Forty Acres Weekend

Lovely relaxing weekend at Forty Acres, dining at Dinedor before heading on in dad’s BMW to the cottage. Lots of sleeping and a positively mid-summer day on Saturday. We spent our daylight hours sitting out on the patio reading. Having packed for the chills of mid-October, I didn’t have anything to light – and ended up stripping down to my underwear bikini.

Cuckoo busy. Sheeps baa-ing. Pheasants being dim (as usual). Admired dad’s new paths, and the proposed line of the Forty Acres Railway.

Even though I’ve raved about fotopic before…..

I’ve probably raved about fotopic before…..Yoz and James have been nagging me to change my fotopic settings… and this evening, after Buffalo Soldiers at the Warner West End, the first of the BBC’s modernised Canterbury Tales and delicious mushroom pie (courtesy of Phil) I finally got the chance to log into Fotopic admin…. and, yes, I’ve changed my settings so that you can buy prints, and changed the “what happens when you click on the image” so that it takes you to a full size photo.

Anyway, as ever, I went to check out the week’s top photos and collections…. no surprises to find Burning Man 2002 up there on both counts, what with BM 2003 having taken place last weekend (complete with Radio 4 “From our own correspondant” coverage last Sunday) and Yoz’s having been prompted to nag about one of last year’s photos. But what did cause a hearty laugh was discovering that this *delightful* photo of Barney has had 121 hits 🙂

It’s in the genes you know.

And more browsing of my referrers shows that fotopic is pretty good at getting high hits in MSN Search, what with my photo of the Topkapi Palace coming in at number 6 for the ““Topkapi Palace” search, and Barney’s birthday drawing coming in at number 2 for “drawing palm trees“!