Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV

Originally posted on theonlyD800inthehameau:
This week’s Photo Challenge looks for an unusual point of view. Our grandsons were blowing bubbles in our garden and one of them captured this image of the back of our house. It reminds me vaguely of some seventies prog-rock album cover. Living In A Bubble

Surreal sandstone

Originally posted on theonlyD800inthehameau:
I memorably spent my 60th birthday (last year) in Petra, thereby realising a lifelong ambition. I have all the standard touristy shots to prove it, and the overall experience more than lived up to my hopes and expectations. However, while wandering around the ruins over the two days we spent…

Classy

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…

You Don’t Really Like Me, Do You?

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…

Seal That Silver Mine

“If all you got to live for is what you’ve left behind, get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine” – Grateful Dead: ‘Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo’ It’s pure coincidence that the calendar year is about to turn, just as three months have passed since I retired. Although I am not by nature…

Hobson’s Choice

Today’s Daily Prompt from what I had previously thought of as the good people at WordPress, but am now more inclined to think of as the awkward squad, is: If you had to choose between being able to write a blog (but not read others’) and being able to read others’ blogs (but not write…

Why this blog?

Yet another personal blog site: one of the infinite number of monkeys tapping away at their infinite number of keyboards. What’s the point? George Orwell asserted that – putting aside the need to earn a living (which happily is not applicable here) – there are four great motives for writing: sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical…