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Vas'ka is sitting on my desk. Under the cat is the Tesco voucher for £6.50 - and behind the cat is my keyboard with numbers and letters.
Happy Caturday!
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Cashout vouchers in Black and White from gaming machines because they are in Black and White. What is left after a couple of hours or minutes. While there are penny machines you have to go by the lines bet also. Twenty lines @ 1¢ adds up to 20¢ a spin on the slots. #Minimum #CashoutVoucher #Gambling #HFF #FlickrFriday #souvenirs #casinos #B&W #BlackAndWhite #賭事 #bw
No messing about this time with fancy vouchers for fancy food in fancy restaurants. If food were football formations this would be a no nonsense 4-4-2 featuring two full backs sporting prison haircuts and a pair of centre halves the size of shire horses with keenly sharpened size fourteen boots. Behind them, a goalkeeper that bears an uncanny resemblance to a bulldozer with shovel-like hands to match. None of your tika taka interchangeable diamonds in the midfield - just a pair of ferocious terriers flying into tackles - that sort of thing. On the wings, a couple of turbo charged whippets with blinkers on and an over reliance on either the left or right peg, depending upon which side of the pitch they’re stationed. Up front, a hefty lump with a prodigious leap, several missing teeth and a forehead shaped like an industrial steam iron. Just behind him, the only one who can actually play football, a Will O’ the Wisp waif whose job it is to dance through the opposition and give the ball to the big lad.
Yes, today we weren’t going anywhere near the upmarket open wallet surgery establishments designed to empty the pockets of wandering tourists in Mousehole or elsewhere. The Morrison’s cafe in Long Rock, a mile east of Penzance awaited our pleasure with its cordon bleu fish and chips covered in a healthy splat of tartare sauce, accompanied by a pot of tea - free refills on hot drinks if you didn’t know. Who needs filet mignon covered in pomegranate seeds and a glass of the ‘72 Chablis when you can have a full size plate of proper grub that’s been prepared by the good fryers of Morrison’s kitchen? Meerkat discount, that’s twenty-five percent off by the way. Two plates of decent nosh and a bottomless pot of tea for twelve quid. Last week we could barely get one starter for twelve quid when we finally used that voucher over at Gurnard’s Head. There’s no denying the quality of the food we had, but fine dining is for people with overflowing bank accounts and cultured palates.
And do you know what? The fish fryer at our chosen establishment does a fine job. Even Ali’s eighty-seven year old mother gushes with praise about the Morrison’s cafe at Long Rock, and she’s notoriously hard to please when it comes to eating out. In those fancy places we’re always on edge, convinced we’re being frowned upon by the waiting staff and our fellow diners, even though it’s probably just our imagination. Here, if you thank the team and tell them how much you enjoyed the fish, it really does seem to make them happy. Our standard tactic, made all the easier by our frankly slovenly attitude to mornings, is to arrive after two thirty, long after the lunchtime rush has been cleared from the tables and settle in for an hour or so, enjoying the peace. This works all the better in the summer months when you’re not in an enormous hurry to get to where you’re bound for. Sunset after nine - there’s really no need to rush.
And where weren’t we rushing to this afternoon you ask? Today we were going “down west” as we call it here, to the wilds of Penwith. A mini Dartmoor-on-Sea with ponies grazing among swathes of bracken, heather and gorse. Only once before had we parked at the old Carn Galver tin mine, and I’d been planning to go back ever since. On that afternoon we traced the natural coastal fortress of Bosigran Head, before following the footpath towards Porthmeor Cove and then back again via the quiet coast road, meeting small groups of ponies as we went. What we hadn’t done that day was to head inland and up the slopes towards the rocky tors of Carn Galver itself. From here, across a field of purple heather that glowed in soft summer sunlight, a series of headlands that ended with Pendeen Lighthouse disappeared into a dreamy blown out haze. And from that moment the deal was done. I’d come here to photograph Bosigran Head at sunset, but instead I’d be yomping up here again later with the camera bag. Ali declared she’d done enough yomping today and would watch the sunset from the van, so I returned alone. I had the place completely to myself. Well, apart from the steady chomping and the occasional whinny from our equine friends as they stomped about the bracken enjoying their own version of fine dining.
