Monthly Archives: October 2014

Closing down main generator.

Posted on October 29, 2014 by colonialist

Well, this is the last post from the study which has seen so many years of them produced. We are about as ready as an ostrich is to join a swallow migration.  Chaos reigns, and if it rains as well, … Continue reading →

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Really awfully total insanity.

Posted on October 29, 2014 by colonialist

The day after tomorrow, we move into our new home.  Preparations are afoot. The renovations aren’t quite ready.  Extra ceiling joists had to be put in, and an entirely new ceiling.  Also, the floor, having been stripped of parquet and … Continue reading →

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Daily Post Photo Challenge: Cover Art: A Peak of Achievement!

Posted on October 27, 2014 by colonialist

How could I resist the Cover Art Challenge opportunity to give some more advance publicity to my long-completed but still held-up-on-editing fantasy, Darx Circle?  Here is the original picture I took of St Bernard’s Peak, and following it is my … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday – Who Needs to Dress it up with Words?

Posted on October 22, 2014 by colonialist

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Photo Challenge: Refraction: a Really Awful Shining Example

Posted on October 19, 2014 by colonialist

The subject of ‘Refraction’ I will give the meaning for – To fractions, give compaction, And then split them up once more! (Refraction: ½ + ½ = 1 = ¼ + ¾) © Colonialist October 2014 (WordPress)

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More dreamy and fishy stuff – also a spot of nightmare …

Posted on October 15, 2014 by colonialist

I had intended to put this picture on my ‘Dreamy‘ previous post, but I can do it now because there were other fishy developments.  On the 8th I became a species of seabream – and one on endangered lists.  Yes, … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: Dreamy: Dragon, Dog and Devotion.

Posted on October 14, 2014 by colonialist

The first thing I thought of when I saw this Dreamy Theme was the following song from music halls of more than a century ago: ‘Waltz Me Around Again, Willie’ (1906), by Will Cobb and Ren Shields: Willie Fitzgibbons who … Continue reading →

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Really Awfully Of-Fishes!

Posted on October 5, 2014 by colonialist

Really Awfully of Fishes: the Of-fish-all Version:  Have all of you haddock lovely day? Cod have been a good eel batter! (Salmon’s sprat cod have had that to say All of a sardine, in chatter!)  Getting into such bad halibuts, … Continue reading →

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From the Horse’s Mouth, Really Awfully.

Posted on October 4, 2014 by colonialist

“I hay chew,” said Harry the horse To Sue; Said Sue, “I ‘ay chew, too; of course I do! It’s straw dinner, ‘Arry; I fink we should marry! Don’t you?”  © Colonialist October 2014 (WordPress)

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The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Signs: Variety of Designs.

Posted on October 3, 2014 by colonialist

 I did have fun with the current Daily Post Photo Challenge theme of Signs:   © Colonialist October 2014 (WordPress)

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