By general consent, the Wednesday before Christmas was deemed to be a non-walking week, to allow essential preparations for feasting and the arrival of family and relatives.
For the sake of completeness, I felt that there should be a blog entry for this week, to keep the series intact, and as a treat for those that were not fully satisfied with the contents of their Christmas stockings.
Last year I had 'A Very Hatty Christmas' competition (link) but this was not the most enthusiastically received chance for a free bottle of wine, and no entrance fee! You can see from the published answers (link), that there were only two entries!
This year - no such largesse, but a picture that may at least engender some interest.
(AWW 2009 Gallery - click to enlarge)
These are the best 'mugshots' I could find of the 30 walkers who have appeared by my reckoning to have walked on at least 3 occasions, or to have made some extra contribution to the AWW. Hopefully you will be satisfied with the one I have selected for you, but if not - try to look better next time Myriam, John or myself brandish the camera.
Not all the the photos are from this year, they are just selected from the hundreds of file photo faces extracted by the Picasa facial recognition software, and are arranged in reverse alphabetical order by first name purely because that happened to be the order in which I selected them.
Can you remember where you were when these photos were taken? I doubt it, but best wishes for the second half of the season, starting with David's stroll and lunch on the 30th December. Hope to see you there!
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Munch, Edvard
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. Schopenhauer, Arthur
What a rogues gallery! Has interpol been alerted? I thought all the dubious characters lived on the Costa del Sol. We don't want them coming over 'ere!
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Hat score: looks like Nondescripts 25 - Tilley Wanderers 5.
ReplyDeleteConvincing result,one would think.