Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 89
February 7, 2014
Relationships (re-blogged ex 20-Nov-13)
The houses of our lives are built on foundations of the relationships they contain. There’s no denying it: without the various relationships we maintain, our houses would collapse and we’d be nothing. (Mostly, it doesn’t pay to study them too closely: better to simply accept them for what they are and get on with living, because there are many that don’t bear scrutiny.)
I was looking fondly at my mog, the other day – my marmalade tabby, Lui Stringer – and I was reflecting upon these facts:
He i...
February 6, 2014
February 5, 2014
This woman’s a genius!
Fiona Katauskas of “The New Matilda” can write a bloody good limerick as well as draw a terrific little cartoon strip every week …
There once was a Party called Labor
that espoused looking out for one’s neighbour;.
Now no Light’s on the Hill;
we don’t hear much from Bill;
though god knows, we’re in need of a saviour!
For non-Australian readers: Labor is supposed to be the socialist party; the Light on the Hill is a VERY famous Labor icon from an equally famous Labor stalwart in a ditto speech; Bill...
Apology
I spent a long time putting together a slideshow of British Imperial Airways B&W stills with commentary. As I frequently do, I scheduled it for posting a few days later, as I expected to be able to change the colour of all the captions via CSS before posting day.
Didn’t get a response to my query as to why the captions on my other slideshows had reverted to the original white with shadows and how could I make the CSS work again?, and at the same time forgot the post had been scheduled.
I do apo...
British Imperial Airways
Flying with an airline in the 1930s was a lot more fun than now – more leisurely and with much more class. People like these passengers, risk-takers (especially with their own money!), were the backbone of the UK and Empire: they flew right from the very first airline operations across the Channel in 1919.
Back then people with serious moneywho travelled internationally may well have flown on one of the large (130-foot wingspan) Handley Page bi-plane aircraft, which were the mainstay of Britis...
February 4, 2014
Daily Prompt: the Show must Go On
If you were involved in a movie, would you rather be the director, the producer, or the lead performer? (Note: you can’t be the writer!).
Humph. None of ‘em. If you could only hear some of the stories I have to tell about directors, producers and actors …!
I’d much rather be what I was – Continuity (now referred to as Script Supervisor).
Here’s celebrity for you: every person on crewdepends on you. They must, as all of ‘em ask you stuff:
“What’s the slate?”
“Does this scene come before or after th...
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge 3
Small is as small does, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder …
:-)
I share my small flat with a very large marmalade tabby; but in years past I attempted (twice!) to share it with a Russian Blue kitten (in memory of the two Russian Blues Stringer and I had been privileged to share our life with, one after the other). Here is a photo of the first of my two failures, whom I named “C.C.”. He is very small indeed in comparison with the Lui of today.
This photo shows you an utterly adorable kitte...
February 3, 2014
Puzzlement, not ego
What on earth is this strange thinggy?
I know Chris had one the other day: I’m not trying to compete (as if I could!). I wondered vaguely about it when I saw it on her site, but stuff only stays in the old bonce for so long, and then kind of trickles away. Probably out me ears, yeah.
But I’d really like to know what significance this weird number is supposed to have: who (how about YOU? – yes, you! You know who you are!) can tell me?
It’s not a prime number; and I can’t think of a single event w...
February 2, 2014
46 and he’s gone …
Philip Seymour Hoffman is dead.
He was one of my very favourite American actors. I was appalled to learn of it. It’s something that makes you want to cry “Oh NOOoooo!” – and I did. But it’s true. I didn’t know he had problems with substance abuse, the poor bastard.
A few years back, I learned by chance of the death of one of my all-time favourite French actors, Jocelyn Quivrin. It was just the same: “Oh NOoooo!” … He was 30. He crashed his sports car in St Cloud: they say he’d just had a huge r...
LIOLI #1
If you need any reminding about the best way to post to this event, check out the page that tells you avrathang!
Here’s the first topic in the series:
FLYING
(in aircraft – no birds here!)
Tell us why you like flying or loathe it. And any pictorial evidence is very welcome.
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I LIKE IT!
I spent from the age of 21 to being 43 absolutely terrified of getting onto a ‘plane. I’d had a truly awful landing when I was young and just couldn’t eridicate it from memory: I swear you would’ve had to k...
