This week’s travel theme challenge set by Ailsa on http://wheresmybackpack.com looks for the four classical elements: air, earth, fire and water AIR This was taken in the Hunter Valley in Australia, just before the mother of all rainstorms began: EARTH A ghaf tree defying the desert in the UAE: FIRE A bit of a cheat, maybe,…
Another Weekly Photo Challenge. Sometimes there is no pattern until the camera creates it – with a little help from a rotated zoom lens and a long exposure…
This week’s Photo Challenge is ‘From Above’. So, just to be contrarian, here’s a photo taken from below. This shows the huge lanterns – some of them more than ten feet long – that hang from the ceiling of the reception area of the Sir Bani Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi.
So anyroad, I wuz skivin’ around disavvy, as per, lookin’ at dis WordPress business, an’ I seen dee ‘ad this thing called a ‘Weekly Writing Challenge’. Sounded a bit poncey, if yer ask me (especially the first paragraph), burra persevered like, an’ it said dee wanted yer to write one of dem blog posts in…
“A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare” – W H Davies: ‘Leisure’ Last week’s ‘Friday Faves’ on WordPress set me thinking, as it highlighted three blog posts on the broad theme of the guilt that is all too often associated with not being ‘busy’ (or at least…
I’ve got a degree in philosophy, me. It was all a long time ago and it was taken on the basis that it was the most useless and impractical thing I could think of to do for three years at government expense (we had grants in those days, believe it or not). As it turned…
Apparently, the police department of Dubai has just overhauled its vehicle fleet, which now boasts (sic) a Lamborghini Aventador. As I understand it, this is an exceedingly expensive, achingly fashionable and almost entirely impractical sports car. The deputy director of police explained that the new vehicle is not intended for serious use but instead will…
I don’t really do colour. I would be perfectly happy to spend the rest of my life in black jeans and a black T-shirt (although maybe with a cheeky flash of tie-dye because hey, that’s the way I roll), so a Photo Challenge on the theme of Colour was always likely to be…well, a challenge.…
It’s always nice to get compliments, perhaps especially from strangers. In the blogosphere, nothing can be better relied on to put a metaphorical spring in the step than getting a WordPress notification that somebody has ‘liked’ your latest post (even if they almost certainly didn’t go so far as to believe that it was ‘pretty…
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