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Thanks to esteemed C.G. Hill I just learned that Flickr had increased the amount of accessible storage for free users and that means all my photos years back are now accessible.

Yes, my famous in certain [tiny] circles  5yo reportage from UK  is now open for your delectation! Enjoy it as I do; that was the last carefree vacation I had, if only for a week. I say it almost as wistfully as my grandparents  used to say “before the War”…

 

Update

If you, like me, are curious how much storage you have already used, even if you have a free account and not eligible for Stats, do what Flickr’ Customer Care advised me to do: “Just hover your mouse pointer over your small user icon on the top-right of the page. A pop-up window with links to Setting, Flickrmail and Help will appear, along with a status bar with a number indicating how much space you have used.”

Like so:

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Magic time

Evelyn the Winter Fairy

[via Vaca-Vaca]

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I have a baseball bat and a 6x D cell maglite…in black[...]
** don’t worry, enviroloons, I have fitted an LED bulb.

Tim Carpenter, Libertarian party UK, reacting to Brian M’ post re: riots in England

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Victorian splendor

This post, about opening of [finally restored] St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, induced me to think aloud in the comments. I’m glad I saw the pictures in DailyMail, found by Irene; they made me crystallize my own vague thoughts, to formulate my unverbalized contempt for late Victorians and their rotten Empire.  I’ll copy my comment here, as a precaution (there were precedents @ChicagoBoyz when my comments were deleted by the author of the post who did not approve of them). I edited for grammar and personal notes/addresses and added few clarifying sentences. [Now with Update]

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Caucasian girls

I just learned that Katie Melua, a British star singer-songwriter, was born in Georgia. From Lady freaking Gaga (“freaking” is a correct classifier) to this astonishing artist  – it’s all Caucasus, people! The engine of civilizations…

PS

See also – this one is my favorite.

Ahahaha! “Write Xmas in Georgian!”

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Ascot, part II

Ladies, ladies! Please, you’re embarrassing!
Click on the photo for more, in Vaca-vaca’s  LiveJournal!

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Question

Vaca-vaca visited Royal Ascot and posted hilarious report and photos.

What question, do you think, came to my mind after looking at this picture?

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Find 10 differences

Sherlock Holmes' flat: R. Stutler

Isegoria links to Russel Stutler’s birds-view of 221 Baker Street’ flat, an excellent illustration thoroughly – even obsessively – researched.

Let me offer several photos I have taken in the apartment under the same address in August’08 – you can judge now how well the museum curators did research of their own.

PS. Try not get distracted by a charming young lady occupying Mr. Holmes’ favorite armchair and don’t attempt to ask me for introduction – her identity is safe with me as long as her parents did not expressly allow me to reveal it. [waves in general direction of Marylebone Station]

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Определился паттерн. Хоть и всего из 3х случаев, но выявился. Господа, дался вам этот укротитель строптивых!

В сентябре 2007, в первый раз за много лет пошла я на встречу с классикой в БАМ. До того, конечно, был усвоенный в ср. школе трепет, Смоктуновский в фильме 60х, сонеты и Пугачихина интертрепация (именно так); всё, разумеется, в переводах на русский и в прочтении Маршака, или Чуковского, или Лозинского (а, может, и Пастернака…тепрь уже не помню).

Впечатление было сильное. Описано ещё вот тут.

Второй случай, полтора года тому. (more…)

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Clarification

Brian calls it “a history lesson“. More like a Lesson in historical revisionism.

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