Stray dog now part of family

All three now living together.
I went round today and to my surprise there he was in the
middle of the lawn.

If you missed it see post for 19 June for back story. 

Japanese knotweed

Have been watching the ground to see how fast it would grow back
after being cleared from  beside the highway.
The grass seed has just started to grow,  as for the Knotweed
I looked this morning some of the shoots have been picked is someone
Cooking it ?  It is said you can eat it.
As you can see it got a good start and will take over if left.   

Left on the shelf

This is home

Nothing set up for the taking of this picture 

Tour de France ?

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May be with a new bike and some of that enhancing stuff
viagra I could ride again.

Just looked out side it's snowing

A quick doodle to celebrate my sons fake 
Christmas (see his earlier posts )
  
So deep you could lose your dog


Merry Christmas Glen

Star wars, How we protect our own

When I trimmed the cork screw willow,
I stuck four cuttings in a corner of
the garden, only one has survived
dampening off or the ravenous slugs,
don't like using slug pellets,
so every night before the stars come out
the jar goes on

And I've got a small black plum
growing unexpected from a
discarded stone/pip from last summer  

june 21st: fake christmas

circumstances meant that, despite it being our first christmas and new year in our new home, my and my girlfriend weren't actually able to spend much of it together

and when we were together we never found the time to watch the dvd of 'It's a Wonderful Life' that she had borrowed

and when we decided to have the chrsitmas pudding we didn't have the time and patience to steam it, nor did we have a microwave to get the job done quickly


so today we are gonna have a fake christmas, we have both spent around a tenner on small gifts, we now have a microwave and we are gonna order in a very un-festive pizza for our dinner, exchange gifts and finally watch the DVD so we can give it back


i have left this present out for my girlfriend to find when she gets in from work

i wonder if she'll guess what it is?

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 21st 08:50am

june 20th: when we were young

a number of photos spanning the past five years that i got around to putting up on our bedroom wall over the weekend

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 20th 08:54am

june 19th: taking in strays

my girlfriend was unimpressed to find this greeting her on the front door step when she came home, it had been abandoned in an alley not far from home and i felt quite sorry for it, so decided to bring it home

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 19th 20:04am

The birds sing all night in our town

Must be because it never gets dark 

Hello mate, I talk to them all.

A  repost of earlier picture cropped  tighter
I had no time to focus it was now or never
as the birds seem to fly off at first sight of camera.

( Was not there for bird pictures  had some thing else in mind ) 

I don't mind nosey neighbors

When I say neighbors I mean
 THE WILD LIFE

Mr Robin popped in this morning he's not
so keen on the camera. 

june 17th: second hand bike

took a few photos of the marshes and the new olympic canoeing centre in Broxbourne after picking up a bike i had bought off ebay in Cheshunt, but this was by far the most interesting photo from the day

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 17th 14:33pm

june 15th: totally tropical taste

gasping for a drink at work after some heavy lifting in a sweltering greenhouse, this really hit the spot

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 15th 17:14pm

This is what that was

 Just trying to help you see what you was not seeing
yesterday thats clear is ant-it. 

june 13th: keys

the keyboard at work

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 13th 10:14am

To fill a gap a hole in a blog

Had nothing at hand to post
so tipped contents of our many
pots of junk quick photo
add some glowing edges
Thats it.

Bye 4 now. Stu

june 12th: NME

scattering issues of NME across the floor to accompany a blog post

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 12th 17:15pm

june 11th: cyberman

found this earlier this year along with some other abandoned bits and pieces (including a sandwich and crisps) in a bag outside the back doors of my workplace

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 11th 17:35pm

june 9th: overlooked by the flats

the stanstead express leaves tottenham hale station whilst i wait for my train home, overlooked by the colourful new flats that have recently been built

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 9th 21:10pm

june 9th: wait a second

the view from a train sat at Finsbury Park overground station

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 9th 17:11pm

Two of my Favorite Things, Horseradish and Ladybirds

No not in a sandwich.

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I just love the smell of a field of horseradish on a 

hot summers day when the distinct heady  

fragrance lingers in the air , and Ladybirds I think goes 

with out saying, its the childhood memories, 

of them running about on my hand.
Counting their spots.
Just remembered the rhyme, Ladybird , Ladybird fly a way home
your house is on fire and your children are gone.

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june 8th: playstation2

the controller from my PS2, taken in a dark room using the torch on my mobile phone to cast gloomy shadows 

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 8th 23:10pm

In a dark dark wood

Art work by Stuart Byford.

To nights post started out from a photo of venetian blinds,

Had no idea what it was going to be 

when I started it in photoshop just felt I could make 

something out of the straight parallel lines.

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No Squirrels

Google, In a dark dark wood

To find variations of a children's tale
or see link 

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june 7th: moving in

a few childhood friends move into my geeky attic room as it all comes together

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 7th 10:36am

june 6th: red right hand

getting quite hands on as i finally get round to adding the finishing touchs to just one wall in the geeky attic room

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 6th 16:11pm

london 2012 Olympics sponsored by bodyform

poster for the london 2012 Olympics decorated in an unique way.
maybe we will all be hanging tampons on our trees this x-mass
photographed by Ian Byford, using a Olympus E-410

Her home town so much to remember

                      Title.    In the twilight

The old lady looks back and remembers those teenage years
of fun and laughter, the hardship, the love and romance.
It makes her think she would like to come back, do it all again some time.

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june 4th: eclipse in my garden

a friend shines a torch up through the bottom of a beer bottle at our BBQ, out in the garden after dark

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 4th 23:11pm

BLACKBERRY SKIES

Blackberries not as high as they look
Maybe 12 feet
That near the sun will definitely ripen quicker

june 3rd: barbed wire

a fence, over the marshes, just off the crooked mile, near waltham abbey

taken by Glen Byford using a Casio Exilim EX-Z60, June 3rd 19:08pm

Soft centers

        Art work by Stuart.Byford.

Even people with the coldest stone hearts sometimes have a soft center,
maybe not all as nice an sweet, or soft as this.