Author: Araminta

Results of Photo Competition

Nym’s asymmetrical flowers. Beautiful flowers and interesting lighting.

FEEG ‘s Apples and Nexus Cézanne recreation. Nicely done!

Bravo’s eclectic collection of  interesting objects. Vivid lively colours.

JW’s  another Cézanne, very witty collection of balls, no sorry, cherries!

LW ‘s capsicum from the garden in basket. So fresh looking.

Christopher’s  is here – not quite the image he wanted but still very pleasing. Have the rest of your belongings arrived yet?

OZ’s  poolside still life. I hope you’ve found your battery charger!

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Utøya victims: political activists?

It would seem that some of  our fellow travels in cyberspace seems to be thinking along the same lines as Debbie Schlussel.

Her ideas are discussed more fully in this article here.

I would provide a link to Ms Schlussel’s article but my browser deemed it unwise to visit her site, so I haven’t read her original thoughts on the matter.

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Photo competition No 31: Still Life

Still Life with Lemons on a Plate

The theme for this competition is Still Life, as in a pleasing, tasteful, witty, untidy or unusual arrangement of inanimate objects. The location of these objects is not restricted in any way: indoors, or out, home or abroad.

So, on the left we have Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece and below, a rather less pleasing effort from me! Any number of interpretations are welcome and extra marks if you can link it to a painting. Thanks to Boadicea for setting me off on this train of thought.

Entries to be posted or linked here, before midnight on the 7th September 2012, please.  Deadline extended to 14th September as requested.

Summer holiday poem: a villa on the edge

A villa on the edge

My daughter swimming laps.
I lose count after 200,
she’s not best pleased.
For my penance I take her down the cliff
to the rocky beach.
She snorkels in the pools.
I dread the journey back;
she beats me by a mile.

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A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal, with profuse apologies to Jonathan Swift

“A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public”

The Irish problem could be solved, there’s quite a simple cure,
By dining on the offspring of the nation’s poor.
Oven-ready babies could be sold when weaned,
They’d fetch a fortune so I‘m told; ten shillings maybe more.

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Ode to a Strawberry Roan: Poetry Competition

Ode to a Strawberry Roan

A flighty filly, highly strung,
Prone to sudden shies.
The dogs attack, in fun no doubt,
In gleeful barking cries.

The hounds close in, she tossed her mane,
And in a sudden rush,
Her rider landed, winded now,
Into a handy bush

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Cool church on a warm day

One sunny afternoon, before the monsoon season, we went to the burial ground to see how the native cherry we planted on mother’s grave was faring in the drought. Walking through the meadow, we took the footpath to the nearby church of St Nicholas.

Interesting chapel which houses the tomb of the Knollys family. You can see the effigies of Sir Francis Knollys and his wife, Catherine, lady in waiting to Elizabeth I, and niece of Anne Boleyn.

You may remember a previous post about Greys Court, and the connection with the Knollys family.

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