Passing God

This from a book called Church Signs Across America, by Steve and Pam Paulson. Is a collection of the attention grabbing and engaging church signs that they saw while driving across America and Alaska.

I'm a sucker for a clever play on words and always had a soft spot for church signs like:

CH__RCH. What's missing? UR.

Ah, an oldie but a goldie.

You can see a sample of Steve and Pam's book at the Guardian web site here.

But if you're a bit more subversive, don't forget you can make your own.

Words and Very Pretty Pictures

I have a friend called Melanie who works as a commercial artist and draws very pretty pictures. She's done a lot of things but mainly illustrates children's books and has five new books coming out soon:

That Pesky Dragon :: Buy from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com

Cinderella's Party Night :: Buy from Amazon.co.uk

Three Goat's Gruff and a Grumpy Troll :: Buy from Amazon.co.uk

I Win :: Buy from Amazon.co.uk

Rise and Shine :: Buy from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com

Why not buy one (or all of them!) as a present for a son, niece, grandson or even yourself?

Or check out Melanie's other books at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com

Performance Pressure

Sofitel toilet, Queenstown, NZ

Err, I think I'll wait until I get home...

Writing on the Wall 3

SAS moto

This was on the side of the SAS plane that I flew to the US in last year. A nice touch I think.

Inter-networking

Yay! A couple of photos I've taken have been published on two of my favourite blogs:

Savage Chickens has a spookily apt picture of a theatre poster I spotted on the Paris Metro.

&

The Moxie Blog has a picture of me and my Moxie t-shirt in Paris as part of it's Moxie Shirt Adventures. I'm picture 18, near the bottom.

See, sharing is fun.

Dead Funny

I found these faux graves in Boot Hill, Frontierland, Disneyland Paris.
Who said death can't be funny...

Mmm ... Twinkies

Mmm ... Twinkies 

Had a rear shunt, luv?

Sporty Edition? 

Manchester, my Manchester

I recently bought a digital camera, the very capable and easy to use Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-P72.

The main reason for buying it was to record my trip to America later this year (more on this to come). To help justify the expense (a very reasonable £150 for a camera with 3.2 MegaPixels and a 3x optical zoom) I decided I should try do some creative projects with the camera.

I've always had a passing interest in architecture, so I decided to photograph some of my favourite places and the interesting buildings in and around Manchester. Below is a link to my online album of these photos, take a look and I hope you like them.

Manchester Photos

Window on the World

Pint of Bitter

Writing on the Wall 2

Lass O' Gowrie, Manchester 

Writing on the wall

Printworks, Manchester 

Is there anybody there?

Is there anybody there? 

This is a picture of my Niece.
This is what happens when you buy a five-year-old a camera.
Whitney Houston sang Children are our future ... God help us all!

Where's the Pigeon!?!

Where's the Pigeon!?!