Today’s WordPress Daily Prompt asks us to answer the ten standard questions that James Lipton asks his guests on ‘Inside The Actor’s Studio.’ Well, that’s a programme I used to like, and lists are usually good for a bit of introspection, so here goes: What is your favourite word?‘Opulente’Some care is needed here to avoid…
My Countdown To An Event app – which is now functioning as a Countup – tells me that, as of 2 p.m. European Summer Time on September 27th, I have been retired for exactly one year. Not that I’d forgotten. It’s interesting to compare my daily timetable now with what it looked like twelve months…
This week’s Photo Challenge asks for a view of the world through our own eyes (or lens). This photograph was taken in nearby Le Dorat, when workmen were marking out parking spaces in the square outside the Collegiale, using metal studs to mark the lines. It’s hard to think of anything more prosaic in itself,…
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.
After some heavy snow at the beginning of the week, the weather is set to turn warmer
Q: What do you get when you cross a cauliflower with some broccoli A:
Last night we had the first heavy frost of the year
the only deadhead in the hameau 