Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to
Great shots Lilith. Some very unique shapes up there morning, sho' nuff. Just briefly it was possible to believe that a few major alpine peaks had come adrift and were serenely drifting up & away.
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Mother's Ruin on sale in Paris. Cheaper than Gordon's, pricier than Old Dignity, ffs.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to
If people grow up in a society where alcohol isn't normalised and is hard to get, they won't have a problem with alcohol abuse. Yeah, right
A Saudi offends police sensibilities by making "noises like a prehistoric bird so he and his two mates were kept in custody until they were sober.''
If he'd been from a good family and had indulged in a little carjacking verging on kidnapping, the police would likely have actively supported his right to be publically drunk. -
Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to
they prefer my lemon (what’s left of) tree and I just gotta harden up to deal with it.
They're crazy for the peel - I've seen lemons still on the tree, tidily stripped of their outer yellow layer.
Appreciate what you & Islander have to do. It was a bit of a shock the first time my former gentle city dwelling friend casually paused the DVD to fetch his .22 at the sound of Mr Possum's nocturnal retchings. A mildly grim reminder that all that gorse that's given way to resurgent forest in recent decades didn't happen all by itself.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to
the lady down the road is South African and has flashbacks when she hears a gun
You'll be a hero if you can pull that off discreetly. Poor little buggers didn't ask to be brought here of course, but even in their native land their distinctive heavy breathing antics have convinced a few nervous souls that there's a resident pervert in their ceiling.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to
That vegetable mammal Arisarum proboscideum, the mouse arum!
Lovely shot Jos, a joy to see. -
Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to
. . . at Nelson Boys, they kept the dormitory windows open overnight in winter to Build Character.
Given the place's history, those character-building open windows might well have doubled as emergency exits.
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A pair of Steinways by indigenous Canadian artists.
There are a few mentions of an "art case" Steinway by the Australian indigenous artist Judy Watson, but pictures seem elusive.
Steinway's original art case piano, with links to others. A great pity that Liberace didn't live to try the Swarovski special.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to
Given your locality, he might have been a ZAPper.
Happened in Australia, though like anyone who's spent time in this neck of the woods I have a ZAPper anecdote or two. A surprisingly lethal cult, given its emphasis on overcoming bodily limitations.