Andrew, do laces come as optional extras
Dogs look well content surveying their surroundings
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Love it and Pink Floyd.Our journey begins with a story of mayhem in the skies above the south bank of the Thames, outside the largest brick building in Europe.
To create the artwork for the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals, a giant inflatable pig has been raised on a chain above Battersea Power Station - this was the 1970s after all.
"Suddenly there was a large crack and the pig sailed up into the sky," sleeve designer Aubrey Powell said.
"A helicopter followed but it couldn't catch it up.
"We were really scared. I feared there would be a terrible airline crash."
The members of the prog rock group scarpered, air traffic into Heathrow was cancelled, RAF jets were dispatched and pilots reported seeing a pig flying at about 20,000ft (6,100m).
Powell was taken to his studio by police and, following a message put out on local radio stations, a farmer from Kent called to complain that a rogue pig had landed in his field and was frightening his cows.
The shoot was repeated with more success the following day, but the final cover is actually a collage of the pig stuck on a photo of the power station taken two days before.
"I love the image, it's fabulous. It was so haphazard and amateurish but it just happened to work," Powell said.
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Image captionAn inflatable pig again flew over the power station to mark the album's 35th anniversary in 2011
If a pig were to be released above the building these days, it could well get caught up in the many cranes rising above the structure.
2 1/2p entry for children I still have our old books that dad gave us about the Cornish Riviera train journey and those pictures of happy 60s children poking about in rock pools. If only life was still that simple!Two books given to me by my Dad
A book cataloging every windmill in East Anglia including the 3 within striking distance of home
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It is, only you make it complicated!2 1/2p entry for children I still have our old books that dad gave us about the Cornish Riviera train journey and those pictures of happy 60s children poking about in rock pools. If only life was still that simple!
Constable was very busy around Salisbury and painted many views of the Cathedral and the meadows.The second a book of Constable's paintings.
I had not realised how many of his works were elsewhere and not just those famed from the Dedham Vale
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Constable was very busy around Salisbury and painted many views of the Cathedral and the meadows.
I don't know your father, have never met him, and probably never will, and I am sure there is nothing wrong with him; but I never trust anyone wearing red trousers.Watching Freddie spend time with Grandma and Grandad in their West Country home. It doesn't happen frequently enough
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That reminds me - I must get some red trousers.I don't know your father, have never met him, and probably never will, and I am sure there is nothing wrong with him; but I never trust anyone wearing red trousers.
When you think it about it, you almost never see anyone in red trousers (except for Father Christmas)