ABC Wednesday, A for Amazing Animals

After the cyclone Larry, which raged over Queensland in March 2006, many buildings had been destroyed and although there weren't many casualties, a lot of people and also pets became homeless. Fortunately  many of those animals were rescued by kind men and women. It was amazing that these animals were peacefully lying side by side in a car of one of the rescuers . There were three dogs already in the car when a cat joined them.Lateron another dog came and was received by the others as if they had known each other for a long time already. . And all in good harmony. They respected each other's company,that this was their only chance to survive. Here you see how devastating Larry's work had been.

These are photos from a newspaper by an unknown photographer.

Borrowed from a newspaper

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Five dogs and a cat

With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC.For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar . This week we are looking for words beginning with A, in a new round. Round 19! Amazing, isn't it?

ABC Wednesday, A for Absurdities

 We are arrived at a new round and starting with A.
These drawings are all made by Heath Robinson

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.^[1]
In the U.K., the term "Heath Robinson" entered the language during the 1914–1918 First World War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance, much as "Rube Goldberg machines" came to be used in the U.S. from the 1920s onwards as a term for similar efforts. "Heath Robinson contraption" is perhaps more often used in relation to temporary fixes using ingenuity and whatever is to hand, often string and tape, or unlikely cannibalisations. Its continuing popularity was undoubtedly linked to Second World War Britain's shortages and the need to "make do and mend".

With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created the ABC mee.For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar . This week we are looking for words beginning with A and then we will have begun Round Eighteen

ABC Wednesday, A for Airport

Cairns /. My granddaughter on her way to Holland.2013

Schiphol/:We are on our way to Tasmania. December 2012

Schiphol

We thank Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC, and we must thank Roger too for the weekly job to find  ten bloggers for each of the ABC Team members  to visit and to read their posts. We are beginning to find another round for all the 26 letters of the alphabet. This will be now the letter A.

As I have been travelling a lot during the past 25 years, I thought it might be appropriate to start with Airport.

Hong Kong/ Waiting for the cyclone to be over

In January 2014, I had  to wait for 36 hours in an overcrowded airport building.

The whole population of Hong Kong seemed to have taken refuge in this enormous building. Outside the storm was still raging and it was  dangerous.

Flights were cancelled due to a tornado

My grandson was so tired that he fell asleep on the floor.

ABC Wednesday, A for Anmatyerre is an Australian spirit

Spring cleaning has its advantages. Among other things, I found several Australian art calendars. One of them is dedicated to the work of Sakshi Anmatyerre. And I hope that you find the pictures as beautiful as I do in spite of the allegations expressed in Daily Telegraph London. 

I wrote this 6 years ago and about 45 people sent me a comment, only three of them are still reading my posts, so I am sending this story of Sakshi Anmatyerre again. As you see you can also link this post to the previous one, dealing with zoomorphism.

Sakshi Anmatyerre is an Australian spirit, a traveller in this great country, who records the land and its stories, interpreting them in dazzling colours and with the intuitive eye and sure hand of a master painter.In him is the harmonious meeting of cultures, ancient and modern. Through his paintings, which he creates using modern materials and techniques, he expresses his love and respect for these ancient islands, Australia- the people and the wild places and creatures. He is the proud father of three boys and a girl, and to them he passes his wisdom, his lore and his stories.But each startlingly beautiful painting tells its own story and to each person the story is different- it belongs to the beholder alone. But what to think of this article???

"By David Rennie in Sydney

AUSTRALIA'S aboriginal art industry, has been shaken by an allegation that one of its brightest stars, Sakshi Anmatyerre, is in fact an Indian from Calcutta. ABC, Australia's state television station, reported that Mr Anmatyerre had changed his name .Mr Anmatyerre numbers the actor Paul Hogan, the Sultan of Brunei and members of the Packer media dynasty among his clients. His work also appears on a range of best-selling postcards.Leading dealers recently met to discuss a system of authentication and ratings and nominated the Sydney dealer Adrian Newstead to act as their spokesman. Mr Newstead admitted yesterday that, if the allegations about Mr Anmatyerre are true, his paintings, while no less visually appealing than they were before, are now "not worth a brass razoo". (Daily Telegraph London)

Brass razoo is an Australian phrase that was first recorded in soldiers' slang in World War I. It is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "a non-existent coin of trivial value". It is commonly used in the expression I haven't got a brass razoo, meaning the speaker is out of money.



