Monday, 17 December 2012

Brave mother

This is a lovely story from August 2012.

A fire broke out in a building in Santa Rosa de Temuco, Chile. A German Shepherd cross called Amanda risked her life to rescue her 10-day-old puppies. She ran between the burning house and the fire truck over and over again until all puppies were safe. After rescuing all of her pups from the blaze, Amanda sat down next to them, protecting them with her body as the firefighters fought the blaze.





Unfortunately, one of the puppies suffered very severe burns and died later that day. The others survived and were reunited with Amanda after treatment.

Sunday, 16 December 2012

Mrsgunka sent me this really nice, feel good video. Thank you, MrsG.

Enjoy!



Saturday, 15 December 2012

Some comforting music

Grammy97 would like to share this lovely flash mob video with all of us:



Thank you, Grammy.

Friday, 14 December 2012

This is hard

The horror of today's events is just too much to bear.


Rest in peace, dear children.


Cold weather cartoons

Mrsgunka sent me a load of cartoons and I selected a few. I also added a couple I had saved earlier.

Stay warm!







Thank you, MrsG.

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Aww... cute!

My friend Dominique sent me this charming video. I think it's going to be too large a dose of cute for TW...

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Trompe l'oeil

Mrsgunka sent me these amazing photos of body painting. MrsG remarked : "Saw a building in Berlin that had zippers painted on each end. One end the zippers was closed and the other end was open and showed windows with flower boxes painted on the plain wall... looked absolutely real!"

I have always been fascinated by trompe l'oeil. Thank you, MrsG.












Monday, 10 December 2012

Office Party

Spike sent me this, it's very funny... Thank you, Spike.







Thursday, 6 December 2012

Good bye to two talented people

Dave Brubeck died yesterday at the age of 91. I really like this:



This one is good fun. Try to clap with it and finish at the same time.



Thank you for some really good music.

*****

Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, also died yesterday at the age of 104 and left many iconic buildings as his legacy:






Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Interesting bird

Earlier this year, we noticed that Pirouette was very excited about something outside the kitchen window. I had a look and saw this lovely bird sitting on a telephone line. It flew away before I could grab my camera. As I had no idea what the impressive bird was called, I tried googling a description, with no luck. Finally, a friend who's a bird enthusiast put me out of my misery. The name is as interesting as the bird itself: Hoopoe!




Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Sweet memories

I may be getting old, but I still find these absolutely irresistible!




Sunday, 2 December 2012

Contrasts

I like taking photos from my kitchen window, following the seasons as they change.

This one was taken in May:


October:


November:


This morning:


Brrr!

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Remembering JD

Pallottine sent me this photo of a sign made by a young man down the road in memory of our lovely JD (stands for Just Dog).


Here are some nice pictures of JD:




The sign over the gate is a lovely way to remember a good friend. JD was definitely more than just a dog...

Friday, 30 November 2012

Bzzzz

Let's have some fun at the expense of these pesky insects...