Queen on Queen …

It has been that sort of a day that while i had all intentions of doing a good,
serious blog on this or that; well, this is where i am at!

‘Funny Pictures’ …

I saw this picture at Aneta’s blog on Y360 months ago and took note of it for it caused me to ponder, wonder and I left this comment on the same:
Looking at that gob with the tags in it makes one wonder:
‘How does the poor thing manage to eat at all, at all?!!’
Maybe tearing the [...]

DUSTIN The Turkey …

Ireland has won the Eurovision Song Contest so many times that it got too much for the tiny nation to cough up the dosh to make a posh do aka to arrange the competition year in, year out, so that the representatives selected on the same from the Emerald Isle have not done well at [...]

HOLOCAUST Memorial Day 27.1.

The photo is part of The Names at the Yad Vashem* Museum in Jerusalem by me.

January 27, aka today is the annual official day for the remembrance of the victims of the Nazi-era worldwide and here is the what the UN has decreed on the same:

“International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) is [...]

Knitting or Stitch ‘n Bitch

“Those of you who feel knitting has changed your life, welcome to the club. I can think of no better occupation to reveal your own creativity.”
Kaffe Fassett
Wikipedia defines knitting as “a method by which thread or yarn may be turned into cloth. Knitting consists of loops called stitches pulled through each [...]

Riverdance on Ice

This is a Canadian couple Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz*
dancing the RIVERDANCE in the Olympics in Nagano (Japan) in 1998.

I suppose I am homesick for Ireland…

Tis for now, Rii 
* He is married to a Finnish ice dancer since 2004 according to Wikipedia.

HUMOUR: Pickled Onions

Some while back Noizy had a photo of an Irish pub in Maine in his blog on 360 and the name of the establishment was:
The Pickled Onion!
My comment was this:
HEEEH!! lol
I think that the onion is not the only one that is getting pickled in that establishment!!
Tis for now, Rii

European [...]

COMEDY: DINNER for ONE

The Menu
Mulligatawny Soup (with sherry)
Haddock (with white wine)
Chicken (with Champagne)
Fruit (with port)
- Little drop of soup, Miss Sophie?
- I am particularly fond of mulligatawny soup*, James…I think we’ll have sherry with the soup.
- Sherry with the soup? Yes… oh, by the way, the same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?
- Same procedure as every year, [...]

LITERACY or Love of Reading

“What I can think about, I can talk about. What I can say, I can write. What I can write, I can read.
I can read what I can write and what other people can write for me to read.”
Professor Roach Van Allen
The picture, – do click at it to make it clearer, please [...]

Boulevard of Plants — ALHAMBRA

Just want to remind us all that there is summer somewhere…

Tis for now, Rii xx

Photo: Taken by Becki – my daughter. All rights reserved.
Link to Alhambra.
 The plant in the photo is Oleander. Oleander (Nerium oleander), is a evergreen shrub [...]