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Sundog

That moment when you realise that you forgot your sunglasses but figure you’ll just squint.

Taking A Dive

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Dan Q / Curious Cones, in Taking A Dive

I had another submission accepted to Curious Cones last month; it remains one of my favourite silly niche blogs. This time around, it was this traffic cone seemingly about to take a dive from the low board at an outdoor pool (at which the younger kid and I were taking a respite from the heat!).

Not-accepted, but shared here for your enjoyment, was a photo I took while at West End Live in London the other week. I spotted a traffic cone on a shelf in the left luggage room at our hotel! I took the pic quickly and the room was dark and the photo came out blurry, so it’s fair that it didn’t make it onto the blog, but it’ll remind me to keep an eye out for cones in the most-curious of places!

Doggone Gorgeous

Dad Joke of the Day came to me early when some fellow dog walkers coming the other way said “Hello, gorgeous!”

“Ooh, thank you!” I replied, nonchalantly tussling my hair and striking a coquetteish pose.

Hot Dog Mess

Demmy would like to know why I haven’t turned off the UK’s heatwave yet. 🥵

Yodawg

“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm.”

Note #29064

How kind of the humans who constructed this sofa to leave a perfect dog-shaped nest in-between the cushions. Our pupper is appreciative.

Ghost of a dartboard

There was a dartboard here, once. 🎯👻

Caution: No Swimming

Dan Q / Curious Cones, in Caution: No Swimming

Hurrah! I just made my first successful submission to Curious Cones, a weblog collecting photographs of traffic cones spotted in unusual places.

I spotted this cone while the younger child and I took a walk to the next-nearest village to our temporary accommodation, in order to find a geocache, tag some benches for OpenBenches, and have a cafe brunch.

Anyway: if you’re not following Curious Cones, it’s exactly as delightful as you might expect.

Note #28356

I don’t know what this machine was (a crane, perhaps), but it’s now been almost-completely reclaimed by nature.

Dog tired

Today was a long day. Between commuting (the kids to school from our distant flood-evacuation accommodation), work, childcare, insurance wrangling etc., I was pretty tired when I got back “home”. So I came in and lay on the floor.

At which point the dog decided I was a pillow.