Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 76

Is it just me ?

Addendum: the porpoise of this post is no longer to do with angst – just sheer amazement.:-\Filed under: blogosphere Tagged: Akismet

Oz ‘government’ set to break most promises

Downunder we have the first of the budgets handed down by this rabble of wicked children that is referred to by some as ‘the Government’ due early next month. It promises to be an absolute stinker. And that degree of smelliness appears to be predicated upon the ongoing total lie that when they got in […]

Daily Prompt: Showdown at Big Sky

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_pro... How do you handle conflict? Boldly and directly? Or, do you prefer a more subtle approach? I met up with a very old friend (meaning, from 35 years ago, not that she is very old – because it turns out she is 12 years younger than I !) a few days ago. She came […]

Definitely a blossom

http://wp.me/p3ZISx-1iY Remember that ? – my incredulous discovery of a baby flower on my several-years-old hoya-in-a-basket ? Well, here’s an update: I almost got it in focus, this time ! Went out yesterday morning and had a go; but it was SO out-of-focus that I was enraged, and commenced thinking I’d never get a shot […]

Writing Challenge: Great Expectations

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_wri... Think of a time when someone, or something, didn’t meet your expectations. How did you come to terms with the disappointment? In May 1959, the W.A. Education Department had all schools – even private ones – do a census on the ages of the students in their final year (which was then called ‘Leaving’, […]

Tea For Margaret Rose

Originally posted on Photos by Emilio:
(Click on image for detailed view) Margaret Rose does not like over-processed images- for an example of which, see my previous postLive And (Let) Die. So the above image is for her! This does not mean I will eschew Lightroom. I’m having way too much fun. And I don’t…

Six MONTHS ? – crikey !

So. Six months today I’ve been maintaining this site. Six months of it you’ve had, and yet you’re still around. If my mate Matt were, I’d ask him to do me another of his awards – like the one he did for me that’s on the Re Awards page on the menu bar up there. […]

Lots of help: only one answer

And the answer is that I must stop letting Comments be open: I have to approve them. What this is going to mean to my time in the mornings I can’t think. But it appears that it’s either time spent on clearing spam that Akismet has lovingly kept for me, or on manually approving comments. […]

Who’s a spam expert ?

I just sat down at my desk and fired up the screen, going as I always do first to my blog dashboard so as to be able to clear that bloody list of spam comments, only to find that since I was last here – roughly 3½ hours ago – there were TWENTY-TWO SPAM COMMENTS […]

Daily Prompt Photo Challenge: On Top

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_pho... In a post created specifically for this challenge, share a photo that means ‘On Top!’ Stringer and a very old friend of ours had climbed Sacré Coeur inside, and this was what he shot once out again. You don’t get to see the Eiffel Tower so far away all that often … Dunno what that thing on the left in the distance is: it can’t be Le Défense because there’d be other high things as well … Filed under: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: CS, F...