After all was done, another gastronomic delight awaited me in the van. Eggy bread and a can of Brewdog Session IPA from the fridge. A very happy ending to this series of tales on the subject of dining out. It doesn’t get more comforting than eggy bread dipped in the contents of a sachet of brown sauce - which was liberated from Morrison’s at lunchtime of course. A fine way to end a day of food and cultural enrichment at the edge of the world in West Cornwall.
Ali was starting to feel the pressure. As far as she knew, the voucher code only had seven days left before it would expire in a puff of smoke, having been issued fifty-one weeks earlier. Last month’s abortive attempt to use it in Mousehole hung heavily in the air. We’d used a brief spell of drizzle as a good excuse to enjoy a far more relaxed version of lunch at the nearest Morrison’s cafe instead, before carrying on as planned, walking to Lamorna along the coast path and returning via the inland route. If you read the last story, you’ll know how that went. But now we were in a race against time. A few more days of procrastinating and the organisation would be laughing into their cash registers as another voucher expired without seeing action. We’re not into fine dining - far too fussy for us simple Redruth folk. And then there’s that twelve and a half percent “discretionary” service charge that gets automatically added to the bill. I’m sure there are kevlar skinned diners who are bold enough to demand its removal without batting an eyelid, but we really don’t like to make a scene.
But six weeks later, with just a couple of days to go until the schools broke, it was a case of now or never. This time we decided to abandon Mousehole completely and head for the sister pub that sits along the narrow meandering road between St Ives and St Just. It's wild, rugged, horrible to drive, and would be undoubtedly even more testing in a few days from now once the schools were out and the annual invasion snowballed into saturation mode, polyester Manchester United shirts, tattoos, orange bottle tans and all. And that’s just the Camborne lot. After a period of squeezing past oncoming cars and sitting patiently behind cyclists while our stomachs began to rumble, we saw the unmistakable mustard coloured building standing alone at the roadside in the landscape before us. Just a few more minutes. Although Ali insisted we needed to check the voucher code was still valid before our lunchtime order was placed. Any funny business and we’d be doubling back to St Ives for a sandwich, with the towering bonus of fish and chips at Becks in Carbis Bay much later.
The voucher was still valid. Lunch would be here in the big yellow shack at Gurnard Manning’s Head after all. It would be an expensive one, but we’d only be paying half the bill, thanks to last year’s birthday present from Ali’s niece and that long string of alphanumeric text that had to be typed into the till for validation. For the record, the food was as good as the eye watering prices suggested it might be, although portion sizes tended towards the nouvelle cuisine end of the scale. We really should have ordered a side of chips. Ali breathed a sigh of relief. That voucher had been hanging over her like the Sword of Damocles for almost a year. When we win the lottery we might go again, but until then we’ll stick with Morrison’s cafe thank you. We know where we are with them.
And now lunch was over, we headed down to the headland that the pub takes its name from. Just a few windswept hikers here on this peaceful Thursday afternoon. A few miles to the east St Ives was no doubt chock-a-block with sightseers, few of whom would ever venture in this direction. No amusement arcades or ice cream parlours here you know. No pasty vendors and no boat trips to Godrevy or the mysterious “Seal Island” either. Just the coast path, some noisy squeezebox choughs and a lot of bracken along these cliffs above a crystal blue sea. Down on the lonely beach at Treen Cove we could see a couple of people heading into the water for a swim. An angler perched on the far edge of the rocks, competing for the spoils of the sea with a small trawler that puttered idly between two sets of marker buoys. And apart from us and the odd passing walker, nobody else was here at all. In the middle of July. You can still find solitude here in high summer if you know where to look.
It’s not the sort of beach you’re going to bring the kids and your Great Auntie Nellie to. A steep path down through the bracken to the top of the rocks, from where you clamber even lower to the edge of a field of slippery green boulders. Pick the wrong time and you’ll be waiting for the tide to ebb before you can leave. But slowly we made our way down onto the soft white sands. I’d love to tell you that the sea was cool and refreshing, but that would be a lie. Ali lasted five minutes, while I managed about ninety seconds before announcing I was getting out. Enough to get “the tingle” that my cold water loving children are both forever harping on about.
And then back up the rocks, to a grassy flat area in front of an abandoned stone ruin where I finally found the separation I needed for this shot to have a chance of working. Higher up and the big lump at the back sat uncomfortably close to the horizon. Further down and the two groups merged into confusion. To our left a woman sat alone with a pad of paper and watercolours, painting Gurnard’s Head, lost in her art. A vision of serenity, we left her alone as I pointed my camera in the opposite direction. Not for the first time this summer it was a brand new composition that I’d never even seen before, hidden in plain sight on the tourist trail just a few miles from St Ives. Without that voucher we probably wouldn’t have come here at all. Although we’d need to stop at Marks and Spencer to trawl the reductions section for supper later. Nouvelle cuisine isn’t really designed for people with rustic appetites, you see.
Won an award at work, some time ago, got given red letter day vouchers, spent them on experience days, one with these magnificent wildcats.
Inside of Pre-Order Voucher Holder
17'' LE Wedding Rapunzel Pre-order Voucher Holder.
A very nice glossy cardboard holder for the voucher. The holder with the voucher is to be returned between March 28 and June 25, 2012 to the same store where the pre-order was purchased, in order to redeem it for the LE Doll. The CM said I could cut out and keep the front cover of the holder, containing the very nice photo of the doll. The store would keep the back cover with the voucher in the pouch.
New Disney Tangled Ever After merchandise purchased my local Disney Store on Release Day, February 21, 2012.
Included are:
20'' Rapunzel Wedding Plush ($12, orig. $19.50)
12'' Tangled Ever After Flynn Rider Wedding Doll ($19.50)
6'' Tangled Every After Mini Princess Doll Set ($15, orig. $19.50)
Tangled Ever After Rapunzel Wedding Dress Up Set - Veil, Bouquet and Ring ($19.50)
17'' Limited Edition Rapunzel Wedding Doll - Pre-order ($99.50)
BORDEAUX STUDIOS GIFT VOUCHERS are NOW AVAILABLE! Due to my price list expanding and experiencing price change after the New Year these will only be sold through the end of the current month December. More details on marketplace description! Enjoy ♥
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Candid street photography from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Wishing all of my Flickr friends a fabulous weekend ahead - enjoy!
I had been given vouchers for Rush hairdressers as one of my Christmas presents, so today I went off to their new salon in Lakeside to have the chop.
My hair had got stupidly long, and is very thick and heavy so it needed something doing to it.
I took this pic on my iPhone in the salon toilet, with my new app 'ShakeItPhoto'. I really like the processing it does and the border it adds on. If you have an iPhone you should try it!
As a side note - OMG! Lakeside is flippin' manic! I am SO glad that I get the opportunity to visit these places during the week. It took me half an hour to park, and if I had wanted to get any shopping done God help me - the queueueueues! Not helped by the sales I'm sure. And then there are some that tackle it with kids in tow - ARE YOU MAD!? The queue for the ladies loo was about 20 people deep. You are braver souls than me.
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On long trips we must make intermediate stops to rest and stretch our legs. Why do we not take advantage of them? In this case we were on our way to the Oscense Pyrenees and planned a stop in Zaragoza to enjoy its famous Basilica del Pilar. In this photo you can see it in the background, and in front of us we had the Stone Bridge crossing over the Ebro river.
