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All proceeds to charity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheques/POs payable to: Slappers and Trollops&lt;br /&gt;c/o Wozwolf R.C., PO Box 4347, Sheffield, S12 9BR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;07717 469939 or 07814 986155&lt;br /&gt;willoja@aol.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.wozwolf.co.uk&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-622374061893926222?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/Tf6UBinrB5s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/Tf6UBinrB5s/slappers-n-trollops-charity-rally-april.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2009/03/slappers-n-trollops-charity-rally-april.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-2358022350370802719</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-23T17:24:50.867Z</atom:updated><title>Captain Smurf: IMG_3299</title><description>&lt;a href="http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2009/01/img3299.html#links"&gt;Captain Smurf: IMG_3299&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-2358022350370802719?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/MrhiRKXqE6g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/MrhiRKXqE6g/captain-smurf-img3299.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2009/01/captain-smurf-img3299.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-7733574152203398137</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-23T17:22:59.021Z</atom:updated><title>IMG_3299</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; 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margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2687301834/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2687301834_ed51656334_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2687301834/"&gt;IMG_6714&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/captainsmurf/"&gt;Captain Smurf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Team Remit Departure Day. Chaz and Steve, aka Team Remit, set off from Old Nick's in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, on Saturday 19th July 2008. They're bound for Ulaanbaatar, travelling on Royal Enfield Bullet 500s.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-8145541487387128693?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/nSNMguAw9Nw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/nSNMguAw9Nw/img6714.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/07/img6714.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-1421790545223851844</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-03T10:14:57.833+01:00</atom:updated><title>Official Monster Raving Loony Party</title><description>I have been a member of the OMRLP for a few years, and a practising loony for much longer&lt;br /&gt;Please have a look at the website http://www.omrlp.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-1421790545223851844?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/djQJjyyUonw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/djQJjyyUonw/official-monster-raving-loony-party.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/07/official-monster-raving-loony-party.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-466057256904205728</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-02T09:11:02.989+01:00</atom:updated><title>Cat and Fiddle</title><description>This pic made me laugh, but is an important warning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.moonshiners.org.uk/2005ukdogknob.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-466057256904205728?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/QV1r14enKrA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/QV1r14enKrA/cat-and-fiddle.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/07/cat-and-fiddle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-4800516526957646278</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-27T15:20:26.728+01:00</atom:updated><title>Oxford's Natural History Museum</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nunol/150482645/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/150482645_50de9eb2bd_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nunol/150482645/"&gt;Oxford's Natural History Museum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/nunol/"&gt;Nuno Leitao&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-4800516526957646278?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/2eP6vT59agE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/2eP6vT59agE/oxford-natural-history-museum.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/06/oxford-natural-history-museum.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-5767295326256376753</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-22T23:07:59.777+01:00</atom:updated><title>My Stuff on Flickr</title><description>See my most recent and most popular stuff on Flickr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/dna.php?username=92248347@N00"&gt;&lt;img src="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/img/dna-button3.png" alt="View my photos at bighugelabs.com" border="0" style="border: 0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-5767295326256376753?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/S3zApbTFLSE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/S3zApbTFLSE/my-stuff-on-flickr.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-stuff-on-flickr.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-308844906014560036</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-22T23:06:17.776+01:00</atom:updated><title>IMG_4122</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2600677883/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3005/2600677883_8a600241e6_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2600677883/"&gt;IMG_4122&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/captainsmurf/"&gt;Captain Smurf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Last sunset before the summer solstice, at the Swamp Donkey&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-308844906014560036?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/gKnry1ZGdcs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/gKnry1ZGdcs/img4122.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/06/img4122.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-2502913105213927509</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-22T18:01:49.614+01:00</atom:updated><title>bush-binoculars</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25359827@N00/321253781/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/321253781_ac120c0ae7_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25359827@N00/321253781/"&gt;bush-binoculars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/25359827@N00/"&gt;startreader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;What an arsehole&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-2502913105213927509?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/QrfQ4NtZ8Ac" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/QrfQ4NtZ8Ac/bush-binoculars.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/06/bush-binoculars.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-4570003271520865139</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-08T21:47:03.899+01:00</atom:updated><title>Womble's Rants: Are photographers really a threat?