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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).
Actually, there were many more, but this is how I cropped it. These elk came over a rise, and toward us, looking agitated. We heard two separate groups of coyote howling about this time, but I'm sure they posed no threat to elk. Tule elk, Point Reyes National Seashore, California.
Actually, I realized that what I took to be rhubarb stems that I had cut and frozen was actually chard stems. So while the finished dessert was less tart and more vegetal, it still was quite tasty. A never before made dessert, and likely not to be intentionally made again. I do recall as a young boy enjoying delicious desserts made by my great aunts that seemed unlikely combinations: such as tomato soup cake and sauerkraut chocolate cake.
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).
There's actually a fourth, but it's black, so it's hard to see. Bigger is Better
Actually I was testing out the new lens that I got. I wanted an more standard focal length on my Busch Pressman D. The results turned out great. Lit from the right with an Alien Bee B1600. Shot at f16 @125 on Tmax 100 sheet film. Developed in Kodak HC-110 Dilution B. Setup link: www.flickr.com/photos/wild_ferret/13596233684/in/photostr...
Actually before the BNSF freight arrived, the westbound Califonia Zephyr almost aced the shot of 211. The Big Game motor led the way.
Café Landtmann
(further pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Café Landtmann at the Palais Lieben-Auspitz, left the University Ring
The Café Landtmann, photographed from the roof of the Burgtheater
Winter garden and summer beer garden, behind the Town Hall
Great Hall at Café Landtmann
Schanigarten
(Wikipedia: Schanigarten is the Austro-Bavarian term for tables and chairs set up on the sidewalk in front of eating and drinking places. Unlike normal beer gardens (Gastgärten), the customers actually sit on public property. Originally, Schanigärten (pl.) referred only to Viennese coffee houses, but now the expression is used in other parts of Austria and for other types of establishments like restaurants and taverns)
Projection on the façade
Winter Garden, looking towards Universitätsring
The Zuckerkandl room in Landtmann's Bel-Etage
The Café Landtmann in Vienna is a typical Viennese coffee house in the Ringstrasse style. It is located in the first District at the University Ring 4, corner Löwelstraße 22, and is known throughout the city.
Location
The cafe is located on the ground floor of the Palais Lieben-Auspitz called Mietwohnhauses (apartment building), in the immediate vicinity of the Burgtheater, the University of Vienna and the party headquarters of the Social Democrats and close to the Vienna City Hall with the City Hall Park, the Federal Chancellery and three ministries. The café is therefore frequented by, among other actors, politicians, civil servants and journalists and is the venue for press conferences.
History
The coffee was on 1 October 1873 of the Cafétier (café owner) Landtmann as "Vienna 's most elegant and largest café-localities" in a prominent, 1872 built corner house at the at the time also new Franzensring (so to 1919 the address of this part of Vienna's Ringstrasse) opened. The ring road was indeed opened by emperor Franz Joseph I in 1865, but still long not completed in the area of the coffee house: The city hall was under construction since 1872, but was only opened in 1883. The university main building was built 1877-1884, the Burgtheater from 1874 to 1888. The coffee was thus in his early years surrounded mainly by large construction sites.
1881 sold Landtmann his coffeehouse to the brothers Wilhelm and Rudolf Kerrl who continued it under the name Landtmann and extended it in the direction of Oppolzergasse. Rudolf soon retired from active business life, Wilhelm Kerrl led on the café alone until 1916 and then sold it, worn down by the economy of scarcity of the First World War, to Karl Anton Kraus, previously a butcher and innkeeper. He led the coffee for only five years, because in 1921 it was operated by a Hokare Ges.mbH (unlimited company) (the name stands for hotel, coffee and restoration companies). This company had to be liquidated 1925/1926.
The Café Landtmann was now bought in the fall of 1926 by Mr. and Mrs. Conrad and Angela Zauner. The new owners had it in 1929 after a design by Ernst Meller, experienced in the establishment of coffee houses, fully restored: with the preserved to this day interior which is under preservation order. Particularly striking are four wooden pillars at the entrance, which were created by Hans Scheibner and their decoration representing premiere scenes of the Burgtheater. With this elaborate interior design Landtmann consolidated its position as the most elegant café in town. In 1949, Konrad Zauner's son Erwin took the management of the café and led it on with great success.
In 1974 the company received the National Award and since then it is allowed to use the Federal coat of arms in commercial transactions. In 1976, the present owner family took the local and renovated it in 1980 again.
In the café was Robert Böck, on duty only called Mr. Robert, working for 28 years, many years as head waiter in a tuxedo, and he knew all the important guests personally. On his last working day, on 23 December 2003, many celebrities came to his departure from the cafe. Mayor Michael Häupl served Mr. Robert, who had so often served him a "little brown". To this end, he handed him the "Golden Rathausmann" "for the most famous, most discreet and most accommodating waiter of Vienna".
