Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 94
January 3, 2014
Annual Climate Statement 2013
Reblogged from The Australian Independent Media Network:
Yesterday the Bureau of Meteorology published its Annual Climate Statement 2013. Don't be surprised to learn that it hasn't been reported in the Murdoch media. And neither it should: it contains facts that counter the denialist claims often harped by its senior writers.
Australia boiled in 2013 yet the only references to the weather I can find on the front page of Murdoch's news.com are that…
I'm not a great re-b...
January 2, 2014
What would you do if I sang out of tune …?
That’s more or less what I’m about to do with this post … Yes, I’m using a metaphor; but it’s so damned relevant that I can’t resist it.
I hereby step out of the course set through previous posts by INTRODUCING myself! As to why, it’s because I think this blog can be greatly improved – probably in several ways! – and I have signed up with TDP’s “Zero to Hero” project in an effort to achieve this commendable goal. (Just think how all your lives will be gilded once my blogsite is … better!)
I’d f...
January 1, 2014
Melange for dessert …
http://maryjmelange.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/the-2013-chronicles-of-melangia/
If she really looks like that, I’ve finished with her! I mean, that HAT ..?!
(M.R. reads further … reaches December.)
Well, like I said, she has taste, the ol’ M-J! Only someone very gifted could carry off a Viking helmet … [grin]
Filed under: blogging, fun Tagged: Blogger, TypePad, WordPress
OK, you can stop worrying …
Although the monster mog remained traumatised by Tuesday night’s fireworks for most of yesterday – which he spent in the very place I wanted him to go while they were happening! – he has come to terms with it all, at last.
Or perhaps I mean that his teeny moggy brain has forgotten what he was scared about.
Whichever, he’s back to form.:-D
Filed under: domesticity, Lui Stringer Tagged: cats
December 31, 2013
CS Monthly Photo
Here’s my first offering in Chic’s monthly travel photos for the new year, and an absolute ripper it is, too!
We were in Annecy – a town of great beauty and extreme lack of parking space!
He was standing on the Pont Morens, at the end of the Quai de l’Evêché and the beginning of the Quai de l’Îsle (or the other way around, if you prefer), having had his eye caught and held by that glorious cascade of white wisteria. And then he thought what a nice composition it all was.:-)
And if you click on t...
Wringing in the New Year
because this-evening is one where I would dearly like to throttle Lui Stringer.
Unhappily for him – and me, I might add – it was decided to splurge more squillions of bucks on Sydney’s fireworks displays, this year, and have THREE of ‘em! Jesus H. Christ! – one at 9 pm for the little dears, a new one at 10.30, and then the regular monster at midnight.
[Stringer used to joke that Sydney, rather than being one of the crack capitals (as has been suggested in terms of the very large amounts of crys...
December 30, 2013
I’d forgotten about King Curtis!
Reading a post by Daniel of Northier than Thou, I saw a mention of a musician playing live at Fillmore East. Being a smart-arse, I commented that I had had a disk of King Curtis Live at Fillmore West. And that’s of course what brought him back to mind. HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT GREAT SOUND?!
This was the album I had; and a ripper it was. I learned about him when I was travelling with a big band throughout Queensland in the early ’70s; I was Unit Managing a small film crew making a doco....
December 29, 2013
Times change: cleverness goes
Are you ready for a long rave?: well, here it comes, ready or not …
Recently I was doing a typical M.R. whinge to a contemporary about how I’m totally anti the way many human skills are being replaced by technology. I don’t mean people on assembly lines being replaced by robots, either – not even I would recommend the retaining of mindless crap jobs when machines do them better and faster. No; I was, in truth, thinking specifically of what at various times was my own job – Continuity on film c...
December 27, 2013
Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy
There you go! – to someone who for 31 years scarcely walked near the stove (in a multitude of locations), this is indeed JOY!
I’d tried to make bread about a thousand times. I’d gone to books of cooking people I admired and followed their instructions to the letter, but I’d never got within a bull’s roar of being able to knead the dough. For reasons beyond my comprehension I could not produce a dough that wasn’t too wet to handle.
And then I came across a recipe from a bloke in New York who mak...
