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When I was one,
I had just begun.
When I was two,
I was nearly new.
When I was three,
I was hardly me.
When I was four,
I was not much more.
When I was five,
I was just alive.
But now I am six,
I'm as clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six
now and forever.
Today is my Flickrversary! 6 years and 6684 photos posted. I even like one or two of them myself ;-)
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful chaps
They're loaded with vim and with vigor
They love to leap in your laps
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one.
Tiggers are wonderful fellahs.
Tiggers are awfully sweet.
Everyone elses is jealous,
And thats why I repeat...
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Are Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one ...
Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up
And it isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!
A A Milne
The King’s Breakfast
The King asked
The Queen, and
The Queen asked
The Dairymaid:
“Could we have some butter for
The Royal slice of bread?”
The Queen asked the Dairymaid,
The Dairymaid
Said, “Certainly,
I’ll go and tell the cow
Now
Before she goes to bed.”
The Dairymaid
She curtsied,
And went and told
The Alderney:
“Don’t forget the butter for
The Royal slice of bread.”
The Alderney
Said sleepily:
“You’d better tell
His Majesty
That many people nowadays
Like marmalade
Instead.”
The Dairymaid
Said, “Fancy!”
And went to
Her Majesty.
She curtsied to the Queen, and
She turned a little red:
“Excuse me,
Your Majesty,
For taking of
The liberty,
But marmalade is tasty, if
It’s very
Thickly
Spread.”
The Queen said
“Oh!:
And went to
His Majesty:
”Talking of the butter for
The royal slice of bread,
Many people
Think that
Marmalade
Is nicer.
Would you like to try a little
Marmalade
Instead?”
The King said,
“Bother!”
And then he said,
“Oh, deary me!”
The King sobbed, “Oh, deary me!”
And went back to bed.
“Nobody,”
He whimpered,
“Could call me
A fussy man;
I only want
A little bit
Of butter for
My bread!”
The Queen said,
“There, there!”
And went to
The Dairymaid.
The Dairymaid
Said, “There, there!”
And went to the shed.
The cow said,
“There, there!
I didn’t really
Mean it;
Here’s milk for his porringer,
And butter for his bread.”
The Queen took
The butter
And brought it to
His Majesty;
The King said,
“Butter, eh?”
And bounced out of bed.
“Nobody,” he said,
As he kissed her
Tenderly,
“Nobody,” he said,
As he slid down the banisters,
“Nobody,
My darling,
Could call me
A fussy man -
BUT
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!”
There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!
— A.A. Milne
George Eastman House | International Museum of Photography and Film
Rochester, New York
May 2011
Day 5 of our "Travels with Jason".
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
~ A. A. Milne; Winnie the Pooh
The last in my little strawberry series.
I found this sign near a bee hive. Janice is a life-long Winnie the Pooh fan, so I thought she would like the image.
From Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne.
Winnie-the-Pooh wanted to collect some honey up a tree so borrowed a balloon from Christopher Robin and floated up, hanging onto a bit of string, level with the top of the tree. Worried that the bees appeared suspicious, he sang this song to persuade them that he was a cloud.
The Pooh stories were among my childhood favourites and E H Shepard's illustrations are beautiful. The Disney film version isn't a patch on the original.
by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair, also known as Saida. From the A.A Milne book 'A Gallery of Children - 1925.
British postcard by Reflex Marketing, Wellingborough, no. PC 107. Illustration: Ernest H. Shepard / Methuen Children's Books, 1983. Postcard sent by mail in the Netherlands in 1989.
Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925. The character is inspired by a stuffed toy that Milne had bought for his son Christopher Robin in Harrods department store, and a bear they had viewed at London Zoo. Pooh is naive and slow-witted, but he is also friendly, thoughtful, and steadfast. Although he and his friends agree that he is "a bear of very little brain", Pooh is occasionally acknowledged to have a clever idea, usually driven by common sense. The first collection of stories about the character is the book 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926), and this was followed by 'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book 'When We Were Very Young' (1924) and many more in 'Now We Are Six' (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. (Ernest) H. Shepard. The stories are set in Hundred Acre Wood, which was inspired by Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex—situated 30 miles (48 km) south of London—where the Londoner Milne's country home was located.
