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Actually decided to unchain myself from the desk this afternoon and take a quick brake from the whorehouse..i mean office.
I love this little bridge..all the good Princeton rusty goodness
...Actually a different one from the one I uploaded before, there are quite a few on the island, this one sat still long enough for me to capture his tail feathers. This has been photoshopped, filters and 'what not' added.
Explored 15.08.08 - #338
Actually, I just found out they are Pacifica Gala and not Royal Galas as I wrongly remembered-----ooops.
Explore #97
I actually lost track of how many corks are in this jar so it might be more or less than 364, but there's definitely a lot! I bought the jar thinking to use it for one of my photos, but then I started putting corks in it without counting them and I couldn't get them out! Oh well...I like the way it looks on the shelf.
In case you're wondering how much wine we actually drink, the corks are from more than just this year! I'd been saving them for at least a few years to make something with them, but I guess i'll have to break the jar if I want to get them all out again!
We got a new game about winemaking, but we ended up being so busy this weekend we didn't get to play it yet.
Actually out to shoot a landscape shot in the New Forest when the weather turned. A herd of cattle who roam free in the forest, wandered past and I took the opportunity to photograph this inquisitive calf. #photography #newforest #wildlife
Actually a picture im semi happy with.
If i was to take pictures last night after youth, this is what it would have looked like. I was planning on useing my old bird cage before my mom decided to give it away, but after yesterday everything just fell together. Nothing huge happened or anything, im just caught up in my own thoughts. I feel emotionally caged, like i cant get truly close to anybody that isnt my family or a childhood friend. How do people do it? Just let people in even when they might not be moving as fast as you. Im scared, im scared to reach out passed the bars, passed the glass and really know someone.
I dont know anything at all
Diego: “Actually, maybe the only time it should make sense is at two in the morning.” *finishes off his toast in one huge bite*
Charley: “I heard what you said to him this afternoon, and it’s been hard for me to accept. I know you told me that you had feelings for me, but I didn’t realize how…*voice tapers off*
Diego: “Intense they were.”
Charley: *picks at the crust on her toast* “I guess I should’ve. You’re an intense guy. But what I don’t understand is how you can love me so much…and hate me, too. And I mean really hate me. Are…are you ever going to forgive me?”
Diego: *mood abruptly sours, eyes glitter with suppressed rage, tightly* “I don’t know how, Charley. I don’t know how I’m *voice dips low into a growl* ever supposed to forgive you for that night.”
Charley: *looks up to meet Diego’s gaze squarely* “I’m sorry, Diego. I’m so sorry. It never occurred to me that someone would…have to find me afterwards. I wasn’t thinking about anyone or anything but myself and escaping by the only means I thought was left to me.”
Diego: *fist clenches* “What if it’d been Molly? Do you know what it’d have done to her? You came onto the scene after she’d finally begun healing from the hell she went through. You don’t know what she was like when I first found her: skin and bones, dead-eyed, dried blood still in her ears from the explosion that blasted out her eardrums. It took years for her to revert back to her annoyingly cheeky self. And you would’ve destroyed it all just because you decided to take the coward’s way out!” *gets up abruptly, chair making an obscenely loud scraping sound, as he turns his back on Charley, and attempts to rein in his temper*
Charley: *voice soft, but steady* “And what if Diego found me? A boy who suffered unimaginable brutality from a father who should’ve loved him, and a mother whose weakness let it all happen. Seeing me like that, covered in blood and lifeless, brought it all back for you. The day you came home from school and found your mother dead on the floor by your own father’s hand. You loved her…but you hated her, too, for refusing to leave. For letting him hurt her over and over again. For letting him hurt you.”
Diego: *back still turned, scathingly* “If that’s your way of accusing me of having an Oedipus complex, then you can shove it up your ass. What? You took one psychology course in college and that qualifies you to analyze me. I don’t love you because you remind me of my effing mother. I don’t know why I love you. I just do. You’re not the only one who has problems putting their feelings into words.”
Charley (dryly): “Yeah, but whereas I just don’t say anything, you say all the wrong things.”
Diego: *breathes in deeply and exhales slowly, turns back around, and resumes his seat* “But most of the time you can take it. And the times you can’t, I know you’ll forgive me. There. That’s one of the reasons why I love you right there.”
Charley: “Do you think you’ll ever forgive me, or will it always be in the back of your mind, festering?”
Diego: “I know you were messed up, Bug. Logically, I get why you did it, but it’s not logic that makes me feel like I’m suffocating every time I think about it. It’s not logic that has me dreaming about it and waking up in a cold sweat. Can I forgive you for cursing me with a memory that haunts me every damn day of my life? That makes me feel helpless like I used to when I was a kid? *shakes head* I don’t know.”
Charley: *presses a hand to her chest, face deeply grieved* “Is there anything I can do to make amends? I may not deserve your forgiveness, but I’m asking for it all the same.”
Diego: “Promise me that you’ll never try to kill yourself again.”
