Your chair looks very similar to mine.

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Mine too!

The "mighty" Darling River which hasn't flowed in this part of it, near Wilcannia, for over a year. A rise did get within 50kms but fell away. The town is now on bore water supplies. From where I took the photo the water should be above my head ... and even above the head of a normal height person ...

Following in TW & Mothergoose's footsteps, here is my little computer corner of the world.



It was an empty bedroom but we bought a new queen size bed and our old one will be taking up residence with my computer. The room's not that big so I won't be rolling across the floor in my chair to get a CD anymore. But at least visitors won't have to sleep on the couch anymore.

Here... drum roll... my first attempt at posting a photo. It's from Pennsylvania's Laurel Hill State Park, where I camped two nights last week. This scene was along a trail that goes through an old-growth hemlock forest that was inexplicably never logged out, and some of the hemlocks are over 300 years old.

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I have to confess that this was not my idea originally - someone (I think it was Satguru or Gatsby) started the idea in the blogs and I thought it was a good one. I read the blogs but I don't write one, so I posted my picture here instead.

What I want to know is how you all keep your computer areas so darned tidy! I'd have to spend at least half an hour to make mine look so pristine!

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I did!

Wow that's beautiful, Kapuskasing! It's a lot nicer than my river photo LOL

This is a woodstork - taken on my boat trip through the estuary.

Welcome to Photo-a-Day Kapuskasing. A nice green scene.

What a pity the World distributes its rainfall so unevenly. Here we are in UK with deluges of the stuff and the Darling River looks like that.

Here's a photo taken while we were on a boat-ride on Lake Windemere:

Today I went to an amazing shopping mall called Megabox, built near to the old airport in one of the old industrial areas, being restored FAST!
This is a view downwards, inside the Mall , which is 18 floors of shops!

an interesting display of painted eggs - all genuine, not porcelain.

Wow, Copago! That picture certainly shows us what a real drought is. And welcome, Kapuskasing: thanks for a lovely pic.

This is the Old Rectory at Netherfield, near Battle in Sussex.

Welcome and great photo Kapuskasing. Ren that shot makes me a bit dizzy. 18 floors of shopping! yikes, my credit card would be on fire by the time I was finished.

Here is a closeup of a Scabeosa or pin cushion flower. Mrs. Argus calls it the beautiful flower with the ugly name.

The computer area idea was from my blog but I saw it in another forum for cable customers where we try and get all our problems sorted out. I wish mine was as tidy as the others but there's no room to put everything away here.

This is the footbridge over Staples Corner, where the Edgware Road crosses the North Circular in Cricklewood. I pass it a few times a week as I only live a mile away.

My first attempt, so hopefully I get it right.



No prizes for guessing what this structure is.

yay Ozzz I always did love the Anzac bridge .. And to think I thought you came in to post a height joke!

Another river pic ... exposed roots along the bank.

"No prizes for guessing what this structure is."

It's not the iron bridge at Neasden is it?

I'll have to post that tomorrow, now I know what it was inspired by!

I will have to head to town and get a piccie of the Anzac Bridge- it has a rather unique nickname which will make sense when you see it.

We went to the county fair Sunday. Here's a pretty guy in the 4-H barn, entered in the "Beef" catagory. ( )

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Taesma, I rather wish you hadn't said that bit... he is gorgeous

I wish you could have seen the rainbow trout and brown trout jumping for flies a little downstream at that creek pictured above! Lots of fish devouring zillions of flies, and yet I heard a fisherman say to another, "There's fish in there, but they ain't doon nuthin."

Do they have a hotel around the 9th or 10th floor of those 18 floors of shops?

I was in Delaware today, and thought I'd send Copago a little more water...



It's from Augustine Beach, along the stretch where the Delaware River becomes the Delaware Bay. That's New Jersey and the Salem nuclear power plant across the water.

I have so many nice snaps that I could be posting but as I`m thinking of selling the item in the picture it`s currently on my mind.

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Larger image here for anyone wanting a closer look.

Whoa. That's a pretty bizarre item to have lying around the house, roos. Hope you can sell it for lots of money.

Great photos everyone! Welcome to all the new posters

Here's my Mum (aka Dollydaydream) about to enjoy a 'decadent dessert' in a local coffee shop. She treated my sister and me to dinner tonight in the restaurant just next door to this place, and to coffee and 'afters' there.

OK, the photo I just posted, though I resized it, is showing up huge to me. Is it for the rest of you? (If it is, sue or TW - help, please!)

It certainly is a bizarre item to have laying around the house Kt but as always there is a story behind the item and how I came to have it.

Some years ago when I was doing a few different types of work I was asked to clear out a garage by the new owners. Being a bit of a collector of "stuff" I sorted through just about everything in the garage,and there was boxes of the stuff. The job took me three days and I ended up with a couple of suitcases full of what was, to the new owners anyway, junk.

There are a number of historical items that I`ll be either selling now or donating to historical societies.

The story behind the Luftwaffe belt and how it came to Australia is mostly guess work and filling in the blanks but it is I believe as follows.

Gunner Colin Murray was taken prisoner by the Germans and I guess that his either girlfriend or fiancee, Miss Ruby Edwards, was notified of that fact. I don`t know what date he was taken prisoner but I do know that she had reason to be concerned about him as I also found this thank you note from the family of someone she obviously knew that had died whilst being held as a POW. Some more details about that poor lad can be found here,his name was Douglas Haig Burling.

I don`t know what terrors the young Gunner Murray went through and I hope that Gunner Burling wasn`t a friend of his, but I do know that Ruby received this telegram which must have been news she was anxious to receive.

Colin and Ruby were reunited and married soon afterwards. They had at least one child who had a couple of children himself.

It amazes me the things people throw out.

Oops, I seem to have turned a photo forum into a text forum with my rabbiting on, sorry guys.

looks fine, liz ... the photo and the cake

Roos, I like hearing the story behind the photos.

Thanks Copago. It still looks large to me, but I know that when that happened before - well, it was just me...

Roos, fascinating story!