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"The Sun shines through the open window
The empty side the shadow's shallow
My arm circles nothing at all
My fingers reach to touch the wall
Missing you when I'm away, think of things I'd like to say..."
For the first time in probably over a year, a new Madness reference, this time to their track 'Missing You.'
I believe it was penned by Suggs (lead singer) who was inspired by his yearning for loved ones while constantly on tour with the band. It's a nice upbeat song with crashing drums (not usual for Madness songs) and a crazy sax solo bridge. It almost sounds like rock and roll but rather makes me think of warm coffee shops in the winter for some reason.
The image I used is an old one from the 23rd of December 2011, back when I was in a long-distance relationship, so it plays to the lyrics of the song; my ex is on a webcam on the Mac in real-time but we're not physically together in person (we never were other than in high school before the actual relationship started).
Don’t you miss those carefree days
When life was full of color
And somehow through our winding ways
The world seemed so much fuller.
I sit here writing to remember
And can’t help but miss November.
I don’t know where to begin
This tale of love and glory.
The feel of moonlight on my skin
Could that begin my story?
I sit here writing to remember
And can’t help but miss November.
Those days we played the music loud
And lost ourselves in daydreams.
When time stood still, and we were proud
To dance in in autumn's sunbeams.
I sit here writing to remember
And can’t help but miss November.
Our golden days of clear fall sunshine
That we look back on with praise.
I thank my stars that they were mine
Those fine November days.
Missing November by ~mangolady
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Texture courtesy of Azazelle
Me and my son Ísar had a great walk in the woods today, I can´t wait for the spring to come and the green color around this pond.
Parece que te has ido para no volver, no sé si tan siquiera puedo recordarte. No sé si este año vas a aparecer, volver con tu promesa deambulante que nunca sé en que consiste pero a la que me subo como un niño moribundo a un tío vivo. Necesito volar como esos pájaros que apenas se posan en mi cabeza para contarme de donde vienen. Necesito olas que no saben a donde van y que sólo nacen para romper contra la arena en donde las estoy esperando.
Si llegas, hazlo pronto porque no aguantaré mucho más sin ti.
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
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Yesterday the Corolla started clinging to gears, to the point of stalling in the driveway. The cost to repair it nearly exceeds the value of the thing, so by most definitions it's totaled.
My question for you lot is this: what car next? Must be cheap, reliable, fun, not a Leaf. =p
St Margaret, Stoven, Suffolk
The Stoven war memorial is a brass plaque with six names on it.
Here's a good storyline for The X-Files. In the second half of the 19th century, a group of aliens decides to take over the Earth. Sensing the authority of the Church of England, they decide to use this institution to disguise themselves. They will build apparently medieval churches to use as cover for their headquarters on the planet they hope to conquer. One alien finds a book of medieval architectural styles. Norman looks nice. They decide to build Norman parish churches so that the populace will think they are Vicars and choirboys, not aliens.
Of course, it all goes hopelessly wrong. By choosing the Norman style they have blown their cover wide open. They can just about get away with the doorways. But the collonaded windows begin to raise suspicion, and once you get inside the churches it is all pretty hopeless - the Norman stone pulpits, Norman stone lecterns, Norman pews, they are all sad and laughable. The aliens are exposed, and sent packing.
19th century restorations in the Norman style are almost uniformly horrible. By the early years of that century, many of Suffolk's churches were in a poor state, but to rebuild some of them in the Norman style was a dreadful mistake, and nowhere in Suffolk was the mid-century rebuilding as comprehensive as here at Stoven. Nothing looks less organic than a mock-Norman building. Here, the fine Norman south door has been used as an inspiration for the rest of the building, as if a new body had been cloned from a single cell.
At first sight, it isn't so bad. The graveyard on the north side is delightful, full of mature trees and 18th century headstones. The shape of the building is good, especially with the sun behind. It is only on approaching that the details make themselves known, and there seems to be no relationship between the styling and the proportions. And where did that tower come from? But there is a heart-warming story here that is worth telling.
In April 1987, this tiny parish was presented with a horrific £200,000 bill for repairs. The Diocesan architect, aware that this was an impossible demand, recommended that the church be partially demolished, enabling the parish to continue using a smaller, fitter building. Funding bodies and charities like English Heritage were unable to help, since the building was only listed at Grade II, and wasn't considered important enough for injections of cash.