Fashion Credits
***Any doll enhancements (i.e. freckles, piercings, eye color changes, haircuts) were done by me unless otherwise stated.***
Charley
Shorts: Mattel – Barbie Playline – Fashion Avenue
Tank: Jakks Pacific – Hannah Montana
Socks: Mattel – Barbie Playline – Generation Girl Barbie
Doll is a Morning Dew Giselle transplanted to a Poppy body, re-rooted by the inimitable valmaxi(!!!)
Diego
PJ Pants: Kelsie of Mutant Goldfish Designs
Wife-beater: IT – Dynamite Boys – Summer Daze Kyu
Doll is a Rock Steady Romain, eyes, brows, facial hair, and shading by me.
We actually made it to the burn this year! We didn't sleep through it.
poi, spinning fire.
bonfire.
people.
Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, Artemas, Pennsylvania.
June 11, 2016.
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BACKSTORY: Well, that was a crazy burn! So much shit I never expected to do, at WickerMan Burn 2016!
- Damaged Carolyn's car on the way in so that it permanently squeaks, except it got better by the time we left
- Ate a tequila worm (so much more chewing than you would imagine!) when naked-goddess-bartender poured me one, randomly. (I had to check that it wasn't something from the woods)
- Watched fireworks so dangerously close that I needed first aid for a burned eyeball (could this be why the vision in that eye went bad this year?)
- Learned to weave. On a loom. And wove some. Took video of weaving.
- worried about this spleen issue I have that is starting to feel less like a pain, and more like an actual tumor that you can distinctly feel on one side (still hurting as of 2017, CT Scan found nothing)
- controlled huge flamethrowers with laserbeams & buttons
- fun stuff on top of a 20-ft wooden ziggurat art installation (Carolyn was too scared to go up!)
- Watched a firework fireball zoom past Carolyn's head (she didn't even flinch) and catch the ground on fire 1 foot from her feet
- Made out with both members of a couple (beards can be soft?)
- Bounced in a moon bounce
- Saw Carolyn fall off a bounce-house ramp, tumbling in mid air, as onlookers screamed (one massage later, she's fine)
- Played with propane bubbles (cover hand, stick in fire, watch self burn) with zero regard for my safety or even knowing what they were ("other people aren't dying when they do this, so i'll do this, whatever this is. no, i won't ask anybody any questions about it or learn anything safety-related")
- Treated 2nd degree cooking burn with actual aloe leaves someone bundled up, just in case. Only had to walk 20 feet from my camp! No relation to previous bullet point.
- Tried [REDACTED]
- Used logical deduction to guide a damsel in distress to her campsite that she could not find, even though I had never been there. (If you want to flatter me, make me feel like Aragorn. I also accept pints of cherry tomatoes & great conversation)
- Received tons of compliments about my hair & badass cartoon shirt (and about my brain) (but I get that a lot... it's the others I'm not so used to)
- Worried about Andrea in rehab. Did all kinds of crazy things to maintain connectivity to check up on her. A lotta good that did. RIP, Andrea.
- Learned to always great one specific person with "Hi, Clint!" (Her name is not Clint. This is how she prefers greetings.)
- Wore My Little Pony boxer-briefs around strangers
- Sent video from the middle of the woods with a phone that only works when plugged in (tricky)
- Met the creator of games I've played for 15 yrs, & found out that the vintage set of game pieces my aunt found me in a thrift store are so rare that he was re-telling people about our set... Even when we weren't even there. So honored! To tell the man who invented Fluxx that you had the original Fluxx back when that was the only Fluxx you could get was awesome, too.
- But to make a reference to a specific episode of 2 Stupid Dogs to the creator of Fluxx, and have him know it and repeat it back... Wow.
- Chastised by Channy for not knowing how to spell my own name on facebook, becuase she wanted pictoral proof of my story that did not believe -- that the deer shit that came out of the deer when my Bonneville was totalled (while driving back from Dirk's) had splattered onto my car in the shape of Pluto the Dog's face. I totally sent her that picture!
- Lost 1 of 2 cameras, resulting in our pictures being quite incomplete (gee, real Burnery of whoever found it to not bother giving it back. If I find someone else's camera, I guess this means I'll have to keep it to break even?)
- Learned I can consistently inhale an entire nitrous oxide cartridge in one lungful
- Randomly given 2 beers by someone, only to ask to see her face, and, after introductions, us all realizing we already know each other already and are FB friends already (wtf?! what are the odds?!)
Saw a truck covered in fire driving down the mountain like nothing was going on. Overheard: "Are you seeing that? Is that real?"
Phew? Did I get everything? I don't know! One night, I never saw my camp during the night time, at all.
Opheusden actually is the place where I was born. It's part of the so called bible belt. Pietistic reformed form an orthodox Protestant group, located within the Reformed Protestantism and specifically orthodox Calvinists distinguished by emphasizing the importance of finding or personal religious experience. By sticking to old customs and the rejection of certain technological and scientific developments, they are also distinguished as sociological group in society.