A resource that we have to give our photos a distinctive touch when we have to shoot in bad light hours is to make a long exposure. Thanks to combining 2 LucrOit ND filters (10 + 6 stops) and a CPL I get an exposure of 240” in broad daylight to show the movement in the clouds, guiding the eye to the Basilica.
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Post-processing with Luminar (get 10€ discount with the voucher “CISCAR”).
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En los viajes largos debemos hacer paradas intermedias para descansar y estirar las piernas. ¿Por qué no aprovecharlas? En este caso íbamos de camino al Pirineo Oscense y planificamos una parada en Zaragoza para disfrutar de su famosa Basílica del Pilar. En esta foto la puedes ver al fondo, y frente a nosotros teníamos el Puente de Piedra cruzando sobre el río Ebro.
Un recurso que tenemos para darle a nuestras fotos un toque distintivo cuando no tenemos otra que disparar en mala hora de luz es hacer una larga exposición. Gracias a la combinación de dos filtros ND de LucrOit (10 + 6) y un polarizador conseguí una exposición de 240” a plena luz del día para mostrar el movimiento en las nubes, dirigiendo la mirada hacia la Basílica.
Visita mi tienda para descubrir mis tutoriales de procesado y artículos de formación fotográfica.
Procesada con Luminar (consigue 10€ de descuento con el código “CISCAR”).
With the holiday season right around the corner we'd love to remind you about our personalised gift voucher service - which has replaced our standard gift cards.
If you want to gift your loved ones FOXCITY store credit, as well as send them a special message card in-world, this is for you!
All you have to do is send the desired voucher L$ amount & a detailed notecard directly to Satomi XOXO
What to include in your NC:
-Your transaction info
-Legacy name of your gift recipient (and a special nickname if you'd like that to show on the voucher instead of their legacy name)
-Your personalised gift message/greeting/simping tactic
-Name for the signature
Example:
Transaction #:
Recipient name: Satomi XOXO
Recipient nickname (if applicable): lil boo
Message: xxx
Signed: Your name/nickname/etc
We'll take care of the rest! You'll receive a confirmation once it's been completed.
Thank you for gifting FOXCITY this holiday season ♥
*Due to increased gift card scams we have taken new gift card sales offline in September 2022.
If you have outstanding gift card credit you are unable to use, please reach out and we'll convert it into store credit <3
*Store credit can be used in store as well as at events. Wear our VIP group tag to receive further store credit as you shop!
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The Luxury of being yourself
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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The Luxury of being yourself
We have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we do get and the current trend in the world of luxury fine art:
We do wedding photography and videography:
We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:
We do come up with merchandises over the years, but at the moment we have sold out and will bring them back depending on the demands of our past customers and those we do take on daily across the globe.
Follow us on Instagram!
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/william.stone.989/
500px:
500px.com/p/wsimages?view=photos
Twitter:
LinkedIn:
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www.pinterest.co.uk/wsimages_com/
Smugmug:
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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Ficus macrophylla (Moreton Bay fig)
Voucher 080608 09 at West Beach Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Hawaii.
June 14, 2008
The voucher card for the Limited Edition Aurora 17'' Doll. I got it when I purchased the pre-order for the doll in my local Disney Store on Monday July 27, 2014. It has changed design from a folding card with a pocket for the paper voucher, to a stiff card to which the voucher was to be stapled. There is still a full color photo of the doll on the front of the card. The store couldn't print out the paper voucher, so stapled the receipt instead. The voucher card and receipt are to be brought back to the same store on or after Oct 7, to get the doll herself. Hopefully they will let me keep the voucher card, but we will see.
In partnership with the World Food Programme, the UK invests significant funding to support innovative and cost effective mechanisms to provide food and other essential assistance to displaced families in Darfur.