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://womblesrants.blogspot.com/2008/06/are-photographers-really-threat.html"&gt;Womble&amp;#39;s Rants: Are photographers really a threat?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-4570003271520865139?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/aL45BWcNbZc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/aL45BWcNbZc/wombles-rants-are-photographers-really.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/06/wombles-rants-are-photographers-really.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-1404160383846895324</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-29T00:00:56.898+01:00</atom:updated><title>IMG_2699b</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2528361929/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2528361929_1bacbe0cb8_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2528361929/"&gt;IMG_2699b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/captainsmurf/"&gt;Captain Smurf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Decided to try the Flickr edit function&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-1404160383846895324?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/yEmfF6Ddwlo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/yEmfF6Ddwlo/img2699b.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/05/img2699b.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-82410356457676748</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-29T00:00:03.358+01:00</atom:updated><title>youthbike</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2522424592/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/2522424592_d65e1ae817_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2522424592/"&gt;youthbike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/captainsmurf/"&gt;Captain Smurf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Did this one with Paintshop Pro&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-82410356457676748?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/7-30kAih5BE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/7-30kAih5BE/youthbike.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/05/youthbike.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-913178613208459349</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-28T23:52:12.662+01:00</atom:updated><title>IMG_0842</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2166025143/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2326/2166025143_fb40c0eb8c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2166025143/"&gt;IMG_0842&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/captainsmurf/"&gt;Captain Smurf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This picture contains the Tall Ship ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT; she moved off one berth onto another close to our ship, prior to the New year's Eve fireworks in Tenerife&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-913178613208459349?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/4YCjxst3N-M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/4YCjxst3N-M/img0842.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/05/img0842.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-3082014992322876682</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-28T23:51:40.289+01:00</atom:updated><title>IMG_2573</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/264294689/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/264294689_a5a6b4afc9_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/264294689/"&gt;IMG_2573&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/captainsmurf/"&gt;Captain Smurf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;During the photo shoot for the Hoppy's leg calendar, some of the bikes got bored&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-3082014992322876682?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/7pMIP8T9318" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/7pMIP8T9318/img2573.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/05/img2573.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-6003822270550631675</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-28T22:03:49.331+01:00</atom:updated><title>Website problems</title><description>The monitoring service notified me that my main address (www.captsmurf.co.uk) was offline. It's happened before and I'm getting fed up with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My secondary site &lt;a href="http://www.captainsmurf.com"&gt;(http://www.captainsmurf.com)&lt;/a&gt; is working fine, and has only had a very small downtime in last 90 days. So I'm uploading all the stuff from the old site to this one. I've updated the index page, so lots of stuff is now back online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The secondary site actually gives me loads of space and already holds about 60% of my site anyway. So I'll be pointing my .co.uk address to my .com address and cutting back my reliance on the .co.uk to a minimum (keeping it so I don't lose my email addresses).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-6003822270550631675?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/UF_Ea1RT9so" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/UF_Ea1RT9so/website-problems.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/05/website-problems.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-6286154590823645304</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-27T15:51:31.803+01:00</atom:updated><title>Top 100 Sites</title><description>&lt;!-- data banner code begin --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bikentrike.gotop100.com/in.php?ref=107" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://bikentrike.gotop100.com/lists/bikentrike/custombanners/96731.gif" border="0" width="460" height="60"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- data banner code end --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-6286154590823645304?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/CsGy0Hx0Yp0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/CsGy0Hx0Yp0/top-100-sites.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/05/top-100-sites.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094711740124144145.post-5029619704237267019</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-13T22:55:23.370+01:00</atom:updated><title>IMG_0681</title><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2482624683/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/2482624683_e2bd5eb6fd_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainsmurf/2482624683/"&gt;IMG_0681&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/captainsmurf/"&gt;Captain Smurf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We were headed out of the Caribbean when this Frigate Bird joined us. Next few shots were my attempt at following the bird as it harassed a booby into giving up it's catch&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1094711740124144145-5029619704237267019?l=captsmurf.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~4/8O27nvtltQo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CaptainSmurf/~3/8O27nvtltQo/img0681.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Captain Smurf)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://captsmurf.blogspot.com/2008/05/img0681.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
