Queen Victoria

Right after Queen Victoria visited the Canadian city named after her (Victoria, British Columbia, of course), she was asked if a housing development could be named in her honor — Victoria Mews. The Queen replied “We can be a city in Canada, We can be a state in Australia and We can be a falls [...]

Graffiti

What Kind of Cloud Are You?

You Are a Cirrus Cloud You’re a bit mysterious and reserved. You mostly keep to yourself and do your own thing. Some people may even consider you allusive. You’re hard to track down at times. People who know you find you to be very transparent. It’s always easy to tell what you’re thinking about. You [...]

Canberra Visit

Here are some early images of our visit to Canberra. The major reason for the visit was the hottest show in town. The French Post-Impressionists from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. No cameras allowed inside but I was able to get a shot of Buff about to go in to the exhibition. Later in the [...]

Tuesday Tune

What can I say?  I’m with the lady I love.

Alexander The Great

When Alexander The Great was waging war on the entire known world of his time, it chanced that he received a slight spear-wound on his wrist. Wrapping an old cloth around it, he continued the battle. After victory was his, one of his aides noticed that the dried blood on the rag around Alexander The [...]

Grandma’s Life #32

Nothing like a night in with the dog and the missus – – - From Gourmet- The Magazine of Good Living, December 1960. Burgled from Vintage Scans

God and Belief

Reverently burgled from I Am your God

AWWWWWWW

Randall seems to be having romance problems again.

VALENTINE GROANERS

If you give someone a really small Valentine’s Day card, that’s called a “Valentiny.” I told you about the painter who was in love, didn’t I? He loved a girl with all his art. So what’s a good gift for the man who loves his car this time of year? A Valenshine! Two boat oars [...]

Photo Hunt; Broken

Much of the Pilbara region of Western Australia is made up of broken rock. There are many minerals in these rocks and so there is a lot of mining. Unless great care is taken, the mining leaves behind a broken environment.

Good Foods

Red grapes and dark chocolate join blueberries, garlic, soy, and teas as ingredients that starve cancer while feeding bodies, Angiogenesis Foundation head William Li told a TED (technology, entertainment design) conference in Long Beach, California. “We are rating foods based on their cancer-fighting qualities,” Mr Li said.  “What we eat is really our chemotherapy three [...]

BBC Quiz of the Week

Down in Perth despite all the holes in the atmosphere. At one stage in the light aircraft I was trapped in dropped about 500 feet in a second or two. We were down to around 2,000 ft at the time in a landing pattern and everything suddenly hit the roof! The ground was noticeably closer. [...]

BBC Quiz of the Week

Will probably be late this week as I am flying down to Perth to prepare for the big trip to the French gentlemen in Canberra.

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