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  • Ok, so the link from my ancient (moribund) blog still works apparently, but just posts a link to the post, rather than repeating the post here, which isn’t terribly helpful. So it may be time to retire typepad, except that I think it also hosts the privacy pages for my iOS sticker collections. Hmmm.

    Have an Ollie picture while I ponder this conundrum.

    The Twitteriffic bird, Ollie, stands in a field of dandelions

    → 12:10 PM, Jul 26

  • The final prompt for the MBMAR photo challenge is practice. Over the years I have had lots of practice in the particular agricultural optimisation puzzles favoured by Uwe Rosenberg.

    #boardgames

    close up view of part of a player board in Caverna board game showing sheep pigs wheat and other items

    → 5:21 AM, Mar 31

  • The penultimate prompt for the MBMAR photo challenge is mirror. Here is one from Venice last year when Rosie was exhibiting at the Homo Faber festival.

    Curiously the share sheet extension for Micro Blog doesn’t work in iOS 16.4. Mysterious.

    an oval mirror decorated with branches, showing myself and some paintings on the wall

    → 5:02 AM, Mar 30

  • All being well I should be back here in a couple of weeks for the first time in 4 years. #waterfallWednesday

    water rushing over Niagara Falls

    → 12:24 PM, Mar 29

  • The prompt for day 29 of the MBMAR photo challenge is slice. Here is a slice of life from Benjamin Snowbear.

    a large white bear in a bathtub.

    → 5:02 AM, Mar 29

  • The prompt for day 28 of the MBMAR 📷 challenge is prompt. Very meta. The word appears on this HP-41c synthetic programming quick reference card from 1982. Can you find it?

    a card containing a very dense table of codes and instructions

    → 5:06 AM, Mar 28

  • The prompt for day 27 of the MBMAR 📷 challenge is support. Show your support for artists by visiting their exhibitions, in this case Matt Dixon’s robot show.

    a robot sitting at a bus stop with a teddy bear for support

    → 4:49 AM, Mar 27

  • The prompt for day 26 of the MBMAR 📷 challenge is instrument.

    a cat curled up tightly beside a trumpet

    → 5:47 AM, Mar 26

  • The prompt for day 25 of the MBMAR 📷 challenge is Spice. Not a very valuable commodity in Race for the Galaxy.

    #boardgames

    a hand of cards including a Spice World

    → 6:31 AM, Mar 25

  • The prompt for day 24 of the MBMAR 📷 challenge is court. 15 years ago we were lucky to be let out onto the roof of Hampton Court Palace. Definitely not where the public are allowed to roam!

    some of the roof expanse of the palace with a glimpse of the clock to the left

    → 6:18 AM, Mar 24

  • The prompt for day 23 of the MBMAR 📷 challenge is chance. Here are many agents of chance.

    #boardgames

    a spread of dice from many differenf board games

    → 5:25 AM, Mar 23

  • #Lego Horror Stories number 25

    a lego minifig head with a lego body and saw in the background

    → 2:41 PM, Mar 22

  • The prompt for day 22 of the MBMAR 📷 challenge is insect, in which case you will need this invaluable guide.

    a photo of the Observers Book of Larger Moths

    → 5:34 AM, Mar 22

  • The prompt for day 21 of the Micro Blog 📷 Challenge is tiny.

    a very young and small person

    → 5:38 AM, Mar 21

  • The prompt for day 20 of the MicroBlog photo challenge is houseplant…

    a cat in a plant pot

    → 4:54 AM, Mar 20

  • The prompt for Day 19 of the March Photoblogging Challenge is analog. For which I could take a photo with this but will settle for a photo of this.