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ABC Wednesday, A for Annie's Song

 

John Denver - Annie's Song

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you
Come love me again

Let me give my life to you
Come let me love you
Come love me again

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

 With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC, and thanks to Roger. For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar. This week we are looking for words beginning with A.

ABC Wednesday, A of Assen

Museum front

Detail of the Museum entry

More details

When this entry will be posted I will  probably still be in Australia. Nevertheless I am going to write something about Assen the capital of the small province of Drenthe, in the north of the Netherlands. I was there in September last year. I had never been there before. My relative and I walked a great deal. Among other things we saw the Dead Sea Scrolls in the museum.

The next day we walked all afternoon and saw the beautiful building De Nieuwe Kolk( the new pot-hole, or pool or gulf??) Anyway it is a multifunctional building , containing a huge library, a large theatre, a café, an art gallery and accommodation for a photo exhibition.

The town of Assen is also really surprising with old, but well kept buildings and very modern ones.

 This video starts with the Health Centre, where my aunt had to go for physio treatment . She showed  to me where I could have a cup of coffee. There were coffee and tea facilities like in a hotel room.
The streets we walked through were decorated with pink and light red coloured clothes. I asked why this was done. She didn't know, but there are always two or three more or less artistic people who want to have an opportunity to show how good they are. Anyway it was amusing.

With thanks to Denise Nesbitt,  who created ABC, and Roger, who took over from her. For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar. This week we are looking for words beginning with A.

Our World Tuesday, ABC Wednesday, A for ABC Wednesday

 I would like to dedicate this post to ABC on Wednesday created by Denise Nesbitt. I'd like to tell you why it is so great. It is only interesting if you stick to the rules, which are clearly described on the ABC Wednesday page.


Roger writes : "If you’ve followed my blog at all, you know that, for the past four years or so, I’ve participating in something called ABC Wednesday, in which people, literally from around the world, post an item – pictures, poems, essays that in someway describe each letter of the alphabet, in turn.

Welcome to Our World Tuesday! This meme continues in memory of the work of Klaus Peter, whose "that's My World" brought people together from around the world every Monday to share the wonders therein--big and small.Please click on our  logo for "Our World Tuesday" in the sidebar. Thanks to the team of "Our World Tuesday": Arija, Gattina, Lady Fi, Sylvia, Sandy and Jennifer.  I wish everyone a happy week!


 I have been taking part in several memes, like "Our World Tuesday" and the one Roger is writing
about, and which are the ones I like  best."ABC Wednesday"is created by Denise Nesbitt. It's educational, interesting and gave me the opportunity to meet 6 of my fellow bloggers, which was great. They came from Canada, Greece, Israel , the Netherlands, and the USA. I started with round 6. I have learned a lot since then. I have no photos of Jesh and Jacob, but we spent a great day together. Last year I met Kay and her husband for the second time .Now together with Mara, the Dutch blogger who went to Haugesund-Norway.

Antigoni and Marina from Greece visited me. January, 2nd.

The five girls were absolutely wonderful

They are very pretty girls

Look what their mothers gave me!!

My coffee was not half as good as their cakes

Antigoni  and Marina from Greece

Kay and Dick from Canada outside  the souvenirshop of Kinderdijk

How did we meet? Well we didn't know each other . It was  sort of a"blind date"
Kay wrote in her e-mail:"I shall be wearing a red T-shirt with the word 
Canada written on it"! I was having coffee on the terrace in front of the Windmill shop
and saw her standing next to me, watching the mills. So I said:"Hey Kay! Is it you?"
And it was! We sat down and talked and talked as if we had known each other for 
years, while Kay's husband was walking with the other tourists to see the mills.

Kay and I having coffee and a "stroopwafel"! March 2011

Dina and The Greek nun in the Greek Orthodox church March 2012

Dina had invited me to stay in the village close to her house. She found me an
appartement not far from her place. Every morning we went to Jerusalem
by bus and in Jerusalem we saw a lot of the Old City where we could see 
traces of more than two thousand years of history. In the Christian quarter
are several churches . This small Greek one was one of them. The nun
 couldn't speak English, German or French. So we couldn't speak to each
other, but we still could feel the friendly atmosphere in that little place.

Dina took this photo of me ,March 2012, in the Old City