I had thousands of images to choose from this week. I seem to spend most of my time photographing birds.

However this week I set myself a challenge; to find an image I have not used before which satisfies my standards.

Here is a little white flashed honey eater. They are our most persistent bird, staying around for the whole year.

There once was an Indian who had only one testicle, and whose given name was ‘Onestone.’

He hated that name and asked everyone not to call him Onestone.

After years and years of torment, Onestone finally cracked and said,

‘If anyone calls me Onestone again I will kill them!’

The word got around and nobody called him that any more.

Then one day a young woman named Blue Bird forgot and said, ‘Good morning, Onestone.’

He jumped up, grabbed her and took her deep into the forest where he made love to her all day and all night. He made love to her all the next day, until Blue Bird died from exhaustion.

The word got around that Onestone meant what he promised he would do.

Years went by and no one dared call him by his given name until a woman named Yellow Bird returned to the village after being away.

Yellow Bird, who was Blue Bird’s cousin, was overjoyed when she saw Onestone. She hugged him and said, ‘Good to see you, Onestone.’

Onestone grabbed her, took her deep into the forest, then he made love to her all day, made love to her all night, made love to her all the next day, made love to her all the next night, but Yellow Bird wouldn’t die!

The moral of this story?

You can’t kill two birds with one stone!!

Back to clear hot weather up to 47C this week.

I struggled through my gall bladder attack and am now back firing on two and a half cylinders.

A truckload of food is due in this afternoon so busy busy busy.

Anyway. The results from last week. Buff scored her first crown for a while and magic hands and little fish both share the hat as they scored 2/7.

While I scored 1/7 last week, Rob and Az both went one worse!

This week I have again scored 1/7

How will you go in this week’s BBC Quiz of the Week? (Which is now THIS week’s quiz – sorry, my bad     )

Good luck.

Previous Dunces

13th Nov, 0/7, Rob, azahar
6th Nov, 2/7, magic hands, Little fish
30th Oct, 3/7, nursemyra
23rd Oct, 0/7, Karen
16th Oct, 1/7, Cybe R. Wizard
9th Oct, 2/7, Rob, nursemyra, healingmagichands
2nd Oct, 1/7, azahar, healingmagichands
25th Sept, 1/7, Daddy Papersurfer
18th Sept, 2/7, Rob
11th Sept, 3/7, azahar, Puddock, Rob,
4th Sept, 1/7, azahar
28th Aug, 0/7, Herr G EaGle
21st Aug, 2/7, Bunk Strutts, Daddy Papersurfer
14th Aug, 2/7, azahar Puddock, sandy, daisymae81, anniegirl1138,
7th Aug, 2/7, silverstar98121, Bunk Strutts, Mrs Eagle, Cybe R. Wizard, Puddock
31st July, 1/7,silverstar98121
24th Jul, 2/7, sandy,
17th Jul, 2/7, azahar
10th Jul, 1/7, gitwizard, Mrs Eagle

Crown Winners (7/7)

17th Octember Buff
26th Octember, healing magic hands
5th Dec. Buff
9th Jan 2009, azahar
6th Feb 2009, archie
20th Feb 2009, healing magic hands
27th Feb, 2009, Buff
20th Mar, 2009, healing magic hands
3rd Apr, 2009, sledpress
17th Apr, 2009, anniegirl1138, Buff, Archie
15th May, Buff
5th June, Buff
4th July, healing magic hands
29th Aug Buff
5th Sept Buff
12th Sept Daddy P
11th Sept, nursemyra
18th Sept, Buff
25th Sept, Gitwizard
30th Oct 2009, Marty
6th Oct 2009, Buff

I do apologise for this.

I have a blog-fiend who will find this of interest. When he isn’t dunking gingernuts.

Everyone else may carry on as usual. The quiz will be up soon.

Clouds at cross purposes.

Click on the image to biggify.

It may be best if you move right along to the next post.

You don’t want to see the rest of this.

So, you have been warned and if you choose to go over the fold it is all your fault!

See, I warned you!

Q. What has eight arms and is invisible?

Go on over the fold – - –

A. No octopuses…

If only old HP had this search engine to help him plot his tales of Cthulhuic horror, perhaps he would have been much more successful.

Found well away from here, from a hint on the raincoaster blog, at the artist’s blog.

Visit, if you dare, the Unspeakable Vault of Doom.

“I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.”    — Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith.

Since 1960, Whitcoulls, who once were the publishing house Whitcombe and Tombes, have provided Christmas terror to hundreds of thousands of little New Zealanders living in Auckland.

A giant 20 metre tall statue of Old St Nick which both beckoned with one enormous crooked finger and winked lasciviously with one eye. A certain winner of the global Creepiest Santa contest.

It seems it all got too much for the good people (I’m sure there must be some) of Auckland and the statue has been renovated, repaired and allegedly rehabilitated.

After months of plastic surgery at a secret Auckland location, Santa and some yet-to-be-identified helpers are soon to be unveiled on Queen Street.

“St Nick requires some post-operative care,” says Heart of the City Auckland CEO Alex Swney. “So his new look will not be obvious until the dressings are removed.”

Rumour has it that the wink is gone as is the beckoning finger.

Personally, I find that Mummy Santa is even scarier. He should be returned to his sarcophagus.

1953 – - -

Burgled from Vintage Scans