Some statistics for you about this blog. This is my 118th post; there have been 16 recent posts; with an average 3 posts per week since February; I have written 42,356 words; I have 38 outbound links; and 220 profile views. Now the ones that took me a little research :

Of my 118 posts:

• 9 begin with 'Well'
• 7 begin with 'Ah,'
• 3 posts start with a word in lower case
• 8 begin with 'I' or 'I've'
• 7 begin with a number
• An astounding 15 posts begin with 'Ok', but all occur between the 24th of February and the 31st of March, in the space of 21 posts!
  

That's a total of 49 posts that start in the same way to another. Well, the only ones I noticed at least. That's a lot...

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So, to the post. Yesterday we had another fun filled day in London, mostly spent in London Zoo. After da croo had assembled in Charing (One 'r' Dave) Cross, we took a tube to Camden Town. This was punctuated by a LOT of excitement once we reached the 3rd stop along the way. The entire group (other than Sarah, who just didn't get it) fumbled hastily for cameras. The doors of the tube opened, obscuring my view of the photo's subject. Rob jumped out to pose, jeapordising his chance to get back on the train in time. He leaped back in the carriage with seconds to spare, and as the doors closed, I raised my camera, the blood pumping, my face set. I had only a moment to take the shot, before the train would move and i would lose my chance. I felt a jolt from the train, and i took the photo.

What photo was this?

Mornington Crescent!!
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Well anyway. After a walk around Regent's Park we came to the zoo. we paid our fee, and in we walked. First stop, the Aquarium.

After walking around for a while looking at all the fish, we came across this lovely couple :
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The Clown Fish (now affectionately known as Nemo) spent a lot of time hiding so I couldn't take the bloomin' photo. Being the quick witted people we are, this of course led to a lot of utterances of: "Can anyone find Nemo?", "Found Nemo!" and other such humouresque utterances for which I was punched for. On our leaving the aquarium we came across two violent street folk. Obviously they had just followed us from Camden, and were itching for trouble. I took a photo, that their wicked deeds be associated to their visages :

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Ok, only kidding! (Ooh, i've just realised I have no right eye in that photo. EEEVIL!!)

So anyway, we left and went to find some bears. They were however absent, and Baz came up with the elaborate idea of their escape to freedom, along with the hired services of the penguins (check his blog for details of said plan). We then sat on the benches outside the bear enclosure and had lunch. And a very nice lunch it was too. It was at this point Rob decided to pose provocatively, while Baz showed off his Trousers :

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(The sheep is called Trousers, for those of you that are quite slow. Hello Mum :D)

We then went for another walk around. We soon came across an empty enclosure, with nothing but rocks and sad. However, more clever escape theories were called into being when this was observed:

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Well, we moved on, soon coming to the camels :
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and the Owls (which you can't eat).:
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We then came to an area with less exotic farm animals around. I managed to take this photo of Sarah, before she noticed the reason for me moving her to that position:

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Oh that still amuses me!

Sarah and goats
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Pigs, with shadows of men ominously stading over them.
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Animal Farm anyone?

I then came across a Look around you reference! "One might as well ask, 'What are birds?':
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We just don't know."

That question was answered when we went into the bird sanctuary 2 minutes later and emerged knowing full well what birds were, what they looked like, and wondering whether Stalin ever owned a starling... For those of you who don't know, this is a bird:

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'tis an emu I believe.

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After that we went to look at some bugs in (brace yourself) the bug exhibit/ hive/ dwelling/ breeding pit/ spawning pool/Federation Homeworld. It was rather good, a lot of insects there that you would be quite happy to run away screaming like a little girl from. It seemed that the violent nature of some of these insects had transferred to Rob and Dave, and they engaged themselves in a pitched battle to the death, mano a mano, Rob with Smith-esque shades firmly in place.

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This showing of violence was put to a stop by Trousers, who beat Rob and Dave off of the stage and stood protecting his place from unruly predators.

