Daily themes - January 2024

[Kath]

Jan 19, 2024 18:30:25 GMT dreampolice said:

Street art made up of tiny little plastic things (for the life of me I can't remember what they are called)

Edit. According to my wife, they are called hammer beads.

Mad for it by Nigel G, on Flickr

Ya Ya by Nigel G, on Flickr

Hama

[dreampolice]

Jan 20, 2024 16:37:29 GMT Kath said:

Jan 19, 2024 18:30:25 GMT dreampolice said:

Street art made up of tiny little plastic things (for the life of me I can't remember what they are called)

Edit. According to my wife, they are called hammer beads.

Mad for it by Nigel G, on Flickr

Ya Ya by Nigel G, on Flickr

Hama

Haha. It sounded like hammer, lol.

[Kath]

Jan 20, 2024 17:52:27 GMT dreampolice said:

Jan 20, 2024 16:37:29 GMT Kath said:

Haha. It sounded like hammer, lol.

Yes.  I only know because I have two daughters who went through a phase of making endless useless things with these and spilling the ruddy 'beads' all around my house.  Broke at least one vacuum cleaner.  Hateful things.    You put them on a peg board and then iron them.  Or rather they put them on peg boards and nag me to iron them.  And then after everyone bought them Hama beads for Christmas, decided they were bored with them.  Sigh.  I'm not bitter.  Much.

[dreampolice]

1/2 eaten pasta dish

Half eaten lasagne by Nigel G, on Flickr

[kate]

Hook

Two for hanging.
hook for hanging on the line by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[peterob]

Probably the closest I have got to anything hooked.

DSCF4154.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

Probably posted in May because it is in my "for AP" Flickr folder.  Not brilliantly focussed - must be around about the minimum focussing distance for a 150-600 on APS-C - focal length used 185 mm (280 effective).

[petrochemist]

They needed a hook to get 'the Stig' out here
Stig gets stuck by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

Though only small in the images all these cranes have seriously big hooks:
SEA JACKS LEVIATHAN by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

floating crane top 2 by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

And here's a sky hook :~)
IMGP5540small by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[zx9]

Jumping on to the crane theme.

Cambridge Heath E2 IMG_2613MBW by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[zx9]

Anchor, a hook to attach a ship to the seabed?

Charmouth IMG_5026edit by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[zx9]

Brick Lane IMG_8426edit by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

And a slightly more upmarket one in Kos.

IMG_4858 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[zx9]

Waiting for Captain Hook.

Peter Pan IMG_2983editT by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

Peter Pan audience at the London Palladium, December 2023.

[Kath]

This is the fabled mince hook that hotel kitchen staff would send new kitchen porters to find. It was kept in the same cupboard as the long stand.

[petrochemist]

Jan 21, 2024 10:09:01 GMT zx9 said:

Anchor, a hook to attach a ship to the seabed?

Back when I went sailing we always talked about dropping the hook if we meant anchoring.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't just a family thing