Well, since nobody else seems to be doing it, could I just draw everybody’s attention to the fact that this site is about to sail through the 250,000 barrier?
I am not sure when 200,000 happened but I did record 150,000.
https://charioteers.org/2011/02/18/23107/
Thanks yet again to Boadicea, Bearsy and Soutie. I wish that more of us had stayed the course.
A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the
Mechanic it died. After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.
She says, ‘What’s the story?’ Continue reading “Car trouble”
To the strains of West Side Story…..
“There’s a place for us, Somewhere a place for us. Peace and quiet and open air Wait for us Somewhere.” And maybe we’ve found the place, if not the akshull home, yet: a sleepy old harbour town on the south-east corner of our island, called Nysted (yes, Newstead, if you will).
No, I don’t think it really competes with Chesterfield or Pisa but you get the idea. We’re going to look at several pretty properties today, all a stone’s throw from the water, and the only windmills are way out to sea, where they should be. In summer it’s a popular port of call for sailors from all over the Baltic region and even hosts a visit from the Tall Ships every year. So off we go to see if the little Nisse, the elf who lives in a good home, is anywhere to be found thereabouts.
Chaos has been much on my mind the last few weeks. The devastation of the kitchen after I finished my share of the Christmas cooking, so unlike the neat and tidy kitchen Bearsy leaves!
I note that Araminta is in the middle of redecorations, and my daughter is having her kitchen re-done.
I looked at the bedroom after I pulled out all the boxes containing my ‘winter-wear’, a pile of electronic gadgets, and all the leads, chargers and other ‘junk’ to ensure that those essentials work in the UK.
So the theme for this competition is – Chaos. Deadline mid-night Saturday 4th February.
Two blondes were going to Disneyland . They were driving on the Interstate when they saw the sign that said Disneyland LEFT. They started crying and turned around and went home.
When the fitter said he couldn’t turn off the stop-cock I decided to go for a walk. Better be out, I thought, if there’s going to be a flood.
I left the house after three o’clock and by the time I’d done my deliveries and postings I decided to walk back the long way, through the Churchyard and park. The light was like golden-syrup, the sun low in the sky and here just throwing light onto the old yew tree, over the Churchyard wall. It was so very peaceful and still. In the air a slight scent of woodsmoke.
Well it was an interesting group OZ, Bravo and Ferret very quick off the mark and then…. well not much until about 24 hours before closing when a flood of entries landed in the post. I was drawn to the entries with humans present. OZ’s entry was tantalizing in content and probably also a lesson on how not to take a photograph in a dark and smoky room, Pseu captured that feeling of satisfaction when participants clear their plates and Soutie’s entry certainly captured the “Merry”. Boadicea’s strawberry meringue has all the ingredients of the competition, a smiling face, perhaps after a glass of good wine, and the anticipation of enjoying a sinfully good dessert. Sipu has a merry group with signs of food and drink in abundance, but for uninhibited “Merry” coupled with some serious imbibing and the implied consumption of some good food I hand the prize this time to Bravo.
Well done Bravo, we look forward to your setting the next.
PS I did like OZ’s bucket of hog parts, it’s the kind of picture that gives vegetarians dyspepsia.
My first trip out to Oz, some 25 years ago was so exciting! I flew Garuda Airlines which, I later realised, flew the ‘long way’ round. We stopped just about everywhere it was possible to stop… and included a one night stop-over in Bali.
There was a group of Glaswegians on the flight – who had enjoyed the ‘free’ alcohol so much that by the time we landed in Abu Dhabi they were, quite literally, on their knees. It was my first encounter with heavily armed security guards and I really did not like the way they looked at my fellow Brits who were crawling around the floor shouting to know where the airport bar was . I loved the airport: small but magnificent with its mosaic water spout. And I was even more impressed with how little I had to pay for three gold bracelets. Continue reading “Here I Go Again!”
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