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A great a excuse to get the scalextrix model slot cars out, these new(er) ones have magnetic down force, I had forgotten how well they cornered, even with old and tarnished track, good fun.
Not sure how these out of the box models, compare with the record scale speed of something like 1000mph, but they seem really really fast, which is appropriate Macro Mondays this week..
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September's LFF weekend was a bit different from usual. The evening was tinged with sadness and loss as we had a memorial for Janie Marie Swann, the amazing organiser of LFF who sadly passed away in July.
But it wa also a hugely social night meeting loads of people, friends old and new.
And I did a thing - I made my karaoke debut! It was nerve-wracking but I loved it! After a bit of a shaky start I loved every second!
At the Pack Horse.
glitches in The Matrix. corn dogs ham and Ham, hundred percent Derry area rebound son being about Cabana albuterol I seemed a little bit and then I'll see you in about it I'll come down here.
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Another new destination this weekend. While I have been to Sheffield many times before, never up until now as Emily.
In Hull Paragon station waiting for the train.
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Just a couple of pictures from a night in at home.
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The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. The building houses one of Europe's great civic art collections. Since its refurbishment the museum is the most popular free to enter visitor attraction in Scotland, and the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. It is located on Argyle Street, in the West End of the city, on the banks of the River Kelvin. It is adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and is situated immediately beneath the main campus of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill.
The construction of Kelvingrove was partly financed by the proceeds of the 1888 International Exhibition held in Kelvingrove Park. The gallery was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and opened in 1901. It is built in a Spanish Baroque style, follows the Glaswegian tradition of using local red sandstone, and includes an entire program of architectural sculpture by George Frampton, Francis Derwent Wood and other sculptors. (wikipedia)
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This might just be the perfect couple: Mike and Netty.
Mike and I met 18 years ago, we have now been in each other's lives longer than not. His mom worked with my dad and we were introduced at a company picnic right before 7th grade started. Mike was a *dork* with glasses, braces, a bowl hair cut...I wasn't too cute, either. But I was cool. The first day of 7th grade when he stumbled into me I told him, "Get out of my way, nerd!" By the end of 7th grade we were excellent friends. By high school, we were practically inseparable. I spent more of my high school life in Mike's basement than anywhere else, his mom would make home made pizza for all of us, I grew so close to Mike's family that I called his parents Mumsy and Daddy, and they called me Babs; Mike was an only child and they loved our group of girl-friends and having us over. Mike and I even briefly dated during the period we refer to as "the ugly pupa stage" when neither of us were particularly attractive. We didn't click quite well enough to pull off the long term high school relationship, but we never strayed far from each other's company. We even agreed that if by our mid 20s nothing serious was going on for either of us that we would throw in the towel and marry each other, at least we'd always have fun. We even agreed to get a dog and name it "Rod" so that we could giggle every time one of us yelled, "Come, Rod!" We were dorks, did I mention that?
Luckily for Mike, the amazing Annette came into his life. While in college he was working at a grocery store and helped out a high school senior with something. Wound up dating her. Netty was the best friend. Mike took the girl to prom, Mike's best friend Steve took Netty. Mike and Girl A did not work out, but Netty...there was something about Netty.
One night they were watching a movie at his place and she said, "I wish it was me who had gone to the grocery store that night," and Mike looked at her and knew right then she was it for him and declared, "And I see no reason why I don't love you." They kissed...and are literally living happily ever after.
They own a house, just bought it last summer, in Troy, NH. They have good jobs. They have a gross old lovable cat named Keith. And on a vacation to Puerto Rico in February, Mike realized he couldn't stand not being married to her and proposed. They were married last weekend at their home in NH, with close family and friends. They walked down the aisle together to the song Rumble by Link Wray. Netty danced to The Humpty Dance at the reception.
And then they flew into Seattle, rented a car, and started their honeymoon: a drive down the left coast, from Seattle to San Francisco. Of course, they stopped in Portland to see me.
