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Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Last night I went on a photographic scavenger hunt, it was quite fun. We had to run around (well, run but while seated in a car, otherwise known as drive) Leicester and take photos of 20 things that we'd been told to take photos of. I'll list those things I can remember here (we did a few crossover shots):
- A member of the group behind the bar in a pub
- hanging from a tree - Dave hung like a monkey in Bradgate park
- leapfrogging at Bradgate park (with the sign visible to prove it's Bradgate - one group cheated and didn't drive all the way to Bradgate, they just did it near a sign pointing to Bradgate park, that doesn't count and explains how they beat everyone else back).
- A posh car (bonus points if we are in it) - went to Dave's house and borrowed Colin's car, that's posh. Apparently Kate's team had beaten us to it and told him not to let us, but he did.
- A funny roadsign - I couldn't find the "frog migratory crossing" sign, and we were running late, in the end we just used up a few photos taking shots of random signs which we will insist are really funny, well one was Birkdale, Birk is funny, though spelt wrong I think.
- With a shopkeeper in a shop.
- With a policeman/woman (shame Mark wasn't around, our team didn't manage this, we did take a photo of me knocking on the police booth at Bradgate park, we kind of chickened out of going to a police station or anything in case we annoyed the policemen, one of the groups did stop by a policecar and get a photo)
- Squashed in a phone booth (we took two of these, the first was in a normal boring new phonebox, then later we saw one of the cool old red ones, so retook the photo there)
- A creative photo - we took a picture of a weird shadow on a tree
- A group photo - the more imaginative the better - generally just done in crossovers
- A fairy tale character or scene - Dave put on a fake beard, teatowel on his head & dressing gown and held a trophy - we said he was Aladdin's Uncle.
- A reflection - We took a photo of our feet reflected in a mirror - possible crossover into creative & group shots.
- With a statue - got the Thomas Cook one at the train station
- Asking a stranger for directions - the first one we asked didn't speak English, so we asked the man who let us go behind his bar in the pub.
- Playing a game Outside the Walker's Stadium - we played catch in front of the giant poster of Gary Lineker.
- With a celebrity - well, the statue of Thomas Cook, he's kind of a celebrity, plus there was Gary Lineker outside the Walker's Stadium, then we went and got a shot of us with our pastor, acting as if we were in awe of meeting him, we think that's a great celebrity.
- An animal - not a dog/cat or pigeon - we got a cow
- On a swing, slide or roundabout - I went down a twisty slide in Anstey
- In a shopping trolley
- A cheesy smile - took a photo of me smiling with some cheese.
So there we have it, we won't know who won until the photos are developed, so by Sunday. Vinnie wanted to know if any of us had been stopped or anything, we hadn't, everyone had been perfectly happy to help, we even had to spend time talking to the bar staff about the other things that we had to get. One group did have a problem in the first pub they tried, but other than that no problems.
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