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MoonsView: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts. My sister sent me this poster and I think its beautiful and needs to be shared - here are the words. I have not written anything on my blog for sometime as you can see - so here are a few of my thoughts about stuff that has happened . Merry Xmas and Happy New Year:. Well the elections are FINALLY over - I have to say these ones were ...
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Grand & Grotty: Mysterious Girl...
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Thursday, 22 September 2011. Do you remember this painting? Was it also hanging in just about all your friends homes back in the 70's when you were a kid? Well I have done a bit of digging on this series of paintings/prints that remind me of way back then.and this is what I found. It’s known that Tina was painted in 1961, and three years later in 1964 she would go on sale in Boots in the UK. An instant hit, Tina has appeared in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 cult classic A Clockwork Orange. Kordes Rosen - Germany.
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Grand & Grotty: September 2011
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Thursday, 22 September 2011. Do you remember this painting? Was it also hanging in just about all your friends homes back in the 70's when you were a kid? Well I have done a bit of digging on this series of paintings/prints that remind me of way back then.and this is what I found. It’s known that Tina was painted in 1961, and three years later in 1964 she would go on sale in Boots in the UK. An instant hit, Tina has appeared in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 cult classic A Clockwork Orange. Landscape on a teapot.
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Grand & Grotty: October 2010
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Sunday, 10 October 2010. Pirates of the Carribean Christmas Cake. Today I baked my Christmas cake! Whoopee.doo dah.the first one in over 10 years. It's a cake that would have Captain Henry Morgan and his mateys screaming for more. A rich dark fruit cake, it is a recipe I got from my Granny, and have used for years. I have tweeked the recipe a bit to suit my own taste, substitueting candied peel for preserved gineger for instance. But the secret of my fruit cake is that I use a special ingredient! 1 bottl...
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Grand & Grotty: April 2011
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Monday, 11 April 2011. Pretty tulips peeping out from a shady spot in my garden. Bright red Appeldoorn tulips open in the sunshine. A sea of violet blue Pansies at the local garden centre. Sweet scented Hyacinth in every pastel shade. Bright and sunny Dutch Master Daffodils are the first sign of spring. Missy relaxing among the daisies. The chessboard lily is an endangered wild woodland lily. These sweet little white bells are the blossoms on my Blueberry bush! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Grand & Grotty: Landscape on a teapot
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011. Landscape on a teapot. This is my 'English Ironstone Tableware' teapot which I picked up at a secondhand store. It's a real tough ceramic thus I use the pot more frequently than any of my other teapots of finer bone china. What intriqued me the most was the picture on the sides which is a dipiction of Scotney Castle in Kent, so I had a Google to see what the actual Scotney Castle looks like, and this is what I found. From The Heritage Trail -. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Grand & Grotty: March 2010
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Sunday, 28 March 2010. Renovations, renovations.Living on a building site. Well, here I am, back in action and with the new look for the blog! And speaking of renovations.the past months since we moved into our 200 year old antique house.a national monument and tribute to the workmanship of builders and craftsmen of days gone by, we have all been very busy working on the house. Then I also helped Cheeky Chops renovate her kitchen, which now looks much better, clean and new again. I will add the after pho...
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Grand & Grotty: February 2011
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011. The bus to Buysdorp -The Story of Coenraad de Buys. Piet Retief, Piet Uys, Gerrit Maritz, Potgieter, Trichardt…. But who was Coenraad de Buys, the forgotten trekker? Rian Malan tracked down a hidden legend and Gerrit Rautenbach joined him on a quest to find his descendents in Limpopo Province. When I first read these words, I thought, nonsense. A Boer Hercules Seven foot tall Riding the veld in animal skins, urging Africans to drive the British back into the sea? Beyond Makhado...