Delivery

American skunk cabbage on the front cover

The western world seems to be crowded with delivery vans and delivery people these days. Soon every other vehicle on the roads will be an Amazon van. Well, that's how it seems to me anyway.

This morning, I was sitting at this very computer when a yellow DHL van pulled up ouutside. A man in a DHL uniform jumped out with a package for me. He photographed  it on our doorstep to prove that it had been delivered. This procedure is becoming quite common and of course the deliverers never seek permission to take those snaps.

A package for me? I wondered what on earth it might be. Inside the yellow DHL plastic bag was a cardboard box. Spotting it - that's when the penny dropped. My calendars had arrived!

My Geograph site had for the first time given contributors the opportunity to have  personalised 2022 calendars made - using their own chosen  images. Given the fact that I have contributed almost sixteen thousand photographs to the Geograph project I had plenty to choose from before settling on my final thirteen - twelve months and the cover image.

I am delighted with the quality of the finished product.  It's so professional. Perhaps I should have ordered more than the six I paid for. Now it's too late. The curtain has come down on the initiative which was hatched in order to boost Geograph funds.

Of course, I was obliged to include a cow...

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No Time To Die ( a few spoilers)

I took my sister Janet to the cinema tonight, it was her first time back to the cinema for two years! 

Nice to have some sister time

 

The last Daniel Craig Bond No Time To Die, has everything but the kitchen sink thrown at it. Craig’s swan song has homages, visual, spoken and musical , from all of the Bond movies, but especially from the least favourite but most romantic of the series, the one with George Lazenby, whose title I have strangely forgotten and it works well, even though it’s a little too long .

I like Craig in it, who had a chance to act as well as shoot his cuffs, and gurn his lips

I love the playful way that the replacement 007 was a black woman and not Iris Elber

I liked the sassy Lashana Lynch as the “new” 007 ( in this movie Bond has retired)and I liked the script which you could just tell had the bite of Phoebe Waller Bridge flowing all through it

Paloma Bond Girl

I also liked Ana deArmas who almost stole the show as a ditzy but rather capable Cuban Bond girl called Paloma

Big, showy, overly talky ,and too love story ish,  it isn’t the best Bond, but it’s a suiting tribute to the Craig Years in the role which made Ben Whishaw, Naomi Harris, Jeffrey Wright and Judi Dench such wonderful parts of the franchise.

The very sexy Jeffrey Wright as Felix

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Friday questions

 What are you ordering?

What are you reading?

What are you eating?

What are you wearing?

What are you watching?

Are you trick or treating?

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A Meatball under the freezer

The heavens opened this morning on North Wales and the many dog walkers on the Dyserth/ Meliden walkway were found sheltered in groups under the old railway bridges that intersect it at regular intervals. 

The rain was torrential.

And rather threatening.

Dorothy loves walking, so ignores the weather. 

Mary hates wet conditions so shivering pitiably, refused to walk a step further.

We hurried  home and Dorothy only stopped sulking that her walk was cut short after she found a errant Swedish meatball under the fridge freezer

Off to see James Bond later

 

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