In 1961, The Walt Disney Company licensed certain films and other rights of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories from the estate of A. A. Milne. Disney adapted the Pooh stories, using the unhyphenated name 'Winnie the Pooh', into a series of features that would eventually become one of its most successful franchises. Since 1966, Disney has released numerous animated productions starring its version of Winnie the Pooh and related characters, starting with the theatrical featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. This was followed by Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974). These three featurettes were combined into a feature-length film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, in 1977. A fourth featurette, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, was released in 1983. A new series of Winnie the Pooh theatrical feature-length films launched in the 2000s, with The Tigger Movie (2000), Piglet's Big Movie (2003), Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005), and Winnie the Pooh (2011). Disney has also produced television series based on the franchise. A. A. Milne's U.S. copyright on the Winnie-the-Pooh character expired on 1 January 2022, as it had been 95 years since publication of the first story. The character has thus entered the public domain in the United States, and Disney no longer holds exclusive rights there. Independent filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield capitalised on this shortly thereafter by producing a horror film titled Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Source: Wikipedia.
oh the wind is lashing lustily
and the trees are thrashing thrustily
and the leaves are rustling gustily
so it's rather safe to say
that it seems that it may turn out to be
it feels that it will undoubtedly
it looks like a rather blustery day, today
it sounds that it may turn out to be
feels that it will undoubtedly
looks like a rather blustery day today
“hum for a blustery day,”
written by richard m. sherman
and robert b. sherman,
and performed by
sterling holloway as pooh bear.
fuji neopan 400
black and white film,
pushed ½ stop,
with a holga camera.
i was thinking about the Tin Man
~ but it was a blustery day,
with the wind
blowing izabel's plastic glitter hat
off her head,
so i went with winnie-the-pooh instead,
notwithstanding the fact
that i'm more of a
wind in the willows kind of guy
"Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYCDNRpyzrM
A. A. Milne:
was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90.
Caravaggio:
Caravaggio’s works were also renowned for their dramatic intensity, achieved through bold contrasts of light and shade (known as chiaroscuro) and through the immediacy of his compositions. They usually feature close-up or cropped figures set against a plain, dark background that pushes them abruptly toward the spectator.
The artist’s life was short, and his unruly behavior attracted as much attention as his revolutionary works. His numerous misdemeanors, documented in police records, culminated with his murder of an opponent during a game of pallacorda, or tennis, and led to his flight from Rome in 1606. By the time of his death in 1610, his style of painting was already the most imitated and influential in Europe.
There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew
Who had so many things which he wanted to do
That, whenever he thought it was time to begin,
He couldn’t because of the state he was in.
He was shipwrecked, and lived on an island for weeks,
And he wanted a hat, and he wanted some breeks;
And he wanted some nets, or a line and some hooks
For the turtles and things which you read of in books.
And, thinking of this, he remembered a thing
Which he wanted (for water) and that was a spring;
And he thought that to talk to he’d look for, and keep
(If he found it) a goat, or some chickens and sheep.
Then, because of the weather, he wanted a hut
With a door (to come in by) which opened and shut
(With a jerk, which was useful if snakes were about),
And a very strong lock to keep savages out.
So he thought of his hut … and he thought of his boat,
And his hat and his breeks, and his chickens and goat,
And the hooks (for his food) and the spring (for his thirst) …
But he never could think which he ought to do first.
And so in the end he did nothing at all,
But basked on the shingle wrapped up in a shawl.
And I think it was dreadful the way he behaved -
He did nothing but basking until he was saved.
There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew
Who had so many things which he wanted to do
That, whenever he thought it was time to begin,
He couldn't because of the state he was in.
He was shipwrecked, and lived on an island for weeks,
And he wanted a hat, and he wanted some breeks;
And he wanted some nets, or a line and some hooks
For the turtles and things which you read of in books.
And, thinking of this, he remembered a thing
Which he wanted (for water) and that was a spring;
And he thought that to talk to he'd look for, and keep
(If he found it) a goat, or some chickens and sheep.
Then, because of the weather, he wanted a hut
With a door (to come in by) which opened and shut
(With a jerk, which was useful if snakes were about),
And a very strong lock to keep savages out.
He began on the fish-hooks, and when he'd begun
He decided he couldn't because of the sun.
So he knew what he ought to begin with, and that
Was to find, or to make, a large sun-stopping hat.
