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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.
Like many, I’ve been taking some time to reflect on the past year. I was thinking how lucky I am, because in contrast to the past 5 years or so, it’s been a quiet and uneventful year for me. I was thinking about how you don’t need lottery wins, promotions or exotic holidays to have a successful year, I feel like all I need is no major disasters and the enjoyment of celebrating the small things in life, like seeing an amazing sunset that we had two nights ago (and actually having my camera with me!).
I’ve enjoyed 2019 immensely as it’s been a ‘normal’ year of ups and downs. It’s been made up of life’s routines, punctuated with the little disappointments that happen every now and again (who would like to hear the story of my cancelled holiday to Greece again?!!!) and the silly small things that can make you laugh for days on end- like entering a raffle to win a wheelbarrow of gin and instead winning unlimited boxing lessons* (true story- certain family members (and some Flickr friends- step up Mr Pedlar!) are still getting mileage out of this 6 months on!). Discovering Netflix a decade after everyone else and becoming addicted to true crime shows (at one point I had 14 episodes of Corrie to watch on catch-up, that’s how bad this addiction was!!). Discovering Prosecco (also a decade after everyone else!) and finding some amazing Edinburgh Crystal champagne glasses in a charity shop for £5. Hand rearing some baby frogs (all named Ferdinand Junior, of course!) only to be devastated when I got home from work one Friday looking forward to chilling with a bottle of wine and found frog carnage as one had died and all it’s brothers were eating it….I look back over these little moments now that made up 2019 and laugh, and think how lucky I am to have family and friends to share this ridiculous and amazing world we live in.
Photographically I’ve come a long way this year. From winning ‘image of the year’ at my photography club in May (now that was a fantastic surprise, and rest assured the vintage champagne glasses were well and truly broken in that weekend!!) , to finally, FINALLY, replacing the tripod which I broke 2 years ago, to trying some night time photography in London last month. Hand on heart a lot of this would not have been possible without the support, inspiration and friendship that I’ve found here on Flickr over the years. I know it has it’s faults (remember the ‘upgrade’?? What happened??!! 😂) but for me there is no other platform that does what Flickr does in terms of that balance of seeing amazing photographs every day, and meeting people who we can chat with, laugh with, cry with and build real friendships with. I thank you all for this. The only thing I didn’t do that I had intended to, was upgrade to a full-frame- so that gives me something to aim for next year.
I wish you all a very happy, healthy and peaceful 2020. Especially to those who didn’t have such a great year- big hugs to you. I know what it’s like to lose someone, to miss someone, or to feel homesick, scared, or tired of life. Let’s all try to be there for each other in 2020. Stay safe and enjoy the celebrations :)
*The voucher for boxing lessons is still in my kitchen drawer, if anyone would like it do let me know!
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!
Evening at Szabadság (Freedom) Bridge across the Danube in Budapest. Two horizontal frames.
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Most people living in the UK will have a good idea of what my home county holds for the visitor, even if they've never been here. "Hmm, Cornwall," many of them say to us when we're on our own travels. "Long way down the country to get there. Nice beaches. We went to Newquay one year," or "We like to go to Stein's in Padstow. Have you been there?" In spite of the fact that we have been in possession of an unused voucher for the place since July last year, we still haven't been there. It may be a statistical fact that half of the celebrity chefs in Britain have a restaurant somewhere within 30 miles of where I live. Personally I favour Greg and Lou's fish and chip shop in Redruth, two miles from home, or Manha Spice in Illogan. As far as I'm aware, neither of the proprietors of these establishments have held down a regular slot on prime time television, but then their prices don't involve parting with family heirlooms to pay the bill and their fare is more than good enough to please my simple palate as well. Nobody has ever mentioned Redruth or Illogan in one of those awkward moments on foreign soil when strangers attempt to engage us in conversation about where we come from. I like it that way. I should stress that I have no affiliation with either establishment and will not benefit financially or otherwise if you take this as a recommendation to visit them. Although they could do me a chip butty and a Chicken Jalfrezi if they like. Not at the same time though - I'm not entirely unrefined.
Still, one thing the wider world is right about is our coast. Surrounded by the sea on three sides and attached to the rest of England by a handful of miles in the north east corner it's stunning, whatever the season. Wild, windswept and remote it's a place that visitors have been coming to for far longer than any of us have been on the planet. Enormous sandy sweeps backed by dunes, small rocky inlets and coves, and pretty harbours filled with fishing boats draw them in their droves. Generally speaking, people know we have a coastline.
