Recent content by Rob MacKillop

Thanks, all!

...to me and my wife, (Dr) Susan Rennie. Susan is a lexicographer - she writes dictionaries - and is a freelance academic in historical dictionaries. Oxford University Press published her first book, and she is nearing completion of her second for them. Both books are concerned with the history...

Keep sharing, Wes. That's why we come here.

The seated figure makes the shot - for me at least, Brian. There's a story there, I'm sure.

Hi again, Wes. Welcome back. You can't escape! Resistance is futile... Well, I don't know what you are talking about with the technical stuff, but some of the images appeal to me on a story-telling level, and I could look at each and dream up possible scenarios. They encourage me to do that, so...

True...

Oh, it's boring in daylight. Just buildings and trees.

Doesn't look old to me. Get your peepers sharpened!

Googie?

Actually, the photo is growing on me. I do remember seeing the guy with the dog entering the scene, and pressing the trigger accordingly.

Thanks, lads. But don't worry, as I've survived these horrors and remain a perfectly balanced psycho! Gianluca, I am delighted you like the image, and would love to read what you have to write.

As the image is to my mind very poor, I attempted to distract you from it by relating a few barber-related moments of my life. Really, I knew the photo was poor while taking it, but used it to entertain us all with a little humour at my expense :-)

I passed by this scene yesterday, and immediately I was thrown back on my terror of getting my hair cut. Here are a few barber-related scenes from my life: 1. My father was an alcoholic. One day I was given money by my mother to get a haircut. My father took me there, and also took my money. He...

Is that a coffee holder on the handlebar? If so, it looks like the rider has been pumped up more than the tyres.

What an intriguing sculpture. Are the two girls discussing the handsome bookish fellow, or are they snogging each other in an attempt to shock him out of his Biblical studies? Are they famous people in that part of the world? Questions, questions: often a sign of a good image. As for the...