Having seen chrishoneybee’s Thing-a-Day entry from last week and her reference to Ola Helland’s 1 million giraffes project, I thought I should contribute. So here are three giraffes which will shortly be winging their way to Ola. It’s just a bit of fun!
Category Archives: amusements
Thing-a-Day #4 : 10000 Yonis of Mother Earth
My original intention was to make cheese and onion muffins today, but the day hasn’t worked that way. So here is a a photo I took this morning instead. It’s one of the 10,000 Yonis of Mother Earth (as in Hinduism and in Jung).
And here, in case anyone is too confused, is the original image straight from the camera.
I Don't Believe It!
Surfing the intertubes, as you do, I have just happened upon an Australian men’s underwear and swimwear company called …
COCKSOX
In my defence I was actually looking for swimwear!
I can’t help feeling that only Australians would get away with it!
Dumb Blonde
An interesting reflection on our life and times? Well it amused me, anyway!
Pity the Poor Wage Slaves
Just for all you wage-slaves out there!
Now tell me why I retired, please …
Knitted Hair
Just a small pre-Christmas amusement today, or an idea for that very late pressie!
Ever wanted a moustache (or beard) but couldn’t grow one? Now help is at hand. At least two crafty people are knitting/crocheting facial hair as accessories and selling their wares on the intertubes …
In case I don’t post anything tomorrow, Happy Christmas and a Successful 2010 to all our readers.
Smelly Meme
This week’s Flickr meme was to share 12 of our favourite smells. I thought we’d done this before, but anyway here’s a selection …
1. Christmas Spice
2. Sea
3. Baking Bread
4. Coffee
5. Old Roses
6. Lavender
7. Grapefruit Oil
8. Pine/Cedar Wood
9. Cherry Brandy
10. Christmas Roast
11. Sex
12. Bitter Almonds
1. Mulled Wine, 2. Danish North sea shore, 3. Fresh Baked Bread, 4. Within the crowd of coffee beans, 5. Jacques Cartier, 6. Lavendar, 7. Grapefruit Essential Oil Massage Candle, 8. The Buttermere Pines, 9. cherry brandy, 10. Roasted Turkey, 11. after SEX, 12. sunny almonds
And here’s my slightly off the wall version …
1. i always wanted a dog for christmas, 2. Sea of sin 04, 3. Woman of Bread, 4. There’s a rabbit in my coffee!, 5. Old Rose Socks, 6. Lavender Sky, 7. Grapefruit Moon Kickoff gigger, 8. cedar, 9. Cherry Brandy, 10. 7870 – vietnam – Roasted piglet snout, 11. Sex is Like Pizza, 12. The Saga of Peaches
As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr. Mosaics created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
Problems with the Heating
I just love today’s Wizard of Id cartoon …
This daily cartoon strip always so often has a zen quality to it!
Megalopoda vitreum
Enormous and weird glass sculpture hanging like the sword of Damocles over the Information Desk in the entrace hall of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. No I don’t know either!
It was a swine to photograph. It’s quite interesting viewed on a black background too.
ABC Meme
ABC Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This week’s Flickr meme was an alphabet meme … a word for each letter of the alphabet (but we were allowed to drop one letter to make a 5×5 square. Of course yours truly has to do it all — and put a different (I hope) slant on it by doing the English comic alphabet as first produced by the variety duo Clapham and Dwyer in the 1930s. So I give you the not entirely original …
A for ‘Orses
B for Mutton
C for Yourself
D for Dumb
E for Brick
F for Vescent
G for Police
H for a Beer
I for Novello
J for Oranges
K for Restaurant
L for Leather
M for Sis’
N for Lope
O for a Pee
P for Relief
Q for a Bus
R for Askey
S for Teeda
T for Two
U for Me
V for La France
W for a Bob
X for Breakfast
Y for Husband
Z for Breezes
The two centre images are the first and last Greek letters, Alpha and Omega, so beloved of Christian symbolism.
As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.
1. Horse Eating Hay, 2. Assorted Beef & Mutton satay, 3. The day the little rocket hit a tiny little planet, 4. Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 5. Heaved bricks, Glencoe between Reading Way and Kings Way, 6. Sweet and Bubbly, 7. Chief of POlice, 8. Felix having a beer., 9. Ivor Novello Plaque, 10. Jaffa Oranges, 11. Caff, 12. Gerald Tobin Hells Angel Funeral , 13. Tiny? Bite me! (101/365), 14. A (alpha), 15. Omega, 16. embroidery envelope 1, 17. Mannekin Pis, Brussels, Belgium, 18. Cafe Achteck (Pissoir) am Chamissoplatz, 19. Bus Queue, 20. British Film Icons, 21. Ferula asa-foetida, 22. ~Tea for two~, 23. 365 day one hundred & fourty-nine: will you for me, 24. vive la france, 25. 100708_Shilling_1955, 26. Egg for breakfast on pain complet in France., 27. husband and wife, 28. zephyr
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys