Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 79

Watch Hatch Fly review

It all goes to show that there is really no such thing as total specialization. First I find Lignum Draco showing us images that are far removed from the street photog. I always thought of him as; next it’s my friend AB moving into serious photography as well as the poetry he’s known for; andnow it’s Susan Edelman, renowned for her vegan food blog, writing a review of my book ! (Click her ‘logo’ to read it.) I think it’s bloody marvellous ! It doesn’t distract from their … um … ‘known’ skills...

Can you do this ?

Don’t ask me how I came across this item – I have lost all idea. And it doesn’t matter: all that you need to know is that there was a woman who could knit— well, read it for yourself. I’m sitting here trying to imagine how it’s possible for someone to be able to have their fingers move at such speed. I can’t. But next time I take up the needles, I’m going to time myself over a minute, and see what I come up with. My best guess is around, oh, say … 50 More…

So: whaddya like ?

I was reflecting, the other day, upon something I like a great deal; and the degree to which I enjoyit caused me to thinkfurther intothe matter of all the things I like.Upon which Idecided that I should focus upon whatmakes me feel happy,in order to bring myself out of any foul temper that might, just possibly, one day in the far and distant future and although VERY unlikely, fall upon me like an inky cloak – for it’s been known to happen … [draws breath] Phew. Long sentence, eh ? Anyway. I h...

Goin back to heaven :-)

Things are getting pretty crowded, down south … Well, perhaps not so much ‘crowded’ as ‘more populous’. My sister Paula and her husband, living down in Tasmania on a mind-bogglingly beautiful property in a house they had built, for the express porpoise of raising cattle for sale for breeding – in other words, not for slaughter – have been kept fairly busyby the way their much-loved cows have been dropping calves, one after the other. I have shown you photos of Paula’s place before, AND of som...

A cry from the heart

I’d just got started on this-morning’s email post advices when up came the latest from Izaak (always good value). Mouth dropped open.Absolutely riveted. This is IT ! – this video is, in one hit, a visual representation/explanation of everythingwe oldies spend our time trying to get across to all the younger generations. Click on Izaak’s site icon … We may look like caricatures of ourselves … we may on first glance give the impression that we’ve left it all behind … we may irritate you by turn...

No ticket this time

The RAAF has possibly the ONLY system remaining in this country that is accurate, alert and efficient – and can tell who the idiots are … Two Brisbane Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on Cunningham H/way SH15,just west of the Amberley Air force Base at Ipswich, in Queensland. The officers were using hand held radar devices to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. The officers were suddenly surprised when their radar guns began reading 500 kms per hour. T...

Tonight’s the night !

– without apology to Rod Stewart ,,, Tonight New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia all go off daylight saving. Halle-bloody-lujah ! Our more … erhmm … individualistic states – namely, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia – don’t go onto it in the first place. As to why I am apprising you of this thrilling fact, it’s because I want to know where all of you stand in terms of this horrible application of false time. In other...

DP: Lookin’ out my back door

Bother me tomorrow, today; I’ll buy no sorrows … I feel entitled to sing it, even though I don’t have a back door: not many flats do. In fact, if a flat were to have a back door, it would be an apartment. I have spoken.:-) My ‘back window’ has to be that on my left right now – here in my study, where the computers and all associated paraphernalia (a fairly surprising amount) live. I spend an awful lot of time in here; and yet I don’t look out this window,because it’s just a More…

Hi honey, I’m home …

The new one was a total fizzog. What it looked like in my review screen was nothing like it looked when published. Boo-hoo ! So I’ve reverted to the extremely expensive one that I bought ages ago. The CSS alterations are impressive (many provided me by my mate in Support, of course !) – but I did work out some, I promise !Filed under: blogosphere Tagged: blogging

You’ve been given due warning

I have another library talk this-morning, in a few hours: I’ll be away till lunchtime. When I get back, I shall take the site off-line and install the new theme I have my beady eye on. Having played with it a bit, I know already that it will not inherit anything much other than text; soalmost everything is going to have to be done manually – “or once a year”, as Stringer would often addby way of explanation.;-) I’m posting this now because in the past, when I’ve posted similar advice about go...