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Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 30 Oct

The book ‘The Hunger Games’ was a best-seller, and had a massive following especially among teenagers and young adults (what this says about contemporary ‘western’ society will, I suspect, provide much analytical material for...

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Fleur @Ronrybs I don't care how many more there are, I won't be watching them!

2 Nov

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (91423) • Daytona Beach, Florida 1 Nov

A plant with a strange sounding name is Borage also known as Starflower. It is an annual herb that originated in Syria. However, it is found throughout the Mediterranean region as well as Asia Minor, Europe, North Africa, and...

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RasmaSandra @Ronrybs when I lived in Latvia it grew in our garden and we used it for salads.

2 Nov

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (91423) • Daytona Beach, Florida 29 Oct

Very often when this very lovely and unusual flower gets mentioned, there are those who first think of a bird, not a flower. It is an exotic plant that is native to South Africa and when blooming resembles a bird. One of the...

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RasmaSandra @Ronrybs these kinds of flowers should be in botanic gardens

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (91423) • Daytona Beach, Florida 31 Oct

The Horse You Came in On is the nifty name for a bar in Baltimore, Maryland. I happened to see this online and just had to share. This saloon can be found in Fell’s Point Historic District in Baltimore in a Colonial-era...

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RasmaSandra @Ronrybs that would be very interesting; I would love to raise a whiskey glass with Poe

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (91423) • Daytona Beach, Florida 28 Oct

Halloween is coming and the ghosts and goblins are ready, The witches are preparing their brooms to fly high. The gravestones in cemeteries are starting to move with impatient bodies wanting to get out. Werewolves will begin to...

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RasmaSandra @Ronrybs just beware of what's behind the door,

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (91423) • Daytona Beach, Florida 28 Oct

Sorry to disappoint you, but no, little green men did not plant this flower. It is a strange-looking perennial plant that comes from South America. Besides Happy Alien flower, it is also known as Darwin’s slipping flower and was...

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RasmaSandra @Ronrybs definitely of the orchid family

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Oct

Two things fell into place for me when we visited Mangowine Homestead in the Central Wheatbelt area of Western Australia. For some years, I’ve been intrigued by a tree which grows with a twisted/fluted trunk. I assumed it was just...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs I'll need to work on some introductions so I can use it.

19 Oct

Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Oct

This grain silo was built by Jack Jones in 1949 when heavy lifting equipment was in its infancy. The heavy timber mainframe was made from bush timber and hoisted into position with two Fordson tractors. As the fledging silo was...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs I doubt it could get more difficult in the first place! My mother minded my little nephew once and he had a tantrum because a sheet of hard plastic wouldn't stand on its side.

19 Oct

Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Oct

@FourWalls commented on a recent discussion on how resourceful our ancestors needed to be way back when. We visited Mangowine Homestead while we were away and saw a home-made shelving unit. It had three shelves and would have...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs Yes - or with someone they shouldn't be with! lol

19 Oct

Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Oct

I really think I’m getting old. While we were away, we ran out of instant coffee which is really the only coffee we like. I buy the large tins of our favourite brand as it’s cheaper that way. So I bought a large tin in...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs Teabags are supposed to make good compost or can be put on pot plants - so I'm told.

18 Oct

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (20940) • London, England 14 Oct

Yesterday I went to an unusual art exhibition, at Marble Arch, The Frameless Immersive exhibition. It is set in four rooms that show enlarged images of classic paintings, but more than that there is activity such as people and...

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Fleur @Ronrybs Fun and clever! Thanks!

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Oct

Kerosene tins were once very common in Western Australia. Once emptied, the tins, which I think held four gallons, would be used for all sorts of purposes other than holding kerosene. They would be cobbled together to make...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs It's really hard to know what you'll need and what you won't when you move to a new house.

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Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (20940) • London, England 3 Oct

My little misfortunes continue. A little over a month ago, only 30 feet from my front door, I had a fall. At first, I thought no great damage was done. Then I found my brand new glasses were destroyed. My neighbours came over and...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs I can keep them in the fridge for weeks but once it's opened .....

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Oct

@FourWalls commented on a recent discussion on how resourceful our ancestors needed to be way back when. We visited Mangowine Homestead while we were away and saw a home-made shelving unit. It had three shelves and would have...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs I guess part of it is that you're not expecting to see such things. It's like running into someone you know but in a different context and you don't recognise them immediately.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Oct

Travelling on the back roads as we have been doing we haven’t seen a lot of traffic but twice now we’re seen these self-propelled crop sprayers. From a distance, it’s hard to know what they are as they look a bit eerie with so...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs They wouldn't want unicycle thin wheels, that's for sure.

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Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (20940) • London, England 14 Oct

Yesterday I went to an unusual art exhibition, at Marble Arch, The Frameless Immersive exhibition. It is set in four rooms that show enlarged images of classic paintings, but more than that there is activity such as people and...

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Anna @Ronrybs Thank you very much.

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (91423) • Daytona Beach, Florida 17 Oct

Whenever I see a piano or a photo of a piano the song “As Time Goes By” from the classic movie “Casablanca” starring Humphrey Bogart comes to mind. The song was written by Max Steiner and in the movie was sung by Dooley Wilson who...

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RasmaSandra @Ronrybs now you know and did you ever see the movie Casablanca?

17 Oct

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Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (20940) • London, England 14 Oct

Yesterday I went to an unusual art exhibition, at Marble Arch, The Frameless Immersive exhibition. It is set in four rooms that show enlarged images of classic paintings, but more than that there is activity such as people and...

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Fleur @Ronrybs have you got a link for the opening of the Reichsmuseum?

17 Oct

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (20940) • London, England 14 Oct

Yesterday I went to an unusual art exhibition, at Marble Arch, The Frameless Immersive exhibition. It is set in four rooms that show enlarged images of classic paintings, but more than that there is activity such as people and...

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Anna @Ronrybs - I have not, but I am going immediately to check YouTube.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (366476) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Oct

Near Westonia is an open-pit gold mine which is now in mothballs for about the third time in its life. The public can walk up to a viewing station which is what we did. The Edna May Gold Mine was named after the sister of the...

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Judy Evans @Ronrybs With modern mining sites, the companies a re obliged to return the land to its natural state - more or less. So they stockpile the topsoil, mine for all they're worth then, when they've finished with that site, they replace the topsoil and plant...

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