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Westminster in 3D

(via @londonist)

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Is this my best #photo of 2009?

I wanted to submit something to Flickr's 'Your best of 2009' pool, but wasn't even sure whether I had at least one pic that would qualify. But I couldn't face the prospect of trawling though my entire 2009 library.
So rather than spending weeks trying to find 'the one', I've submitted the image above which became my favourite picture by accident. I took it while testing some settings on my then new camera.
Hope you like it too.

Now bring on 2010.

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How not to park a car

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My local supermarket, yesterday afternoon.

Clichés on a hand dryer

The Aussies love their national symbols so much they stick them everywhere.

This is from a hand dryer in a Sydney restaurant - a kangaroo having a chat with an emu, using a, erm, hand dryer.

As you do.

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Sent from my iPhone

This #photo makes me hungry...

Yummies

Taken during my friends' wedding preparations.

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My obligatory Tweet cloud

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Just got back to London after 10 days away and everyone has been bombarding me with their tweet clouds.

Mostly boring and/or predictable, but I've seen a few, which were quite funny.

So obviously I had to create my own one to see whether what I've tweeted about over the past year can be classified as boring/predictable or funny.

Top three words? Thanks, time, photo.

Boring and predictable.

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How green is Boots?

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Not very.

I did some shopping there yesterday and - as I spent over a certain amount - I was given a 'present'. Didn't even examine what they put in my bag until I got home and looked at it properly.
I was given a black laptop case. Not bad, I thought. Attached to it was a small plastic device with a  few buttons. A voice recorder, as it turned out.

Inside the bag I found another 'gift' - four little samples of their No 7 for men range. 'Nice,' I thought. Until I looked at the label, that is (pictured above).

Out of the 6 separate 'gifts' only two were actually made in the UK, the rest came from China and Thailand. And the whole lot was assembled in Thailand.

So let me get it right: Boots produces tiny samples of their product, then sends them to Thailand. It produces some more samples locally in Thailand too and flies some more stuff over from China (including the plastic voice recorder, which, according to Boots, can be used 'to record where you parked your car').

Then all that is bundled together and flown back to the UK to be given away for free. 

Wow, that's a substantial carbon footprint just to thank me for spending £30 in one of their stores.

Mind boggles.

Any Boots people out there, willing to explain whether all this is necessary?