Women wear long skirts and hats. they support each other in a material way but emotionally there's a lack of warmth.
Actually I was looking for a deer but I didn't expect to see so many in one place, and what place !
Scotland, winter
Nikon D700, pce 24mm
Almost at the end of my photos from this drive.
On 5 September 2025, I think I overdid things! It had been about three weeks since my head injury and I thought I would be able to manage a nice drive out of the city. I ended up getting home ten hours later, much of that time spent actually driving! The next day, I can't say I felt great, sigh.
I knew where I wanted to go, but somehow it took longer than I expected, and by the time I got home (after getting take-out food to last me a couple of days), the light was fading and car headlights were turning on. Something I have to avoid, as my eyes can't deal with the blinding lights.
My day started off by heading south on the highway (to save time) till I reached the Stavely area. Then, heading east. my bird sightings began. The highlight was a huge flock of Greater White-fronted Geese, down in the water, with lots of Gulls for company - and about half a dozen beautiful, white Snow Geese. Exactly the same as what I saw three (?) years ago, at the same area. Unfortunately, they were SO far away, so I was unable to get any half-decent photos. Delighted, though, to have seen them all.
The rest of my trip was along familiar roads, apart from just one fairly short section that if I had ever been there before, it would have been many years ago, while car-pooling.
Along one of the back roads, I had pulled over to take a photo of an old wooden homestead. A truck happened to come along in the opposite direction and the driver stopped to ask if everything was OK. Such a pleasant, interesting, knowledgeable man, who was from the Hutterite Colony. We had a long chat, including about birds. He suggested I try down the next road, which I did. No hawks, which I had been hoping for, but large flocks of Brown-headed Cowbirds, Brewer's Blackbirds, and Starlings, each species separate. When I returned back to the road on which we had met, to my delight, there was a beautiful Swainson's Hawk (?) juvenile, perched on a weathered fence.
A few old barns and old vehicles added to my day. including pulling over by a country garage to photograph several beautiful oldies that need a whole lot of loving care.
Along one of the highways in the area, I spotted a hawk down on the road. Someone needs to tell some adult Swainson's that they need to do a much better job of teaching their youngsters that it is so dangerous to hang out in the middle of the road like that. Not only are they on the road, but they don't move away to safety when a vehicle is coming! Fortunately, I missed this one, checking in my mirror that it was OK. I noticed that a sibling was standing on a hay bale in the field and I hung around until the one on the road flew up and away and landed on another hay bale. Silly bird. The very same thing had happened on 13 August, when I had to collect my car from High River Emergency Hospital, where it had been parked for two days after I had taken a taxi home, after getting 12 staples in the back of my head! The hawk on a different back road also was determined to not move from the road to safety.
So, a very long, tiring day, in wildfire smoke, and now I am staying home for the weekend. Next time I go for a drive, it will have to be a short one.
Actually on on the 40 from Bedford about to work the 99 to Luton Airport with the blind half changed
actually not a totally random table scrap. It will have its place in my new microscale city. At least, I hope so.
Actually, no one can be sure, how many they have with hybrid!
How ever, stay alive as well as wonderful with anything!
Life is short, so do everything you can do,eat well and sleep well!
All best wish for everyone and enjoy shutter all the time!
其實，沒有人可以肯定的是，他們有多少混合是已經存在!
我在一處農場,發現許多混種鴉,當然是綠頭鴨種!
混得好漂亮,希望能生存的更安全和更加適應!
Actually I lied. There is this last one to make it 68 in all.
Prelude to the 34th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
Mardi Gras, Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia (Saturday 3 Mar 2012 @ 3:55pm).
This is actually a Barbie house, but it's been for Bratz since I got it in 2011. I talk more about it's origins on my old photo from 2014/2015. Anyways, compared to that old display picture, this one is vastly overcrowded. I have even resorted to using the top of the house for Bratz. Back in the day, I had a collection of My Little Ponies displayed here (they have since moved into the dining room we never use for eating). My 2010 F.M. Cruiser fits perfectly up here with an assortment of party/birthday themed dolls. It does make grabbing dolls from the shelves behind them a little trickier, but not too difficult. I did have to make sure that my 2015 Study Abroad Bratz were sitting, not standing. One time Jade jumped off the shelf and took out Party Sasha who was sitting on the car. That's why Sasha now sits INSIDE the F.M. Cruiser...she was traumatized from the near death experience (Jade was reprimanded for her behavior in case you are wondering). I like how deep this doll house is because I can fit some furniture in here. Most of my displays don't have room for things like that. So I have my childhood bed, all three of my cars, and even a lounger I got at the Salvation Army (which was missing a leg, but I replaced it with a piece of wooden dowel). Granted, I have a spare 2002 F.M. Cruiser, but it's super beat up and not great for display (it's missing the seats and everything). My Bratz cars mean a lot to me since my Dad loved the Rock Angelz one so much. I'm sure if I had the 2002 F.M. Cruiser back when he was alive, he also would have stolen it for his model car display. I can't tell you how many times I walked into my room and found my Bratz dolls dismantled with an empty spot where the Rock Angelz car was! I used to keep things in the drawers of this doll house, but they've been vacated for years. In their old age, they tend to fall apart easily. So everything that was in them has moved into the cubes (I never kept doll stuff in them, just some extra baggies for clothes and pieces to the dollhouse itself which are still in here).
