Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 90
February 1, 2014
Sunday sweets | Monday munchies
“Today is your special day, even if today might be tomorrow to an Australian. And even though you’re not Australian, it doesn’t negate the fact that today may or may not be tomorrow.”
–Jarod Kintz,American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks
Remember what this means?
It adds up to my posting no less than three times today.
[gulp!]
Sorry, all: will try to do better (i.e., less!) from now on.
My mystery helper (not) has produced this luverly badge, which I am about to try to find space for i...
“Based on” for my favourite author?!
The last movie I set out to watch that was made from one of my favourite books was “The Lord of the Rings” first book, The Fellowship of the Ring.
Because going to the movies in a theatre was not an experience Chic and I enjoyed, we got a DVD to watch at home. Chic had never read the books, so had no understanding of the crassness of the screenplay ‘for dramatic purposes’. I lasted ten minutes and went to bed, enraged and outraged.
Tonight the ABC is showing the first instalment of Peter Temple...
Better when we’re together
This is and has been for a couple of years (!) my very favourite video.
I had never realised how tiny hummingbirds are! – aren’t they minute?!Even though this one’s a baby, it’s not going to get a whole lot bigger.
I had never realised how nice ordinary young blokes can be. I thought they were all rude and wore baseball caps backwards and slouched around in a permanent bad temper.
I had never realised how nice Joe Jackson’s music is. Although, it must be confessed, having looked him up and liste...
January 31, 2014
CS monthly photo
Il Castello di Romena
I’ve always loved this brooding shot …
We’d driven north out of Arezzo as far as Stia, which we were dying to see because it was the location for a most delightful Italian movie called “Il Ciclone” (The Cyclone), and we’d even thought of staying there, but for the lack of appealing accommodation.
From Stia (yes, pretty but no, not gobsmacking) we drove up to see a castle that turned out to be the ruined Porciano – the stuff of dreams: I’ll post some shots of it, one day. An...
January 30, 2014
Wit springs in the strangest places! :-)
You’d think I’d find something better to post on the last day of the month, eh? – but there are some little bee-yoo-ties in here! And I do love incontrovertible evidence of genuine wit.
(Don’t forget that you can pause the slideshow if it’s going too fast for you to read all of the contributions.)
Filed under: fun Tagged: humour
January 29, 2014
Small poem for a hot morning
They say another hot one’s coming up
today.
Shall I go shopping down in Leichhardt? – nup!
no way.
I shouldn’t wait until the sun has shone
a while;
Perhaps tomorrow, really early on,
then I’ll
take shopping trolley so’s to manage weight
and go
to Parramatta Road, where I shall wait …
“Bus ho!”
Filed under: doggerel, domesticity, fun, Sydney, weather Tagged: home
January 28, 2014
Polls and vanity (mine – again!)
That’s the electorate’s informal verdict on the idiot who’s currently “running the country”, from a poll taken after his First 100 Days in office (I suspect it’s something we get from the US of A, this first 100 days business). Don’t fail to check out the larger version, eh? – it’s the first time since polling was introduced here that a new guvmint (I can’t bring myself to refer to this rabble of wicked children as anything else) has been so negatively judged. But if all you non-Australians k...
January 27, 2014
What’s 700 in Latin numerals?
http://josiecoccinelle.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/autre-bel-atelier-dans-un-grenier/
And if you visit Josie Coccinelle, no. 700 to sign up (so to speak), you’ll find a delightful French site, where the first bit of her today’s post translates as …
Another beautiful studio in a loft
by josiecoccinelle
Get Crafty Workspace
Nice Sunday, everyone!
I’m not very active on the blog
and I miss it a lot …
The reason?
I prepared a small unpretentiousexhibition;
my creations with other artisans …
and hold on...
Two sisters’ views (one’s a lie …)
My younger sister lives with her husband and two Burmese, as well as a large number of cattle and sheep (which they breed), in heaven.
Well, perhaps not actually heaven; but you can see why I write that, yes?
In fact they live in the Huon Valley part of Tasmania, where they built a house on what to me is an ENORMOUS amount of land, and it’s totally beautiful. Which, having clicked on the rainbow shots to enlarge them, you don’t need me to tell you.
These were quick shots grabbed with her ‘phone,...
January 26, 2014
Daily Prompt: Your days are numbered
Thank all the gods it’s over again.
I loathe Australia Day: every January 26th is worse than the last. Oh, don’t get me wrong – I love my country with all my heart; and although I often think how much I would love to live in France, I know perfectly well that once there I would eventually come to yearn for the land I was born in, as were two or three (?) generations of my family.
What I dislike so much about A.D. is the knowledge that it’s become all bread and circuses. Well, perhaps not all: t...