We fit more into 36 hours than should have been humanly possible: we ate at Henry's and had Young's Double Chocolate Stout on tap, bbq beef sliders, fresh hot bbq potato chips, beer and cheese soup. We did a brief driving tour of the Portland skyline from 405. We had breakfast at Pine State, then ventured into the Gorge for what I dubbed "The Gorge Light" tour. A stop at the Vista House, then to Latourelle (the first big waterfall they'd ever seen), a stop at Shepperd's Dell to pick wild blackberries, Multnomah, and then I hiked them up to Ponytail so they could go behind a waterfall. Netty promptly threw off her shirt and scrambled down to the pool to feel the spray and falls. Every turn their mouths hung slack, Mike kept looking up at waterfalls and stepping backwards he was so blown away. They noticed how green our woods are, and were stunned we were only 30 miles outside of Portland. They also enjoyed the lack of mosquitoes and ticks.
I dragged the reluctant duo back into the city, where we picked up a "youCANhascheeseburger" sandwich at the Brunchbox at 5th and Stark: an amazing cheeseburger between 2 grilled cheese sandwiches, for $5. We ate in Pioneer Courthouse Square and people watched. We took Mike to Apple Music, where he was enthralled by the collection (including a classic Gretsch that he has in his own collection), and he nerded out for almost 2 hours in the place. I remember when Mike started to play guitar! We ate maple bacon bars and tang doughnuts at Voodoo, and then saw the one-armed guitarist.
But the highlight of the day was Patrick and I taking them back to the hotel where they threw on what they'd worn on their wedding day, and we took them to the Rose Garden and Pittock Mansion for their official wedding portraits. Over two hours later, we were all pooped, but happy, and concluded the whirlwind visit with a lovely meal at Bridgeport. As an aside, Patrick was also fascinated when comparing all our tattoos, they were all done by the same artist. Seeing three people and countless pieces all in one place by the same hand was pretty interesting to all of us, actually. Dorks always, I suppose.
I was heartbroken to say goodbye to them, I had cried when I found out I couldn't go to NH to actually be at the wedding, but this was such a lovely concession. Next summer they are returning to Oregon for a full week, we might camp at Crater Lake for a couple of nights, they will stay with us in our place with our crazy Pugs, we'll have more amazing food and beer, and I'm going to take them back into the Gorge for more amazing sights. I am already counting the days till we see them again.
Mike and Netty are that couple that you just want to hate...they're just that perfect together. If they don't spend the rest of their lives together...well let's just say I can't see anything else happening. This is it for them, one of the few couples I've shot who I just think have that *something* you need to work. After 18 years of knowing Mike, I cannot see him with anyone other than Netty, and that's saying something. They can't see it any other way, either.
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Out with Gemma in Hull for the weekend. Friday night we went to Wings International Cuisine all you can eat, followed by a visit to the Star.
Pre going out siliiness!
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I love this dress - light and floaty and summery.
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Sunday night we went to see our lovely and so talented friends Smooth Operator playing in Hedon.
We went for delicious food at the Camerton pub beforehand and even managed dessert before heading to see the gig.
Helen (the singer in Smooth Operator) even borrowed my Orinoco womble to wear while she was singing Wombling Merry Christmas, ha ha!
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FLOWER CROWN IMPERIAL: -
Flowers have lost their status as "queen of gardens" due to the fads and the volatility of what is called fancy, one that occasionally still finds refuge in a vessel is called solidarity lily-blood-salmon (Scadoxus multiflorus) , which also bears the names of popular star of Christmas and the imperial crown. One of the probable causes of their decline is its toxicity, the flower produces a potent alkaloid that is poisonous, so that in some corners of Africa's native salmon-lily-bloods it is used as poison and panacea for poorly healed wounds.
The lily-blood-born salmon a bulb that gives rise to light-green leaves with small waves and lanceloadas edges. In the center of the leaves grows a fake stem succulent consistency flourishes where a spectacular collection of fine flower cones that form the semi-circle a red-orange. The diameter can reach 25 cm and its height about 90 cm.
