News photos, family photos, pet photos, travel photos, accidental photos of your foot. Show us what caught your eye this year, and include a sentence or two about why it did.
This beautiful old stone building is in Hebden, Yorkshire, the home town of Andrew Triggs Hodge, 2012 Olympics gold medalist in rowing. The post box is painted gold – they are usually red – in his honour. Awww. You can find a larger image here.
Neil Armstrong died this year, at 82. I grew up alongside the space program, and love it to pieces. This photo is from his burial at sea. That flag business always gets me. Sniffle. More pictures of the ceremony here at Wiki.
This novel, by Hilary Mantel, won the 2012 Man Booker prize. It was her second Man Booker, following her 2009 win for Wolf Hall. At 60, she has written 14 books and won 17 significant awards. This is all the more impressive in view of the fact that during her teens and 20s she suffered from ‘psychiatric disorders’, according to a series of doctors. Only at age 27 did she work out for herself that she was actually suffering from endometriosis. Read more about this brilliant woman here and here.
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Hebden photo by AlanJWylie Neil Armstrong photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls Mantel book cover from Abebooks via Wiki fair-use photo.
