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Aurel's laurels 2008 to 2012
Blogs I love. I can only keep up with this list by reading the most recent.
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CINDERELLA – TRANSMISSION OF 2022 MET PRODUCTION IN 2026 - *Reviewed by James Karas* On January 1, 2022, New York’s Metropolitan Opera did something unusual. It transmitted Jules Massenet’s opera *Cendrillo*n, to...
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Sheffield Shapes - I took the photograph back in the early 1980s, and I messed around with it early yesterday. It snowed a lot back in the early '80s, and I wandered up ...
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Dennington, Suffolk - *One foot or two?* When you hear that a church is furnished with medieval benches, you wonder what to expect. They were often an extensive canvas for ...1 day ago
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READY FOR SOME SUNSHINE and a new bathroom - The subject in watercolour class last week was "trees". The sun was shining (briefly) and this palm tree seemed like the right thing to paint. This wee...
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massacre at 1972 Munich Olympic Games - Only a few decades after the *1936 Berlin Olympic Games* debacle and the WW2 Holocaust ending in 1945, West Germans hoped they’d rehabilitate their reputa...
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IT'S BACK - Two days ago we woke up to snow on the ground. That is NOT why we moved to Arizona! Well yes, there are some misguided souls who actually revel in playin...
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Christmas 2025 - Our 2025 Christmas card for all friends my bloggers who deserve a happy Christmas. I suppose to be don't getting better with the stroke, but never min...2 months ago
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HANSEL ON A LEAD - My uncle with Hansel Couldn't find a picture with Hansel at their feet, but he was there! Papa, everyone you love will be there. I tell you this, not bec...
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FOUND WORD OTD: ACEHOOT - OOTHECA: an egg case of certain insects [n] Seen on a local farmer’s Instagram page, apparently this is the egg sac of a mantis? Wild. As for hooks, pl...
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Donald Trump's 100% tariff threats against BRICS could seriously backfire - Donald Trump has announced the threat of 100% tariffs on imports from BRICS countries unless they commit to the perpetual superiority of the US Dollar ...
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Inauguration Day - *It's in the Wing Span, Stupid!* Reason can take you only so far-- A stone, even a stone, isn't certain to stay uncut. Birds like us, with shallow br...1 year ago
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What do YOU do with anger? - My father was prone to angry outbursts! By that I mean that whether he was feeling humiliated, vulnerable, fearful, powerless, disappointed, anxious, hurt...
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What Size Are Party Invitations - What Size Are Party Invitations. Be it invitation size, leaflet size, letter size, or poster size, it is necessary to choose the right size for the best ...3 years ago
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Do you prefer to spend Valentines Day dining at home or in a restaurant? - With many people watching their money - flashing the cash - in a restaurant for Valentines Day can be a spend too far. Would you prefer to have a nice meal...
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Alumnae Theatre Company Director Chronicles: Brenda Darling on “The Trip To Bountiful” - By Suzanne Bowness Following up on our first post about The Trip to Bountiful, here is a Q&A with the show’s director Brenda Darling. Brenda’s past contrib...6 years ago
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The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee - Stacey Lee is one of my favorite authors because she imagines vibrant characters to recreate the forgotten chapters of American history. Her latest young...
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Monday, September 10 - Monday morning bright and early: time to go On Vacation ! Would have gone on the weekend, but the Card Player and I had card playing to do so we stuck aro...
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summer tea haiku - summer crescent moon smile June twenty first forever silent porch shared tea *S*mall wonder haikus await your gaze at *recuerda mi corazon,* exclusive...6 years ago
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Love Remembered - My mother left when I was only a girl. I wish I could say she got in a car and drove away. That would be an easier story to tell. But that isn’t the route...7 years ago
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Reflections, Regrets and Resolutions... Hello 2019! - Here is to a BETTER year! It seems as one year ends and another begins, that we, as humans in the western hemisphere, take stock of the outgoing and assess...
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ELLE - The reality of true sado-masochism is not a bit of BDSM fun and games in the bedroom, it is the horrific brutality of violence and rape and the complex psy...8 years ago
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Tips For Damaged Skin Care - Sunlight direct exposure topics your skin to sunlight damages, yet on the exact same note, staying clear of the outdoors entirely is both almost difficu...
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PR in 2017: buy a bunker - In PR we talk about reaching out and cutting through. We craft messaging that will engage that poised and docile mob we call ‘the public’. In 2016 –a year ...9 years ago
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The Joys of Aging - Getting old is a royal pain in the nether regions. The systems start acting up more and more. Bits and pieces of the machinery that were just getting by be...9 years ago
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RIP, Wonderful Wilder - I just read that Gene Wilder passed away today. He was 83, older than I expected. For some reason I always supposed he wasn't much older than me, probably...
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The self, the others, and the next election. - You are on a bike path, crossing a river, to get to another path, and another crossing, to get to work after five miles of enchanted exercise and good ai...
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Uber Diaries: Uber For Rich People. - Pickup: Portland International Airport. The guy had airport ID and a "crew"tag on his bag, so I imagined he worked for an airline, but I didn't recogniz...
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Don't Mess With Tradtion - My family goes for a very traditional Thanksgiving - turkey with all the trimmings. However, they aren't picky about how the "trimmings" are prepared. Th...