Traders are provided with a point of sale (POS) machine to enable beneficiaries to purchase commodities at their stores. The e-vouchers can be used like debit cards and the trader reconciles payments received on the POS machine with WFP, and WFP then transfer to the traders bank account the value of items sold using the vouchers.
The UK is the single biggest donor to the WFP voucher programme, providing over £15 million over the course of 2015/2016 to enable access to food directly from local traders for thousands of vulnerable households in Darfur, and we are currently exploring the possibility of moving from the provision of vouchers to the transfer of cash directly to targeted households to increase the level of choice and flexibility.
Whilst the value of the vouchers remain relatively small they provide an essential contribution to the households ability to meet their food needs, but also provide greater choice and a more cost effective mechanism to provide food assistance in a complex context.
Picture: WFP Sudan
Erect-spreading shrub to 45 cm high x ca 75 cm wide.
Photos: Jean
Flowers May, August - December depending upon rain.
August 2019: This plant was shifted from the Leucopogon genus to Styphelia. Old name Leucopogon aff. glaucifolius
Here is a bunch of old tickets Mostly from Copenhagen and malmö (Sweden) places I have been and sometimes Johnny too I guess, we moved a lot in the same circles somehow....
The display sample LE Aurora doll on the register counter in front of me. Also the Diamond Edition Sleeping Beauty Lithographs, and pre-order cards for LE Aurora and the DVD.
Pre-ordering the Limited Editon Aurora 17'' Doll and the Diamond Edition Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray/DVD at the Disney Store, on July 28, 2014.
I got to the store at 7:30 am. At 7:40 am three more collectors showed up, who were all collectors that I knew from previous LE doll releases at the same store. We got a sneak peek at the LE Aurora about an hour before the store opened. At about 9:30 am one more person showed up, who was getting the doll for his wife. Then right before store opening at 10 am, a woman showed up who was looking for Frozen items, and didn't know anything about LE Aurora. It turns out the store had 16 dolls, so the five of us could have ordered three each if there wasn't a limit of one per guest.
The manager let me take photos of the display sample LE Aurora as she was ringing me up for the doll and Diamond Edition DVD pre-orders. There was a snafu with the computer system, so no vouchers were printed, so she said the receipts would be good enough when it came time to pick them up on Oct 7. They changed the voucher holders to just cards instead of folders, so they just stapled the receipts to the cards. There was also no longer any discount coupon on the DVD voucher card.
The doll herself was gorgeous. The more outstanding thing about her, and which doesn't come out in photos very well, is the magical golden sparkle in the hair made by the golden tinsel. The tinsel consists of very thin transparent threads with tiny golden beads embedded. She looked as though she had gold dust sprinkled throughout her head. The gold thread in her outfit also sparkled in the light.
They had some Art of Aurora items for sale, and also some of the other newly released Sleeping Beauty merchandise. I didn't buy any of them, as I had already bought what I wanted online, for now.
Behind the Disney Store registers, after I bought my Jasmine doll and Aladdin tsum tsums. Unused LE Jasmine voucher cards and line cards. Store lighting.
I got to a local mall about 7:40 am, and went to the Disney Store to wait for it to open at 10 am. They had the display Jasmine doll and a promo placard on a shelf behind the counter, and bins full of Aladdin tsums on the floor behind the counter. There was already a man and his young daughter in line ahead of me. They were waiting for the Aladdin tsum tsums, and didn't know about the Jasmine doll. The next person in line was with a friend, and worked at Disneyland. He was also there for the tsums, and didn't know anything about the doll. But he was curious, and after talking to him about the LE doll line, he decided to get one for a "friend." LOL. Later a fellow collector that I knew joined the line, and we chatted for awhile. Then a regular at the LE doll releases and his family came and we also chatted. He was very surprised by how many people were there, but was relieved when he found out that almost all of them were for the tsum tsums. The line was getting very long. Security came around 9:30 and told us to stand up.