He was making the hat with some leaves from a tree,
When he thought, "I'm as hot as a body can be,
And I've nothing to take for my terrible thirst;
So I'll look for a spring, and I'll look for it first."
Then he thought as he started, "Oh, dear and oh, dear!
I'll be lonely tomorrow with nobody here!"
So he made in his note-book a couple of notes:
"I must first find some chickens" and "No, I mean goats."
He had just seen a goat (which he knew by the shape)
When he thought, "But I must have a boat for escape.
But a boat means a sail, which means needles and thread;
So I'd better sit down and make needles instead."
He began on a needle, but thought as he worked,
That, if this was an island where savages lurked,
Sitting safe in his hut he'd have nothing to fear,
Whereas now they might suddenly breathe in his ear!
So he thought of his hut ... and he thought of his boat,
And his hat and his breeks, and his chickens and goat,
And the hooks (for his food) and the spring (for his thirst) ...
But he never could think which he ought to do first.
And so in the end he did nothing at all,
But basked on the shingle wrapped up in a shawl.
And I think it was dreadful the way he behaved -
He did nothing but bask until he was saved!
Snow is forecast for the coming Winter. But I don't care. It may be an embuggerance, an annoyance, making life difficult, harder to get out and about. But, there is no changing nature, it does what it wants. We must embrace it and roll with it. And to a certain extent it is like life itself. If life throws you lemons, make lemonade, getting rid of the bad ones that are not useful and make you ill. Something I've learned over the last few years. This morning, more than ever, I feel me; the real, true me, and thats who we all need to be true to. Ourselves
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.” A.A Milne
Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne
The Wren Library was completed in 1695 under the Mastership of Isaac Barrow, who persuaded his friend Sir Christopher Wren to design it. The building work was carried out under the supervision of a local master mason, Robert Grumbold, who chose exterior stone with a pinkish tinge from a quarry in Rutland; the stone catches the evening sun quite beautifully.
The Library has exquisite classical proportions and maximises space and light having bookcases below window level. The first floor is decorated with limewood carving by Grinling Gibbons and furnished with a series of Roubiliac marble busts of College alumni, including naturalist John Ray and his friend Francis Willoughby, Richard Bentley, Francis Bacon and Sir Isaac Newton. At the far end of the library is a statue by Thorvaldsen of Lord Byron. This was originally intended for Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, but was refused; Trinity was glad to accept it.
Manuscripts and printed books are kept in the Wren Library and there is also a modern library and reading room, which are not open to visitors. Some of the College's most notable manuscripts are displayed in the Wren Library, including an eighth century copy of the Epistles of St Paul, John Milton's shorter poems in his own handwriting and the original manuscript of Winnie-the-Pooh. The library also holds a small collection of eastern manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit and Hebrew.
The library also contains:
About 1250 medieval manuscripts including the great 12th century Eadwine Psalter from Christ Church Canterbury and the 13th century Anglo-Norman Trinity Apocalypse.
750 15th century printed books, the Capell collection of Shakespeariana, many books from the library of Sir Isaac Newton (see John Harrison, The Library of Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, 1978), the Rothschild collection of 18th century literature and over 70,000 books printed before 1820
This was my second choice image for the week 5 theme. A difficult week but always saved with a quote.
Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Kangna, and Tigger are the original toy animals that inspired the timeless classics by A.A. Mile illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. When We Were Very Young (1924), Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and The House at Pooh Corner (1928) were first published in England by Methuen Company, Ltd, and in America by E.P. Dutton Company, Ltd.
Long before Walt Disney turned Pooh and his pals into movie stars, Christopher Robin Milne, a very real little boy living in England, received a small stuffed bear on his first birthday. Pooh Bear was bought at Harrods in London for Christopher Robin's first birthday. The toys were brought to the United States in 1947 and remained with the American publisher. In 1987, the toys were donated to The New York Public Library, and housed in the Central Children's Room in the Donnell Library Center on 53rd Street. The toys vacated the Center in May of 2008 in advance of the bulding's tear-down to make way for a luxury hotel.
The House at Pooh Corner is the second volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, notable for the introduction of the character Tigger. The title comes from a story in which Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet build a house for Eeyore. Hints that Christopher Robin is growing up, scattered throughout the book, come to a head in the final chapter, in which the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood throw him a farewell party after learning that he must leave them soon--to attend boarding school, it is implied. In the end, as they say good-bye to Christopher Robin, they realize their time together is ending.
Chapter 2, 8, and 9 were adapted into animation with the Disney featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. Similarly, chapters 4 and 7 were adapted into Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!, while chapter 6 was adapted in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. Chapter 8 was also partially adapted into an episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (entitled The Masked Offender). The final chapter was adapted as a closure to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, as well as in the direct-to-video movie Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. However in the book, Christopher was going to boarding school and wouldn't be coming back but in the films he was just going to school and would come back at the end of the day.
A costume award winner, Eeyore's Birthday Party in Austin, Texas, April 25, 2009. Eeyore's Birthday Party is an annual Rite of Spring party in Austin, named in honor of Eeyore, a character in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. The festival has been held every year since 1963 and attendees are heavily costumed.
I guess this year's Eeyore's was the year of Pink Floyd. Seven women with Pink Floyd album covers painted on their backs won the adult costume contest. I love all those Pink Floyd album covers, but this one from the The Division Bell was a favorite.
Photo copyright, Steve Hopson, www.stevehopson.com
Acro Yoga at Eeyore's Birthday Party in Austin, Texas, April 25, 2009. Eeyore's Birthday Party is a Rite of Spring party in Austin held every year since
Photo copyright, Steve Hopson, www.stevehopson.com
Some recent secondhand purchases:
The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary (a 2009 collection of three Caspary stories from the 1940s and one from the 1960s)
Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer (1936; mine is an ex-library copy of the 1971 Dutton hardcover with dust jacket)
The Last of the Country House Murders by Emma Tennant (1974 first US edition hardcover with dust jacket)
Judges (three short stories by Andrew Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo)
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne (1921; mine is a 1978 BCA hardcover with dust jacket)
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough (1987; mine is the 1988 Avon paperback)
This was requested by my friend Brian - he remembers it from his schooldays with particular pleasure.
Well a little cheat here for my letter "R", but it was taken in September! I had intending posting another ring shot today, but I just preferred this one.
My youngest sister got married today, so the "real" POTD is posted below taken as they signed the register. The wedding went really well and a great time was had by everyone who came. My daughter was one of the bridesmaids and my son an usher.
I wish you many years of happiness together, you are a wonderful couple x
The poem in the photo is Us Two by A A Milne, it was read by my brother:
Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.
"What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh.
("Twice what?" said Pooh to Me.)
"I think it ought to be twenty-two."
"Just what I think myself," said Pooh.
"It wasn't an easy sum to do,
But that's what it is," said Pooh, said he.
"That's what it is," said Pooh.
"Let's look for dragons," I said to Pooh.
"Yes, let's," said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the river and found a few-
"Yes, those are dragons all right," said Pooh.
"As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That's what they are," said Pooh, said he.
"That's what they are," said Pooh.
"Let's frighten the dragons," I said to Pooh.
"That's right," said Pooh to Me.
"I'm not afraid," I said to Pooh,
And I held his paw and I shouted "Shoo!
Silly old dragons!"- and off they flew.
"I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he,
"I'm never afraid with you."
So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two,
Can stick together, says Pooh, says he. "That's how it is," says Pooh.
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
-- A.A. Milne (as Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh)
-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
‧ Camera - Nikon D5000 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-55mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 320
‧ Aperture – f/5.6
‧ Exposure – 1/250 second
‧ Focal Length – 55mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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A Shakespeare Sunday 95th anniversary salute to A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh," released October 14, 1926 by Metheun Publishing in North Yorkshire. E.P. Dutton distributed the book in the U.S. Old friends to 4 generations of readers and still going strong.
Festival goers at Eeyore's Birthday Party in Austin, Texas, April 24, 2010. Eeyore's Birthday Party is an annual Rite of Spring party in Austin, named in honor of Eeyore, a character in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. The festival has been held every year since 1963.
Photo Copyright 2010, Steve Hopson.
Week 35: Sunset
Lighting Info: One strobe bounced off the wall to the left, and one bounced off the ceiling.
A festival goer at Eeyore's Birthday Party in Austin, Texas, April 24, 2010. Eeyore's Birthday Party is an annual Rite of Spring party in Austin, named in honor of Eeyore, a character in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. The festival has been held every year since
Photo Copyright 2010, Steve Hopson.