we came to the pyramids all embedded in ice
This is a Sepia Saturday post.
I may have mentioned it before...the fact that my Aunty Brenda was born in Canada. My Grandfather( with his 2nd wife/ my grandmother would later become #3!) moved there in the early 1900's "looking for gold" :"gold panning" Whatever........I will give you more detail when i understand this more myself........{
I have a postcard from Canada as evidence}. Later my Grandfather must have moved South, hence these photos from Saranac Lake in upstate New York. shown
here are 3 of photos my family took at the Winter Carnival there.
The rest you can see in This Album .
My Polish surname is derived ,I believe, from the word "zimny" meaning Cold,standoffish,bleak,stiff......you get the Drift?
Not a lot of 'personal stuff' (AKA "Real") on here at the moment.Winter is a dreamtime,non? I always dream in a more vivid fashion in winter.......no doubt my hiberation will end eventually!
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In late January 2003 Me & Cathy went to see The Flaming Lips at The Academy in Manchester.On the Bill,supporting them,was an unknown (to me) band called British Sea Power.I dunno...for whatever reason I took a shine to those young lads.I have seen them several times since & championed them here on this blog.A really unusual combo.Live they are raw&loud.On recordings they are a melody...they are all over the place.Maybe that's the reason I like them...?
Their hobbies (when not reeling&arocking) are Bird -Watching (the Ornithological kind not the Jimmy Savile kind!) & the poems of John Betjeman! .Turns out they are closet Sepians too! Witness their most recent promotional video! Marvel at all these sepian images!How cool is that Guys&Girls,now then now then..... (jingle-jangle)...
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My grandfather tried his hand at emigrating to Canada too. We went over in 1912 on the Titanic's sister ship, the SS Olympic, fought in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the war and returned to England for good in 1921. If it hadn't been for the Great War, perhaps I would have been a Canadian.
Cold, stand-offish - me thinks not.
My last name comes from the town of the same now in Prussia, now in Poland (and renamed phonetically).
@Brett Congrats with your 101st birthday this year. Or should the 'We' read 'He'? :)
Kathy M.
Thank you for stopping by my blog.
It seems like a lousy experiment to me. Not only does the fact no-one turned up prove nothing but also one only has to think about all the fuss over when the Millennium actually happened. Calendars get very confused over long periods of time. SH is also making the unscientific assumption that we will get more and more technically able in the future. Evidence from the past suggests this is by no means certain - we could well take a few steps backwards. Moreover, future time travellers might look back on this period and all the problems that went with it and think that the last thing we need is an inkling of their technology.
If they exist and have a sense of humour they might have turned up disguised as caterers.
There's an app for that!!
;)~
HUGZ