My husband and I occasionally take a walk around a local lake. Somewhere a long the way there are a number of walls in the middle of a meadow. Their only function is to give a platform for local sprayers. The graffiti / murals change … Continue reading And then one Day It Changed
Tommy James and the Shondells Ragtag Daily Prompt: Crimson
Lucky Luke is a cowboy. But the operative word starting with a C for today’s One Word Sunday is CAN. Lucky Luke’s horse is called Jolly Jumper. He pursues (and usually catches) The Dalton Boys. But his dog – the stupidest dog in the universe … Continue reading Lucky Luke, the Belgian Cowboy
“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”Robert Green Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV Wednesday Quotes: Helping Hands
Monday Portrait
The Seven Swabians is a tale found in the collection of fairytales by the Brothers Grimm. Although grouped with fairytales, it is rather a droll story about seven not very bright, not very brave Swabians and their adventures – like fighting a hare which they mistake for a monster.
In Bad Wildbad House Swabia features a mural around some small panelled windows.
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Susan and Gerry from Weekly Prompts offered the prompt “leaves” for this weeks Wednesday Challenge. It’s autumn and leaves (as in: the plural of leaf) is an obvious choice. I thought about it, obviously, but I thought the competition would be fierce so I’d rather offer a take on an old joke.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
Lynne Truss, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenges: Leaves
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to install these things: I’m happy to see that plumbers have added solar panels to their repertoire. And can I tell you that a plumber in German is called a “Installateur”. FOWC with Fandango: Install
The obvious choice for the colour lilac. Not quite as obvious. And possibly not as fragrant. Weekend Prompts Colour Challenge: Lilac
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