Londoners have the most amazing baby strollers I've ever seen, like small cars really -- complete with umbrellas, rain covers, hooks for purses, baby bags, shopping, you name it! I didn't get close enough to find out if they also have hotplates and kettles for making tea on the run.Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
I see those high tech strollers today and wonder where they were when I used to take my small kids on a hike!
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
A Sunday morning club of runners
come chundling up Esplanade,
make a dog-leg at Fairmount
and continue south,
a forest of pumping
bare, male and female legs
beneath shorts, t-shirts,
sweatshirts, windbreakers,
floppy or stiff-peaked hats,
a fiesta of joyous colour and energy
in every conceivable colour and design
Nice one! I think that I can actually see that woman!
As someone mentioned before, if there ever was a book of these snapshots, a good artist could actually draw these people almost perfectly without seeing them, simply by reading your text!
Does anyone else think of butterflies after reading this one?
Four-months old Louisa,
who reminds me somehow
of a very young Winston Churchill,
wobbles on her daddy’s lap
and over his shoulder
engages with me and I swear
I can see the intelligence
growing behind her alert, bright eyes
Babies often remind us of Churchill. Or WC Fields. Or Babe Ruth...
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
A woman with sparrow legs,
pursed lips,
in a drab, lime-green cardigan,
arms folded behind her back
like the Duke of Edinburgh,
moves slowly up the street
in no apparent hurry
to get anywhere at all
Love this one. Great visual.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
Without meaning to, I overhear a snatch
of conversation between two regulars
at the table behind me:
"the guy who built the boat
is sleeping with his neighbour’s wife"
and one or both of them snicker
haha, did you laugh too?
No, but I hungered for a few more details... Did the (poor?) husband know anything of what was going on? Was there any sort of connection between the building of the boat, and the affair? When the boat was completed, would the adulterous lovers take off on it leaving the cuckolded husband staring after them?
I have felt that my own snapshots are becoming a bit less fresh or spontaneous so I'll be taking a break from them. In the meantime I invited others to contribute snapshots of their own...
Facing houses
with matching empty porch swings,
rocked softly by an invisible hand,
waiting for their owners
to join them in their
contemplation.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
Many thanks, D. Interesting to view things through another lens.
Let's just say...... I learned from the best.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
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