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May 1, 2014
M-R’s challenge 8
Today’s blog is that of my friend Elaine Boddy, who lives in England with her adorable husband and her adorable son (more on him in a sec) and her ADORABLE dog Bob. To make the whole picture even nicer, they got Bob from a shelter: doesn’t that fill your heart ? I know there are […]
Australian Magpies
Originally posted on dadirridreaming:
Magpies are common birds here, well-liked and often fed by households. Their earlymorningcarolingis miracle of the Australian sound landscape, deep throaty warbles ranging widely in beautiful song. Here are the two that call our place home. She is the bigger bold bird, and he is slimmer and shyer. They have raised…
Magpies are common birds here, well-liked and often fed by households. Their earlymorningcarolingis miracle of the Australian sound landscape, deep throaty warbles ranging widely in beautiful song. Here are the two that call our place home. She is the bigger bold bird, and he is slimmer and shyer. They have raised…
April 30, 2014
M-R’s challenge 7
I do love photographers’ sites. One can rarely become bored when trawling through what photog.s have to offer, don’t you think ? One I particularly like is that of my verbal sparring partner, Emilio Pasquale, whose site, “Photos by Emilio” has a rather lengthy subtitle, so don’t doze off while you’re reading it, OK?[grin]: ‘I […]
CS monthly photo #7
We enjoyed planning our next European journey almost as much as taking it. We did endless on-line research for the last four of our five trips (the first being in 1989–1990, we did none !), and became past masters at usingboth Les Gîtes de France and Le Guide Michelin websites. Oh, it was fun ! […]
April 29, 2014
M-R’s challenge 6
Something ENTIRELY different, but a blogsite I really, really enjoy ! This is a beautiful, easy-to-follow site belonging to Jackie B., who is what might be described as a (should that be ‘an’ ?) herpetologist. Look it up.;-) It’s called “Cold Blood, Warm Heart”, and subtitled ‘I’m on a crusade to help people fall in […]
This is how Oz is run these days
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-29... Filed under: Australia, politics Tagged: Queensland
An issue worth fighting
Downunder, we know all about the dreadful things that can be done to a coral reef by man: our ‘guvmint’ recently gavepermission to some of the wealthiest people in the world to develop coal-loading ports on the Queensland coast that will mean further destruction to the Great Barrier Reef. Add that to the coral bleaching […]
Weekly Writing Challenge: Flash Fiction
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_wri... While there’s no widely accepted length, flash fiction can includesix-word storieson up to stories of about 300 words. ******************** He hit ENTER twice, and typed THE END. He’d finished ! – the best murder story he’d written, he had absolutely no doubt. Characters, plot and dénouement were all exceptionally good: in fact, the murder […]
April 28, 2014
M-R’s challenge 5
Margaret Wilson today. WOT ? – you’ve never heard of her …?! There’s a good reason for that. She’s known to us as ‘Maggie’. (There was a film director for whom Chic and I used oten to work, and he insisted on calling me ‘Maggie’. I hated it, as there was a large famous lady […]
Who told me this …?
A couple of you mentioned that the Kindle /eBookversion ofATLMD doesn’t include the pictures. My wonderful editor from Fremantle Press, Georgia Richter, has requested input on this, as follows: So, m’dears: will them wot told me of this please supply input ? (As to why I can’t supply my own, it’s simple: I gave away […]
