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From The Botanical Gardens
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2023, 00:05
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These amazing plants look like something from a Gaugin painting. They were seen in the Jardín de Aclimatación de la Orotava, Tenerife which dates from 1788.
In Memoriam
Saturday, 25 Nov 2023, 02:20
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My Aunt died today.
And I can remember her;
Running across a sunlit field
With we three children in hilarious pursuit
Laughing at the wind in our faces.
Found in the loft
Saturday, 18 Nov 2023, 20:46
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vort fun dem tog
Thursday, 16 Nov 2023, 23:52
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Edited by Richard Walker, Thursday, 16 Nov 2023, 23:54
Yesterday i stumbled across this expressive word from Yiddish:
shmegegge
meaning baloney, nonsense, rubbish, as in "Don't give me all that shmegegge".
It's pronounced shmuhGEGee. according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Here's the Google ngram. It's quite a recent word it seems, and is a bit less frequent than in the past. But why those high peaks? Was the word in. a film or TV show around those times? I'd love to know.
Change
Wednesday, 15 Nov 2023, 21:43
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“Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt.”
From A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
From A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Tuesday, 14 Nov 2023, 01:17
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George Orwell I think it was that said Macbeth is a play about ambition.In this famous speech near the end of the play, Macbeth, facing ruin and defeat, meditates on the ultimate folly of human ambition.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Corny joke
Sunday, 12 Nov 2023, 23:43
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Met a woman claiming to be the Roman goddess of crops. I was like really? You can’t be Ceres.
On the Night Train
Wednesday, 8 Nov 2023, 17:51
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Autumn Haiku
Sunday, 5 Nov 2023, 23:24
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枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮
on a withered branch
sits a crow
autumn nightfall
Cheese Joke
Saturday, 4 Nov 2023, 23:41
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Edited by Richard Walker, Saturday, 4 Nov 2023, 23:43
Last night I broke into a cheese factory and made away with some curds.
Mystery Fungus - Help Needed
Saturday, 4 Nov 2023, 23:32
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Edited by Richard Walker, Saturday, 4 Nov 2023, 23:33
I found this attractive fungus growing at the base of a small fig tree I have in a pot. It's about 4 cm in diameter.
What is it?
I've asked on a couple of forums but so far no definite identification. It might be a wax-cap of some kind but that is a far as I've got.
Can anyone help?
There was an old man...
Friday, 3 Nov 2023, 17:14
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There was an old man of the sea,
Who said, this is no life for me.
Fish nibble my nose,
My fingers and toes,
Can’t I just stay in and watch the TV?
Who said, this is no life for me.
Fish nibble my nose,
My fingers and toes,
Can’t I just stay in and watch the TV?
Inside out: where shadows dance and secrets twine
Thursday, 2 Nov 2023, 00:01
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A Devon village
Sunday, 29 Oct 2023, 18:07
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Goldfinch
Saturday, 28 Oct 2023, 13:11
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Here's a phot my brother took of a goldfinch
The name carduelis is Latin for something like "of the thistle" I think, because they are so fond of thistle-seeds but this one was amongst some forget-me-nots!
Beautiful woodland
Tuesday, 17 Oct 2023, 15:36
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A friend sent me this picture of a Cornish forest.
Beach Art in Cornwall
Monday, 16 Oct 2023, 11:38
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Daffynition
Wednesday, 11 Oct 2023, 21:33
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From the Uxbridge English dictionary: exuberant - ant who’s given up driving taxis.
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