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I rather optimistically took my macro lens out while walking Poppy after work, but it's so windy here, it was enough of an effort just to walk! Poppy's favourite spot on the cycle path is where runoff from the field above drops down through a bridge, normally creating a gentle trickling waterfall that drops into a pool of water below that Poppy likes to have a dip in. Today the spray was blowing everywhere, making it even more exciting for Poppy :)
This is the very optimistic Christmas card sent from the firm Callander, Davies & Ricks (Ladies Costumier) in 1944. A carload of people driving off to Brighton using unrationed petrol. A defunct bomb is used to roll the lawn, fire-fighting equipment is trashed, a disused Anderson shelter is planted over, and birds nest on top of the siren. A lady orders 1000 pairs of stockings and two gents happily light cigars while a lady, bathed in plentiful light is eating chocolates. A huge hot bath is run way past the plimsoll line and a gent walks past people with papers marked RESTRICTIONS whilst carrying papers marked PROGRESS. The fruit shelves are laden with bananas and a gent waves aside the offer of black market goodies. Crates of drinks are delivered to the house and the pump for extinguishing fires is used to water plants in the greenhouse.
I am not sure who the artist was the 1944 card but can make out the initials ROTK on the bottom right of the card.
I hear that when country and western music is played backwards, you get your truck, dog, and wife back. ;)
Wendover, Ontario.
Nadezhda Ivanovna, 79 sounds optimistic and hardly ever complains to the Red Cross workers: “Food is not good - but I do not need it better. Meat? I do not need it at all. It is much worse that I cannot pay for the medicines without which I can hardly breathe. I cannot say my pension is sufficient, but I do have a reasonable way of life, nothing superfluous.” Then she adds after a pause; “I can keep my room clean, all right, but there is nobody to clean my carpets…” The Red Cross nurse, who brought a food parcel from the Moldova Red Cross, promises Nadezhda that she will come with volunteers and help her later that week. he town of Bendery, 40 km from Chisinau, capital of Moldova.
In Soviet times the local Red Cross branches all over the country were capable to provide home care for the elderly in Bendery, 40 km away from the capital Chisinau. Today the Moldova Red Cross is struggling to retain its place in the society and sustain the competition with other NGO’s. The Norwegian, Swiss and Swedish Red Cross societies and the International Federation support the Moldova Red Cross work with various programmes. The International Federation emergency food support operation aims to help lonely elderly, single headed families and families with many children through the lean months of spring before the new harvest. 6,700 people will be able to improve their food ratio in the poorest European country.
Photo: Margarita Plotnikova / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The tower blocks at Cruddas Park, opened with an optimistic flourish by Hugh Gaitskell Labour leader, on the 9th June 1962, have had yet another makeover. This latest revamp is more radical than previous ones and the optimism returns.
The local Public House has been totally refitted with the boozer on the ground floor and flats above. I hope the dwellings are well soundproofed.
Thomas Dan Smith was Newcastle City leader from 1960 to 1965 with a vision to improve the city and make it a commercial centre to rival the best in the world. He was compared to an American style 'city boss', called Mr. Newcastle by his supporters, and Mouth of the Tyne by his opponents.
Whilst many see him as a visionary, and ahead of his time, others brand him a charlatan, entangled in a web of corruption that almost toppled the Wilson Labour government.
His most controversial plan was for high rise housing, and the Cruddas Park scheme was part of what was called a 'city in the sky'.
The flats were built by Wimpey to a Swedish modular design. It was later to be alleged that Dan Smith took cash and other benefits for awarding the contracts.
Smith was sentenced to six years imprisonment for his involvement in the Poulson affair.
Taken on 1st September, 2010 at 1045hrs with a Leica IIIf on Fujicolor Pro 400H colour negative stock.
With the weather starting to break on Thursday, I knew I was pushing it to wear shorts and flip-flops to the office.
Libby, she is so cute, I really love her outfit it's so adorable, I love her hair colour too the light and dark pink it looks like a strawberry ice cream with sauce.
Komatiks and snowmobiles still on the ice in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. Travel on the frozen bay was still possible but not for much longer
Photos of Beakerhead 2014 Event - An Optimistic Evening with Mark Stevenson. British Consulate General Anthony P. Kay speaking before Mark Stevenson.
Photo by: Jeff Cruz
It has been such a difficult time here, however, I have not lost hope. For me strength is all about remaining optimistic, not succumbing to fear and pessimism.
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Walking out of Stortorget along Södergatan, the "Optimistic Orchestra" is one of Malmö's many public works of art. The 'orchestra' was created in 1985 by Yngve Lundell as a tribute to 'two positively disobedient people', Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King.
After nearly three decades in government, Bob Tuohy, the chief operating officer emeritus of Advanced Technologies International—a consortium management firm—is bullish on the benefits that the consortium model brings to acquisition.
Staff optimistically setting out tables on the pavement outside a cafe bar bistro, in the old town part of Alcudia, Majorca.
I say optimistically, because a single shallow cup of coffee will cost you about €6.00 Euro In this part of Alcudia.
So I entered this contest on facebook to win a nikon camera. this is my entry, obviously.
My parents arn't the kind who buy me everysingle thing i desire. they're tough.. there for , i've never gotten the Nikon i've always dreamed of.
It would mean to world to me win this, or even just get a few votes. i've never one like, anything in my life so i'll just keep my fingers crossed.
please help and vote here(: