BIG YELLOW RABBIT

I love this temporary sculpture by artist Florentijn Hofman in örebro, Sweden so much .....

It's constructed with the help of 25 local volunteers from locally manufactured shingles and wooden armature and depicts a giant plush rabbit that has been seemingly dropped into the center of the Swedish plaza.

read more here

found via the always inspiring Jokemijn 

Singapore zoo flower

Macro Flower Saturday

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Reed like plant with pink flurry flowers. May be Jama can tell us what it is called.

EBAY SALE

 You may remember this post .... 

well I have finally got some things ready for my ebay sale ....

I will be putting these items up for sale tomorrow night (Thursday night) ...

just thought I would give you a little preview ....

.... my ebay link will be 16housefleamarket

I'm going to try and post some new items every few days, lots of bits and pieces and the odd furniture item, so keep your eye out for some bargains !!!

Thursday Theme Song: My city of ruin.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-ds1-9yPw



I went to the earthquake ravaged city of Christchurch this weekend, and saw the rubbles. My heart bled to see these historical building turned to ruins. 128 people died in the earthquake on 22 Feb 2011.

Bruce Springsteen's My City of Ruin was adopted by the people of Christchurch as their anthemn.



History



The song was written in November 2000, for an Asbury Park, New Jersey Christmas show benefit to help promote the revitalization of the city. Once a popular resort destination in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Asbury Park had succumbed to significant amounts of blight for a variety of reasons, including the ill-effects of the Great Depression, the opening of the Garden State Parkway, and race riots.



The song first starts describing the current state of Asbury Park, the deterioration, and the absence of people in the area.



There's a blood red circle

On the cold dark ground

And the rain is falling down

The church doors blown open

I can hear the organ's song

But the congregations gone

Throughout the song, Springsteen continues to describe the city using images such as men loitering on a street corner and buildings with boarded up windows. The song ends, however, on a hopeful and optimistic note by powerfully imploring the city to "rise up" from the decay.





Come on rise up!

Come on rise up!

''Rise up



The song took on an entirely new meaning soon after the September 11 attacks, offering a message of hope and rising from the ruins. The most famous live performance of the song came on September 21, 2001 during the America: A Tribute to Heroes national telethon. With only a guitar and a harmonica, Springsteen opened the program, introducing the number as "a prayer for our fallen brothers and sisters" and modifying a few phrases in the song. He was joined on stage by Patti Scialfa, Steven Van Zandt, Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell and Clarence Clemons. It was included as the first track on the subsequent album released of the telethon performances.



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watery wednesday: Earthquake Ravaged Christchurch

For watery Wednesday here, you can't really see the water. The water mains had been broken by the eartquake, and Kim and Lynn were washing the car after driving through the broken sewage pipes,















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I was down in Christchurch for the weekend. There are two stories here that are so incredulous that you just have to trust me.



During the two days I was there, there were 4 aftershocks of low magnitude and I was unaware of them.



On Saturday, my host friends took me to the fringes of the inner city and I saw mainly the old churches which were affected. On the way home, Jenny Ah Peng saw about 6 inches of bubbling water, and as she drove through them she joked that she got a free car wash. The next moment, she was @@##$ about driving through the sewage water. I was concentrating on the water at the kerb and didn't smell anything despite having the window wound down. Their mum and Kim and Lynn smelt the awful smell. All except me.



Now I tell you why, I think I have posted it before. When I was about 3 years old, my Dad went to London to study. We moved back to my grand Dad's house. At that time in the 50s, there was no power or TV or radio. To entertain us, my uncles performed magic tricks. One of these tricks was to put a peanut up their nostril and have it reappear in their arm pit. Impressionable me, I tried to imitate. My peanut got stuck in my nostril. All efforts to dig the peanut out failed and it remained in my nostril because my grand Dad was worried it would be pushed further if they tried to dig it. So my peanut remained in my nose nostril for many months. One day, we took a boat to my maternal grandma's house. I jumped from the jetty to the boat. As I jumped, my peanut came out. It had swollen and grown whitish. I had grown quite fondly of it. I was exclaiming, " My peanut! my peanut!" and showing it to everyone.



Is it by coincidence that I am the only child in the family of 9 kids who is allergic to peanuts? Mum never told Dad. I mentioned this to Dad not so long ago. He was shocked that nobody took me to the hospital. He said the peanut could have traveled to my lungs and I would have died.



To date, one of my nieces had duplicated Aunty Ann's peanut story. The stunt that went wrong.

MORE BARCELONA BABY

Can't get enough of this site .... (you may remember here ) here's some more favorites from the streets of beautiful Barcelona !!!

 


 

A LITTLE RENOVATION

We took out our internal windows today ....

it's something we have been going to do forever ...

years ago, before we extended they were actual windows looking onto an old deck .... with the french doors you can see as the doorway.

We moved the doors to the new room but always kept the windows because I liked it that way, but it was time for a change and a bit more space ....

this is just before the glass went ....

there are a few shots of the old look on this post .....

 and this is after .....

 .... we have a bit of filling and painting to do now, but I think I like it better ....

(well it's a bit late now if I don't)

 at least I won't have to clean the glass anymore, 

little visiting fingers loved it !!!