What we're less famous for is our rivers. The country isn't long, wide or flat enough to have many broad sweeping meanders plotting their way through sunlit meadows past nodding willows and sleepy villages. But some of the ones we do have are spectacular. The River Fowey (pronounced Foy - just to set you on the right foot with the locals) crashes down from the wilderness of Bodmin Moor, making its way southwards until it meets the sea at the town of the same name (also pronounced Foy). I can sit and watch it happily for hours.
And that's exactly what I did on Saturday at Golitha Falls. I was here a couple of months earlier in the same position, taking more or less the same picture. When I got home I was disappointed by the glare on the surface of the river and decided I must have forgotten to spin the polariser. Cursing myself for a schoolboy error I vowed to return, only to find that the problem persisted. I'd evidently done everything I could have the previous time, but failed to appreciate that the filter wasn't going to remove all of the glare. I guess it's something we're all just going to have to live with.
In a couple of weeks I'm going to head there again. While many of you live further north in the UK and are seeing the colours change already, the leaves are still mostly green down here in the far South West. I want them to be red, brown and gold, but it seems I need to wait a while longer. I love having a reason to need to go back.
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.
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possibly a perfect imitation
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for he does as he pleases
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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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Tringa flavipes
While I'm on the subject of shorebirds, here's a voucher shot of a LEYE I took back in 2015. I'm not going to win any awards with this photo, but it's the only one I've captured, or seen for that matter.
Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area, Lucas County, OH
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
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William Stone Images - Limited Edition Fine Art Prints
Fine Art Photography Prints & Luxury Wall Art:
Our presence on flickr is to showcase our catalogue, we have selected pictures on our website, but can always add more depending on the requests we receive:
We do wedding photography and videography:
We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
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. Any image seen on flickr can be printed in museum grade quality, use the unique reference at the bottom of the photo description when contacting us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones:
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.
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:
We 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 and 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.
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.
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
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Troy Meadows, Parsippany, New Jersey 5/10/2018
A difficult subject to photograph but I was excited to come away with voucher shots of this woodland warbler.
More info on Canada Warblers here - www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Canada_Warbler/overview
Tamron USA SP 150-600mm VC G2 + Canon SL2
Number 6 for 119 Pictures in 2019 : Afternoon tea
I had a 25% off voucher for this at Cafe Rouge, so we had it instead of lunch. It was incredibly filling !
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'Hangman' Float Text Game
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Use emoticon bookends, customize its color, appearance to suit your style and setting.
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We visited the TOBY Carvery restaurant , in Harlow for our Dinner on Tuesday 16th-May-2023.
As well as four different types of Roasted Meat ( I had Beef and Pork ) . They offered a great number of cooked vegetables to accompany the Meat chosen . One of the vegetables was "leek crumble" , I tried it but was unimpressed with the watery leeks , and not much else making up the alleged crumble" . The Roasted Potatoes , Cauliflower Cheese and Green Beans were good ,
I always decline their "Yorkshire Puddings" , as in my opinion they are too thin ., too large and too dry !
Still as Toby Restaurants had sent me a "50% off" voucher , it was a good cheap meal !
Gutierrezia sarothrae (Broom snakeweed)
Voucher 120906 01 at Science City, Maui, Hawaii.
September 25, 2012
A day and a half to go until the in store release on September 20, 2016 of the Limited Edition Beauty and the Beast 17'' Dolls (Belle, Beast and Gaston), and the Walt Disney Signature release of the movie. Here are the voucher cards that I got (from two different Disney Stores) for the pre-order of the dolls and Blu-ray on August 2, 2016, a month and a half ago. I will finally get to see all these dolls in person, and take them home with me. Later that day, I will enter the raffle for the Belle and Gaston Fairytale Designer Collection doll set. I am taking the entire day off from work, so I will have plenty of time to enjoy my goodies and take detailed photos of the dolls.
Elisabeth Dee "Betsy" DeVos /dəˈvɒs/ (née Prince; born January 8, 1958) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and activist who is the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education.
