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Cloud spotting with Jessica. spent hours laying in the long grass watching the clouds pass by laughing at the shapes. Such a calming thing in a changing world.
For Comp Corner: Toy Story;
I knew it! I suspected it all along! He was too good to be true!
Never trust a Teatotaller! they get up in the Morning and that's as good as they feel all day! Johnny Vegas took the rap for this villainous chimp, TV exec's could not allow the apparently sensible persona to be damaged by the truth and have duped us all into thinking he drinks nothing but Tea after a very clever campaign. It would appear then that the real shock is that Vegas is a clean living young gad-about-town!
you may be wondering also about the picture title... 'suck the monkey', to drink from a bottle, the phrase was used by dock workers in London for illicitly drinking brandy from a cask by inserting a straw through the bung. :-)
And for those that know me better... Yep, I went out of my way (and comfort zone) to purchase monkey deliberately for 'the cause'!
Strobist: Single Brollied SB700set to 1/32nd pwr triggered by RF603s. 24"Brolly was set above and tight in to subject with the camera likewise close in next to brolly.
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2015 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/500618
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It was in September, 1960 - 50 years ago this year - that parking enforcement as we know it today began, when the first traffic wardens marched onto British streets.
In fact there were 40 of them and they inspired fear and fascination in equal measure as, in distinctive military-style uniforms with rows of gilt buttons, yellow shoulder flashes and yellow cap bands and with the power to issue £2 fines, they went in search of law-breaking motorists on behalf of the Metropolitan Police.
The very first ticket was issued to Dr Thomas Creighton who was answering an emergency call to help a heart attack victim at a West End hotel.
The medic's Ford Popular, left outside as he tended the victim, was ticketed but - just as happens today when mean or thoughtless wardens ticket hearses, ambulances (or even rabbits in their hutches...) - there was such a public outcry that he was subsequently let off.
Some things never change. Today, in the Borough of Westminster, where it all started, 200 parking attendants - or Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs), as they are now known - patrol the streets.