Not surprisingly, the Parish Council decided instead to opt for making the building redundant. That way, they could move in with neighbouring Brampton, while the Redundant Churches Fund took over the headache of paying for repairs. The building would be lost to CofE liturgical use, but would be retained as a village landmark, and could also be used for community purposes.
The church was declared redundant in January 1989. However, there was bad news ahead. The Redundant Churches Fund decided that the 1854 rebuilding had been so drastic that they could not justify taking St Margaret on. Simply, there was just not enough medieval structure left to justify the expense. The Parish Council asked the Fund to think again. They did, and came to the same conclusion. So St Margaret was put up for sale by the Diocese, pending planning permission for residential or commercial use.
Unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy it. This should really come as no surprise, since few people would be prepared to splash out a six figure sum just to make a structure sound, before even thinking of converting it. The majority of churches sold off during the great wave of redundancies ten years earlier had mostly been in good condition. And now things got desperate, because included in the legislation that governs church redundancies is the clause that, if no no use has been found for a Grade II building within three years, it must be demolished.
Those three years went by, probably rather quickly in the eyes of the former Parish Council, and in May 1992 the Church Commissioners prepared the draft order for the demolition of St Margaret, Stoven.
This must have been a depressing time for villagers. They were presented with something of a fait accompli, but in any event a public meeting was held to discuss it, and representatives of national bodies like English Heritage and the Redundant Churches Fund attended. It was agreed that if there was any way forward it was through a thorough architectural examination of the church building.
Well, you may be able to guess what happened. It didn't take long to discover that to all intents and purposes this was a medieval building - rather than being demolished, the former church had been covered with a Norman skin. You can see this for yourself; the plaster has been removed in places on the south side, exposing the outline of the medieval window splays beneath.
As a consequence of this, the listed building status was raised by the Department of the Environment to Grade II*, and suddenly things looked a little brighter. In the short term, the new status qualified the building for English Heritage grant aid, and in the longer term the parish decided to refer matters back to the Redundant Churches Fund, which in the meantime had morphed into the Churches Conservation Trust.
And then something extraordinary happened. The survey for the newly-funded repair work showed that the total cost would be about £60,000, less than a third of the figure quoted six years earlier! You have to wonder quite how such a disparity occured, and if events would have been so traumatic if the revised figure had been quoted to the parish at the time. Suddenly, it seemed as if Stoven parish might be able to cope after all. At Easter 1996 the church opened for business again. The Redundancy order was rescinded, and a new Parish Council convened.
Since that time, work has continued on restoring St Margaret to former glories. And as an act of faith the door is open to visitors every day.
So you step in to an interior that is more pleasing than you have been led to expect, and not wholly mock-Norman in style at all. The chancel arch is more restrained than some 19th century confections, the east end of the chancel is elegant, the tiling polite and the benches plain and fitting. A bit of redecoration is needed, but there's the makings of a building seemly and fitting for Anglican worship here. Indeed, those aliens might have got away with it. They leafed through the book to the Early English section for the font and the pulpit, both of which are more imaginative than many in the style, and most people nowadays would find the intimacy of this narrow building more attractive than the usual wide-open spaces so beloved of the Victorians.
The people of Stoven must feel a sense of relief that they still have a parish church in the village, but the real irony is that it isn't how original the building is that matters at all. The Victorians restored in medieval styles to create a false sense of continuity, but the continuity is always there anyway. It lies not in the bricks and mortar but in the people of the parish who have used St Margaret as their touchstone down the long generations, both as Catholics before the Reformation and as Anglicans afterwards. Outside St Margaret, some of those people still lie in the ground.
Cardinal Newman defined tradition as the unending, slow process of development, and buildings like churches should always be changing to suit the communities that use them. Our understanding of God, the Universe and everything changes and develops from one generation to the next, and this will inevitably be reflected in the buildings in which we worship. If that sometimes involves razing them to the ground and then starting again, then so be it.
I just bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and I thought something was amiss. I've seen previews and "leaked" shots of the tab which had an IR port. Mine doesn't - and apparently the feature was removed prior to retail release. Funny how my cheapo jelly case still had the IR cutout in place.
Just seems to be so many yellow flowers around at the moment. This is a buttercup with a few missing petals.