DeVos is a member of the Republican Party known for her advocacy of school choice, school voucher programs, charter schools, and ties to the Reformed Christian community. She was Republican National Committeewoman for Michigan from 1992 to 1997 and served as chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000, with reelection to the post in 2003. DeVos has been an advocate of the Detroit charter school system and she is a member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. She has served as chairwoman of the board of Alliance for School Choice and Acton Institute and heads the All Children Matter PAC.
DeVos is married to Dick DeVos, the former CEO of multi-level marketing company Amway, and is the daughter-in-law of billionaire and Amway co-founder Richard DeVos. Her brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, is the founder of Blackwater USA.[9] DeVos is the daughter of Edgar Prince, founder of the Prince Corporation.
On November 23, 2016, then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education in his administration. On January 31, following strong opposition to the nomination from Democrats, citing issues raised during DeVos's testimony, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved her nomination on a party-line vote, sending her nomination to the Senate floor. On February 7, 2017, DeVos was confirmed by the Senate by a 51–50 margin, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie in favor of DeVos's nomination.
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC; /ˈsiːpæk/ see-pak) is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States. CPAC is hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU).[1] More than 100 other organizations contribute in various ways.
In 2011, ACU took CPAC on the road with its first Regional CPAC in Orlando, Florida. Since then ACU has hosted regional CPACs in Chicago, Denver, St. Louis, and San Diego. Political front runners take the stage at this convention.
Speakers have included Donald Trump,[2]Ronald Reagan,[3][4][5] George W. Bush,[6] Dick Cheney,[7] Pat Buchanan,[8] Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich,[6] Sarah Palin, Ron Paul,[9] Mitt Romney,[6] Tony Snow,[6] Glenn Beck,[10] Rush Limbaugh,[11] Ann Coulter,[7] Allen West,[12] Michele Bachmann,[13] Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Gary Johnson, Mike Pence, Jeanine Pirro, Betsy DeVos, Lou Dobbs, and other conservative public figures.
For my birthday back in September, my friend Jane gave me a voucher towards food at the Parade, so today, finally Tim, JJ and I went there for brunch! The funny, crazy, spooky thing was, we chose a table right next to the windows so we could look out over Southsea Common. As we were looking at the menus, trying to decide, I was aware of a woman just outside the window next to me - I thought why is some crazy woman tapping the window and when I looked, it was Jane! What's the chance of that!
Mahane Yehuda Market
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Mahane Yehuda Market
Shuk Mahane Yehuda
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Mahane Yehuda Market on a busy Friday
Mahane Yehuda Market is located in JerusalemMahane Yehuda Market
Location within Jerusalem
Alternative namesThe Shuk or Machne
General information
LocationJerusalem, Israel
Coordinates31°47′08″N 35°12′44″E
OpenedLate 19th century
ManagementMachane Yehuda Management
Mahane Yehuda Market (Hebrew: שוק מחנה יהודה, Shuk Mahane Yehuda), often referred to as "The Shuk",[1] is a marketplace (originally open-air, but now partially covered) in Jerusalem, Israel. Popular with locals and tourists alike, the market's more than 250 vendors[2] sell fresh fruits and vegetables; baked goods; fish, meat and cheeses; nuts, seeds, and spices; wines and liquors; clothing and shoes; and housewares, textiles, and Judaica.[3][4]
In and around the market are falafel, shawarma, kibbeh, kebab, shashlik, kanafeh, baklava, halva, zalabiya and jerusalem mixed grill stands, juice bars, cafes, and restaurants.[2] The color and bustle of the marketplace is accentuated by vendors who call out their prices to passersby.[2] On Thursdays and Fridays, the marketplace is filled with shoppers stocking up for Shabbat,[5] until the Friday afternoon sounding of the bugle that signifies the market will close for the Sabbath.[2][6] In recent years, the 'shuk' has emerged as another Jerusalemic nightlife center, with restaurants, bars and live music.[7]
Contents
1Geography
2History
3Tourism
3.1Artwork
4Management
5Clientele
6Hours of operation
7Transportation
8Notable residents and businesses
9Holiday markets
10Terrorist attacks
11See also
12References
13External links
Geography
Jaffa oranges and Judaica at Mahane Yehuda.
