Jet Lag!

Good Morning everyone!

We finally made it! I didn’t find much that I ‘must have’ in Changi – I’m determined not to go back with an extra suitcase again this year!

The flight was horrendous. I can usually fall asleep on a clothes line, but travelling in a nursery of screaming children is not conducive to even my sleep… To be fair, there were a number of beautifully behaved children – but, unfortunately there were about three who seemed to be able to detect exactly when I was about to drift off into slumber and set up a pretty good imitation of a wailing fire alarm… 😦 !

So here I am at 4.00 am and wondering just when I’ll be able to synchronise with UK time… I’ve finally got internet access. Bearsy still has to get a new sim-card for his mobile connection – he reckoned it was too wet and miserable yesterday to venture to the shops!

Unexpected or unusual reflections- 12th photo competition

The next photo competition is entitled: “a photo of an unexpected or unusual reflections.”
To illustrate my idea here is a tree in the glass of my car’s back window: you may have seen it before!

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USS New York

USS New York

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center ….

It is the fifth in a new class of warship – designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft..

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship’s bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, ‘those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,’ recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. ‘It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.’

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the ‘hair on my neck stood up.’ ‘It had a big meaning to it for all of us,’ he said. ‘They knocked us down. They can’t keep us down. We’re going to be back.’
The ship’s motto? ‘Never Forget’

Please keep this going so everyone can see her!

Very non-PC!

—– I’ve just been banned from a Muslim clothes shop.
I only asked for a bomber jacket.
Touchy bastards.

I got sacked last night from the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen.
All I said was, “will you bastards hurry up, some of us have a home to go
to”.

I felt sorry for the hypnotist I saw last night. He hypnotized 7 blokes then
dropped the mike on his foot & said “F… me”.

What happened next will haunt me forever..

11th Photo Competition Results

Thank you so much for your entries. I think you appreciated what I wanted from you!

Soutie’s post illustrated my point beautifully, as did Nym’s

Janus, you almost managed it, but the resulting crop, delightful though it was, didn’t have enough pesky pixels.

Low Wattage, lovely find in your view from the window!

Bravo, very amusing detail. Did you intend to photograph it, or did you just find it in another shot?

The winner, however, is Nym; lovely close-up portrait of Brian, the snail.

Over to you, Nym, and thank you all again for your entries.

Nests

The aerial men came out today.
After months of a pixilated picture all broken up or frozen (on certain channels worse than others) we now have a new aerial, a boost box and clear pictures on the two TVs in the house. It wasn’t cheap, but I hope it’s worth it. We don’t watch a great deal of TV, but it is most frustrating when the one thing that deserves watching is in fact un-watchable because of a poor picture.

Whilst clambering on the roof the TV aerial man discovered that we have a wasp nest in the edge of the roof. The wasps didn’t appreciate his presence. Rather disconcerting for him. If it had been me discovering a swarm of wasps while I was on the roof I’d have fallen off. One good reason I’m not a TV aerial technician.

Anyway the wasp nest discovery explains the changed appearance of the wood on the porch. Continue reading “Nests”

On this 4th of July

Please allow us to spare a thought for the poor, much-maligned King George III. He wasn’t such a terrible chap, having been one of the few to be faithful to his wide and respectful of parliament. Pity that a number of disgruntled colonists chose to throw a tantrum. Had they not, the United States may have turned out more like Canada or Australia, having also not put itself through a civil war which took the lives of 1/10th of its population — mostly civilian.