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Cenotaph - This place marks a superb spot, where everyone expects me to reside, to germinate undisturbed, dispassionate, deep. They do not know it is an empty...
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:: forever and ever :: - hello dear friends, if anyone is out there still...thank you dearly for reading...so much catching up to do, my poor blog. but this happened last weeke...
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Chop Chop - I gave up performing my "folkish" music (accompanying myself on 12-string guitar) in 1984 when I began studying classical composition. Except for at part...
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Weird - Most students of English are familiar with the "i before e, except after c" mnemonic rule of thumb. If one is unsure whether a word is spelled with t...11 years ago
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Postscript One - Except for the weather, and its aftermath, life seems to have slowed down to a crawl for us, my husband and me, until last Thanksgiving. Thanks to the Int...
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that blazing ball of fire in the sky - *click photo for full-size image* *photo by Donald Kinney* *click photo for full-size image* *photo by Donald Kinney* *NEWEST EDITION - * *Donald Kin...11 years ago
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182) The Turtles – “Happy Together” - By the time the demo of “Happy Together” made its way to The Turtles, the acetate was worn out. Roughly a dozen bands, including The Tokens, The Happenings...11 years ago
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Madiba sunshine. Amandla ! - Mandela est là « Je suis fondamentalement optimiste. Je ne saurais dire si c’est dans ma nature ou si je l’ai cultivé. Une partie de ce qui fait un optimis...
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Are you tired of being lied to? - I have been silent for some time now. I was very busy sorting out all the contradictory and devious informations being fed to me by mass medias all more o...12 years ago
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¿Inspiración? - Lo primero que me ha venido a la mente al ver esta fotografía de Grace Kelly de los 50’s ha sido la similitud con uno de los diseños de Raf Simons para la ...
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grandson sander - [image: Image Hosted by PicturePush - Photo Sharing] [image: Image Hosted by PicturePush - Photo Sharing] monochrome acrylic 2O x 2O cm. on canvas.12 years ago
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A Winter Wonderland - A village scene in the snow It is a bit of a shame, but snow around my area is a rarity nowadays. We only get a splattering maybe once every couple of ye...
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Neurotic mothers - I doubt I am alone in being a neurotic mother, but I felt I had to confess, because my babies are now grown-ups, so it's not like I can do something simple...13 years ago
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In Loving Memory - It is with deep sadness that we write today as a family to tell you of the passing of Moannie on Monday 8th October 2012. We would like you all to know th...13 years ago
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New Blog - I'm leaving Blogger and Google and moving to a new site. I'll keep this blog up for as an archive. But this is the last post I'm making here. You can find ...13 years ago
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Move Over, Ronnie Burkett - Mention shadow puppets and most people think of making rabbit or cock shadows with their hands during an overhead presentation in primary school. But sit...
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TheSartorialist.com RSS Feed - Hi guys, Thanks so much for the feedback. It’s been great seeing the response and really hearing about how people use the site. One thing we’ve been getti...14 years ago
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Lancashire, where women die of love. - I'm currently reading a book with this implausible title, by Charles Nevin. It's a wryly entertaining love letter to the county where, like me, Charles was...15 years ago
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Must the Winter Come So Soon? - As I type this entry, I'm looking out my bedroom window at the Storm of 2011, that has swept across most of the middle of the country. My yard is covered i...
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Shaving Kit Supplies Vintage - I'm dusting off Please Sir and slowly returning to the blogosphere with new aspirations and inspiring ideas. I apologize for the long absence, but I needed...
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Happy New 2011 - Wishing everyone a peaceful and productive year ahead. Speaking of productive times, I am writing. Actually writing. This is thanks to many writing websit...15 years ago
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Ultima Lezione. - *Ti ricordi? Eravamo turisti con poche parole?* Do you remember?We were tourists with few words? * L'abbraccio nel vicolo?* The hug in the alley? *...
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I really do mean to write but it ain't gonna happen - I know there's been nothing public here for six months, but I'm here every day and I often start posts. Most of them just get deleted and a few of them are...15 years ago
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That Is All - I've decided to suspend this blog. I'm going to make it private as it is a good journal of photos, and sources for me. Thanks to all who have joined in th...
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"All That's Left Behind..." - *The Cheshire Cat begins to fade away, it's his smile the last to go...*
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The Victorian Bushfires - Remembering - A peaceful space and supportive thoughts. It's an entire year since the devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia - when so many families lost their li...
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String Theory: The Final Quote - On this final day (okay, night) of BBAW, here is one last bookish quote, from the inimitable Virginia Woolf:“Books have a great deal in common; they are al...
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Hello - I haven't been able to access blogger.com for two months now. Now it seems we have limited access here. I still can't access others' blogs. I'm doing good....16 years ago
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A Makeovah - Yes, I did spend my entire summer in Los Angeles. Yes, it was incredible. No, I didn't blog about it, and here's why: I BARELY HAD TIME TO EVEN EAT. Serio...
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3 comments:
Help! I need a magnifying glass to look at the wee-sized photos!
They are the only size I could get. There are more and more photographs on the net put up by people who just don't want them to be copied.
Season's greetings and all that stuff, marc. Hope you are in better health
Julie
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