Actually before the BNSF freight arrived, the westbound Califonia Zephyr almost aced the shot of 211. The Big Game motor led the way.
The full-sized car which featured as the 'Durango 95' in A Clockwork Orange. In reality this is actually a real model - the M-505 Adams Brothers Probe 16.
Sadly this was one of the only parts of the exhibition which I found impossible to capture without people in the background!
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A selection of snaps that I took whilst going round the new Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum in London.
There's an amazing wealth of artefacts there from across the whole span of Kubrick's moviemaking career. It's slightly surreal to see some of these iconic objects and costumes in person after seeing them in his films for decades.
I'm very glad I booked a slot for when the Design Museum first opened their doors at 10.00am, as it was pretty rammed by the time I was leaving a couple of hours later.
I decided to go in and speed all the way to the end, taking photos first, in reverse order. Then I went through the exhibition again to look at everything properly. Anyone who's followed my photography for any length of time will know that generally I don't like people in my images unless they are the subject, so this backwards approached helped me capture the exhibits in relative solitude!
I had a little (actually big) project earlier in the year and this little bundle of paper is the last of it!! Off to the accountant it all now goes ~ bye, bye!!
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I actually took this while waiting for breakfast my first day in Reykjavík so I hadn't sampled any of these just yet. At the end of a long day exploring, I enjoyed having a cold beer with dinner almost every night on the trip. My only regret was never having a beer made with water from Jökulsárlón (a glacier lagoon which you'll see photos of in the near future).
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ABOUT THE SERIES
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In September 2011, my wife and I went to Iceland for a two week honeymoon. The trip was such an incredible experience. We started in Reykjavík and drove around the outside of the county counterclockwise. Although we made hotel reservations ahead of time, our day to day itinerary wasn't planned in advance so we could see/do whatever we felt like.
Iceland is such a diverse and amazing place. I've never seen such beauty, breathtaking landscapes, and an assortment of scenery anywhere else. One moment you're walking on a glacier and the next you're hiking through a lush landscape to a waterfall. Mid to late September seemed like the perfect time of year to go. There were no crowds at any of the sites, we had our pick of where to stay, and the weather was fantastic.
If you've never been to Iceland, photos (mine or anyone else's) don't really give it justice. It's somewhere you have to see and experience in person.
37521 Actually sounding half decent been played with on 6Z21 11:00 Crewe H.S. - Guide Bridge B.Side Sidings at Heaton Norris 07/11/2024
this was taken for this project:
www.flickr.com/photos/pepsi11295/3661011452/
by holly skye ~ her photostream is amazing and very artistic!
I've actually been feeling that way a lot latey so I decided to participate in the awesome project...
my first explored..#192
Actually built as a Sea Gladiator but converted during restoration into a straight Gladiator, she still wears her genuine serial.
Operated by TFC and Duxford based, she is seen during maintenance in Hangar 2 (South) at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK.
23rd July 2016.
The following info is taken from the ‘Fighter Collection’ website:-
“Our Gladiator, N5903, was the last of 25 Mk.II aircraft built under Contract 773235/38 and delivered in 1939. It is believed that she briefly served with 141 Sqn in October 1939 at Grangemouth, west of Edinburgh, and was then allocated to the Air Ministry Development Pool as a flight trials platform in December 1939. Following this it is understood that N5903 was placed in long-term storage with 27 Maintenance Unit at Shawbury in May 1940, until she moved on to 8 MU at Little Rissington in October 1943 and then subsequently to 61 Operational Training Unit at Rednal in November 1943.
N5903, along with her Shuttleworth sibling Mk.I L8032, was earmarked for meteorological survey work and returned to Gloster at Hucclecote for conversion in January 1944. This conversion did not happen as more modern types took on these duties and the two Gladiators were left forlorn at Hucclecote, which was probably what saved them from being scrapped.
The next few years saw them remain with Gloster, somewhat forgotten whilst the main focus was on the war effort. After the war in February 1946 it is known that famous wartime Ace and future test pilot, R P ‘Bee’ Beaumont, flew our Gladiator, N5903, on four occasions.
In 1950 the Gladiators were handed over to Air Service Training for ground instructional use with N5903 going to Ansty, near Leicester, and L8032 going to Hamble. When the Ansty School closed N5903 saw the pair on a visit to Hamble, and as an ex. Fleet Air Arm Sea Gladiator pilot during the war he had an affinity with the type. Following a successful bid of £1 each he became the proud owner of a pair of somewhat forlorn Gladiators.
