Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Words for Wednesday 15/1/2025

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.
 

Huge thanks to Wisewebwoman  and Charlotte (MotherOwl) who provided us with the prompts last month.
 

Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected New Start Yellow as the colour of the month.


This week's prompts are:

  • ancient
  •  life
  • water
  • melody
  • lied
 
And/or
 
  • medal 
  • speaker
  • cords
  • paper
  • false


 As always, have fun.

 

Sunday, 12 January 2025

Sunday Selections #809


Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image. 

The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle. 
 
The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Sorry I still haven't succeeded in working out how to do a blog hop. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
 
I usually run with a theme.  This week I am taking you with me to an exhibition at our National Museum.  To be specific I am taking you to an exhibition about Pompeii.  The exhibition was immersive and contained soundscapes and images of Pompeii before and during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.  Mount Vesuvius is still active.
 
I found it moving and sometimes beautiful.  Less talk, more images.
 

 
 




 
While the scenes of the eruption was playing the bird song and chatter which had been background noise was replaced by the sound of lava falling.  In the final scene which I didn't capture the screen and the light were blocked by a cloud of ash.  The silence was quite literally deafening.
 


The rim of this bowl - which must have been beautiful is crusted with dry lava stones.

Other kitchen utensils survived intact.  There was even a piece of carbonised bread on display - rescued from a bakery oven.






 Moving shadow of the people of Pompei were cast onto the walls and backdrops...


 It is estimated that around 20, 000 people lived Pompei at the time of the eruption.  Some of them survived.  Many did not.

 
This simple piece marks the grave of someone who was either unknown or poor.
The bodies of people who died were covered in volcanic ash.  That ash hardened, leaving a negative imprint of the people at the moment of death behind.  An Italian archaelogist worked out how to take castings from those tombs, even after the body had decayed.  
More than 1000 bodies have been discovered and the work continues to this day.



You will have to embiggen this last to see the time line but I expect it archaelogists will be busy here for many years to come.
 
The museum itself is a quirky building.  Some love its architecture, others loathe it.  I am with the former.  The landscaping is all native plants too, which I think is another plus.
 




 
I hope you all find things to captivate and intrigue you this week.
 

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Words for Wednesday 8/1/2025

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.
 

Huge thanks to Wisewebwoman  and Charlotte (MotherOwl) who provided us with the prompts last month.
 

Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected New Start Yellow as the colour of the month.


It occurred to me that a lot of our common phrases involve animals or insects.  With that in mind this week's prompts are:

  • the elephant in the room
  • as busy as a bee
  • as happy as a dog with two tails.
  • chicken hearted
  • a wolf in sheep's clothing
  • cat got your tongue
  • having a whale of a time
  • ants in your pants
  • or any other common phrases you care to use.


 As always, have fun.