I talk to you but its not the same as touchin' you
And every time you whisper my name, I wanna run to you
We'll be together, it won't be long, it won't be long
But it feels like forever, and its hard to be strong
Baby 'cause I'm missing you now
And its drivin' me crazy
How I'm needin' you baby
I'm missing you now
Can't wait till I'm alone with you
To show you how I'm missing you now
Wishin' you were here by my side is all that I can do
Got my arms around my pillow at night, they should be
holdin' you
Thought I was stronger, how could I know, how could
I know
I can't take this much longer, its so hard on my soul
Baby I just can't wait, till I see your face
Chase away this loneliness inside
When you're close to my heart, right here in my arms
Then and only then, will I be satisfied
I'm missing you now
We'll be together, it won't be long, it won't be long
But it feels like forever, and its hard to be strong
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
Sightline Institute Middle Homes Photo Library: www.sightline.org.
This work by Sightline Institute Modest Middle Homes Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
Sightline Institute Middle Homes Photo Library: www.sightline.org.
This work by Sightline Institute Modest Middle Homes Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
Sightline Institute Middle Homes Photo Library: www.sightline.org.
This work by Sightline Institute Modest Middle Homes Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
Sightline Institute Middle Homes Photo Library: www.sightline.org.
This work by Sightline Institute Modest Middle Homes Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
Sightline Institute Middle Homes Photo Library: www.sightline.org.
This work by Sightline Institute Modest Middle Homes Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
It is almost time for me to leave Syria and my soul has been set of thinking home. People said, "home is where the heart is." Problem is that I only spent a bout 2 weeks the most a year at home. The rest - abroad, working. Well...it's not complaining since this is the path that I have created , and I'm quite happy with it. But I can never run away from missing home... I guess that's life ha?
The photo was taken at the compound of my apartment towards the neighbourhood.
Location : Desa Petaling, Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
A search for a missing English couple launched on 10 December 1904 ended in the cemetery.
Friends of David and Martha Mumford were concerned after hearing nothing of them for seven years and got W P Reeves, Agent-General, London on the case. They were eventually traced to a street address in Sydenham Christchurch but it was then found that they had died and were buried in the local cemetery. The Mumfords had been in New Zealand about 40 years before their deaths.
Shown here are descriptions and other details of the missing couple.
Archives Reference: ACGO 8333 IA1/932/[44] 1905/71
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R24846960
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Material from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
A gorgeous one stem bouquet of Fire Chief roses from my garden! This particular rose has
produced as much as 23 roses on one stem, it's glorious! This was taken at the end of Sept.
I wish it was still hot enough that they could be blooming now!!! Enjoy my friends =)
(Best on black)
I received this in my Inbox. First thing I did was check its validity on snopes.com and it checked out so I'm passing it on...
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue Pattinson
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:03 PM
Subject: Help find Madelaine McCann
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:53 PM
Subject: FW: Help find Madelaine McCann
Please read this message and pass it on!
As you are aware my niece is still missing and I am asking everyone I
know to send this as a chain letter i.e. you send it to everyone you
know and ask them to do the same, as the story is only being covered
in Britain, Eire and Portugal. We don't believe that she is in
Portugal anymore and need to get her picture and the story across
Europe as quickly as possible. Suggestions are? welcome.
Phil McCann
End of letter. I did more research and found the official website Bring Madeleine Home where I found the official poster as seen above.
I'm posting this on all my blogs as well.
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Taken by Exakta VX with Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm F2.8
film: RDPIII 100F
Taken on the school bus of Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I completed the degree of Communication. Missing the romance and laziness prevailed in those years, especailly the freedom and leisure to think of games, girls, and self.
Probably the thing that I miss most during the winter is the color that nature provides during the warmer months ...
A back view of the Radisson Blu hotel in Cardiff, with it's unusual almost Japanese style roof structure. Not sure what the missing piece is, or whether it's intentional!
Hope you all had a good weekend.
The Oriental Lily opens a 6 petal bloom that can spread up to 20cm in diameter.
The height of the Oriental Lily can range between 3 to 5 feet.
Oriental Lilies tend to flower outside, in mid-season (July/August).
They are a long lasting and highly scented variety.
Sometimes, they just miss a petal and show us more!
Thank you for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)
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This one is an oldie, when i felt more self-photo-y. just felt like uploading something. but your thoughts are apprecitated anyway :)
ooh and any title suggestions?