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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Friday Photo

31 Friday Aug 2012

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Champs Elysees, france, Friends, Greenland, Mongolia, paris, people, photograph, photographs, photography, photos, places, travel


Now this is a real quick post as I prepare for my niece’s 21st birthday tomorrow. This pic was taken in on the Avenue des Champs Elysees in Paris. It was one of those that you take when playing with a new camera and kind of surprised me when I looked at in on the computer. It was taken in black and white so no ‘shopping’ apart from the border. Hope you enjoy. And just so I can legitimately tag this to encourage viewers…I reckon the bloke with his back to us is from Greenland or Mongolia.

Have a great weekend.

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Monday I’ve got Friday on my mind

27 Monday Aug 2012

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australia, Greenland, humour, Mongolia, photographs, photography, photos, pirates, places, public, sunshine coast, toilets


So here is the link to Friday’s photo. Fans of pirates, hopscotch and toilets will enjoy what I found up in Kawana a couple of weekends ago. This photo is more unusual than anything else. I would love to find out what the story behind it is. If you know, do tell. And if anyone can let me know if the same kind of picture is found in Greenland or Mongolia, I would love to hear that as well.

As usual, click on the teaser below to see the full Friday photo.

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Report: The Critical Decade: International Action on Climate Change – Climate Commission

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

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abbott, australia, carbon, carbon tax, climate, climate change, emissions, environment, flannery, Politics, tax, world


Report: The Critical Decade: International Action on Climate Change – Climate Commission.

On June 21 this year, the Opposition leader said:

Well, I think the Prime Minister should be waking up to herself and waking up to the fact that the rest of the world is not taking decisive action by way of carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes. Sure, lots of other countries are doing the sorts of things to help the environment that the Coalition is recommending – they’re taking direct action – but they are not putting in place economy wide carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes and the Prime Minister should finally admit that Australia’s carbon tax is an international orphan.

The above quote comes from the Liberal Party of Australia’s own website (http://liberal.org.au/Latest-News/2012/06/21/Tony-Abbott-doorstop-interview.aspx)

Yesterday, the Australian chief climate commissioner released the aforementioned report. The report estimates that by next year 33 countries and 18 sub-national jurisdictions will have a carbon price in place.

Can someone explain the rationale behind  Mr Abbott’s ill-informed statements? Does he really think that the populous is ignorant?

{sigh}

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Friday photo

17 Friday Aug 2012

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baby, child, cold, cuddle, Greenland, mother, motherhood, Nuuk, parenthood, parrenthood, photo, photographs, photography, rowing


Okay, so  there have still been no Greenlanders visiting my blog. The capital, Nuuk, has about 16,000 people. Surely someone has a computer there. If you know anyone in Greenland my challenge to you is to get them to visit my blog. Better still, get them to comment on a photo or musing. 🙂 Also looking for people from Mongolia or Iraq – preferably natives and not visitors or expats.

In the meantime, this week’s Friday Photo is one of warmth and cuddles and parenthood. You can find it here or by clicking on the photo below.

Have a great weekend.

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Aluu Greenlandians

13 Monday Aug 2012

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Friends, Greenland, Greenlandic, Iraq, Mongolia


No one from Greenland has ever visited my blog and I am sad about that. If anyone knows someone from Greenland, can you ask them to come to my blog please so my stat map has a Greenland visitor on it – that would be cool.

Oh, also anyone from Mongolia or Iraq.

Google translate doesn’t have Greenlandic as an option so here is the above in Thai.

หนึ่งจากกรีนแลนด์ไม่ได้เคยเข้าเยี่ยมชมบล็อกของฉันและฉันเสียใจเกี่ยวกับว่า ถ้าใครรู้ใครบางคนจากกรีนแลนด์ที่คุณสามารถขอให้พวกเขามาในบล็อกของฉันโปรดดังนั้นแผนที่ stat ของฉันมีผู้เข้าชมกรีนแลนด์เมื่อมัน – ที่จะเย็น

โอ้ใครยังมาจากมองโกเลียหรือประเทศอิรัก

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The Nicest Place on the Internet

13 Monday Aug 2012

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The Nicest Place on the Internet. – Nothing to say about this except that you should do yourself a favour and click on the link.

Keep smiling!

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Friday photo

10 Friday Aug 2012

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art, art gallery, artist, arts, brisbane, gallery, GOMA, illustration, indigenous, painting, people, photographs, photography, travel, women


When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. 

– Alberto Giacometti

Today’s Friday Photo comes from a trip to the art gallery.  Hope you enjoy. As usual, click on the picture below, here or the drop down menu at the top of the page to see to see the full image.

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Friday photo

03 Friday Aug 2012

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france, Friends, hat, holidays, Louvre, Musee de Louvre, museum, paris, people, photographs, photography, photos, places, sleep, tourist, tourists, travel


“To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub.” Hamlet certainly captured the essence of today’s Friday photo. Click on the picture below to see the full view.

Hope you like it. Let me know what you think.

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