Viv Bellamy moved the pair of biplanes to the nearby Eastleigh base of his air charter company, Flightway. It was here that that the task of getting one of the Gladiators back into airworthy condition, unfortunately N5903 was chosen as the donor aircraft in favour of L8032, even giving up her Bristol Mercury VIII engine that had just eight hours logged since being installed.
Following being ‘cherry picked’ to support the successful rebuild of L8032 that culminated in her flight in 1952, N5903 languished in the back of the hangar until both aircraft were sold to Gloster for a token sum of £50. L8032 attended displays across the country for the next few years in the hands of Gloster. Little however, is known about the movements of N5903 in this intervening period. It is assumed she accompanied L8032 when she was presented to the Shuttleworth Trust in 1960. In 1971 N5903 was loaned by the Shuttleworth Trust to the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton. She was in a sad state when she arrived at Yeovilton, with no engine, propeller, or spinner.
Following refurbishment work our Gladiator was placed on static display in 1978 at Yeovilton in a spurious Fleet Air Arm colour scheme as Sea Gladiator N2276, complete with a dummy arrestor hook under the rear fuselage, wooden flaps and a glass-fibre spinner.
Following purchase from the Shuttleworth Collection the Gladiator joined The Fighter Collection fleet in 1994, arriving by road at Duxford from Yeovilton on December 1. Due to other priorities within the collection our Gladiator had to take her place in ‘the queue’ and progress with the rebuild was initially slow. By 2004 she started to show signs of real progress following the results of concerted efforts by the TFC Engineering Team and the contracting out of the fuselage woodwork to Skysport Engineering. In 2006 the rebuilt wings were trial-fitted to the fuselage which had her looking much more Gladiator-like once again. 2007 saw the fabric work completed by Vintage Fabrics, who also applied the wonderful 72 Sqn scheme she wears today. As an aside 72 Sqn was the first frontline RAF squadron to be equipped with Gladiators at Hornchurch, Essex in March 1937. The Squadron colour scheme consisted of red and blue bars along the fuselage sides and on the upper surface of the top wing, all of which are faithfully replicated on N5903. In addition to these markings our Gladiator also wears the blue fin and forward tailplanes denoting the personal aircraft of the ‘B’ Flight commander. By late 2007 the re-covered and painted wings were refitted, this time permanently, to the fuselage and N5903 became the main topic of question from the public, mainly “when will she fly?” to which the answer was always a cautious “when she is ready”.
The first post restoration flight for our Gladiator was a low-key affair occurring in the week running up to Flying Legends 2008, on Thursday 10th July, with TFC Chief Pilot Pete Kynsey (PK) the man in the hot seat. Only a few days later N5903 looked resplendent sitting in the sunshine on the flightline garnering a great deal of attention from the visitors to our world famous airshow. It was on the Sunday of the airshow with the flightline walk just about to close, when PK could be found once again strapping himself in and to the delight of the gathered crowds N5903 taxied out and took off for a test flight. Unfortunately due to a number of factors these were the only flights N5903 undertook and she was returned to the hangar. Over the next few years she underwent some minor work which culminated in a test flight on Wednesday 1st May, 2013, with PK at the controls once again. Since then it has been a popular performer, even undertaking the ‘Joker’ routine at Legends on more than one occasion!”
Yuri: “Actually, we have dinner reservations in less than an hour, and we would love it if you would both join us. We look forward to becoming better acquainted with you, Xavier. Do we not, girls?”
Lark: *tentative smile at Xavier* “Um, sure.”
Kumi: *mutters* “Whatevs.”
Sparrow: *considering look at Xavier* “What do you think, XL? You up for dinner with the natives, who, I assure you, are neither friendly nor civil. Kumi’s been known to stab things that irk her.”
Xavier (unconcernedly): “Dealing with three pissed off women is a regular Saturday night for me, mon ange. Or at least it was until I met you and stopped frequenting bars. Let’s do it. Hey, Lark, did you know your cabinet’s broken?”
Lark: “Um, yes. Kind of a hard thing to miss.”
Xavier: “It doesn’t really reflect well on your business, does it? Having broken stuff? I mean you’re already selling used wares as it is. Is the cabinet, uh…*smirks infuriatingly* ‘vintage,’ too?”
Lark: *eyes narrow, drawls* “Oh, yeah, Row. He’s a real charmer. I’m all aflutter.”
Xavier: *grins, as he walks around the cabinet, pops the back panel on, and studies it* “The clasp is bent. You just need to…*looks around, grabs a pair of scissors and goes to work*
Lark: “Uh, that’s okay, I’d rather just let Wren—”
Xavier: “Done. There you go. All fixed.”
Lark: *sighs, grudgingly* “Thanks. I guess.”
Sparrow (proudly): “XL’s really handy. He helps around the clinic with repairs all the time.”
Yuri: “So, I assume you call him XL because of his initials, Row?”
