Six Word Saturday: Young Dancer behind Royal Opera House
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Tag: Scotland
Half a Ruckus
I wanted to illustrate not quite a ruckus by showing a rugby ruck. Now my husband (who is the rugby expert in our family) tells me that this is not even a ruck.
Therefore I present: Half a ruckus. A ruc.
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Diplomacy – or …?
… 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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What an Odd Place
It’s not the shop that’s odd, not the bright colour beneath the old grey stones, not even the skeleton in the entrance or the huge nose with glasses. It’s the sticker on the top of the nose I find odd. Who put it there? And why? Nobody can see it or read it. Was it put up before the nose was hoisted up?
I went to my Edinburgh archives from a single day in the wonderful city and of course, it was Debbie’s oddity that provided the impulse.
Forward position
This is Josh Strauss, a South African born rugby forward who became elligible to play for Scotland only a month prior to the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England and Scotland. The photos were taken at the RWC match Scotland vs South Africa in Newcastle.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Forward.
Bay windows
Bay window in a half-timbered house in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Also half-timbered but different style in Michelstadt im Odenwald in Germany.
Still Michelstadt but about a century younger.
A bay window in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the grey-yellow stone typical of the architecture there.
And in Heidelberg, Germany, it’s rather sandstone red.
The newest of the lot. A bay window in white wood near Roker Beach in Sunderland.
Linked to Monday Window.
On the brink
… and it’s just about to drop!
And now for something completely different. This photo is from the South Africa vs Scotland game during the Rugby World Championship 2015 (one of the only two international matches I have ever been to). It’s really not fair to post a photo from a rugby match for this topic as you can just point the camera and something is happening. But I thought I’d share this tender moment between Francois Louw and Schalk Burger just before a line out (at any other time, this gesture might have been misunderstood):
Linked to A Photo a Week: Timing is everything.
The promise of a cobbled alley
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, I thought I was in a dream. “ A quote by Jack Kerouac.
Perfect for Debbie’s prompt Night over at Travel with Intent. Other nightly photos can be found here.
Line-out
On 3 October 2015, we were in attendance when South Africa played Scotland in St James’ Park in Newcastle during the group matches for the Rugby Wold Cup 2015. We were high up in the stands and I had a new camera with me:
Since Nancy decided to show football, I thought I add some rugby action for A Photo a Week Challenge: movement.
For more moving photos or photos depicting movement, click here.
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