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldener_Rathausmann_(Wien)
Details
Small stage
In the basement below the coffee was after Czeike already 1936-1938 the Cabaret 'Merry Landtmann" for the dancer Cilli Wang set up by her husband. 1953 in the basement the small stage "The Tribune" was established (since 2002: "The new stand", directed by Karl Heinz Wukow). It is one of the numerous small Viennese theaters that operate with modest public support and which offer authors, actors and directors fields of application.
Winter Garden
2007 was built a conservatory on the facade towards the castle theater, designed by Manfred Wehdorn by 1.5 million euros (Bernd Querfeld). With 87 square meters and 29 tables, the conservatory is almost as spacious as the great hall of the café; thus the capacity of the premises has been extended by a quarter.
Landtmann's Bel-Etage
2012 were opened above the café three function rooms, which are referred to as "Landtmann's Bel-Etage". One of the rooms is named after Berta Zuckerkandl, which in the house (entrance Oppolzergasse 6) from 1917 to 1938 run her famous salon, meeting place of artists, scientists and politicians.
Price of water
2013 got the coffee into media because guests who instead of ordering other beverages only want drink tap water this service no longer receive free. The scheme has been criticized partly violently. The glass of water for ordered coffee, as it corresponds to the Viennese coffee house tradition, still is served free.
Miscellaneous
In the Café Landtmann are according to indications of the owner family on average held 2.8 press conferences per day.
Since 2003, the café is every summer venue of the coffee house theater ink & coffee.
In March 2009, was opened in Tokyo in the central district of Minato-ku, in fact, in the district Kitaaoyama in the Aoyama Street, a "Café Landtmann" called local opened.
Guests
The coffee house was according to Czeike visited, among others, by the artists Attila Hörbiger, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Kokoschka, Hans Moser, Max Reinhardt, Oskar Werner and Paula Wessely. Among the politicians he names Julius German, Robert Dannenberg and Karl Seitz, who were part of the "Red Vienna", and in the postwar period the then very popular Chancellor Julius Raab. Gustav Mahler was encountering here with Karl Goldmark, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich were among the "by-trotting" guests, the authors Jura Soyfer, Felix Salten, Thomas Mann and John Boynton Priestley also frequented the Landtmann. The owners themselves mention over and above Peter Altenberg, Sigmund Freud, Emmerich Kálmán, Curd Jürgens, Otto Preminger and Romy Schneider as regulars.
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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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
Actually, Mary was receiving some important nutrients for her joints. Mary's at a pretty mature stage of life!
actually taken with a Canon EOS 6D and EF 8-15mm fisheye, mounted on top of a carbon fiber pole, that was reinfored with steel cables.
in my right hand you can see the remote trigger
Taken (actually before) my Phototour yesterday with kwerfeldein through karlsruhe.
Those letters are part of an installation by the "Kunstakademie Karlsruhe" (Academy of Arts at Karlsruhe). You can find out the whereabouts in the geotag.
Here's a link (in German) about the installation
actually i ran out of red yarn and added mint color to the kitty
i think it looks good with a bright touch :)
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.
I was practicing mixing greens. I thought I might as well make something with my greens.
This is Mensingebos in Roden.
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.
...is actually a repeated pattern as it takes place much more often than just this lovely season.
Living with white requires some attention - not having pets and children at the moment helps - and of course frequent cleaning procedures.
The covers of these fairly old Ikea sofas have survived a few dosins of washes, as they are being washed almost every second month!
Here, as being put on fresh, no previous ironing required ( chosing the "light ironing" programm in the washing mashine helps a bit though)
Picture taken late inthe afternoon...
Whaddaya think? I could make a little booklet out of the whole series.. Thoughts? Sketch by Hound Knight. :D
actually the Batquad
This is not Batgirl in Gotham City
It was at the
Manchester Comic Con
MCMexpo
Manchester Central
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 :-))
Actually, I'm not sure if that's what I was getting on this particular day, but chouquettes are a pretty good guess. I think this image was taken some time last year, when I woke up one morning and decided to indulge in breakfast (or at least a supplemental breakfast) at the local French Bakery, St. Honoré. If you haven't been there; you must... they also serve delicious things for lunch (I highly recommend the turkey and cheese croissant).
Mmm. Warm, golden mornings and chouquettes. I guess I should stop there before I make myself hungry.
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.
This is actually the final two aircraft of a five ship formation consisting of four Hurricanes and a Bristol Blenheim, which flew despite appalling weather.
Leading here is the Historic Aircraft Collections familiar Canadian built Hurricane XII (G-HURI).
Trailing is newly restored Mk.I 'V7497 / SD-X', c/n 41H-136172. Flying as G-HRLI, it was making its first public appearance having only arrived at Duxford during the preceding week.
