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As you may well have noticed by now Flickr has mounted a campaign against SOPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (The Protect IP Act). Apparently these are acts designed to help STOP piracy. Now I don't pretend to have read the contents of these acts nor do I have the time or inclination to do so, but then neither will most of the people Flickr gets to join the protest which is one reason why I think Flickr should be ashamed of itself.
Second, having been a victim of copyright infringement which resulted in me employing a solicitor and making sure I got fair compensation, I welcome anything that helps to stop such an act happening again. further more, if Flickr was so concerned it could do an awful lot more to protect the content on this site by making it virtually impossible for anyone but the images publisher to download the images on this site.
So Flickr, my suggestion to you is to pick the plank out of your own eye before poking at sawdust in other's eyes.

I won't be very active on flickr for a while as we are currently up to our eyeballs in decorating the hall, landing, stairs, dining room and downstairs cloakroom. The latter is a complete gutting and refit as well. This is a job that has been put off for far too long.

First I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Second I would like to apologise for my absence over Christmas. Things simply got all too busy here so I didn't get time or was simply too exhausted to log onto my PC. We spent the New Year with some friends in the Forest of Dene. This is their 4 yr old daughter and Paul's God daughter, Lucy, with Brac on New Year's Eve.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.

Mallard drake