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Enjoyed seeing Heatdunn (of SU)’s pix from a recent trip.
Venice is unlike any other city; utterly my favourite in the world.
I have been there several times but last time (a few years ago) didn’t take one photo. I just didn’t know where to start, what to choose.

Instead I just tried all the harder to eyeball everything.
It was almost as though if I stuck a camera up to my eye I might miss something.

(Crazy)


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An “egg” man of our acquaintance has been starting to fry in the summer heat and complaining of headaches and sunburn.

Quick council meeting with Dink and Greg and we decided to all pitch in and get him some shelter lest he either turn into a lobster or succumb to melanoma — the fair-skinned are very susceptible to that in Oz, and seldom aware of the danger.

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An added advantage of this house is that he can lock himself in, safe from Margharita and other succubi, who are quite common in Australia. (As Dame Edna would say, Margharita is very common).

I would not want Cloggo Eustace Eggy going home with a disease or even just a red face, so this is for the best.

We’re going to keep it in Greg’s garden for now, as he couldn’t have a kinder and more respectful pair of neighbours than him and his wife, Diane. And Dink will be there too for a few days!

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(via LaLa Land), which, you’ll notice, is also in the correct order

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From the detritus (I mean ad)-laden Dark Roasted Blend; not recommended as a rule.

But it gives me immense pleasure to look at ice storms from a safe distance and while sitting near a fan on a warm summer’s night.

How pretty they are, in places.

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How powerfully they show who is boss.
And how easily you could catch your death if not prepared.

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Designing a website can be hell

 
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

Metamorphosis of a website, told from the harassed designer’s point of view.
He replaces an atrocity from back around Geocities days, the starting point, with something clean and professional that looks as though it was launched this century.

So far so good.

Nightmare ensues when the client’s boss, family and others all start critiquing and demanding changes that will “improve” the concept.

Ends with designer’s suicide — or almost.
He will have to live or we won’t have any more funnies from him.

(Site is both informative and witty. V nicely done)

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Not sure if I want him on my page either.

(I got him from 9gag. Is that reputable?)

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travelhighlights:

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I go straight to the likes of him

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for that

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This consistently interesting Tumblelog, or blog really — modestly headed “Ordinary Finds” — is devoted to visual and other arts.

It is anything but “ordinary” in terms of subject matter and background info exploring the “finds”.

One of my favourites.

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(Photos below by Flor Garduno, featured as part of a Mexican theme i12bent has followed in his(?) latest entries)

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Graham has a very active and physical life away from the computer, and what he brings to us from that is what makes him so interesting.

He lives in Namibia and explores the desert a lot; it’s a place he loves and understands. And whenever he’s been on a trip he comes back with pix and yarns for us, of people, animals, the road, towns and wildlife.


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Since V4 his SU blog has been reduced to skeletal form just for contact purposes, but SU’s loss there was Tumblr’s gain and this site has become part of my daily rounds.


However his main site is on Blogspot, and it’s a substantial one.

There you will find pix and stories about a unique life and lifestyle, including this winner about the monkey who has been his soul-mate for the last 24 years:


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… the instant Stoffel set eyes on me, she jumped straight into my arms and began smacking her lips and grooming me; thus began a profoundly strange, intense and at times, frustrating friendship. She regards me as her alpha monkey “husband”, she’s insanely jealous and gets very uptight if anyone,(especially a woman), approaches me. She would, I believe, defend me to the death against any attacker and has, on occasion, saved my butt by alerting me to the presence of snakes.

When she was about eight months old she climbed a power pylon and was electrocuted. The vet managed to save her, but had to amputate her left arm and tail. Her disability has not affected her zest for life or her agility. I suspect though, that being tailless gives her more reason to think she’s human. Her accident probably triggered a protective response in me and caused me to give her a lot more attention than I otherwise might have …

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Now Graham’s explained why he will likely be absent again for a while but I know his friends will be waiting to hear from him, and willing the best for him.

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Handel’s Messiah

Traditionally associated with Christmas but a mood lifter and inspiration any day of the year.

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