Thanks to its light and beautiful flowers, the lily-bloods salmon lends itself well to growing in pots and in massive, rows and borders - if there are many children and pets on the site, planting in backyards and gardens is not recommended by its abovementioned toxicity. The lily-blood-salmon blooms typically between late summer and late autumn flowers and has good durability (two to three weeks on average). The soil needs to be light, fluffy even for the perfect growth of roots, rich in organic matter and good drainage. She loves water but not waterlogging. It is a flower half-shadow and mild weather, not frost tolerant. Multiplies by seeds and shoots and the bulb goes into dormancy in winter.
The interesting thing about this flower here in Brazil is that its flowering occurs at the end of October, close to All Souls' Day, and dies soon after this day (November 2)!
FLOR COROA IMPERIAL:-
Das flores que perderam o status de “rainha dos jardins” graças aos modismos e à volatilidade do que é chamada de chique, uma das que vez por outra ainda encontra refúgio em algum vaso solidário é o chamado lírio-sangu-salmão (Scadoxus multiflorus), que também ostenta os nomes populares de estrela-de-Natal e coroa-imperial. Uma das prováveis causas do seu ocaso é a sua toxicidade; a flor produz um potente alcaloide que é venenoso, tanto que em alguns rincões da África natal do lírio-sangu-salmão ele é usado como veneno e panaceia para feridas mal curadas.
O lírio-sangu-salmão nasce de um bulbo que dá origem a folhas verde-claras e lanceloadas com pequenas ondas nas bordas. No centro das folhas cresce um falso caule de consistência suculenta onde floresce um espetacular conjunto de finos cones que formam a flor um semi-círculo vermelho-alaranjado. O diâmetro pode chegar a 25 centímetros e sua altura, cerca de 90 centímetros.
Graças às suas flores leves e lindas, o lírio-sangu salmão presta-se tanto para cultivo em vasos quanto em maciços, renques e bordaduras – se houver muitas crianças e animais domésticos no local, o plantio em quintais e jardins é desaconselhável por sua supracitada toxidez. O lírio-sangu-salmão floresce tradicionalmente entre o final do Verão e o final do Outono e as flores tem boa durabilidade (duas a três semanas em média). O solo precisa ser leve, fofo até, para o perfeito crescimento das raízes, rico em matéria orgânica e de boa drenagem. Gosta muito de água mas não de encharcamento. É uma flor de meia-sombra e de clima ameno, não tolerante a geadas. Multiplica-se por sementes e brotos e o bulbo entra em período de dormência no Inverno.
O interessante desta flor aqui no Brasil é que sua floração acontece no final do mês de outubro, próximo do Dia de Finados, e morre logo após este dia (02 de novembro)!
From:- jardinagemepaisagismo.com/o-lirio-sangu-salmao-ou-estrela...
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So, it was my birthday in August. And it was a significant one - 50! I have now started getting promotions for life insurance etc on a regular basis, ha ha!
It was a pretty quiet day as my birthdays tend to be. I generally ignore them as much as I can, I'd much rather someone else was the centre of attention.
However, Gemma absolutely made my day with a gorgeous video of memories from the last 12 months. She is absolutely amazing, I can't believe how blessed I am to have her in my life. ❤️❤️❤️
Also got some fantastic cards and some extra memories inside! Thank you so much Sarah and Ali for this, wonderful!
I'm a lucky girl to have so much love in my life.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to everyone who celebrates this special day today!
What a mess Flickr was last night! I had difficulty adding titles to my uploaded images, comments didn't save and, after I had added a description to each of the 20 photos, the descriptions all disappeared. When I opened Flickr this morning, there was still no sign of them. Then, suddenly, they re-appeared.
My photos taken at the National Butterfly Centre, Mission, South Texas, have now come to an end, so you can sigh a huge sigh of relief : ) After that, I have just a few photos taken at another place that we called in at later in the afternoon. Unfortunately, we only had an hour there before closing time, but how glad we were that we found this place. The highlight there was watching 25 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons coming in to roost for the night in the trees, right where we were standing! What a great sight this was, and we were lucky enough to have a good, close view of these gorgeous birds. We also saw some Purple Martins and their circular, hanging nest "gourds".
