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Hoodlem - Ta-Nehisi Tattoo (BOM)

Chacma baboons grooming time at Cape Point nature reserve

The Parlour reopened

I can't thank enough Linuin for sharing with all of us The Parlour

HBW 😊😊😍

I.

"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly;

" 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.

The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,

And I have many pretty things to shew when you are there."

"Oh no, no!" said the little fly, "to ask me is in vain,

For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again."

II.

"I'm sure you must be weary, with soaring up so high,

Will you rest upon my little bed?" said the spider to the fly.

"There are pretty curtains drawn around, the sheets are fine and thin;

And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in."

"Oh no, no!" said the little fly, "for I've often heard it said,

They never, never wake again, who sleep upon your bed!"

III.

Said the cunning spider to the fly, "Dear friend, what shall I do,

To prove the warm affection I've always felt for you?

I have, within my pantry, good store of all that's nice;

I'm sure you're very welcome – will you please to take a slice?"

"Oh no, no!" said the little fly, "kind sir, that cannot be,"

I've heard what's in your pantry, and I do not wish to see."

IV.

"Sweet creature!" said the spider, "you're witty and you're wise.

How handsome are your gauzy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!

I have a little looking-glass upon my parlour shelf,

If you'll step in one moment, dear, you shall behold yourself."

"I thank you, gentle sir," she said, "for what you're pleased to say,

And bidding you good morning now, I'll call another day."

V.

The spider turned him round about, and went into his den,

For well he knew, the silly fly would soon come back again:

So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner, sly,

And set his table ready, to dine upon the fly.

Then he went out to his door again, and merrily did sing,

"Come hither, hither, pretty fly, with the pearl and silver wing;

Your robes are green and purple – there's a crest upon your head;

Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead."

VI.

Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little fly,

Hearing his wily, flattering words, came slowly flitting by;

With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew,

Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue:–

Thinking only of her crested head, poor foolish thing! – At last

Up jumped the cunning spider, and fiercely held her fast.

VII.

He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den,

Within his little parlour – but she ne'er came out again!

– And now, dear little children, who may this story read,

To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:

Unto an evil counsellor, close heart, and ear, and eye,

And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly

Mary Howitt (1829)

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New pose 'Beauty parlour' available now :)

Set design by 'LaPlegua' :D

Empty shopping Mall, used for an exhibition "Lost Places"

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A lot of sprucing up going on here , not surprised after all the pushing and shoving for foody bits being thrown at them by some of the people here at Earlswood Lakes . See what I mean in the first comment box !

You would have thought I would have enough of birds after last week and the SSC challenge , today there were swans , Canada Geese , Greylag Geese, Coots, Mallards , Heron etc !!

At the Geffrye Museum in London

Beautiful colours in an old homestead at the Cultra Folk museum.

Thank you so much

Team Flickr for Explore! Award

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This capture would have never been possible with out the hard work of so many teams this award is for you!!!

6/100: 100 x challenge - Flowers

6/100: 100 Flowers 2020

5/52: 52/12 challenge - Historic

I'm hoping I can get away with this as historic as primulas date back to Victorian times. I also tried to make the image look like a Victorian parlour.

I bought the primula from A Bunch of Wild. A lovely little pop up florist/gift shop in Ampthill, Bedfordshire where I also happened upon this gorgeous vintage style fabric, in a charity shop.

Texture by www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/49067382632/in/datepos... Thank you for your generosity.

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Come into my parlour said the spider to the...Small Copper butterfly.

Old men playing traditional Japanese board games Shogi and I-go in a parlour in Osaka. Once a common sight, these parlours are now largely a thing of the past...

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Another archived image I am revisiting/editing. Thanks for your appreciation, Gail

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get nature in your home!

The Parlour Palm, or Parlor Palm in America, or by its Latin name of Neanthe bella is one of the most sought after indoor palms around today. The reasons for this couldn't be more straight forward - It thrives in our homes and workplaces where other species may struggle and it's also one of the cheapest palms you can buy.

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I have never seen so many ice cream parlours in such a small area nor as big a choice of flavours. I reckon all these girls must have been working 12 hour days.

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Wickman's Field, Tile Hill, Coventry CV

Hôtel de la Marine, 8th arrondissement, Paris. February 13, 2023.

Another Pachinko parlour, across the street and a block away from the last one I posted.

Needless to say, there are lots of Pachinko Parlours in Japan.

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Hotel Europe is a six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property located in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.

Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.

It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.

For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.

The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.

The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.

The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.

A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.

This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.

Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.

It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.

**Please note: All enclosed information has been collected from various online sources and has not been verified to be true or accurate.

Thank-you for visiting

~Christie by the River