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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 14:21:11 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2014 14:31:12 GMT
Goodness! What and where is that!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 14:32:29 GMT
That is along one of the inner walls of the Tuileries in Paris and is simply called "La Foule."
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Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2014 14:33:32 GMT
Looking for rats again?
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Post by mossie on Aug 11, 2014 14:55:06 GMT
Grandma, statue erected in honour of the cartoonist Giles who worked from an office overlooking this square. It depicts some of his favourite cartoon characters from a scruffy family. Grandma was the matriarch often seen with a pint of beer, but always in charge using her umbrella to discipline anyone who stepped out of line. The skinny woman beside her is Vera with a perpetually running nose and always moaning.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 19:09:11 GMT
Therefore, you must know the dog's name as well...
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Post by mossie on Aug 11, 2014 21:26:52 GMT
Butch, and for that I must thank the all knowing Wikipedia.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 24, 2014 15:47:02 GMT
Taxi! (statue in a side-street off the Victoria Embankment in London, nicely in the middle of where many taxi-drivers would probably like to have a shortcut: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 24, 2014 16:08:31 GMT
Mossie's wonderful photo of Grandma Giles above reminded me that in the main shopping street of Dundee (where the firm of DC Thomson has been publishing children's comics for decades) there is a statue of some characters most British people of a certain age will remember with affection - Desperate Dan and Minnie the Minx: And on a completely different tack, I remembered that I have a photo of John Wilkes's statue. An eighteenth-century radical journalist and satirist whose sharp tongue got him into all sorts of trouble (a powerful opponent once said to him "You will either die on the gallows or of the pox", only to be told "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress"), he famously got himself elected to Parliament and inspired near-riots for "Wilkes and Liberty!": And while I think of it, here's one of Antony Gormley's enigmatic figures resisting the tides at Limehouse: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 16:17:31 GMT
Those are excellent but what is coming up behind Desperate Dan's crotch?
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 24, 2014 18:12:49 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Aug 24, 2014 18:44:17 GMT
In case anyone takes offence in the last two statues, just tell me and I will delete them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 18:48:56 GMT
What could offend?
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 25, 2014 7:29:21 GMT
Tsk, kerouac, surely you were taught that no gentleman reveals his ankles, or the lack of them, until his wedding night? My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 22:04:04 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Oct 12, 2014 20:12:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2014 6:31:33 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 4, 2015 17:53:36 GMT
Here's a cheery chappie from the oriental gardens in the Berardo Tropical Gardens in Monte, Madeira: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2015 17:29:56 GMT
I might go see a doctor about that umbilical problem.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2015 17:47:52 GMT
And gravity and age play hell with the earlobes.
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Post by htmb on Feb 21, 2015 19:24:50 GMT
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Post by htmb on Mar 24, 2015 18:31:54 GMT
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Post by mossie on Mar 24, 2015 19:40:56 GMT
The Mad Hatters Tea Party, now that's more like it
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Post by mossie on Mar 24, 2015 19:43:00 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2015 5:08:52 GMT
Your two photos are so different from each other, Htmb, but each captures a mood so well. Absolutely love the bronze-y shades, the composition, and the sense of depth in each as well.
And a real change of pace there, Mossie! Very colorful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2015 16:27:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 11:35:31 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jul 5, 2015 9:16:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 5:13:45 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 31, 2015 15:48:36 GMT
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