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Inspired by Tom Barrett's Twitter post about his classroom, and asking for photos of others, I took these photos at the end of yesterday.

Clearly, the chairs are up for cleaning, and the room is a little messy as we'd made biscuits and there's a fair bit of drying art work lying around - but these things happen in a working classroom!

I took photos from a high angle to avoid showing you just the backs of chairs stood in each corner of the room. It's a Victorian building (just, 1901) with high ceilings. The room was converted from being the staffroom a few years ago and is quite long but pretty narrow for Year 5 children and furniture - makes getting around a little difficult.

If you want to know about any of the displays or work, just post a comment.

Photos taken on an iPhone 3GS, click for a larger version.

EDIT (12:11): Altered the pop up images to have scrollbars and be resizable.

I apologise for the pun, but there has been a lack of joined up thinking from the teams in Formula One of late... This made me smile.

Do you remember that clever Skoda advert? You know - the one where they make a giant cake version of the Skoda Fabia, which actually turns out looking better than any real Skoda we've ever seen? Well, some crazy chefs working for a Singapore restaurant seem to have embraced that crazy (and slightly wasteful) idea by coming up with an F1 car made entirely out of bread.

In our sad little minds, we like to think of Lewis Hamilton driving this in the Singapore night race; pushing the roll-shaped accelerator pedal to the floor, flicking up through the gears using his bagel paddle shifters - taking this bread-made bad boy up to speeds of 200mph and more. But then, can you imagine how soggy the doughy seats would get after a couple of hours out on the track? Yuk!

But there is a positive story behind this, with the chefs creating the car (made from 22 different types of bread) to raise money for a local school - clearly demonstrating that the Singapore F1 race is having a positive social impact on the island city-state, which is always good to hear seeing as the sport has been through some tough times of late.

Via: Orange Cars

My last entry discussed how Google's search homepage has been used to celebrate many significant events throughout history - very worthwhile if you ask me.

However, Google Maps is also very useful. Most trips I make to places I don't know are planned out on Google Maps first, either using satellite images, or maps or a combination of both.

Google Maps was recently put to great use by Rachel Young. She spent 15 hours trying to find all 26 letters of the alphabet on the British Isles. Here are her results.

Via: Telegraph.co.uk

At the end of May, although it seems like much less time has passed, I visited a couple of friends who now live in Lincolnshire. While I was there - actually, while they were working during the day, I visited the gorgeous Belton House.

Here are the photos.

Earlier this month, I took a trip to Lotherton Hall and its very lovely bird garden.

Here are the photos.

I've edited the Slide widget at the top of the homepage today to remove images that were not taken or edited by me. Previously, I used this widget to highlight images from various posts around the site - mainly because I hadn't taken enough images to fill it up!

But as the site has grown and I've taken more pictures, I thought it better to replace the older images with ones from my various trips. Also, many of them were from a good long while ago!

All of them have been captioned with the location and date taken, just hover over an image to pause the movement and discover where they are.

It snowed over night. I couldn't get in to work. Good times.

Click the photos for an embiggenated image, which will open in a new window. All photos taken with a Nokia N95 8GB phone!

Yesterday, I went to Morecambe... we hit the rain about an hour and a half into the journey and it stayed with us all day. Beautiful.

Anyway, here are the photos from my trip. All photos can be embiggenated by clicking them.

As you've probably no doubt noticed, photography has become something of a hobby for me recently. There's something quite nice about going to places and finding ways to frame their lovliness and then displaying that to the world.

This summer holiday I went around quite a few places - some local, some on my long weekend to Cheshire - and the main focus was, alongside relaxing, taking photos.

Now, I know how boring and uninteresting photographs of people's holidays can be, but that's not my reason for sharing them with you. The photos are all of National Trust properties which are something I think are unique to the country. Where else in the world do you get eccentric, rich people building things in the middle of nowhere for the sole reason of looking at a pretty view? Or for hunting? Or to display their massive wealth? I'll tell you where, nowhere.

No other country has these magnificent houses, these brilliant follys, these gardens and lakes of such tremendous beauty that you can't help but fall in love with them.

I know that being a member of National Trust doesn't really suit a fairly young member of society but the good thing about it is, aside from free parking, is the free entry to their sites and let's face it, it's a massive incentive to go to them if you've already spent the money anyway...

And so I find myself planning these trips. The sole reason for going to Cheshire was the sheer number of sites around there. I found myself with a spare Friday so popped along to Nostell Priory. And every single time, I took plenty of photos. Here they are (each link opens in a new window, with photos displaying larger versions and text links taking you to albums stored at www.thomasjpitts.co.uk/gallery2:

This was set to a mailing list I'm on. I thought it was a wonderful image, even though I don't know the city and have never set foot on that continent.

I also don't know where the image was from originally, so I can't credit you. Please get in touch if you know so I can properly acknowledge the work.

Breathtaking.