The Lions (plus other animals) of Longleat

A month or so a go (still working on that backlog of pics!) a few friends and I decided to go to out for the day to Longleat. Unfortunately the weather was pretty poor but still managed to get a few shots of the various animals from the car as we were driving round.

Mrs Lion



Why the long face Mr Tapir?!



Monkey scratching himself and probably the paintwork on the Range Rover that he was perched on!



Humphrey the Camel!



Monkey mirror!



Wind your neck in Mr Giraffe!

Most Interesting Flickr Photos

With the views of my flickr stream quickly approaching 15,000 I thought I'd have a play with some of my pictures that flickr users find most interesting. Interestingness of a photograph on flickr is calculated by the number of views, number of times added to other users favorites, total comments etc.

Thanks to this post from novemberfive.co.uk I found animoto.com and created some videos featuring my 15 most interesting Flickr pictures.

Remember Remember the Fifth of November

Always find it a bit strange that we celebrate Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. I know his attempt was foiled but still celebrating what these days would would be classed as a huge terrorist plot seems a bit strange to me!

Off to the fireworks tonight and am undecided whether to take my camera along so here are some from last year...