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Simon Marchini LRPS

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Simon Marchini LRPS

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Simon Marchini LRPS

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Well I should have known better, I really really should have known better.  But I didn’t.   I forgot that most people have the weekend off and so on a nice bright early spring day what do they do?  They go to the park to feed the ducks.  Now I don’t blame them for that I would do the same its just that I wanted to try and capture some shots.  The two tend to be mutually exclusive.  They were today.

The first problem is that anyone with a camera is treated with suspicion   Now if that camera has a huge telephoto lens on it then you get extra strange looks.  The next is the inane comments.  One person asked ‘ …do you need all that equipment for just some gulls?…’  Well yes otherwise I wouldn’t be lugging it around with me.   Then there are the dogs chasing all over the place and on and on it goes.( I’ve just reread this and I am starting to sound like Marcus Brigstocke. )

It is no else’s fault;  they were after all enjoying themselves in the park – just as I was trying to.  I should have chosen a quieter weekday and I will in future.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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Simon Marchini LRPS

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I really don’t what it is about dunking a rich tea biscuit in tea that I find the most rewarding.  Is it the taste of soggy biscuit?  or is it the achievement of managing to do this with out the biscuit breaking off and forming a slowly disintegrating mush on the top of your cup of tea?  Or maybe it is a flash back to when you are very young and the simple pleasure that food gave you when being feed by your mother?  Who knows but I like dunking my biscuits.  (To see more about the significance do a search of Google and you’ll quickly see that I am not alone!)

When I was younger I felt a little self concious about this guilty pleasure but now I don’t care.  I love dunking my biscuit.  Now of course you have to just the right biscuit – different biscuits suit different drinks.   For me rich tea rules for tea and digestive biscuits are for coffee along with chocolate bourbon biscuits.  There is also a significance between McVitie biscuits and store generic versions.  I always find that McVitie biscuits have the superior texture and so don’t fail fowl to the aforementioned disintegrating biscuit problem.  Of course this doesn’t cause a problem for the king of all biscuits – the Hobnob – although this is not the best for dunking and certainly will put extra inches on your waste without too much effort (DON’T I KNOW!)

There are all manner of variations along this theme, and many people have their own favourite biscuit with which to indulge this guilty little pleasure.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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