Sultan Abdul Samad Building, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Petronas Towers at night
Star Ferry – Header Picture
Ferry from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hong Kong Island, May 2018
Landing at HKG
Monorail!
Well, sir, there’s nothing on earth
Like a genuine, bona fide
Electrified, six-car monorail
But Main Street’s still all cracked and broken
Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken…
Monorail!
Vending Machine at Beijing South Railway Station
пиво
Listen to the voice of Buddha…
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some God’s stocking
Buddha’s watching,
Buddha’s waiting
Details, details
Bundoran, Co. Donegal
Xiqing Wildlife Park
Victoria Quarter, Leeds by night
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi’an
Some fixed pages….
http://www.nolligan.co.uk/SU/2008/03/15/265/
Also all pages fixed as far back as May 2011
6 years to go…
“I am a product of long corridors…”
Quote
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books”
C.S. Lewis
I get the feeling, You’ll be fine
noun
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a luxurious or carefree existence.
Laughing like a drain
Damn with faint praise
Visitor Map and Counter
Aside
Railway Stations of the world #1
Beijing West Railway Station – built 1996
11 reasons why Roscommon is the best county in Ireland
https://www.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/arts-culture-news/roscommon-best-county-ireland-gaa-8457417
- Lakes – Lough Allen and Lough Ree
- Great Towns – Boyle, Frenchpark, Roscommon, Castlerea, Strokestown, Athlone and Ballaghaderreen
- Historic houses
- Golf courses – if you like ruining a good walk that is…
- Nature – Rivers teaming with fish, woods and forests and don’t forget the bogs!
- Roscommon Lamb – pass the mint sauce please
- Roscommon Castle – looks lovely doesn’t it
- Good nightlife – okay so this might be over egging the pudding…
- Mining experience – visit the coal mining museum in Arigna
- Home to Chris O’Dowd
- Primrose and blue steel Roscommon football team
More Buddhas
Beer tasting in Beijing
啤酒
Whiskey tasting in Dublin
Uisce Beatha
1,000 Buddha mountain, Jinan, Shandong
千佛山, 济南市
Mozart Heroes take on Westeros (Live)
Elvet Bridge, Durham
12th century bridge across the River Wear
Oh, to be in England…
Burn’s Night
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,
Has broken nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!
I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
‘S a sma’ request;
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
An’ never miss’t!
Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
An’ weary winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell-
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.
That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld!
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men
Gang aft agley,
An’lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Still thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me
The present only toucheth thee:
But, Och! I backward cast my e’e.
On prospects drear!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!
Hoar Frost
‘…An’ cranreuch cauld!’
Footbridge over the Nan Yan River
The Nan Yan River, Xiqing District, Tianjin
https://www.visitourchina.com/tianjin/attraction/shi-family-mansion.html
Portrait of the Author on a Horse
Jeepney in Manila
New Header Picture – Benbulben
Benbulben (Binn Ghulbain) in County Sligo
New header picture – The Beach at Mũi Né
‘It’s all godamn beach-break!’
Zen Pencils: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Please visit Zen Pencils
https://zenpencils.com/comic/ozymandias/
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
— Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias
Seven Nation Army – Vintage New Orleans Dirge White Stripes Cover ft. Haley Reinhart
Recycle
One of the new generation of Mobikes – best so far.
Features:
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- Adjustable saddle height with easy to use handle and height indicator
- GPS powdered by solar panels in the basket
- Lightweight
- Solid types (no punctures)
- Ergonomic grips on the handle bars
- Bell integrated into the handlebar
- QR code