2018 Battle of Britain Airshow (incorporating RAF100 celebrations).
Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire, UK.
22nd September 2018.
another shot from my Miranda shoot say WHAT?!
yuuuupsss..
sorry for nothing newer and more up to date but i babysat nearly ALL DAY today and i was beat. and i love this. so yahh<3 haaha. new picture taken and uploaded tomorrow. WOOT CHAMPION!:) bwuahah.
in other news:
making an eminem shirt.
gonna go turn coins into cash.
gotta new blanket today.
i have a candy cane pen sitting next to me.
and.. uhm..
i like.. cake?
24,000+ stream views!? jdskld;fkjksla; <333 flickaahh
Well its still actually late winter/super early spring and I have all of these cool (cool as in temperature LOL) season flowers in at the hotel where I am the landscape designer..all planted along the pathways that follow the large 200,00 g pond !!!! This photo doesnt capture that there are actually around 200 flowers/shrubs !!
Soldados de infantería, equipados con armas de brickarms ( www.brickarms.com ) y cascos de Hazel ( www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=AMAZING_ARMORY )
Actually, I have no idea what happened as we have a west and south view in the frame. I blame it on AI and Chat GPT?
Actually they both complain about not being able to have a drink, and how their husbands, although they are trying to help, just don’t seem to understand what a woman goes through.
All Saints, Ringsfield, Suffolk
A delightfully set and deceptively rural church. Ringsfield is actually a rather suburban village to the south of Beccles. The parish name will be familiar to X-Files fans and conspiracy theorists, because this parish was one of the centres of the great crop circle enthusiasm of the 1970s, presumably because its name and that of neighbouring Shipmeadow seemed deliberately chosen by the Anglo-Saxons to encourage flying saucers to land. I'm told that there is one Ringsfield farmer who still cuts a crop circle into his barley field to attract tourists, to whom ice creams may be sold.
The church sits some way to the north of the village, and the churchyard is a delight, allowed to go back to nature over the spring and summer and then cut back in the autumn after the wild flowers have seeded. On the north side of the church, tucked into the angle between the nave and the transept, is a flamboyant angel, looking for all the world like a French war memorial. This is not so far from the truth, for here is the grave of Princess Caroline Murat, the great-niece of Napoleon Bonaparte and a grand-daughter of the King of Naples. It seems that she married the local squire, and in her dying she injects a note of the surreal into the setting.
Apart from the tower and the western end of the nave, the church is almost entirely Victorian, the work of the great William Butterworth in the 1880s. He was also responsible for the refurbishment of nearby Ellough and Redisham. The church appears sunken within the graveyard, perhaps as a result of the importation of earth over the centuries to enable further burials. You have the impression of walking between green and yellow banks to reach the south door on the far side.
Here, on the south side of the church, there is another splendid sight, for a great brick memorial to Nicholas Garneys, who died in 1599 was reset here at the time of the Victorian restoration. A great arch encloses a terracotta mermaid. The memorial has that great rarity, a surviving external brass. Oddly, a modern gravestone nearby also has a brass inscription.
Butterworth's extension of the nave and rebuilding of the chance accentuates what is a common feature of churches around here, the sense of being in a long tunnel. This sense is increased further at Ringsfield by the dimness of the interior, punctuated as it is by jewel-like windows. Butterworth took out the box pews and even a western gallery, and so this interior must have been very cramped indeed.
Probably the best of the glass is the Annunication scene under the tower, which Sam Mortlock says is the only work in Suffolk by the Bell & Beckham workshop. I must say, it looks like the work of Alexander Gibbs to me. There is an excellent series of Saints and Old Testament figures by Clayton & Bell along the north side.
To the south, there are two outstanding pieces of continental glass, probably dating from the 17th century and installed here as the gift of a collector. One depicts the Adoration of the Magi in haunting detail, and the other is a delightful and simple roundel of Mary and Joseph looking for the infant Christ. Unseen to his parents, he is glimpsed through a doorway, standing on a table in the temple, preaching.
A great curiosity is the Laudian screen of the early 17th Century. Did it come from here originally, I wonder? It is coloured gold and black, with Latin texts and carving. The finials are jaunty pyramids, and I do not think there is another one like it anywhere in Suffolk. Beside it is the contemporary pulpit - or, at least, what is left of it. Pulpits of this period are rather more common than screens, of course, but what survives here apart from the back boards is the octagonal tester, a sounding board placed above the minister so that his sermon can ring out. It is octagonal but small, perfectly in proportion, and the whole piece must have looked very elegant. Beyond, in Butterfield's chancel, are some contemporary stalls. Presumably the lost box pews and west gallery were of a similar date. You can't help thinking what this interior must have looked like before Butterfield got his hands on it.