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  • A Scottish wild cat

    17 February 2017

    Something to see on a wintry morning. Each day has a delight in Scotland

  • The Antonine wall the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire

    17 February 2017

    This was the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire Built in AD138 under Emperor Antoninus Pius. Dunbarton castle, was the Capital of this time A wall on the Clyde stretching to the Firth of Forth The Antonine Wall

  • A lovely day

    24 January 2017

    Yesterday was so foggy That we couldn't see this Never mind a ferry but not so cold in fact, a lovely day

  • The Cumberland sausage

    20 February 2017

    The Cumberland sausage Cumberland sausage is from Cumbria British traditional sausages are tasty Lovely perhaps to eat it warm alone or perhaps with some mashed potatoes

  • French politics is an entertainment as comedy

    23 February 2017

    The Police talk to the French politicians more than the electorate. Trump is a moderate compared to most of the French politicians. Corruption. Money and more corruption and money not for the people this is an era for the elite. Marie-Antoinette would...

  • Wonderful. Announcing the wrong thing.

    27 February 2017

    The winners do not win. Only in America Politics and Entertainment Welcome to the Surreal

  • Free entry to museums

    03 March 2017

    Culture is nice to free and available The Hallwyl Collection is a great place in Sweden that is free. Visiting museums and art galleries is the best entertainment on a wet windy day

  • Inequality over an unequal taxation 

    07 March 2017

    There was much disorder in the United Kingdom this day of the Seventh of March in 1820 During this period there had been the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. . This was a time in England of much social unrest comparable today's inequality over an...

  • Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy

    08 March 2017

    Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy On this day in 1950 this was number one. It was a popular song of it's time And can even be heard singing whilst walking on a busy throughfare Enjoy the day with Chattanoogie shoe shine boy

  • A lovely cake and a coffee in a cafe

    11 May 2017

    A lovely cake and a coffee in a cafe Too much sunshine outside to burn me up. So snugggled in this brilliant nice cafe A wonderful, marvellous day

  • Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)

    11 May 2017

    "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'"Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), who won a best actress Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1954, was also an active humanitarian

  • Not a good day for Napoleon.

    10 March 2017

    On this day in March Napoleon lost a battle in France This was the battle of Laon

  • Ed Sheeran Sells out

    11 March 2017

    Ed Sheeran rules 16 songs in the Top 20 and they are all of Ed Sheeran. Out of the top Five albums three are of Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran is now auditioning for his own Boyband that will support him on his next tour and sing his songs.

  • Is Playing Hard?

    13 March 2017

    Actually it is not hard. But Playing is really fun. But If you are playing with a knife it is dangerous. But If you are playing by your own it is fun or not fun. But If you are playing with coconuts and matches you would need to get a grown up to help...

  • Marvelous. A Spring Fesitval

    14 March 2017

    This is a Spring Festival that is called Nowruz. A celebration of the natural world. A celebration in the blossoms A celebration of the harvest to be. A celebration of Life

  • A meaning for Song Translation

    17 March 2017

    A song translation must be understood as a product in which words, music and image are interdependent, with singablity, sense, naturalness, rhythm and rhyme

  • British Sign Language in Westminster

    18 March 2017

    A Politician in Westminster yesterday used British Sign Language to post a question. This was the first time that a politician had used British SIgn language in Westminster It was to establish a law to add more protection to those deaf and hard of he...

  • The Game of Thrones seeking new locations in Northern Ireland

    18 March 2017

    Here is one of the older Game of Throne locations in Northern Ireland, Cushendun, but there is a rumour as the location manager has been seen driving and photographing other locations that there may be new locations used in the next Game of Thrones

  • The Call

    20 March 2017

    The Call "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809)

  • Sapiens : A History of Humankind

    23 March 2017

    Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? This...

  • A peninsula scene

    29 March 2017

    I stopped cycling home tonight on the peninsula and took this picture. A pleasure to walk home this way. Time to think and relax Cycling also lovely Enjoying the day. Treasuring the evening

  • Animals out of hibernation

    30 March 2017

    Spring is lovely with all the flowers now popping up. Buds appearing on the trees and then blossom. Animals now start to wake up after sleeping through the winter

  • Singing trees

    30 March 2017

    Language makes the trees sing listening as the leaves rustle with opened ears, we smile travelling through the world

  • The Duolingo April Fool

    01 April 2017

    This Year was A European Union law which banned Duolingo from Europe.

  • O Caledonia! stern and wild.

    02 April 2017

    O O Caledonia! stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires" what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! Sir Walter Scott...