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Subject: [OM] Re: Odd Day Out
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:42:39 -0300
As a matter of interest, would the local Mr Plod have issued a ticket to the
elderly gent for not wearing a cycle helmet?

John Hudson


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Subject: [OM] Odd Day Out


>
> I'm driving on a back lane when around a bend in the distance I can see
this
> chap over the hedge heading my way. My first thought was that he was a
> little high for a cyclist so I reasoned that he must be on horseback.
> Nothing unusual in that except that his movement is not consistent with a
> horse rider. As we close on each other the bend between us disappears and
I
> get a good look at him as we pass. Was a time I would have just kept on
> going but ever mindful of the fact that I need 'fuel' for the web site I
> turn the car around at the first opportunity and go back, eventually pass
> him (he was going surprisingly fast), put some distance between us, park
and
> then wait for him to approach. I take a shot.
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_01.htm
>
>
>
> I resumed my journey and went back to soaking up the rustic splendour that
> is Northamptonshire in the month of May. Scenes more in keeping with what
> one expects to find in the English countryside. Rolling green hills,
> hedgerows in blossom giving off fine fragrances and giving added peace to
> the scene our farm animals grazing and lazing in the fields. A herd of
> cattle, a flock of sheep with this years lambs, already almost as big as
> their mothers, horses in a paddock, ALPACAS! I suppose they could be
llamas
> but I'm guessing these are being bred for their fur not for their spit.
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_02.htm
>
>
> Sometimes the 'typical' English countryside can turn into Alice in
> Wonderland before your very eyes. I'm thinking what else does
> Northamptonshire have to offer by way of bizarre photo opportunities. A
bird
> as big as a Buick perhaps?.....
> .........Yeah right.
> I move over to the left, the bird follows me. I move over to the right and
> again the bird tracks my movements. The wings are fanned and the head
pivots
> from the base of neck in a large circle. I am uncertain as to whether the
> display is to warn me off or because the ostrich fancies me.
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_03.htm
>
>
> Whatever it is the display gets ever more frantic and noting the look on
the
> birds face I decide to leave before the display reaches a climax (no pun
> intended). I have no wish to be attacked or, perish the thought, worse. If
I
> am surprised to see an ostrich in Northamptonshire imagine the local fox
> when he sees the worlds' biggest egg. The sheer joy of it. Just before a
> foot, the size of a catchers' mitt, powered by the worlds' biggest
drumstick
> hits him in the side of the head. Strange place the English countryside.
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_04.htm
>
>
>
> The whole thing and others here:
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/words_and_pictures.html
>
>
>
> Graham
> http://geebeephoto.com
>
>
>
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