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Sunday 10th Jul 2005
When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
Hello? Wow - this is interesting. One of my lesser ambitions (there are many) is to create an e-mail containing dozens of statements like, "A cockroach is effectively paralysed for 43 seconds if you sneeze on it during a full moon," or maybe, "Carlos Santana had two toe nails growing on his left big toe," stuff like that, and for that e-mail to be circulated and forwarded en masse as gospel truth. One can dream. |    
I must have written that bit up there in the hours of the morning. Following a bit of sleep, M**** and I did a bit of hoovering and cleaning around (there's always some of this to do). M****'s dad, Mark, came over for the afternoon so, after some coffee, we drove in convey over to Bolton Abbey, so thereabouts. Our first destination was, erm . . . the Devonshire Arms Hotel . . . somewhere near Addingham. We had lunch there and then went for a walk, following the River Wharfe, and ending up at Bolton Abbey. These are what all these pictures are of, you see.
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. . . and more pictures of Bolton Abbey and stuff. It was extremely hot that day and, not having any sun-block, or a sun-hat, I was spending small amounts of time in the sun, and then running to a spot of shade (it paid off - no sun burn). That might explain some of the weird shots. Well, it explains the fourth one from the left in the first set of photos - that was taken from within shade.
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more images . . . after wandering around Bolton Abbey a bit, we went back to the Devonshire Arms (so that was where the picture of the sunglasses occurred, see . . . you might be able to make out the reflection of my camera in those) for one last drink before heading our separate ways . . . Mark in a Lancaster direction, M**** and I in a Leeds direction. I haven't said when any of these pictures were taken. I used to do loads of that. Left to right then: 17:09, 17:10, 17:20, 17:30, 17:34 and 18:37. So there you go.
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Comments received:
- Name: Mrs Plontthyzzcough
- IP address: 86.129.11.34
- Date/time: Sunday 10th July 2005 21:58:56
- Comment: Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
- Name: jonath
- IP address: 193.113.57.161
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 09:38:04
- Comment: Exactly. That's exactly what I'm on about. We need more though.
- Name: Gen
- IP address: 83.67.69.121
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 09:55:44
- Comment: "The eye that is simple sees furthest" - is that not specific enough?
- Name: Gen
- IP address: 83.67.69.121
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 09:55:44
- Comment: "The eye that is simple sees furthest" - is that not specific enough?
- Name: jonath
- IP address: 193.113.57.161
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 12:17:24
- Comment: Hmmmm. Sounds more like some ancient Chinese proverb.
- Name: Gen
- IP address: 83.67.69.121
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 13:30:27
- Comment: I prefer proverbs .."babies come to those who wait"
- Name: Neil
- IP address: 217.42.172.147
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 13:41:40
- Comment: As well as us humans a snail is the only animal to suffer from acne
- Name: Gen
- IP address: 83.67.69.121
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 14:28:35
- Comment: ..and the eye of a snail can see further than that of a new born human.
- Name: jonath
- IP address: 192.168.0.1
- URL: http://www.freakyanimals.com/facts002.shtml
- Date/time: Tuesday 12th July 2005 21:57:33
- Comment: Your comments led to the web-site that I've provided a link to above. I did a Google search for some of the key words, you see. The comments are good, keep 'em coming. If I get enough strange-but-true factoids, I'll compile 'em all and begin dissemination.
- Name: Neil
- IP address: 217.42.211.153
- Date/time: Thursday 14th July 2005 00:43:15
- Comment: Babys poo is richer in vitamins and minerals than three watermelons and a strawberry pound for pound
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