memes, personal, photography, pleasures

Summer Dreaming Meme


Summer Dreaming Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme was to choose 12 things you would find at the beach (or round the pool). Here are my selections …

1. Seaweed
2. Plastic Bottles
3. Seagulls
4. Nubiles
5. Rocks
6. Used Condom
7. Ice Cream
8. Groins
9. Dog Shit
10. Shells
11. Broken Glass
12. Fossils

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. The Green Weed of Pembroke, 2. Beach Garbage 1, 3. Heal the World, 4. Tina Atina, 5. Today’s sunset, 6. Consumed, 7. Flickr meltdown (I need a fucking ice cream!), 8. ..: Sand Water Wood :.., 9. kackender hund wartet auf ballwerfendes frauchen, 10. some of the other ones, 11. heart of glass, 12. Urban Relics

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food+drink, memes, photography

Yummy Meme

Yummy Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme was to choose 12 ice cream sundae ingredients …
1. Coconut Ice Cream
2. Maraschino Cherry
3. Mint Leaves
4. Pineapple
5. Coffee Ice Cream
6. Peaches
7. Cherry Liqueur
8. Dark Chocolate Chips
9. Toasted Almonds
10. Apricots
11. Raspberry Sauce
12. Almond Biscotti

1. Coconut Ice Cream, 2. Homemade Maraschino Cherries, 3. mint leaves, 4. Pineapple Floats, 5. Blue Bunny Coffee Ice Cream Scoop, 6. The Peaches Are Ready for You to Pick!, 7. Ginjinha, 8. Dark Choc Chips, 9. toasted almonds, 10. Apricots, 11. Raspberry sauce, 12. biscotti

This has inspired Café Zen to offer their own variant as part of their Abominable Menu. It is currently being run as a special but will appear on the full menu if it proves sufficiently (un)popular …

Yeuchy Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

1. Chocolate Yoghurt
2. Liquorice
3. Honeycomb
4. Marmite
5. Salt & Vinegar Crisps
6. Pernod
7. Sheep’s’ Eyes
8. Gorgonzola
9. Lemming
10. Anchovy
11. Tomato Ketchup
12. Brussels Sprouts

1. Live Culture, 2. Licorice, 3. honeycomb, 4. Marmite cat, 5. Homemade crisps, 6. eye of the sheep, 8. cheese, 9. Norwegian lemming, 10. Filleted anchovies, 11. Tomato Ketchup anyone?, 12. Braised Brussels Sprouts

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. Graphics created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

memes, photography

Oh bartender Meme


Oh bartender Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme was “ten green bottles, a glass and a bar-tender”. I guess I’d better do it ‘cos the theme was my idea!

I decided to choose a rough theme for each picture: water, fly, multi-coloured, small, beer, soft drink, scent, wine, gin, absinthe, (eye)glass, bartender.

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. Perrier bottle, 2. Green bottle, 3. Japan 2009 – Some Bottled Green Tea, 4. Green Bottles, 5. Neon green beer bottles, 6. High Rock Ginger Ale Bottle, 7. 1_perfume, 8. That Empty Feeling Inside, 9. drink to pete, 10. Absinthe bottles, 11. Monocle Dana, 12. bar cat

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personal, quotes, thoughts

Find …

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot,
who calls you back when you hang up on him,
who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat,
or will stay awake just to watch you sleep …
wait for the boy who kisses your forehead,
who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats,
who holds your hand in front of his friends,
who thinks you’re just as pretty without makeup on.
One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares
and how lucky his is to have you …
The one who turns to his friends and says, ‘that’s her.’

[Author unknown]

books, quotes, science

The Zen of Taxonomy

These ambiguities, redundances, and deficiences recall those attributed by Dr Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into
(a) those that belong to the Emperor,
(b) embalmed ones,
(c) those that are trained,
(d) suckling pigs,
(e) mermaids,
(f) fabulous ones,
(g) stray dogs,
(h) those that are included in this classification,
(i) those that tremble as if they were mad,
(j) innumerable ones,
(k) those drawn with a very fine camel’s hair brush,
(l) et cetera,
(m) those that have just broken a flower vase,
(n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

[Jorge Luis Borges in his essay “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins”. Quoted in Finding Moonshine by Marcus du Sautoy]

food+drink, memes, photography

Foodie Meme

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Food Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme was to choose your 6 (or 12) favourite/can’t-live-without foods, either as dishes or as ingredients. Here are my 12 ingredients:

1. Curry. I’m classing curry as an ingredient as I love almost anything curried.
2. Olives; preferably Kalamata, but they’re all good.
3. Blue Cheese. I can go ages without having blue cheese, but once in a while it’s a must have.
4. Tomatoes; preferably old, so called “heirloom”, varieties which have some real flavour; it’s surprising how much flavour varies between varieties.
5. Avocado; whole or in chunks (just don’t you dare mash/puree it, what a waste!)
6. Pasta
7. Butter Beans; I loved them as a kid and I still love them.
8. Chips (fries to you Americans); big, chunky, well fried, hot chips. With either salt and vinegar, tomato ketchup, or mayonnaise.
9. Chilli
10. Garlic
11. Soft Fruit; almost any summer fruit will do.
12. Seafood; although I try not to eat seafood unless I know it to be either sustainably harvested or farmed.

OK, so now your challenge is to rearrange these ingredients into a wholesome, balanced, 3 course meal. Tell me in the comments how you did it?

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. Sag aloo!, 2. my own olives, 3. Brie and Barkham, 4. Heirloom Tomatoes, 5. Sliced Avocado (Enhanced with Photoshop Fractalius Filter), 6. Sucked In By Pasta, 7. warm butter beans with rosemary & garlic, 8. 40/366 Chips! Frites!, 9. Red Hot Chilli, 10. GARLIC, 11. what’s a drupel?, 12. Seafood Market

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current affairs, quotes

Where we are now …

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
[HL Mencken]

Somehow this has a worry ring of veracity in these trying times.

H/T Julian Allason

current affairs, science, topographical

Tick … Tock … F***

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Aarrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!

It’s flaming clock change day again!

I get really fed up with continually changing the clocks … forward an hour … backward an hour … forward an hour … ad nauseam.

Why? It isn’t necessary. It isn’t as if are at war now. And the myth that summer time saves lives has been exploded as just that: a myth. All it does is create an irritation and cost industry money. FFS why can’t we stay on GMT. We need to start a campaign:

Save GMT. It’s our cultural heritage.
amusements, memes, photography, quotes

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

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