Sparrow: “Mmm…*swallows her last bite of cookie, brushing wayward crumbs from her sweater* that’s part of it. Initially, I started calling him XL because of his overlarge personality. And, then, after I, uh—*stops talking abruptly, flushing*
Xavier (wickedly): “After she saw me naked for the first time, it was for other things entirely. N'est-ce pas, mon cœur?”
Sparrow: *clears throat* “One thing in particular, yes.”
Kumi: *suddenly riveted by the conversation* “Really?”
Xavier: “I believe her exact words were ‘Oh là là!’”
Girls (gleefully): “Oh là là?”
Sparrow: *nods earnestly * “Ooooh là là!”
Xavier: *smiles smugly, wrapping his arms around Sparrow’s waist* “Oh, yeeeeah.”
Kumi (cheerfully): “Well, in that case, you have my blessing, Row! May he always put the ‘ooooh’ in your ‘là làs’!”
Girls: *raise their coffee cups, enthusiastically* “Oui-oui!”
Continued Next Tuesday…
Fashion Credits
**Any doll enhancements (i.e. freckles, piercings, eye color changes) were done by me unless otherwise stated.**
Yuri
Slacks: IT – Fashion Royalty – Optic Verve Agnes
Top: Clear-lan
Sweater: Dressmaker Details – Feet First Fashion
Belt: IT – NuFace – London Mist Imogen
Shoes: IT – Monogram – Extravagance
Earrings: IT – Poppy Parker
Bracelets from ‘Gluttony’ Set: Knife’s Edge Designs (me)
Doll is a Nu.Fantasy Red Riding Hood Yuri transplanted to a NuFace body.
Kumi
Skirt: Jakks-Pacific – Hannah Montana Lilly Doll
Crochet Top: Katalina
Belt: Randall Craig RTW – The Secretary
Shoes: IT – NuFace – Morning Dew Giselle
Earrings & Ring: IT – NuFace – Miracle Child Ayumi
Doll is a Nu.Fantasy Wild Wolf Kumi transplanted to a NuFace body.
Lark
Dress: yukostevens (etsy.com)
Bodysuit: IT – NuFace – Great Pretender Lilith
Belt: Randall Craig RTW – Delightful
Shoes: IT – NuFace – Great Pretender Lilith
Cuff Bracelet: IT
Free Radical Earrings: Knife’s Edge Designs (me)
Doll is a Great Pretender Lilith.
Sparrow
Skirt: Volks – Who’s That Girl? – Natural Love
Sweater: Randal Craig RTW - Separate
Belt: Randall Craig RTW – Belt Accessory Pack
Boots: Dressmaker Details – Casual Comfort
Metallic Mesh Earrings: Knife’s Edge Designs (me)
Bracelet from ‘Greed’ Set: Knife’s Edge Designs
Doll is a London Mist Imogen.
Xavier
Jeans: IT – Homme – Style Strategy Lukas
Shirt & Jacket: BFMC – New England Escape Fashion Set
Belt: Volks – Who’s That Girl? – Selfish
Shoes: IT – Homme – Euro-Classic Fashion
Necklace: Me
Doll is a Leading Man Lukas.
Actually Shinjuku Golden Gai is an area of tiny shanty-style bars, but it is without doubt his spiritual home. Now he has to come back to his home as soon as possible.
Actually, I'm not sure what this is called. I've been told that this is a buttercup. But it's a bright yellow flower that grows easily in these parts. This image was darkened to show the details.
I actually had fun with this today. For once it didn't feel like something I had to do, I just enjoyed doing it. I think part of that was being able to let some emotion out through this. I have to thank my step sister for the help, since those are her hands. There's still so much more I have to do and learn before I get any good, but I'm proud of myself today. Sure, the lighting still needs work and a few other things, but I think all in all it turned out pretty well.
Can you see Nessie's nose?
The title is a take off on "Love, Actually" - which West pans. A collection of 20-odd movie reviews compared to "The Fugitive." A very funny book about movies and culture...
Actually the first cold spell of this winter is hitting Western Europe.
It's -7°C and the forecast talks about -14° and less until next week. Brrrrrrrrr ....
Campfire in Mara Serena Safari Lodge, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa
Much better Large On Black with a cup of hot tea :-))
This picture is actually the original photo for my version of the goddess of the sun but I was hesitant to post it because I don't want any debate or send any negative impression to you guys. Now, dolly friends I want you to keep an open mind here. This is purely for art-sake. I grew up in a very religious family, I knew how to pray the holy rosary at age 5 in both English and Filipino. I studied in a catholic school up to college. I grew up surrounded by different beautiful images of the blessed virgin, Christ and the saints. I always find it fascinating and even collected them as a child. (weird but true.) Now that I'm all grown up and other people influenced me with my opinions and beliefs, I think Images are just beautiful depiction of who God is and What Mary and Jesus looked like. it's just an art. IMO.
This is actually a Canadian built Bolingbroke, RCAF serial ‘10201’, which is now fitted with a genuine MkI Blenhiem nose. It represents ‘L6739’, a MkI of 23sqn in September 1939.
This was its first Legends after it was rebuilt as a MkI.
2015 Flying Legends Airshow.
Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK.
12-7-2015
The following info is from the Flying Legends website:-
“The Bristol Blenheim Mk.I is a truly unique British aircraft. As a type the aircrafts history is long and formative and an important milestone in the history of British aviation. Designed as a small airliner in the early 1930s by Frank Barnwell, Chief Designer of the Bristol Aircraft Company, it was funded by Lord Rothermere who named it ‘Britain First’. It proved much faster than the latest biplane fighters, with a speed of over 300mph, and Rothermere promptly donated it to the nation.
Barnwell then redesigned the aircraft as a bomber and it became the first stressed skin aircraft with hydraulic actuated undercarriage, flaps and turret to be accepted by the Royal Air Force. It was the fastest bomber of the day and it became the backbone of the RAFs light bomber force. At the start of WWII the RAF had 1089 Blenheim’s in service more than any other type.
The Blenheim bore the brunt of daylight operations during the early war years, whilst other bombers were switched to night operations, and the crews paid a heavy price. Many Blenheim’s were lost not only to fighters but to anti-aircraft fire especially when attacking ships. Even so it was well liked by its crews and Churchill paid homage to their bravery comparing them to the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.
The Blenheim was pressed into many roles for which it was not primarily designed, such as long range and night fighter duties. It became the first radar equipped night fighter and got the first kill using that equipment.
The first Blenheim project a Canadian licensed built MKIV, which they called Bolingbroke, was recovered in a derelict state and restored to fly after a twelve year rebuild by a small dedicated team led by a licensed aircraft engineer. It made its debut in May 1987 only to be destroyed in an accident exactly one month later, suffice to say that the accident was not due to a mechanical fault.
Determined not to be without a Blenheim another airframe was found and the same team gave themselves five years to complete the project with the aircraft flying in May 1993, it became the only flying example of a Blenheim representing the light bombers of the early war years. Flying for ten years from Duxford on behalf of the late Graham Warner, the aircraft was well known on the air show circuit and flew with great success building an enviable serviceability record amongst the vintage aircraft fraternity.
In August 2003 the aircraft suffered an accident whilst landing at Duxford, again through no mechanical fault with the aircraft, and suffered significant damage. The aircraft was dismantled with the ownership subsequently transferring to Blenheim (Duxford) Ltd in December 2003.
It was decided that the aircraft could be repaired and work started with a team jointly made up of full time staff and the original and some new volunteers. Initially work concentrated on the centre section and fuselage and it was at this stage a feasibility study was carried out to see if the aircraft could be converted to Blenheim MkI status. A MkI nose had come into possession of the team and it was realised that the production break at the rear of the fuselage was the same for all marks of Blenheim so the decision was made to go ahead with the conversion. The conversion did cause some headaches in that although the main fling controls are in the same position in the British and Canadian variants it is in the positioning of the ancillary controls such as throttles, pitch, carburetor and hydraulic controls, the positioning of instruments and the rerouting of hydraulic and electrical lines that would take time.
The MkI nose had been donated to the team and had an interesting history in its own right; it had been obtained by a Bristol employee Ralph Nelson after WWII and converted to a car. He had mounted it on an Austin Seven chassis and with help of colleagues completed the conversion. The car was battery powered and he drove the vehicle around Bristol until 1957 when it was damaged by fire. The conversion necessitated the nose being modified to create doors and interior fittings so basically destroyed the stress skin construction, so after jigging to maintain its integrity a considerable amount of manufacture of new airframe parts had to be carried out including reskinning. Fortunately Ralph had kept a considerable amount of the interior fittings and most of the control systems including the seat and these were refurbished and refitted.
A data plate in the nose revealed its build number and that it had been built by AVRO. Contact with Avro’s heritage Centre showed that the aircraft serial was L6739 being issued to 23 Squadron on 2nd September 1939. It fought throughout the Battle of Britain as a night fighter before being struck off charge in December 1940 after being damaged. Further research revealed that it had carried the codes YP-Q and a photo was found of it ground running at Wittering in February 1940. This has enabled the aircraft to be painted in the authentic colours worn in 1939-1940 and fitted with the MKI(f) gun pack.
The Mercury engines were overhauled in house being stripped down to their component parts and checked for wear and damage and reassembled. All ancillary items such as magnetos, carburettors, pumps and the many items that make up the engines examined and checked for airworthiness before being fitted.
After 11 years of painstaking work, on the 20th November 2014 Chief Pilot John Romain and James Gilmour as Flight Engineer took Blenheim MkI(f) on its maiden flight at Duxford for a successful 26 minute test flight, following some minor adjustments a further two test flights were carried out.
The Blenheim received its full Permit to fly at the end of 2014, enabling the aircraft to be ready for the 2015 season.”
