Liverpool, UK: Chalking and walking with the (model) dog

My dad posted me a model dog because I said I wanted a pet.

He's cute.

And super adventurous.

(Don't look at me like that. If I am going to be mocked with a model dog for a pet, I'm going to treat it like a REAL one, take photos of it and then send them off to my dad so that he thinks I've completely lost it)

Dogs don't do that.

Get off the bench, you're embarassing me.

Friend of yours?

Hope he comes home soon.

Don't even think about it.

I did say the ducks wouldn't want to swim with you today...

There's no use giving me those eyes.

And no, they don't want to be chased by you either.

That's more like it.

King of the world.

What's that?

That's Sefton Park Palm House.

Hm?

Can you live there? 

Don't you think you'd get lonely in there? 

Let's go for another walk...

Morning boys!

Fellas!

This day has been great! What next?

ARGH.

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Salford, UK: MORNING!

Morning!

I'm going to see squirrels today!

But FIRST...

Join us over at BBC 6Music between 7 and 10am for the soundtrack to your soon-to-be awesome Sunday.

We're chilling in Salford...

Sefton Park, Liverpool: Walking to stop Joe's arm falling off

(He fell off his bike and has been told to walk to help his arms/legs/everything heal)

Zoo?

Kind of looks like it...

(Joe wanted to chalk this but I don't trust him not to draw rude things)

Look, it's a face on a tree!

(Were you looking for something rude?)

:)

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Liverpool ONE: Be Excellent to Each Other

'Be excellent to each other'

(This is some good advice I received from Eddie Argos of Art Brut recently)

Or, if that's too hard, follow my friend Paul's advice...

'Have fun, love life, be Helen'

(Obviously swapping my name for yours...)

HAPPY 2014

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BBC Radio Merseyside: Today is my last day in work...

Here are the headlines...

As you've been in the radio business for a gazillion years...

I'll miss you all

                                               

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Brynna, Wales: Post-Christmas ramblings/ramble

'Post- Christmas shopping chalking'

YO

(Mum threw them in there because I dropped them on the floor when the car door opened and then stood on around ten trying to work out what I had done...)

'BRANCH OUT'

Be a tree.

(A grape tree. If that is what you like...)

Pick up a stick!

...if pretending to be on a horse with a sword feels like 'branching out' for you...

(Works for some)

I love Brynna mountains

So cleeeeean

Keep on keepin' on

Even when it's windy

And things seem far away

'cause you always get there in the end

and when you do...

...it looks even better at the top for all the effort you made.

'I used to be a church'

Now I'm a place where people come to peer and walk and take photos...

 :)

Boxing Day, 2013

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