Weekend readers' pictures: Fun

Antoine Kemmere: “On holiday, my daughter insisted on being thrown in the air again and again. Her giggles and joy epitomised the very essence of fun” Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Chris Pippard: “For a bit of fun, ­someone had placed a traffic cone over a fountain spout inlaid into the paving outside the O2 in London. I managed to get a ­couple of shots ­before a security guard, who did not see the funny side, removed it” Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Emma Collingbourne: “Two boys escape the heavy, pre-monsoon heat by playing in the cool mud of the Ganges Delta in West Bengal. I was very tempted to join them, but settled for a photo instead” Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Carole Sheridan: “We took photos of our friendly panda all over the Isle of Barra. This is on the airport beach. His antics made the grown-ups laugh more than the kids” Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Ana Noble: "Running side by side to the car, trick or treating mexican style, these kids sure know how to have and share the fun. Later that evening we drove past again, they were still running" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Fred Wachsberger: "This murmer of starlings seemed to be having the time of their lives swooping around and reforming over Thirsk Market Place on a recent late afternoon" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Dan Trelford: "Galle Fort, Sri Lanka. These kids were much more interested in my camera than going to school" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Neville Hughes: "While on holiday in Dubrovnik last September, a group of youths came to enjoy themselves on the beach after school. Their screams of laughter was exhilarating. It would have been a very different photo 10 years ago" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Nick Harris: "Children in Shama, Ghana having a lot of fun playing cards for bottle tops" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Russ Leven: "I took this picture the first time my son learnt how to use binoculars. He watched a cow do a poo in a field in Northumberland" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Rajat Jindal: "I loved the way these normally po faced monks in Bhutan where having great fun during their preparations for what would be a very solemn religious ceremony in a few days time" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Rob Dingle: "On a walk along the Offa's Dyke Path, my 2 girls found this tree trunk alongside the path it gave them endless fun. Its good that the simplest things can still be so much fun and free" Photograph: guardian.co.uk