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    an old Canon SLR camera, pre-digital era

    → 6:16 AM, Mar 19

  • The prompt for day 18 of the MBMar challenge is portico. This is the door to St Heliers Bay public library where so many discoveries shaped my life in unexpected ways.

    a brick arched portico with a white wooden door shaded by trees

    → 6:24 AM, Mar 18

  • The prompt for Day 17 of the Micro Blog 📷 challenge is early. You know what they say about early birds.

    a very splendid chicken

    → 7:33 AM, Mar 17

  • The prompt for Day 16 of the Photoblogging Challenge is road. I searched my photo library and one result was this of Rivals for Catan, a firm favourite here. I don’t think it recognised the Road card in the foreground but possibly found the word road on a card. #boardgames

    a spread of square cards from the Rivals for Catan game

    → 6:09 AM, Mar 16

  • The prompt for day 15 of the March Micro Blog 📷 challenge is patience. It must have required much of that to capture this rare action shot of me peering into a Watties Bag, back in the olden days of black & white…

    a black and white photo of a young child, peering into a bag, held open by a slightly older sibling

    → 6:07 AM, Mar 15

  • The prompt for Day 14 of the March Micro Blog Photoblogging Challenge is horizon, and here is one of my favourites…

    St Heliers beach with Rangitoto on the horizon

    → 7:14 AM, Mar 14

  • The prompt for Day 13 of the March Photoblogging Challenge is connection.

    These sofubi space robots are a connection to my grandparents who bought them back from Singapore to New Zealand in the 70s. I only discovered they are from SUPER ROBOT MACH BARON recently.

    a set of soft vinyl robots from a Japanese TV show

    → 5:55 AM, Mar 13

  • The prompt for Day 12 of the March Photoblogging Challenge is shiny. This building was super shiny as I cycled over Blackfriars Bridge on Friday. Doesn’t sparkle so much on camera though.

    a shiny tall building in a gloomy sky

    → 5:20 AM, Mar 12

  • The prompt for day 11 of the Micro Blog 📷 Challenge is gimcrack, a word that has no meaning to me. So have an octopus instead.

    a silver sculpture of an octopus

    → 5:23 AM, Mar 11

  • The prompt for day 10 of the MicroBlog 📷 Challenge is Ritual. One ritual I have is that I like to photograph interesting doors and this is one of my favourites.

    A warehouse door on the first floor of a buliding with a derelict cargo crane next to it

    → 6:53 AM, Mar 10

  • The prompt for Day 9 of the March Photoblogging Challenge is together. Together we can elevate this sheeple to new heights…

    #boardgames

    a stack of meeples with a sheep on top

    → 5:52 AM, Mar 9

  • The prompt for day 8 of the Micro Blog 📷 Challenge is Walk. I’ve lived near this for decades and never seen a gibbon walking here, in any case we know they prefer to brachiate.

    a street sign saying Gibbon Walk

    → 6:05 AM, Mar 8

  • The prompt for Day 7 of the Micro Blog March Photoblogging Challenge is whole.

    a crochet lady bug looks at a whole dandelion

    → 5:14 AM, Mar 7

  • The prompt for day six of the Micro Blog 📷 challenge is engineering.

    This is a shiny example

    a very shiny green steamroller

    → 6:15 AM, Mar 6

  • The prompt for day 5 of the Micro Blog 📷 Challenge is Tile.

    Here is a giant tile I made from Carcassonne tiles. It can be used as infinite wallpaper if that’s your style.

    #boardgames

    a map tile made up of dozens of tiles from the Carcassonne board game

    → 5:28 AM, Mar 5

  • The prompt for day 4 of the micro.blog 📷 challenge is Zip. We don’t have Zip codes here but we do have postcodes and they appear on street names too — except when they’re obscured by wild things.

    a street name with SW postcode covered by a wild thing

    → 6:42 AM, Mar 4

  • The day 3 prompt for the micro-blog community 📷 challenge is solitude. That will do nicely for this Matt Dixon robot figure from the Transmissions board game.

    #boardgames

    a melancholy rusty robot alone in a rusty landscape

    → 7:43 AM, Mar 3

  • The prompt for the micro.blog/mastodon community challenge today is weather.

    📷

    A snowy day in Southwark with the Shard barely visible

    → 1:04 PM, Mar 2

  • The prompt for the Micro.Blog community challenge today is SECURE.

    📷

    a massive 128MB secure digital memory card

    → 6:16 AM, Mar 1

  • On this day in 2018. Weather happened.

    a royal mail postbox wearing a snow cap kn a snowy street

    → 8:12 AM, Feb 28

  • The Country forecast today for Central America. Guatemala and Belize to the North, Panama to the South, and the rest in between.

    → 6:03 PM, Jan 25
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