On Day 6 of our birding holiday in South Texas, 24 March 2019, we left our hotel in Kingsville, South Texas, and started our drive to Mission, where we would be staying at La Quinta Inn & Suites for three nights. On the first stretch of our drive, we were lucky enough to see several bird species, including a Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Hooded Oriole, Red-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara, Harris's Hawk, Pyrrhuloxia male (looks similar to a Cardinal) and a spectacular Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I'm not sure if this stretch is called Hawk Alley.
We had a long drive further south towards Mission, with only a couple of drive-by photos taken en route (of a strangely shaped building that turned out to be a deserted seed storage building). Eventually, we reached our next planned stop, the National Butterfly Centre. This was a great place, my favourite part of it being the bird feeding station, where we saw all sorts of species and reasonably close. Despite the name of the place, we only saw a few butterflies while we were there. May have been the weather or, more likely, the fact that I was having so much fun at the bird feeding station. We also got to see Spike, a giant African Spurred Tortoise. All the nature/wildlife parks that we visited in South Texas had beautiful visitor centres and usually bird feeding stations. And there are so many of these parks - so impressive!
nationalbutterflycenter.org/nbc-multi-media/in-the-news/1...
"Ten years ago, the North American Butterfly Association broke ground for what has now become the largest native plant botanical garden in the United States. This 100-acre preserve is home to Spike (who thinks he is a butterfly) and the greatest volume and variety of wild, free-flying butterflies in the nation. In fact, USA Today calls the National Butterfly Center, in Mission, Texas, 'the butterfly capitol of the USA'." From the Butterfly Centre's website.
The Centre is facing huge challenges, as a result of the "Border Wall". The following information is from the Centre's website.
www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/about-nbc/maps-directions...
"No permission was requested to enter the property or begin cutting down trees. The center was not notified of any roadwork, nor given the opportunity to review, negotiate or deny the workplan. Same goes for the core sampling of soils on the property, and the surveying and staking of a “clear zone” that will bulldoze 200,000 square feet of habitat for protected species like the Texas Tortoise and Texas Indigo, not to mention about 400 species of birds. The federal government had decided it will do as it pleases with our property, swiftly and secretly, in spite of our property rights and right to due process under the law."
"What the Border Wall will do here:
1) Eradicate an enormous amount of native habitat, including host plants for butterflies, breeding and feeding areas for wildlife, and lands set aside for conservation of endangered and threatened species-- including avian species that migrate N/S through this area or over-winter, here, in the tip of the Central US Flyway.
2) Create devastating flooding to all property up to 2 miles behind the wall, on the banks of the mighty Rio Grande River, here.
3) Reduce viable range land for wildlife foraging and mating. This will result in greater competition for resources and a smaller gene pool for healthy species reproduction. Genetic "bottlenecks" can exacerbate blight and disease.
IN ADDITION:
4) Not all birds can fly over the wall, nor will all butterfly species. For example, the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, found on the southern border from Texas to Arizona, only flies about 6 ft in the air. It cannot overcome a 30 ft vertical wall of concrete and steel.
5) Nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife, which rely on sunset and sunrise cues to regulate vital activity, will be negatively affected by night time flood lighting of the "control zone" the DHS CBP will establish along the wall and new secondary drag roads. The expansion of these areas to vehicular traffic will increase wildlife roadkill.
6) Animals trapped north of the wall will face similar competition for resources, cut off from native habitat in the conservation corridor and from water in the Rio Grande River and adjacent resacas. HUMANS, here, will also be cut off from our only source of fresh water, in this irrigated desert.
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September's LFF weekend was a bit different from usual. The evening was tinged with sadness and loss as we had a memorial for Janie Marie Swann, the amazing organiser of LFF who sadly passed away in July.
But it wa also a hugely social night meeting loads of people, friends old and new.
And I did a thing - I made my karaoke debut! It was nerve-wracking but I loved it! After a bit of a shaky start I loved every second!
Hotel selfies.
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I bought a small disco ball and a couple of LED torches for my living room - wow, the effect is amazing, it totally transforms the room!
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I prefer the photo I took for 327/365, but I quite like this one. Even if it looks a little dull on my screen.
My Mom told me not to wear my best coat while lying on the grass, but it was slightly cold out. & it could have been cleaned if it got dirty anyway. & I only own 2 coats & they're both equally good.
I adore this song.
