Today I've mostly bin...

[SparkOut]

Yet another talent in the amazing giraffe family!

[Snoopy]

These paintings are terrific Kingsley. I wish I had some artistic ability. I am sure my 5 year old grandson can paint better than I can.

[Bunnylump]

I think there was an unfair advantage going on with the length of the neck myself...

[LAT]

Great painting Kingsley. I like your group's the best.

My daugher did Art GCSE and I remember one weekend taking lots of different photos of trees for her to use for inspiration.

[MBH]

Wonderful work Kingsley - I want to go out and climb trees {Oh!! It's 11:30 at night. Not such a good idea}

Today I bin visiting the Sunderland International Friendship Festival [the newer name for the Kite Festival]

http://www.sunderlandevents.co.uk/event ... entID=2216

My computer bus is there all weekend with my assistant doing the duty today - which means that I'm working tomorrow (Yes - on a Sunday ). So this afternoon I took the wife and little Jennie along for a couple of hours wandering round and watching them trying to fly kites in a very light wind

At least it was DRY. We have been fogged and rained off a couple of times in the last 5 years. The event has been going for well over 20 years.

The internet link on the bus was alegedly rubbish, but I'll try and get online from the show ground while I'm at work.

[Bunnylump]

You have a lot of events round you, don't you? Lots to do, how lovely. Shame you're working tomorrow though.

[MBH]

... back on site at the Washington playing fields meeting some interesting passers by:-

Possible distant cousins of Giraffe family???

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[giraffe]

Oi! None of our family is blue

[Laura]

I should hope none of your family have those other spiky additions either!

[strep98]

Wish I could paint like that Kingsley. Best I can do is a house with a window in each corner and you don't see many of those around.

[kathlyn]

..........been waiting three days to get on here as the phone line has been off ........ BT men connected me an hour ago, apparently somebody stole/dug up 300 metres of cable from a few hundred yards from where I live thus making us do without our connections for 3 days

[Scurra]

Why on earth would anyone do that?

p.s. anyone want to buy some of this heavy duty plastic rope I seem to have acquired?

[kathlyn]

copper wire has a value.

[katsmom]

Watching very bad cartoons, and running around town looking for Top Trumps! We hit 9 different book stores and managed to walk away with 7 packs. Had I purchased one more we would have had 9? I'm not sure how that buy 3 get two free deal worked, I bought 5 packs and someone miscounted. My self included until we got home. When I called the shop they were very nice about it and said not to return it, it was free anyway

[SparkOut]

..........been waiting three days to get on here as the phone line has been off ........ BT men connected me an hour ago, apparently somebody stole/dug up 300 metres of cable from a few hundred yards from where I live thus making us do without our connections for 3 days

Why on earth would anyone do that?

p.s. anyone want to buy some of this heavy duty plastic rope I seem to have acquired?

I got stuck on a train for an hour and a bit once, when the signals all went out because someone had stolen a mile of cable along the trackside.

[Scurra]

Sounds like you got off lightly.

(My own personal train story: being stuck on a train on London Bridge waiting to go into the station. The announcement came over the tannoy that we couldn't go in because there was a train in the platform space and they were looking for the driver. Sometime later another announcement came that they'd found the driver - he was on the train that was stuck behind us... )

[SparkOut]

Allegedly...the driver was talking to the signal controller on his mobile phone. We had to wait while they sent someone out with an "official" mobile phone that then handed it to the driver, so that he could talk to the signal controller and get approval to proceed. (Repeated down the line for the next train and the next...)
(Story related by someone who said he was told by someone that the guard had said. Ergo, I don't hold this to be reliable information, but I suppose it's believable.)

[Bunnylump]

They're a nightmare, these train drivers, aren't they, SparkOut? (Sorry, private joke).

My daughter is a train driver. (Well, in the summer holidays she is, anyway). Steam trains and everything.

[clvrlad]

she want to swap jobs for the summer

[Bunnylump]

Probably, yes. Boiler suits and soot aren't that charming when you are a 21 year old girl.

She mostly gets to drive the diesesel though. But is "qualified" to drive the steam train too.
Her boss owns a real live steam traction engine as well.