The ring-necked parakeet is known as a collar parakeet (Halsbandsittich) in Germany.
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It’s Been a Dry Spring and Summer
The forrestry office warns about the risk of falling trees and branches because of drought and consequential damage.
Goose Hokey Pokey
I knew that swans mate for life but I recently learned that also geese – particularly Canada geese – pick a mate and stay together (unlike ducks who are serial monogamists). “Little by little, living together, two people fall into a sort of unison, they … Continue reading Goose Hokey Pokey
Wearing Your Convictions on your Sleeve
Buttons used to be the thing. Today … not so much (Nö!).
Interesting aside (interesting for people interested in language, that is): Button is “Knopf” in German but these buttons are called … drumroll … “Buttons”.
Super 7 1/2
It wasn’t exactly a home movie, it was the film project of a drama student in 1981. We used to shoot our films in Super 8 and they looked like home movies most of the time. I remember I did a stop-motion something, foreshadowing my experiments with minikins, but of so little note that even I don’t remember much about it let alone have a copy.
I do remember more about the project of a fellow student in which I had a minor part. I played the unfaithful girlfriend of a young soldier, discovered in bed with the new conquest. Since we didn’t have sound the situation was conveyed by having a picture of me and the boyfriend on the nightstand prominently displayed. That’s the photo above.
PS: I just realised that I have used this photo before explaining a bit more about the “movie”: https://picturesimperfectblog.com/2023/03/19/not-quite-a-slasher-movie/
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Home Movie
She Turns Eight
It’s a day of note today. Our granddaughter turns eight. She used to be a baby.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Noteworthy
Lift off
What has this photo to do with wind, you might ask. Look at it enlarged below:
Or like that:
Taken where the Coghinas river flows into the sea in the north of Sardinia.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Windblown
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