One of our neurotic hens woke me at 6 this morning, it was laying a remarkably large egg and decided to shout about it; this started Gilda, the remarkable fat, but short-legged dog barking. Between the two of them it became impossible to sleep. So I gave up all hopes of a Saturday morning snooze and spent 10 mins trawling my wordpress reader.
If it wakes me up again at the weekend we will have a talk over Sunday dinner
And I found a great photo titled The eye’s (or rather eye) have it By THE NUMPTY WITH A CAMERA AND A LAPTOP for the latest wordpress Photo Challenge.
I have a nice camera, in fact two years ago I bought myself a Canon 1000D. I carefully wrapped the prezzie in Christmas paper and added a tag with the words : Love from Mrs Sensible, thereby giving both of us a surprise on Christmas morning.
Unfortunately none of my photos are ever likely to match one of Steve Currry’s who is the master of photography.
However, today I have entered the wordpress photo challenge with the following photo, and after careful deliberation I have titled the photo Click oops!
Click, oops
Because, I was leaving the house with the camera in my hand, when the damn thing when off, nearly blinding me with the flash.
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/weekly-photo-challenge-focus/
Englishman in Italy 
You get two LOLs. One for the camera misfire (which created a remarkable clear shot!) and one for buying yourself a gift but “giving” it to your beloved!! You are one creative blogger!
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Sshhh! Don’t shout too loud or Mrs Sensible will hear. I am in enough trouble as it is.
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Nice shot of your eye(s) … The chicken leg photo though made me suddenly crave for KFC! Yum.
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I love KFC, do you know there are NO KFC shops here!!
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oh no. that’s a disaster! but then again, i love italian food!
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I will swap one spag bog for one KFC
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deal!
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I will send you one of Mrs Sensible’s Spag Bogs by Poste Italia (They are bound to lose it) and you nip out and organise a KFC
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and i will send the kfc through DHL (they were featured in channel 4 lately, about how badly they manage the parcels). let’s hope they save you at least one leg!
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🙂
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Make your own KFC! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFKqOP9zJ8w 🙂
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I am on to it…. Watch out kitchen here I come
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Leave the chicken alone, Hey, that is a great shot, your other eye is actually there. Wow.
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Fluke pure fluke
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I had this blown up and printed at the local photography shop. It is in the hallway to scare away visitors. In the print you can’t see the other eye, it is just darkness.
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Oh so you have chickens that lay eggs. Consider yourself lucky that you live where you can have fowl that cackle and not some neighborhood Biddy busy body that cackles. You get eggs form a fowl that are fresh and not foul from the market. How marvelous is that?
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We have 8 neurotic hens, they are in decline as they become old. New hens next year 🙂
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Do you mean these will become “chicken soup for a an Englishman?” I abhor the thought. Poor hens that will be cast not aside but put on the chopping block. I kept all my chickens until eventually they all succumbed to old age. But I also realize that not everyone feels the same about a chicken. 🙂
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Oh I am sorry 😦 These hens are not really seen as pets, we have hens in the spring just for the freezer and hens we keep for 3 year ish for eggs. On the positive side they are free range have a huge area to run around in. Their bedroom is bigger than mine.
The pets are the two daft dogs and Scoobydoo, a neigbour’s cat that arrives most nights at 9.30 and meows outside the bedroom window until Mrs Sensible feeds him
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Oh I forgot. The oops shot is a good one. 🙂 You could not have done this if you had tried.
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A Lucky fluke
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the unexpected domino effect.
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One of them will end up as Sunday dinner…
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ART. Truly.
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I wish
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Not bad at all for a complete accident… the little blue light in your dark eye is particularly menacing!
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Cyborg
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Different aspect of focus. Drumstick is quite inviting 🙂
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Yes as usual I didn’t really follow all the rules. 🙂
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Love your Christmas present idea; wonder if that would work with a pair of Christian Louboutins?
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It is worth the try….
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I love your blog; you’re sense of humor and wordsmith style are beautifully combined! I’m convinced the English are born with a superior sense-of-humor gene, I’m sure to make up for other deficient genes, but it works for me.
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Wow! Thank you,
You have just been added to my Christmas card list
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A photo that many people (erm, me definitely) would struggle to set up and execute as brilliantly as you have. Great pic. 🙂
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Ta!
nice fluke of a pic
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Good start on the photo challenge 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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Fantastic shot for an accident. I end up with blurry blobs I can’t identify. For your present, that’s one way to ensure you get exactly what you want. 🙂
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I wonder if it will work with a sports car this Christmas?
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Good luck, being married to a woman named Mrs. Sensible may make that one a little bit difficult. 🙂
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It’s worth a try. The trouble is she only falls for my schemes once. 😦
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We did the same type of camera “gift” to each other a few years ago, and often have the same issue with the “meh” types of photos. And when the child gets ahold of the camera there is no telling what you might find for pictures later – at least it’s all digital now.
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Yes Digital is great, I take lots of photos and hopefully a couple are worth saving…
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Neurotic hen … LOL -:)! And the shot is actually very good!
Cheers!
Daniela
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The hens are utterly mad.
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Great photo! I have several accidental ones of my knees.
As for your chicken, I hope you learned a lesson about antagonizing the great chicken spirits after reading my post ‘Chickens Never Forget’. You too, will be plagued by zombie chicken carcasses.
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Damn, how did I miss this one! You have very nice eyes by the way (I’m not hitting on him Mrs Sensible, just saying) 🙂
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That’s the wine talking 🙂
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Yeah, maybe. It’s talking a lot at the moment 😉
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🙂
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great shot!! and shoot the bloody chicken too! (roast dinner tonight)…… gosh I’ve been away a few weeks and have a lot of catching up reading your blog. What’s happening with the book, wasn’t it supposed to be published in Feb (last Feb or next year?…)
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Well, funny you should mention the book.
Over a glass of wine we decided to include one of Mrs Sensible’s recipes at the end of each chapter 🙂 And my lovely niece is producing a simple little cartoon for the beginning of each chapter. So give me another month and then please help me to push it.
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certainly will do that! looking forward to getting it on amazon for my Kindle (it will be available to download on Kindle?)
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Yes it will 🙂
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Eye eye! (Sorry, couldn’t resist!) Cool shot, even if it was a fluke… sometimes they’re the best ones! 🙂
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I was so impressed I had it blown up…. Not with TNT, but blown up and framed. It is in the hall where is scares the gas and electric man away.
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Is it one of those photos where the eye/eyes follow you no matter where you move?!
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yes one of those spooky photos 🙂
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Yes well, I could see why that would scare off the gas and electricity man then! Maybe you should show it to Guilda the next time she wakes you up at some ungodly hour… it might send her scuttling off, whimpering into silence! 😀
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Maybe I will have some small prints made and stick them around the garden, that might keep Gilder away.
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Heh heh great idea, might work on the chickens too! 😉
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…but it might stop them laying eggs! 😉
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We have a mystery concerning a missing white egg. It is a case that would even foil Hercule Poirot.. I feel a post coming together.
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Gilda?
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Nope she is not guilty this time. She is too fat to get over the fence..
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😀 Hmmm you should definitely put your Inspector Clouseau cap on then! 🙂
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