Swine Fever!

Today I must confess I crossed the line from interested to addicted. I mentioned the Bath pigs in an earlier post and the fear that, seized by collector urges, I might might find my self traipsing around the city trying to get a picture of each one.

The addiction started quite innocently, I would encounter Pigs on my way to places in Bath, and take a quick picture. No harm in that I thought. Then I found myself taking little detours, just to see if I might ‘happen’ across a pig or two. Then the chaps at work started to talk about ones they’d seen, and I’d find a vague excuse to walk that direction. Yesterday I crossed the line, yesterday I set out specifically to photograph pigs on the other side of the city. Its a slippery slope down from here.

I’m not alone though, flickr already has a support group for pig spotters, and perhaps, once we have all one hundred, we can get back to life and resume our normal lunch hours.

At least I’ve been able to indulge my geek urges by geotagging pig locations on flickr , using the tremendous trippermap . Using trippermap and google earth actually turned out to be far more fun than using the GPS on my phone.