^_^



Singapore Zoo



At the Raffles



South Africa

Table Mountain and its dassies



Photos from the place I was working.



The Cango Caves and and Ostrich farm in Oudtshoorn. The little ostich is apparently the world's smallest. We rode the ostrichs, which is why they have saddles and little masks.



Feeding elephants at Knysna



Whale-watching trip. You can't tell from the photo but we were srrounded by literally thousands of dolphins all swimming somewhere. It was amazing.


Quadbike safari


Wine tasting trip

those are so amazingly beautiful, heather. i notice your picture of the librarian is better than mine (sleeping and covered with a blanket) must have been quite the trip!

Rawr!


Buzz!




More buzzing!




Buzzzzzz!


Haven't put anything up here in ages, so I have loads lurking around that I'll put up bit by bit probably. But there's a few to start ^^

this is about one third of the pictures i thought were good enough to upload; the rest can be seen at the account.

This is the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station rising over my local mountain. The photo is about a 2 minute exposure so they stand out against the star trails. Discovery recently undocked from the station and was about one minute ahead of it.

I have no idea what the horizontal line is - it is not in the large version!

now that's no way to eat is it?! It'll go up your nose and you'll be sneezing with it later, you'll see! If you're gonna eat then do it properly and sit up at the table! told you..sneezes! You didn't listen, did you!?

Some Barcelona under the cut.

I may not have a fancy pants SLR digital camera but i did manage to get a few pretty shots in the park while we had the heavy snow fall with my mini 'going-out,-dont-care-if-it-gets-lost-while-i'm-drunk' camera

Lovelovelove the third one down in particular. Snow is so prettyful

(A defunct bridge on the White Pass and Yukon Territory Railroad)


(Mendenhall Glacier)


(Glastineau Channel)


(The City of Juneau)


(A Tlingit totem pole, with Huginn for comparison)

freakin' sweet pics, man. I AM TRANSPORTED TO YOUR TIME AND PLACE!

Rye; looking very, very English:



The little engine that could:

Love that street scene, Peter.

Some pictures that I took while walking about Reykjavik today:



Swans and ducks and all kinds of other birds flocked to the promise of breadcrumbs.



Old house being renovated. The Hallgrímskirkja, a Lutheran parish church in Reykjavik, the tallest church in Iceland, and also formerly the overall tallest architectural structure at earth shattering 76.5m/244ft!

At the price of rudely double-posting, I just wanted to upload the pictures I took today, of the ships and sights of the Festival of the Sea locations I saw as I went bicycling.



Looking towards the older Reykjavik harboursite and downtown area. | A small white beach with some interesting rocks! | Viðey.


One of only two locomotives to have ever seen active use in Iceland in the 20th century. Its name is Minør (Minor). | The French anti-submarine frigate Latouche-Tréville, there were open tours to see its interior, but I have seen my fill of navy vessel interiors in the past.


ICGV Týr (Tyr) | Retired ICGV Óðinn (Odinn) | All kinds of ships and boats gathered in the harbour.