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Spring pics 7188 viewsJust around the corner, and some of the daffodiles are fully open. Here's a close up of one with the good ol macro setting
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Driving in the snow173 viewsTook a drive to Tesco's in the snow to pick up some weekly shopping. This is the view you get
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Spring pics 6173 viewsDaffodiles in the early stages. You don't actually notice them during peak winter, cause they are all brown. During February, they became green again, and you can see the large buds comming out. Some more mature than others.
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Spring pics 4169 viewsLooking left of the offices from the car park, you can see the different colours in the bushes come through as they are all jumping back into action.
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Spring pics 5167 viewsSome of the bushes growing outside the office, by the car park. This picture came out really well with the little buds comming out.
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Snow drive continues166 viewsAt some stages the snow starting coming down quite hard.
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Spring pics 3160 viewsPicture of the back of the office from the car park, definately getting warmer, even though it is February.
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Ice Scrapping 2157 viewsSee what I mean about the ice on the car? Good exercise, and sometimes you're just lazy, so you run out, start the car, put the heaters on, run back inside and wait 10 minutes for the car to defrost itself :)
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View from office 1156 viewsOffice gardens, with abit of snow here and there. Bare in mind that this is at 2pm, so much of it has melted away. Walking around in the garden is really relaxing. Can't wait to see it in the height of spring.
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Spring pics 2154 viewsIf you can see up close, this tree has hundreds of blossoms comming out it. New leaves, new flowers.
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View from front balcony at night 2153 views
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Spring pics 1147 views3rd week of February, and you can see that spring is comming in. The trees are starting to become greener and the sun is rising alot earlier.
These pictures are from the car park at the office
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The camp fire147 viewsOur own personal cooking spot
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View from front balcony at night 3146 views
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Blesbok spotted146 viewsThe following day, tracking down some blesbok.
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Reggies pot bellie pig 2143 viewsThe pig was about 7 weeks old here, and just loved pronutro
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House being painted 1142 viewsHouse was a pale blue before, the painting finally took place in November 2005.
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View from front balcony at night 1141 views
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Tracking141 viewsLarge inyala male was spotted from the bakkie, tracking started.
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Sunset from lodge 2141 views
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Arriving home in the snow140 viewsAfter the Tesco shopping, we came straight home and the snow was about 4 inches deep at this stage.
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Woodley Park, Reading 2138 viewsthis picture shows the scale of the park, consider that the same distance in front, lies behind me as well. To the right of this is a lake.
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Pathway to the hangers 6135 views
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Reggies pot bellie pig 1135 viewsReggie called this pig "Babe", and a stunning animal she is. Full of character, and loves having her belly scratched
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Sunset from lodge 1134 views
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Ice Scrapping133 viewsWaking up to frost over the car is common, and Bridget has become very handy at scrapping the ice off the windscreen and side windows :)
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View from office 2133 viewsJust left of the balcony, where we eat lunch sometimes, you see the roof of the office below.
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View from the lodge 2133 views
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View from front balcony at night 4132 views
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Driving down into the valley131 viewsUsing a new Colt 4x4, we started our drive down into the valley on the first day, we came across a group of giraffe.
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Pixie 1129 viewsPixie loves posing for the camera, love the bandy legs. Proper lap dogs, highly recommended.
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Bottom of valley128 viewsAnother set of giraffe spotted, with baby giraffe tagging along.
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Ash Vale View 3126 viewsCul de sac, this is the end of the road by Matt.
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View from the lodge 1126 viewsThe view from the top deck was amazing, with 200 degrees viewing
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View from the lodge 3126 viewsSun was starting to set
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Monument of commemoration 2125 viewsAwsome lion monument.
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Reading City Hall124 views
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Snow view from the house123 viewsView from our lounge window with abit of snow.
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Pete and Nina in the park in Woodley 2122 viewsPeter "posing" in the park.
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Disney store 1122 viewsPictures from inside the Disney store.
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Berlin Wall122 viewsPart of the Belin Wall stored in the museum, it's got alot of graffiti over it.
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House being painted 2122 viewsThe house from the front, with the master bedroom being on the right, and Tamzyns window on the left.
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Pete and Nina in the park in Woodley121 viewsWe decided to take a walk in the nearby park. It was a welcome walk, as my legs were all stiff from the plane trip.