Mahane Yehuda market is bounded by Jaffa Road to the north, Agrippas Street to the south, Beit Yaakov Street to the west, and Kiach Street to the east.[8] The market itself has two major streets: Eitz Chaim Street (the covered market) and Mahane Yehuda Street (the open-air market). Bisecting these two streets are smaller streets that all used to be named for fruits and nuts—Afarsek (Peach) Street, Agas (Pear) Street, Egoz (Walnut) Street, Shaked (Almond) Street, Shezif (Plum) Street, Tapuach (Apple) Street, and Tut (Berry) Street[4]—until the municipality changed the name of Agas St. to Yaakov Eliyahu Banai St.[9]
History
In 1887 the neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda was established on the north side of Jaffa Road. It was founded by three business partners—Johannes Frutiger (a German Protestant and owner of the largest bank in Palestine), Shalom Konstrum, and Joseph Navon—and was named after Navon's brother, Yehuda.[4] On the south side of the street to the west stood another neighborhood, Beit Ya'akov, founded in 1885.[10]
At the end of the 19th century, a marketplace was established on an empty lot to the east of Beit Ya'akov and across the road from Mahane Yehuda which was owned by the Sephardi Valero family;[4] this market was known as Shuk Beit Yaakov (Beit Yaakov Market).[10] Here Arab merchants and fellaheen sold their goods to the residents who lived outside the Old City. As the new neighborhoods outside the Old City grew, the Beit Yaakov Market grew apace with more stalls, tents and pavilions.[10]
Under Ottoman rule, the market expanded haphazardly and sanitary conditions worsened. In the late 1920s, the British Mandate authorities cleared out all the merchants and built permanent stalls and roofing.[4] Afterwards the market began to be known as the Mahane Yehuda Market, after the larger neighborhood.[11]
In 1931 a new section was built to the west of the market by 20 traders, who previously had only temporary wooden stalls in the area. It was later named the Iraqi Market, as many traders of Iraqi Jewish descent acquired shops there.[12] Today the Iraqi Market is located off Mahane Yehuda Street.
A halvah seller arranges his wares.
In the 2000s, major renovations were made to the Mahane Yehuda Market, including infrastructure work, repaving roads and covering some open areas.[4] The market's Board of Directors worked to make at least some of these changes in response to a decrease in visitors after terrorist attacks in 1997 and 2002 killed 23 people.[13] Changes driven by the Board included renovations to the streets and alleyways, but also included efforts to draw in cafes and boutiques that would entice more middle-class customers who might become frequent shoppers.[13] According to Eli Mizrachi, chairman of the Mahane Yehuda Merchants Association, whereas shoppers used to come to buy produce, the "new generation" wants a place with entertainment, a place to sit and have a cup of coffee, and a place to shop for gifts.[14]
In the mid-2000s, Ethiopian food sellers began to appear in and around the market.[15][16] In addition, a number of "trendy shops and cafés" began appearing among the market's retail stalls."[17] New "non-Middle Eastern" restaurants include eateries such as "Pasta Basta," specializing in Italian pasta dishes,[18] "Fish and Chips," described by one guide book as "the only fish and chips bar in Jerusalem,"[14][19] and "Ha'Agas 1," a vegetarian restaurant.[20] Other recent additions to the market's stalls include an espresso bar, "hip jewelry" stores, and designer clothing "boutiques".[3][21][22][23] Three new designer clothing stores opened in 2007 alone.[24]
Bread and pita vendor.
Changes in the market have transformed the area into a "night spot," with bars featuring specialty drinks, live music, and singers.[14] The change has been so pronounced that a Jerusalem Post article listed one shuk restaurant as one of the five highest-rated restaurants in the city for romantic dates.[25] The shuk also now hosts special events like the "Balabasta" dance and music festival, launched in 2010, which attracts large crowds that remain until late at night, in areas that used to be deserted.[14] The annual festival includes street performances, artwork, puppet shows, and events linked to the market's foods, such as chili-eating contests and produce-carving workshops.[26][27]
While some supporters of changes to the market claim that the revitalized shuk has actually helped to revitalize the whole city,[14][28] others are less enthusiastic about the changes, noting that real estate prices have quadrupled since the 2000s, forcing out many older shops (like vegetable and fish shops) that were staples of the market.[14] They fear that the arrival of chain stores is "part of a global phenomenon that may erase local culture".[29]
Tourism
A boutique in the marketplace.
Beit Zvul, a storefront synagogue.
