Thanks for all your photos during the past year. And particularly to those of you running challenges for giving us prompts and ideas. I enjoyed showing you my photos and looking at yours. And I’m looking forward to the next year!
In the meantime, whatever you are celebrating: Make it a memorable time.
… divided loyalties?
Rugby fans at a match between Scotland and South Africa with kilts and Springbok sweaters or kilts made of South African material and Scottish tam (including fake ginger hair).
But this fan really was the best: He was wearing a ghillie shirt with a South African cravat underneath. His kilt was made of material featuring the Springbok emblem of the South African rugby union. And the cherry on the top was his sporran made of springbok fur.
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is wormseed wallflower or wormseed mustard. As it is poisonous, in German it is literally called “goose death herb“.
In this case the whole field had been suprised by the sudden frost we had.
For Floral Friday and FOTD
for Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday
in the ancient silver mines. I wonder if the hardship was really worth it.
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“IT’S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?”
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.”
“It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.”
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?”
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Hogswatch is the winter holiday on the Discworld. There are certain similarities between our Santa and the Hogfather: He rides in a sleigh, drawn by boars, and distributes presents.
Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays: Wintery Holidays
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