Here is Peter and Nina. Peter sacrificed his morning sleep to pick me up at the airport :)
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Woodley Park, Reading 5121 viewsAfter walking for about 40 minutes, we decided to take a break and relax.
One thing worth mentioning as well, as that there was no litter in the park, something weird to see comming from SA.
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Hanger 1.10121 views
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Tracking 2121 viewsAmazing what you can find in the deep bush.
By the time Chris and I got back to camp, both our legs were torn up with the large amount of thorn bushes around.
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Ikea, Brent 3120 viewsMore beds. These pictures where taken to show the boss back in SA to see if she spotted anything she liked.
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Craig Joins me for coffee on the balcony119 viewsAKA Skêkrou, the break beat DJ from Durban joins me for some good ol coffee :)
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Oracle 16118 viewsPicture from inside Boots, top floor.
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Statue of Queen Victoria118 viewsStatue of Queen Victoria in Reading Centre, next to the city hall.
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Oracle 1117 viewsCaught a bus into Reading, and from the bus stop you walk straight into the Oracle shopping centre, it's as big as the Pavilion in Durban. I decided to go take a look inside.
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View from lounge window 2117 viewsLovely view, the lakes beyond the far duplexes were frozen over. Didn't stop the fishermen though, they broke holes in the ice and continued to fish. Now that's dedication!
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View from lounge window right117 viewsYou can see the lakes to the left of this house.
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Park at Woodley, Reading115 viewsFirst pictures I took when arriving in the UK, the quality is low because they were taken with my cell phone.
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Oracle 10115 viewsCute baby clothes. This store just did baby clothes, with a massive collection.
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Monument of commemoration115 viewsMonument of commemoration to the officers and men of the Berkshire regiment
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Ikea, Brent 6114 viewsLighting section, I stood on teh end of the lighting department, and couldn't see where it ended. Once again, a huge selection, at very good prices.
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Woodley Park, Reading113 viewsThis park was very large, about 1½ times the size of the Botanic Gardens in Durban. Tempreture was about 25 degrees that day.
The park is lovely, with large open spaces, and people flying flexifoil kites. :-)
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Woodley Park 6113 viewsReached the end of the park, on the other side, it looked like some sort of fun fair affair happening, but by this time we were all tired of walking and decided to head back.
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Ash Vale View 2113 viewsLovely suburb, quiet and notice the high fences.
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Ikea, Brent 5113 viewsCrockery, cutlery etc is on the ground floor of Ikea, the place is 3 stories high.
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Not South African113 viewsFound this guys number plate amusing. I don't think he's from SA :)
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Pathway to the hangers 9112 viewsThe V1 rocket developed by Germany in WW1
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Hanger 1.7112 viewsLockheed SR-71A Blackbird, made totally out of titanium, because it flew so fast that the body would become superheated, and if a lesser material was used, it would just burn up in the sky. Can fly at Mach 3.3
errk, glad I didn't have to be the test pilot for that :)
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Hanger 1.8112 viewsDifferent angle of the Lockeed, looks very UFOish
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Hanger 1.11112 views
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Back of office - snow3112 viewsCar park at the back of the offices. Snow on the trees and bushes are really awsome to see.
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Woodley Park, Reading 3111 viewsThe lake through the trees. There were quite a few ducks and geese around the lake. The lake stretched for about two hundred metres, it may have been joined to a canal, we didn't check.
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Ikea, Brent 4111 viewsYip, another bed.
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Scottish pipes busker111 viewsNow this guy could play, it was totally awsome listening to him and in no time at all a nice crowd gathered to listen.
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Morrisons strawberries110 viewsYes please, now where the hell is the cream?
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Oracle 3110 viewsTook these pictures to send back to SA. I think SA has the same shop, can't recall.
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Oracle 17110 viewsDisney store, took this picture for Tamzyn to see.
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Concord 1110 viewsThis was the prototype concord, that was used to test before letting it go commercial.
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Concord 3110 viewsWalking up the stairway into the Concord, this picture gives the scale of the supersonic plane.
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Ikea, Brent 1109 viewsLooking for furniture at Ikea in Brent. Massive store, took me and Pete about 4 hours just to walk around it.
Pete was getting edgy after four hours, so I grabbed a sleeper couch, and we ran.
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Hanger 1.2109 views
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Morrisons 2108 viewsThe selection is huge, this isle just had different types of bread, pita, tortillas etc.
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