The Jerusalem Municipality has invested millions in modernizing the center of Jerusalem and creating many pedestrian malls in order to elevate commerce, tourism, and culture.[30] Nir Barkat, mayor of Jerusalem, said, "We realized if we wanted to increase our market share of tourism and the time people spend in Jerusalem, nightlife is key". In recent years, as part of this strategy, many bars and restaurant have opened in the alleyways of the Mahane Yehuda market to draw young and sophisticated customers.[7][31]
Another sign of change is the fact that in 2012 at least one Mahane Yehuda shop, Eli's, has a page on the social media website Facebook.[32][33] Additionally, the shuk as a whole now has an "interactive website" in Hebrew and another in English that include articles, photos, advertisements, and maps.[13][34][35] Additionally, free Wi-Fi internet access is now available to customers in some of the market's shops.[36][37]
Another innovation, offered through the website, is a ticket for a self-guided tour of the market called "Shuk Bites", where for 99 shekels (as of 2012) a ticket includes both a map with a pre-planned route through the market and "punch-card" vouchers that allow visitors to enjoy tastes of a variety of foods and drinks.[34][38]
In addition to the self-guided tour, more and more tours of Jerusalem include visits to the market, including a special "market cooking tour" offered to residents of the nearby "Abraham Hostel"—where members of the group are first given a tour, and then purchase food that they bring back to the hostel for a "hands on lesson in cooking a traditional vegetarian Middle-East meal."[39] As of 2012, tours listed on the shuk's official website include the classic tour; bakery tour; wine and cheese tour; chef-guided tasting tour; and shuk cooking workshop.[1] These tours are aimed at attracting a "new breed of culinary tourists."[40]
Artwork
In 2011 the city-sponsored project "Tabula Rasa" (Blank Slate) supported urban artwork decorating walls, concrete surfaces, and even the trash bins of the market.[17] Street artist Itamar Paloge, curator for the project, recruited some 30 other artists from schools of art and photography in the city, including Bezalel, Hadassah, and Musrara, in addition to local sculptors, painters, photographers, and various artists, including street artists.[17] Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat noted that the project is a joint venture between the merchants, the Student Union, and the municipality. Barkat stressed that Mahane Yehuda has become more than a market: it is an important part of the city's public space – and it's a unique part because of the way Jews and Arabs bargain shop side-by-side in its crowded alleyways and streets.[17]
Beginning in January 2015 the metal shutters and doors of the shops became an after-hours attraction as they were spray painted by street artist Solomon Souza.[41][42] Souza's partner in the project, Berel Hahn, arranges permission from the shopkeepers.[41][43] As of July 2016, Souza had spray-painted more than 150 of the 360 shutters in the market.[41][43]
A lovely piece of ephemera - a small, almost tissue paper thin, paper envelope for Boots the Chemists and intended I'm sure for some sort of gift voucher. Probably dating from the 1950s, by the style and 'feel' of the winter snowscene illustrations, it is very "Christmassy".
Syngonium podophyllum (Arrowhead plant, nephthytis)
Voucher 080610 02 at Cable Company buildings Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Hawaii.
June 14, 2008
Lactuca sativa (Lettuce, prickly lettuce)
Voucher 060405 05 at Molokini, Maui, Hawaii.
April 05, 2006
#060405-7390 - Image Use Policy
Includes Lactuca serriola.
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....
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
Donated by David Jonathan Ross for the benefit auction / holiday party to raise money for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
More info on this print is available on DJR’s page for Manicotti.
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!)
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.
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.
QUEST'ESTATE IL BAGNINO E' RIMASTO INOPEROSO....
Brutto tempo, ombrelloni chiusi e casse vuote. Tra giugno e luglio in tutta Italia i giorni di pioggia e freddo hanno superato di gran lunga quelli di sole: i primi a pagare il conto di un’estate che proprio non vuole saperne di iniziare sono i gestori di bagni e stabilimenti.
Tradotto in soldoni, si parla di 400 milioni di euro sfumati e circa 50mila lavoratori giornalieri rimasti a casa. Niente spiaggia, niente bagnini, animatori, parcheggiatori, aiuti in cucina e addetti alle pulizie: un piccolo esercito di stagionali, con contratto a chiamata oppure pagati con i voucher, costretta a restare con il naso all’insù, in balia del meteo.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 70-300 f./4-5,6 DG