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Back in 2008 I bought a portable studio that unfolds to make an open "box" and difuses the light coming in from either side, so maybe it shouldn't be so surprising that the box like structure proved irresistable to the curious cat,,,
Seen at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
31. Follow the Path
For six word story.
A wargaming friend of mine is decluttering at the moment, and as part of the exercise is getting rid of some of his collection of figures. He brought along a boxful to our club night last week and told people to take what they wanted. So I did. I've had a desire to do a medieval Swiss army for a while, and there were plenty of figures in the pile I could use. So I took them, and spent this weekend repairing, repainting and rebasing them to produce the army I wanted.
And here it is.
'Declutter' for the February 2018 Monthly Scavenger Hunt
The King’s Breakfast
by A.A.Milne
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!”
A real stretch for the 'Marmalade' entry for the February 2018 Monthly Scavenger Hunt, but I was thinking about the hunt whilst looking through some old, unposted, photos, and this shot of some of the Isle of Lewis chessmen that I took at the 'History of the World in 100 Objects' exhibition in Canberra back in 2016 brought that particular poem to mind. So there you go.
A set of fridge magnets that were given to us as a present by one of the Korean exchange students we hosted many years ago.
'Fridge Magnet' for the March 2018 Monthly Scavenger Hunt.
Normally in the Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, these tapestries, which date from 1500, are currently on loan to teh Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, only the third time they've been outside of France in their history.
'Beautiful' for the February 2018 Monthly Scavenger Hunt.
The new Library of Birmingham makes a striking addition to the Birmingham Skyline
Edgbaston Reservoir
I used to use the Poladroid gadget a lot, back when I was doing regular selfies and daily challenges. I reinstalled it for the February 2018 Monthly Scavenger Hunt's 'Polaroid' category, and the lovely Rachel kindly agreed to model for me. She always does.
Time to send off our passports so that we can get the visa stamps put in them.
Day 3 of my Black and White week.
A year ago today I was posting Harry Potter spoilers.
Meanwhile it's Sunday, we are attending church at first and then decide for another hike north of the wildlife centre of Loch Gruinart. With the target of Ardnave Point ...
Music Open Air, Faaker See, Carinthia, Austria.
For a few numbers I was singing with them and had an audience of well over 1000 people... not bad for a small girl of my age... ;-)
Thank you Walmart. I am not buying something I won't eat, even though it tastes really good on an English Muffin, or such.
Al was pleased to be able to join in at the November Birmingham Flickrmeet, But Steve reckoned he should have a "proper" camera, rather than a digital one...
1. Beautiful, 2. Nothing gets wasted there: The "Recycled-from-a-Washback"-Bench, 3. Exhaustment? Or relaxation?, 4. Longing for some green color ..., 5. NOT a shark... ;-)) (Puerto Madryn Skyline - Argentine), 6. The orange colony, 7. Jam for breakfast, anyone?, 8. Memories. Summer of 69., 9. Ephemera, true, but still welcome to have a good press..., 10. Path across Storre Mosse...
Swans swiimming in Wyndley Pool, Sutton Park
"Down the river the swans all glide
What a beautiful way to ride
Their feet get wet, their tummy's wetter
I think after all the bus is better!"
Spike Milligan
February 2018 Scavenger Hunt Random Mix..
1. Polaroid (Mine and everyone's). .
2. Skyline (Mine and everyone's) ..
3. Tiny (Mine and everyone's) ..
4. Path (Mine and everyone's) ..
5. Recycle (Mine and everyone's) ..
6. Declutter (Mine and everyone's) ..
7. Crayon (Mine and everyone's) ..
8. Beautiful (Mine and everyone's) ..
9. Marmalade (Mine and everyone's) ..
10.Relax (Mine and everyone's) .
... and still treasured and kept for some while ... and then DECLUTTERING after all ...
(Concert critiques of two of Manfred's publicly played organ concerts; both appeared in official newspapers, both quite extensive and nice, one from Vienna in 2005 - can be viewed in the left upper corner of the picture -, the other one from Germany, late in that year...)