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It took 15 security guards and a bearded pig to get him back in Baz's pocket. Anyhoo, we walked around a bit more, until we came across some more birds! Frabjous... they were pelicans this time, the birds that inspired that classic limerick:

What a marvellous bird is the Pelican,
Its beak can hold more than it's belly can,
It can hold in its beak,
Enough food for a week,
And I'm damned if I know how the hell he can.

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By the pelicans wher some sculptures that Sarah seemed very interested in, until one of them stunned her and began eating her. It was only by the power of Trousers that she escaped with her life.

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CONTINUING....NOW!!!

Ok, after that brush with death, we sneaked into a little place where one of the zoo employees was showing off the qualities of various animals. This started with a macaw, moving onto a coati, then a lemur:

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...and then an owl. (photo upper in post). We then sneaked out of there and went to find some friends of JAJ's, the gorrillas:

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After a moment of *ahem* talking, me and Sarah caught up with the rest, who had gone to find the Komodo dragons. However, these large lizards where nowhere to be found, having decided to hide from us. It was mildly disconcerting to discover that the hole that had been dug by some escaping animal (see above) was right next to the Komodo dragon enclosure. Eek! Anyway, after that, we went to the reptile house, where i hoped it be able to find Daniel Radcliffe and punch him, but alas twas not to be. We did see a little nodding lizard, that Deutsches had a staring competition with:

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After looking at turtles, snakes and a variety of different coloured frogs, we left said reptile house and sat on a bench outside, which had a plaque on it. The strange thing was, the months on this plaque were in roman numerals... observe:

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The duds then amused themselves with their phones. Dave listened to Dr Zeius (to which greaat merriment was had):

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Rob continued to phone everyone and yell 'cock' down the phone to them. Then the decision was made to move on. On our way to the exit, our petty minds were dazzled by the emergence of the greatest thing we had ever seen; AN ORANGE LETTERBOX!!!!

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Jorange is attracted to the orange. I mean...WOW!!! Isn't that like the coolest thing ever?!!! As we left the zoo through that little rotaty gatey thing, the Duds found themselves trapped in a fiendish trap, cunningly placed by our roodboi nemeses. I, being the sole escapee, took a photo of the duds, fighting to escape their place of captivity :

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As you can see, from left to right, Dave is looking sad at having caught his lips in the bar, Dave attempts to attack his captors with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, Baz pleads for peace, while making Jon his prison 'biatch' and Rob has gone totally insane and is gibbering like a fool.

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After the zoo, we went to Hamleys, a HU-UGE toyshop in the middle of Londinium, where everything was desirable and extortionately priced. After some time looking around there, me and Sarah left the duds and made our own way to Victoria, where we had a modest dinner, before setting off to the Globe rather early. Since we arrived with a good 45 minutes to spare, we decided to walk across the Thames on the Wobbly Bridge. I got a very nice arty photo of Sarah gazing across the river at the slowly setting sun:

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deviantArt here I come!!! After about 30 minutes of *ahem* talking, we walked back to the Globe to await the rest of the party. After they didn't turn up, we sat ourside on a bench and watched the road intently. However, they snuck up to the Globe via a sideroad and as such we had missed them completely, and they had stood in the Globe waiting for us. Ah, delightful madness! So, we went in and took our place as groundlings, and i took a photo of the stage, before any officials reminded us that we couldn't: (Last photo! Honest!)

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We then stood for almost 3 hours (or more) watching Much Ado About Nothing, which , while it took a little while to get into, was brilliant! All the men were played by women, and all the women were played by women too! Shakespeare must have been spinning in his grave like a cat with toast on it's back. so, after that wholly great performance, I was taken home, were i ate some of that days leftovers, and went to sleep!

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Now, do i blog about Thursday, Friday and Saturday on a new post or carry on on this one? Hmm... new one methinks!

G'night
Drizzt Do'Urden

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