misty: did you ever read old peters russian tales?
Funnily enough, no. The only non-Swallows and Amazons I read was "The First Voyage of the Racundra", though I think I read "Salt" (from the Russian tales) in an anthology.

tigerstipes: wonderful site
B L U S H

Another minor update on the F:F:F site. Some typos removed, a new Hummer picture and Cristina Navarro's copyright asserted for the NYC photos.

Thank you to all contributors.

About the Hummer picture ...

I once seen a HUMMER in Amsterdam. One of these military H1 thingies.

It was utterly hilarious! The car barley fit on the narrow roads along side the Grachten. One wonders where you park that thing. As mean of transport, however, it was useless compared to my bike.

Gil,
Thank you again for this site...
took a good look at the Hummer...only seen one once, in New Orleans. Ugly but just right for its owner in PR.
And Shinjuku Station, going soon to Japan for the first time so had a good look. Don't wanna miss my colleague so won't agree to meet THERE.

Aisha

You're welcome.

btw, re. your discussion of similar books. I'd give Gaiman a miss altogether. He does an excellent comic book, but I think his novels are a bit flaky. You may well enjoy Cryptonomikon, though.

Flaky from a Brit about a Brit should be listened to (as in over the top?)

Will start it cautiously...

Will try Crypto too, more confident there.

Pratchett I have access to, an ex with the collection -- looks definitely flaky to me, but even the Hobbit might be called that...hmmm

Wanted to say I like too the What do we know of the "Real" Footage? recap. Great.

In Windermere I had drinks simultaneously with both the local pub's cricket team, the lake police and the fire corps: very friendly place is the Lakes.
Mind oyu, I would go to Grasmere for the ultimate peaceful stay.

Anyone for Beatrix Potter? My favourite.

PS Dont forget The Golden Rule in Ambleside...



http://www.amblesideonline.co.uk/display/goldenrule/rulemain.html

Aisha

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Mind oyu, I would go to Grasmere for the ultimate peaceful stay

Absolutely. Isn't it gorgeous?

Indeed.
Weather was fantastic...not English mist like here, when I did a watercolor (amateur!) for my blog of the little island -- from the bank you took the pic from, by a stone boathouse or shed.

http://memepools.blogspot.com/2005/07/peaceful-corner-of-england.html#comments

Aisha

The same but not the same as F:F:F:

From the New York Times today:

"Crisp Images With a Blurry Back Story


By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: March 19, 2006


Rick Poynor, writing in the magazine Print, finds himself drawn to found images posted on the Net.

In the picture, an old man in a checked shirt proudly displays a big open-mouthed bass tucked under his arm. Click. Now a small boy wearing a tie stands at attention next to a 1950's-era TV. ...

The Web site, called Look at Me (moderna.org/lookatme), is one of many devoted to found photography. ... The pictures come from the sidewalk, from forgotten boxes at the back of the attic, and from old albums acquired at flea markets. ...

It's the emotional implications that make found photographs so fascinating. They look much the same as the snapshots that fill our own family albums. Yet cut loose from their points of origin, they become objects of deep mystery. ...

These unofficial images answer a persistent need to believe that photographs can still capture some essential, unvarnished truth about the subject. Where, even before the digital era, professional photographers were often shown to have manipulated images that might appear to represent actuality, amateur photographers can still be given the benefit of the doubt. Their directness, ineptitude, and lack of artifice become signs of reliability. The taste for these pictures is a measure of our enduring hunger to experience unmediated reality."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/weekinreview/19read.html

Aisha