I think this was based on Peter and Pirouette...
The real thing:
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
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.
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.
Labels:
animals,
heartwarming,
pets
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Some comforting music
Grammy97 would like to share this lovely flash mob video with all of us:
Thank you, Grammy.
Thank you, Grammy.
Friday, 14 December 2012
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.
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.
I have always been fascinated by trompe l'oeil. Thank you, MrsG.
Labels:
amazing stuff,
photos
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Monday, 10 December 2012
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Friday, 7 December 2012
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:
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!
Labels:
birds
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Monday, 3 December 2012
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