Ron Rybs (@Ronrybs) on myLot

Judy Evans @JudyEv (376128) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Mar

Browse Island is approximately 14-hectare (35-acre) in area and is uninhabited. It lies about180 km (110 mi) north-west of the coast of north-western Australia and about 450 kms off the coast of Broome. It is considered WA’s most...

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Ron Rybs @JudyEv I am sure that is a mostly of a case of, 'We've got this costly drone, so we have to use it!' Cynic that I am

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (376128) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Mar

While trying to ensure that I wasn’t doubling up on my discussions, I came across a post from 2016 talking about a botanist named Olive Pink. Recently the topic of ‘surnames of colour’ came up but I think Pink was one of those...

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Ron Rybs There is a men's clothes shop called Thomas Pink, in the UK. Wonder if it is a real name or just the marketing ploy?

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (376128) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Mar

I came across this postcard when I was sorting through some photos. It shows Marie Ottile (Tilly) Johannsen (nee Hoffmann) with her daughter, Elsa, on a camel (obviously) and en route to Hermannsburg, an aboriginal mission, in...

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Ron Rybs I couldn't drive a car, at all, until I was 18!

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (25517) 26 Mar

It is with great sadness I announce the death of one of the old mylotters from 2006 when this great site started One of the first people I ever met on here and who guided me in my infancy I went to look for his profile and...

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Ron Rybs Very sad news. I didn't know him myself

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (67) • United States 26 Mar

Do you know what a djembe is? It's a drum. Djembe means, "everyone gather in peace" according to the Mande tribe in West Africa. The drum originated in Senegal. It is a rope-tuned, skin-covered goblet drum played with bare...

djembe drum

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Ron Rybs Just the thing to endear you to the neighbours!

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (95919) • Daytona Beach, Florida 26 Mar

On September 5, 1958 the romantic novel “Dr. Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak was published in the U.S. The book had been banned in the Soviet Union but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature that same year. Boris Pasternak was...

romance and war

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Ron Rybs I've never read the book or seen the film. Very sad, whilst correcting a wrong, it hardly makes up for what happened in the final years of his life

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (25517) 26 Mar

Here is my late afternoon snack A Scotch Pie Store bought Quite tasty but they have got really small these days, Growing up these were much bigger and much tastier. We bake our own and we use a butchers Scotch Pie Risk and...

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Ron Rybs I've never eaten a true Scotch pie!

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (376128) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Mar

I’ve heard of sinkholes but Umpherston Sinkhole near Mount Gambier in South Australia doesn’t fit the usual description of this geological process. The sinkhole was once a cave but the top of the limestone chamber collapsed. In...

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Ron Rybs An unusual garden, rather like it. Hope the facelift doesn't destroy the charm of the place

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (376128) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Mar

Browse Island is approximately 14-hectare (35-acre) in area and is uninhabited. It lies about180 km (110 mi) north-west of the coast of north-western Australia and about 450 kms off the coast of Broome. It is considered WA’s most...

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Ron Rybs Seems we find a new use for drones everyday. At leasrt this one is more productive than current crop of war drones in use

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Judy Story @jstory07 (148025) • Roseburg, Oregon 25 Mar

For the last two days we mowed the whole yard and than used the weeder on the yard. I forgot to use the weed eater on the garden bed. Half has beautiful flowers and the other half grass is growing in it. So I went To use the...

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Ron Rybs Not too bad a day. Sometimes I can spend hours online and others hardly touch a computer. Not done a survey in ages

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Fleur @Fleura (34438) • United Kingdom 25 Mar

I got very cold today. Do you know the kind of day when it doesn’t seem all that bad at first, just a bit chilly, but then because you are in it for a long time and not moving about too much you just get colder and colder? I have...

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Ron Rybs Yes, very nice morning here, then blustery and chilly. The cats barely went out. Seemed a good idea to me!

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (95919) • Daytona Beach, Florida 25 Mar

I woke up with my old garden on my mind. I could visualize the old house, the greenhouse, and the pear tree in bloom when springtime came. I could walk the paths again, and it was a comfort to me, though I will never see it again...

my garden in latvia

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Ron Rybs Dreams are funny things and sometimes surprisingly real

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (376128) • Rockingham, Australia 25 Mar

The photo shows the view from the Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg, Austria. It overlooks the city and sits at an altitude of 506 metres. At 250 m (820 ft) long and 150 m (490 ft) wide, it is one of the largest medieval castles...

austria

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hohensalzburg fortress

funicular railway

medieval castle

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Ron Rybs @JudyEv Always enjoyable to explore a city with a bit of history

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Judy Story @jstory07 (148025) • Roseburg, Oregon 24 Mar

My kids used to ask me who was my favorite. I told them I loved them all the same. I really did love them all the same. Each one had something special about them. I loved each one for who they were. Thinking about...

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Ron Rybs @jstory07 For sure! I have one sitting on the table next to me taking a keen interest in my typing fingers, while the big cat is looking wistfully at the supply of treats!

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (25517) 24 Mar

I am drunk, well a bit drunk Me and my neighbour shared two bottles of Blossom Hill Red Wine And I opened another after he left. Oh dear typing is difficult Well you only live once and even Jesus liked red wine didn't he. He...

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Ron Rybs @Ineeddentures A small price!

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (25517) 24 Mar

I am drunk, well a bit drunk Me and my neighbour shared two bottles of Blossom Hill Red Wine And I opened another after he left. Oh dear typing is difficult Well you only live once and even Jesus liked red wine didn't he. He...

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Ron Rybs @Ineeddentures My days of drinking it like water are behind me now. Three bottles in two hours is a bit quick for me

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (25517) 25 Mar

I am really pleased with this Super Uber mega pleased A damn fine looking lovely Cauliflower Cheese which incidentally tasted wonderful I made some chunky chips to go with it. I wish I had made more 300g of extra mature...

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Ron Rybs I like a good cauli and cheese

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (376128) • Rockingham, Australia 25 Mar

The photo shows the view from the Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg, Austria. It overlooks the city and sits at an altitude of 506 metres. At 250 m (820 ft) long and 150 m (490 ft) wide, it is one of the largest medieval castles...

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Ron Rybs I do like exploring castles and fortresses. I think there is only one fortess in the UK and that is the Tower of London.

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Jimbo45 @Ineeddentures (25517) 24 Mar

I am drunk, well a bit drunk Me and my neighbour shared two bottles of Blossom Hill Red Wine And I opened another after he left. Oh dear typing is difficult Well you only live once and even Jesus liked red wine didn't he. He...

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Ron Rybs I like Blossom Hill, a bit fruity and a jolly decent throwing wine!

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Judy Story @jstory07 (148025) • Roseburg, Oregon 24 Mar

My kids used to ask me who was my favorite. I told them I loved them all the same. I really did love them all the same. Each one had something special about them. I loved each one for who they were. Thinking about...

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Ron Rybs Cats are about my only favourites, well, them and bikes!

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