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of the home-home backyard.
Unripe mangoes with salt and chilly powder,
half ripe mangoes - had the same way or with salads
ripe mangoes.. they are all in season now!
how do you like your mangoes?
On the 27 July I met Rosie Swale-Pope MBE on my commute. She is a writer, adventurer, marathon runner. The meeting was quite by accident on my commute.
"She successfully completed a five-year around-the-world run, raising £250,000 for a charity that supports orphaned children in Russia and to highlight the importance of early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Her other achievements include sailing single-handed across the Atlantic in a small boat, and trekking 3,000 miles (4,800 km) alone through Chile on horseback."
She was emerging from her trailer / sleeping pod as I approached - quite an odd sight, even for Loughborough. The trailer is attached to her via a harness, which looks like hard work. She is 75 years old.
She was waiting for the laundrette to open. She showed me her book and made complimentary comments about my Moulton bicycle and asked if I'd come far. The 9 miles being somewhat irrelevant in comparison to her achievements. I wished her safe travels.
Further reading:
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../The-woman-ran-world-The...
Bulleid ‘WC’ 4-6-2 no.34092 "Wells' (aka ‘City of Wells’) makes a fine sight as she heads for Oxenhope with the 15:30 Keighley-Oxenhope train
I've been sick a lot lately but Zoey is here to cheer me up. She can tell when I'm feeling bad and gives me extra cuddles. ♥
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Saint Michael's Cave on Gibraltar was a magnificent sight. The ancients considered it bottomless. Another legend has it that it went under the Strait of Gibraltar and this is how the macaques arrived at the rock. The caverns are of limestone and large impressive rooms with stalagtites and stalagmites form floor to ceiling. In fact a stage and seating area have been built in the largest room and it is used for concerts, parties and even weddings. At various times it has been used by military troops as everything from a hiding place to hospital as late as WWII.
Theatrical lighting gives some depth to the caverns but I though that the ever changing colors were distracting. However, in photos the lights really helped give the photos depth.
Years ago, a friend told me a story from her childhood that I'd not heard before, and I think of it often. The story goes like this:
One morning, a little girl was looking across the valley from her house, admiring the beautiful golden windows on a house on the top of the hill.
"Mom," she said, "Do you see that house on the hill with golden windows? It must be so beautiful there, and the people who live there must be so wealthy! I'll bet they have no problems and their lives are filled with happiness every day. I wish OUR HOUSE had golden windows."
"Oh, darling," replied the mother, "no one's life is perfect. Even people who live in a house with golden windows."
"No, I think you are wrong! I want to go see for myself!" So the mother packed the daughter a lunch, and away the daughter went to cross the valley and see how wonderful life was for the people who lived in the house with golden windows.
The girl walked all day long. As she reached the bottom of the valley, she lost sight of the house but kept going. It was dusk by the time she reached the top of the other hill. But to her surprise, all she found was an ordinary house. She saw no golden ornaments, nothing that made the house look different or more special than any other house. The people looked ordinary, just like the people in her own family. She was puzzled.
Disappointed, she turned around to gaze at her own house across the valley she'd just crossed. And to her surprise, her house was ablaze with light. The windows shone with gold as the setting sun lit them up. In disbelief, she looked again at the ordinary house in front of her, then back to her house gleaming across the way.
"MY house has golden windows!" she said in amazement. She stood for a moment, struck by how beautiful her house looked from this side of the valley. She took off running back down the hill, eager to return to her family.
This is a four photo panoramic shot created in Elements.
An elevated site would have made this a lot better, I think....I was wishing I had come in huge truck with a tray back to stand on!!
This is my final photo for the Big Five-Two Group for 2011...thanks Scott for that invite when we met at Cleveland Point early in the year.
After a small hiatus last month I was concerned that I wouldn't finish, but am happy to say I finally made it with this image.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE...BRING ON 2012!
Not a great photo but SOO Ex-MILW GP40 2057, CP GP40-2 4609, and SOO GP38-2 4434 leads a lengthy transfer freight from the BRC. Today, this unit is not running with the CP anymore as it now operates for a different railroad down near the St. Louis, MO area.
CP Elgin Subdivision
River Grove IL
10/6/13
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