Men, Betting, Drinking and Smoking

Men, Betting, Drinking and Smoking
Originally uploaded by An Old Barbie Doll

Everything my mother had warned me to against.

So it is true, Barbie has finally gone to the dogs.

The race

The race
Originally uploaded by An Old Barbie Doll

Believe me this is no easy shot to take. I am determined to get better than this, and plan to return under better lighting conditions, as Flash is definitely NOT alowed, as I learnt to my peril.

This was also the first time that I have seen the hounds catch the hare.

Not because the hounds were super fast, but because the mechanical hare developed a fault, slowed and eventually stopped.

Baby Faced Killer

Baby Faced Killer
Originally uploaded by An Old Barbie Doll

Pure unadulterated silliness.

Here I be, collecting the 'Don Byatt' award from Don Langford, for 'The Deviant Dr. Faustus' (picture:- top middle behind me.)

Photographed at the Hanbury Turn in Bromsgrove. We have spent the weekend at Coventry, so that we could be at the opening of The Bromsgrove National Exhibition. We arrived early so went to The Hanbury Turn for a drink. It was pouring down with rain when we left but couldn't resist photographing this discarded chair on our way back to our car.

Rusty and Roxy our Chilean Rose Tarantula

Groggy Froggy our 'Whites' Tree Frog, named after the man who first discovered the species.

We've had him over 16 years and he was fully grown then.