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Lots of activity on our bird feeder this morning:

I've decided to sell my old Canon EOS 600 on eBay. I'll be sad to see it go. Much as I love digital photography, you'd have to spend a real fortune now to get something as solidly engineered as this.

If you're interested, you can bid for it, together with a nice Canon lens which is compatible with Canon DSLRs, here.

I'm sure you also won't want to miss:

• A nice set of photographic filters
• A cool recumbent bicycle
• A collection of 70 Ladybird books from my childhood - now collector's items

...from my recent trip to the Pyrenees.

A couple more pictures from the Pyrenees:

If you have Google Earth, here's the location: Gaillagos.

...after a fabulous week in the Pyrenees. The Val d'Azun now rates amongst my favourite places on the globe.

I may post more about it in due course - the blogging equivalent of inflicting my holiday snaps on you - but for the moment I'll just make you jealous with the view we've had from our bedroom window for the last week:

Another shot from Fort York, Toronto. Neither this, nor the previous one, is a particularly great photo, but I love the way the natural light from the window goes with the period colours.

Inside the officers' mess at Fort York, Toronto.

The first is a steam engine which formed part of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory, and which, along with the rest of the laboratory, as been transplanted to the Greenfield Village museum, just down the road from Rose's parents' house.

The second was gleaming in the bright sunshine, just outside a Mexican restaurant where we had lunch on Monday.

We’ve had a colourful visitor in our garden over the last couple of days.

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Ever wondered why your bags take so long to come through the baggage claim at Heathrow? Well, now we know!

I took this a couple of days ago while waiting for mine. The screen proudly announced that this carousel came with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Well, that's good to know.