Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Birds everywhere!

GrannyJ sent us this spectacular video. It was filmed in Ireland and it shows a murmuration of starlings. I hope the video plays properly. If not, you may watch it HERE. Thank you, GrannyJ.

Monday, 9 September 2013

So simple, so beautiful

Last night my brother posted this photo on Facebook. He took it from the window of his apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I like it a lot.


Sunday, 8 September 2013

Rare Ming vase

View sent us this video of the auction of a very expensive Ming vase. Auctions can be quite tense, as you will see... Thank you, View.

Saturday, 7 September 2013

This is a painting, believe it or not...


Voglio farte un regalo

This picture was posted on Facebook, described as an oil painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Muscio. I googled the artist and found out that it's not a photograph.

There are other paintings on the site, but the one above really surprised me.

Friday, 6 September 2013

Bye bye summer

We went to the beach yesterday and we reckon it may have been our last visit this year... The place was more or less deserted. The children have gone back to school and the tourists have returned to their homes. There were only a bunch of old people scattered around and we were probably the youngest people there.

The beach on a busy day

The bar will remain open until October, so we might go for a drink and give the swimming a miss. While we were sitting by the bar, Peter noticed some "ducks" coming out of the water. I didn't think they looked like ducks, so I went a bit closer to investigate. They were Canadian geese. We'll know summer is officially over when they fly away in their neat formation.

Summer took a while to get going this year, but it was a good one. Our potatoes didn't disappoint and the tomatoes were very tasty. We definitely deserved some decent weather and a few garden treats after the wettest spring in recent memory!

The "young" couple