Stand With Free Iran (Iran election)

Stand With Free Iran ~ Iran election, originally uploaded by harrystaab.

Go to the link above ... NOW. And then go on to The Boston Globe ~ and elsewhere.

Thank God for all our fantastic friends at 'Flickr'.

And thank God for all fearless photographers and photo journalists.

And thank God for all the brave, honest, decent, ordinary Iranian people heroes and heroines.

*(Cross posted across at 'appletree')

This Old Brit Shipwrecked... well, almost...

Pictured ~ P&O's "Pride of Kent."

A week ago tonight we arrived back home from what was meant to have been a bit of breather from blogging and the like. You know, a week away from it all. A well earned break.

And, all at our own expense ~ not that of the long suffering, serially screwed, undervalued and underpaid, poor British taxpayers.

So, at the start of the week we'd smilingly set off in the sunshine for several days sightseeing in the south and, as a special treat, a sail across to France.

Sounds nice, eh?

Don't you bloody believe it.

Here's

what

happened

to

us!



Haven't we told you time & time again that we're both natural born survivors?

*(Cross posted across at 'appletree')

Caption Competition...

It's occurred to us that we've not had one of our caption competitions for quite a while.

Also, since we've lately been enjoying some amazingly, unseasonably hot April weather around here, we've been out & about a bit with our battered old "Brownie Box".

OK, so we've fibbed a bit about the Brownie, but when did we ever pass up absolutely any chance to mega-milk almost any kind of elongated/extended "alliteration" opportunity -- at all?

Anyway, coupling those first few sentences with our (so often, so obviously), shameless personal narcissusism, we've decided to display one of our own photos this time.

Over to you.

(Cross posted across at 'appletree')

Our latest semi-absence excuse

Every so often we become convinced we simply must sod off somewhere else ~ and kick our keyboard completely into touch for a time.

Hence, the recent scarcity of sightings of ourselves.



So for better or for worse, depending upon how you feel about blogging old Brit buggers such as ourselves, we sometimes just sling our cameras over our shoulders and set off to see some more of real life ~ as opposed to the virtual type ~ whilst it's still possible.



It's sometimes so easy to forget that when the crooked, thieving, lying, politicians and powerbrokers can't be seen to be constantly conning, killing, etc, that there are still so many super-special places ~ almost within spitting distance of our own front door step.











See what we're saying?

Leastwise, attempting to.



But nothing lasts for ever.

Neither well earned breathers nor absolutely necessary breaks.

Eventually, it's inevitably time to head for home and get back into the blogging business.



Incidentally, isn't our friend 'flickr' fantastic? We don't know what we would do without out.

(Cross posted across at 'appletree')

** Note: All above pictures are copyright. Reproduction without our personal permission is illegal. **

Friday Photography Blogging ...

Oh, boy. What a week. Are we bloody beat - or what?!

Believe it or not though, the blogosphere isn't the be all and end all : not even for yours truly.

So what other sorts of stuff do we do when we want to relax for a while?

The clue's in today's title of course.

































Okay, we know. You're bored now.

Enjoy your weekend everyone. We know we will. We've got plenty of freshly charged batteries and a wonderful weather forecast for tomorrow.

G'night for now. Sleep tight.

(Btw, all above pictures are our personal property. We own the copyright. Right?)

*(Cross posted across at 'appletree')

Ongoing Israel-Gaza Slaughter ~~ The Movie(s)

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Photo below, proudly reproduced by 'This Old Brit' with express kind permission.

PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/, originally uploaded by pinkturtle2.

NO ifs.

NO buts.

You have GOT to go to GERT's.

*(Cross p[osted across at 'appletree')

A little bit about our latest lot of Turkish travels ...

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Hands up who here (honestly), hasn't ever hankered to show off ... sorta ... at least every once in a while?

So take a little look at what we won when we 'showed' the snapshot below.



And while we're on the subject ... of photography that is ... for those with the time and/or slightest interest, here's a few photos we took on our most recent Turkish trip at the start of this September.























Culture vultures and/or just plain old bored-stiff-buggers can, if they wish, 'suffer' some more of our recent Turkish shots by hitting it here to flit across to Flickr.

Incidentally, isn't sanity simple common sense civilised secularism something super!?

* (Cross posted at 'appletree')

Where KKK robes come from

Newly sewn Klan robes, ready for shipping

58-year-old Miss Ruth spends all of her days doing just three things: smoking, caring for farm animals an for her 40-year-old quadriplegic daughter, making the uniforms for America's oldest and most notorious terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan. Anthony Karen interviewed her extensively and photographed the at home, where she takes orders and sews robes from sunup to sundown.

Miss Ruth says that she's a 5th generation Klansman.

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Rare Eastern Front Photos

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See the collection here (17 photos in all)

(cross posted at appletree)