Actually, I asked Zorie to make a heart shape with her hands on her head, but it came to this....haha
Actually, the gentleman on the right was wandering around this huge parking lot, stumbling, drooling, and eventually sat back onto some snow and laid down. What was so great about this scenario is the Burger King associates noticed this and sprung into action as they went outside and stood over him (he eventually was able to sit up, then stand up again) until the police arrived. One gentleman who stopped in a passing truck said he'd notified the police as he had a Son who was disabled and not able to walk and he was very concerned. Humanity is alive and well at Burger King.
The officers handled this very, very well. No one was beaten up. Eventually three officers were on the scene and all of them were very professional. I tip my hat to them on this one.
As I understood from what i could hear, he'd wandered from his Grandmother's house quite a distance away. There appeared to be some medication conflicts.
Burger King, unlike McDonald's, does not have a problem with customers or visitors using their phone to make 911 calls, if need be, which is always good to know.
We actually made it to the burn this year! We didn't sleep through it.
blowing fire, poi, spinning fire.
bonfire.
person.
Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, Artemas, Pennsylvania.
June 11, 2016.
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BACKSTORY: Well, that was a crazy burn! So much shit I never expected to do, at WickerMan Burn 2016!
- Damaged Carolyn's car on the way in so that it permanently squeaks, except it got better by the time we left
- Ate a tequila worm (so much more chewing than you would imagine!) when naked-goddess-bartender poured me one, randomly. (I had to check that it wasn't something from the woods)
- Watched fireworks so dangerously close that I needed first aid for a burned eyeball (could this be why the vision in that eye went bad this year?)
- Learned to weave. On aloom. And wove some. Took video of weaving.
- worried about this spleen issue I have that is starting to feel less like a pain, and more like an actual tumor that you can distinctly feel on one side (still hurting as of 2017, CT Scan found nothing)
- controlled huge flamethrowers with laserbeams & buttons
- fun stuff on top of a 20-ft wooden ziggurat art installation (Carolyn was too scared to go up!)
- Watched a firework fireball zoom past Carolyn's head (she didn't even flinch) and catch the ground on fire 1 foot from her feet
- Made out with both members of a couple (beards can be soft?)
- Bounced in a moon bounce
- Saw Carolyn fall off a bounce-house ramp, tumbling in mid air, as onlookers screamed (one massage later, she's fine)
- Played with propane bubbles (cover hand, stick in fire, watch self burn) with zero regard for my safety or even knowing what they were ("other people aren't dying when they do this, so i'll do this, whatever this is. no, i won't ask anybody any questions about it or learn anything safety-related")
- Treated 2nd degree cooking burn with actual aloe leaves someone bundled up, just in case. Only had to walk 20 feet from my camp! No relation to previous bullet point.
- Tried [REDACTED]
- Used logical deduction to guide a damsel in distress to her campsite that she could not find, even though I had never been there. (If you want to flatter me, make me feel like Aragorn. I also accept pints of cherry tomatoes & great conversation)
- Received tons of compliments about my hair & badass cartoon shirt (and about my brain) (but I get that a lot... it's the others I'm not so used to)
- Worried about Andrea in rehab. Did all kinds of crazy things to maintain connectivity to check up on her. A lotta good that did. RIP, Andrea.
- Learned to always great one specific person with "Hi, Clint!" (Her name is not Clint. This is how she prefers greetings.)
- Wore My Little Pony boxer-briefs around strangers
- Sent video from the middle of the woods with a phone that only works when plugged in (tricky)
- Met the creator of games I've played for 15 yrs, & found out that the vintage set of game pieces my aunt found me in a thrift store are so rare that he was re-telling people about our set... Even when we weren't even there. So honored! To tell the man who invented Fluxx that you had the original Fluxx back when that was the only Fluxx you could get was awesome, too.
- But to make a reference to a specific episode of 2 Stupid Dogs to the creator of Fluxx, and have him know it and repeat it back... Wow.
- Chastised by Channy for not knowing how to spell my own name on facebook, becuase she wanted pictoral proof of my story that did not believe -- that the deer shit that came out of the deer when my Bonneville was totalled (while driving back from Dirk's) had splattered onto my car in the shape of Pluto the Dog's face. I totally sent her that picture!
- Lost 1 of 2 cameras, resulting in our pictures being quite incomplete (gee, real Burnery of whoever found it to not bother giving it back. If I find someone else's camera, I guess this means I'll have to keep it to break even?)
- Learned I can consistently inhale an entire nitrous oxide cartridge in one lungful
- Randomly given 2 beers by someone, only to ask to see her face, and, after introductions, us all realizing we already know each other already and are FB friends already (wtf?! what are the odds?!)
Saw a truck covered in fire driving down the mountain like nothing was going on. Overheard: "Are you seeing that? Is that real?"
Phew? Did I get everything? I don't know! One night, I never saw my camp during the night time, at all.