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6th Tues – Kate seriously messed me around at work today. I got there at 11.30am as per usual, & noticed there were a lot of people in today. We didn't normally need this many waitresses. So I went through to the office to check I was still on the rota. The whole rota was a mess so I couldn't tell. Next I went into the kitchen & found Kate with Emma. I was told I was not needed that day, except Kate just hadn't bothered to tell me. Fine, whatever. So I go & call my Dad for a lift a couple of times but he doesn't answer. Frick. I left him an answerphone message telling him my route home. So I have to walk. I'm just pissed off with having to be in work today & then it turning out that I'm not needed. I slipped out the staff door then & started walking. I went past the mere, up past Ellesmere Home & the down Love Lane. I crossed the road & had resigned myself to having to walk the road down to college when a car slowed down behind me - it was my Dad! Apparently I'm a fast walker. He dropped me off at home & I decided I'g go & do photos for the college, but beforehand I moaned a bit about work to my Mom & brother. Then the phone rings & my Mom tells me it's The Boathouse for me. I really must remember to tell everyone to say I'm not in when I call. It's Emma on the phone & they need me to come back into work as Lauren had shown up. FFS. I told her no. Kate is always messing up. She doesn't sort out the rota & people never know what days they're in, & frankly i'd rather just go & take photos. Emma goes & tells Kate I've said no, & so then Kate comes on the phone & begs me to come back in. I just told her I needed twenty minutes & then i hung up. I'm was in such a fucking bad mood. My Dad came home & gave me a lift back to work where I just got straight on with it. I was a bit ratty with Emma originally, but it's not her fault the rota was messed up. I was just annoyed she'd called me. But Casey, Enya & Vicky were sympathetic, & Lauren came into work later on that day to apologise. I wasn't annoyed at Lauren at all. Kate had told her previously that she'd had the day off today. I told her there was no need for her to apologise at all, but she's conscientious like that. At lunch time Kate made a huge fuss about making me something nice, so I just had a cheese toastie.
When I got home my 'New Moon' DVD arrived & I excitedly watched it in my room with my brother. I had completely forgotten about Edward's entrance scene in the car park & I was like "EEEEEEEE!" when it was on. Before that I watched Doctor Who with my whole family! That's unusual because my Mom usually refuses to watch Doctor Who with us, but we convinced her to watch Blink, as it's the best Doctor Who episode EVER! Then we watched the Family of Blood double bill, which is also awesome. My Dad, brother & I usually cry (or at least have tears in our eyes) for the end of the episode at Remembrance Day.
7th Weds – I started tidying my room today - my Dad had to sit there & supervise me. Well, we say it's for company, but really I need someone to supervise me or else I just wander off & do something else. The phone rang part way through the day & my Mom said it was for me - shocker! I used to get phone calls all the time, but now I prefer it if people just message me. The voice on the end of the phone sent dread & shock through me. It was Tristam. Frick. & he was outside the house. With his boyfriend. & he wanted to see me. Uuugh. I had to get out of my trackies & put my normal clothes back on, which was irritating. & then I stood around outside talking to Tristam & Mike (I think that was his name. Actually maybe it was Micky. That sounds more like it). I wanted to say "Haha! I've been telling you that you were gay since we started hanging out when we were 13! Vindicated at last!" But I didn't. Because that would have been awkward. We chatted for about 20 minutes & he told me he was on a canal boat with his parents & had brought his boyfriend down from Leeds to meet them for the first time. I chatted politely & complimented him loads. Then we made our excuses & parted ways.
I went back to tidying my room for a bit, & then I sat with my Dad while he made dinner.
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Found this at an estate sale.
The owners had passed away. It's always so interesting to see people's belongings.
I think the woman who owned this beauty suitcase was such an interesting person :)
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I had a fantastic day out around Hull with the lovely Sarah. A privilege to share in days like this. Sarah is a new girl emerging into the world and this is one of her first ever trips out. We had a great time, some nice interaction, Sarah got a nice compliment too when we were in Wetherspoons having lunch. She looked great and really enjoyed the experience. Initial nerves evaporated away in no time! 😊💖 xx
Just about to head out.