At about 9:45 a CM came out and told us the ground rules for the release. Then she gave out line cards for Jasmine. They had 20 dolls, and she gave out 16 cards to those waiting. Naturally, I was #1. Right after the opening ceremony, we formed two lines. One was strictly for tsum tsums (which was where the original line was at). The other, much shorter line was for the Jasmine dolls, and we could also order Aladdin tsum tsums at the same time. I got my doll, and the CM never asked me for the line card. This the first line card I've been allowed to keep. Afterwards I was allowed to take photos of the doll. But it was very cramped behind the registers, and I didn't want to get in the way, so I only took a couple of photos.
I then went to another local Disney Store, and was lucky enough to get another Jasmine, for a fellow collector. They had 16 dolls, and sold 8 of them before I got there. I also took some photos of the doll, using flash this time, as there were annoying shadows across Jasmine's face.
Corchorus olitorius (Saluyot, bai po)
Voucher at Kohala, Hawaii, Hawaii.
June 21, 2014
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Also placed in Tiliaceae. Leaves used in Asian cuisine.
I got a lovely hot chocolate fondue (for free) plus a 25% off meal voucher from these great guys @ Southport's Old Bank Restaurant on Lord Street.
It's not been open that long so this was a great way of advertising while the Christmas Lights Switch-on crowd filled half of Lord Street.
www.whatsonhere.co.uk/pubs-and-restaurants/?place=Old_Ban...
My pre-order voucher and voucher holder for the Limited Edition 17'' Ariel doll. Between October 1 and December 31, 2013 I am to go back to the same Disney Store and present the voucher and proof of identity in order to get my doll.
My haul of new The Little Mermaid merchandise by the Disney Store, on July 29, 2013. Includes the pre-order of the Limited Edition 17'' Ariel doll and Diamond Edition TLM, lithograph set, plush dolls, and jewelry. More detailed shots coming soon.
Food voucher sell life-saving food to Rohingya refugees who have been residing in temporary settlements near Cox’s Bazar. With USAID Food for Peace support, the UN World Food Program is responding to the humanitarian needs of the refugee population through food vouchers, in-kind food aid and cash transfers for food. Recipients of food vouchers can go to a vendor site like the one pictured to purchase food, nourishing their family with a nutritious meal after months of vulnerability. Photo credit: Maggie Moore, USAID.
Metrosideros polymorpha (Ohia, lehua, ohia lehua)
Voucher at Kulamanu Kula, Maui, Hawaii.
August 17, 2011
Some ephemera from Chevron's relatively short time as a retail brand in the UK—never more than a few hundred petrol stations, most of them inherited from Regent in 1967 and most then being passed on to Texaco in 1983-4, at which point there were 216 Chevron sites in the UK, almost all owned by the company itself with just 30 or so dealer sites.
The most interesting thing here perhaps is the rarely-seen logo on the earliest (undated) receipt, the original one used on the UK launch of the Chevron brand in 1967-8. This logo only lasted a short time in the UK before being replaced by the more familiar 1969 logo seen on the other receipts, and was a version of the 1950s-60s Standard Oil of California logo as seen in some of the older images here. In the US, SoCal / Chevron had a complicated branding strategy between dealer sites and company-owned sites (as explained in Tim Russell's excellent book Fill 'er Up) until the standardisation (ha!) that came with the new 1969 logo. Chevron Oil (UK) initially retained the name of Regent's 'Supreme' petrol grade but by 1970 was using their own US-style terminology including the 'Formula F-310' additive. (EDIT: Although I see that Chevron also used the Supreme name in the US, so maybe Regent's use of it in the UK was actually adopting an American name, via Caltex)
The earliest receipt here has columns for £ s d, but has been made out in decimal currency, so was actually issued in 1971 or later, probably from a garage using up old stock. The fact that it is labelled Chevron Willenhall, as well as "Forrester, Webb & Forrester, March End Service Station, Wednesfield" suggests perhaps that the receipt pads were being re-used from a different site nearby (Wednesfield and Willenhall are nearby, but it seems unlikely that a garage in Wednesfield would have been renamed with Willenhall in the name, along with changing its phone number). The name "Chevron Willenhall" also suggests a company-owned site.
The other two receipts, from 1975, are easier—Woodlands Service Station, 356 Wake Green Road Moseley was still in business until at least the 1990s (there is a newspaper report of a theft in 1992). Now replaced by Brandon Court goo.gl/maps/cAtuSq4ZMp7DiTWP8
Midlothian Garage (Yorks.) were a well-known car dealer in the Holmfirth area, presumably with a number of sites and forecourts (the voucher / coupon here has drawings of a Renault 16 and a VW Beetle). According to Streetview there are currently two Texaco sites on Huddersfield Road Honley, one of them a Co-op (a former Somerfield goo.gl/maps/peU31rdam8Rc1Uag6 — and before that, Margram as I photographed in 1993) so I am guessing that the other Texaco, Alpine Service Station goo.gl/maps/gVjXN5ZzV63hs6t48 might be what was once a Midlothian Garage Chevron site. But I don't know.
(EDIT: Looking again at the Midlothian voucher, I see that the Chevron logo is not quite right — the font is different to the official logo, and the chevrons are wider and further apart. Still, not a bad effort!)
Diamond Edition Sleeping Beauty Lithographs, and pre-order voucher cards for LE Aurora and the DVD.
Pre-ordering the Limited Editon Aurora 17'' Doll and the Diamond Edition Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray/DVD at the Disney Store, on July 28, 2014.
I got to the store at 7:30 am. At 7:40 am three more collectors showed up, who were all collectors that I knew from previous LE doll releases at the same store. We got a sneak peek at the LE Aurora about an hour before the store opened. At about 9:30 am one more person showed up, who was getting the doll for his wife. Then right before store opening at 10 am, a woman showed up who was looking for Frozen items, and didn't know anything about LE Aurora. It turns out the store had 16 dolls, so the five of us could have ordered three each if there wasn't a limit of one per guest.
The manager let me take photos of the display sample LE Aurora as she was ringing me up for the doll and Diamond Edition DVD pre-orders. There was a snafu with the computer system, so no vouchers were printed, so she said the receipts would be good enough when it came time to pick them up on Oct 7. They changed the voucher holders to just cards instead of folders, so they just stapled the receipts to the cards. There was also no longer any discount coupon on the DVD voucher card.
The doll herself was gorgeous. The more outstanding thing about her, and which doesn't come out in photos very well, is the magical golden sparkle in the hair made by the golden tinsel. The tinsel consists of very thin transparent threads with tiny golden beads embedded. She looked as though she had gold dust sprinkled throughout her head. The gold thread in her outfit also sparkled in the light.
They had some Art of Aurora items for sale, and also some of the other newly released Sleeping Beauty merchandise. I didn't buy any of them, as I had already bought what I wanted online, for now.
Candid street shot, Barcelona.
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"£400 bribes to help pregnant women stop smoking: Mothers-to-be twice as likely to quit if they have a financial incentive
Pregnant women were offered vouchers if they stopped smoking
Doctors found that financial incentives increased the likelihood of success
5,000 babies die each year in the womb or after birth due to smoking"
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Published: 28 January 2015
The voucher holder for pre-ordering the Elsa Limited Edition 17'' Doll. The voucher (a special receipt) has been removed from the holder to show the holder itself, and the holder opened up.
Frozen Pre-Order Vouchers and Lithographs that I got at my local Disney Stores today, January 10, 2014, when the pre-orders first became available. The actual items will be available for pickup at the store beginning on March 18, 2014.
Adenanthera pavonina (Red sandalwood, false wiliwili)
Voucher 090623 01 at Nahiku, Maui, Hawaii.
July 06, 2009