Magic Island, Oahu, HI
Meanwhile, underwater at Magic Island –
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North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii
Banyan Tree, North Shore, Oahu
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Canberra
Telstra Tower in Canberra
The shadow of Telstra Tower on bushland on Black Mountain.
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Sunday Selections Week 31
You may recall Australian Airlines which existed for a short four years in Australia – between 2002 and 2006. This is what the aircraft looked like.
Would you like to join in? The rules are very simple:-
1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title
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Weekly Wrap Up –
I’m only going to give you one link this week. I’m sure you’ve seen the news about the flaperon possibly from MH370 washing up on Reunion Island. If you want to keep up to date on happenings, my advice would be this thread on PPRuNe – Flaperon washes up on Reunion Island for all the latest info plus discussion from actual pilots.
Snoskred On Holidays
For the next two weeks, Snoskred will be taking a holiday from the blog. My Aunt and Uncle will be here visiting, The Other Half has holidays booked, and my intention is to put the laptop away for most of, if not the entire, time.
You won’t see comments from me on your blogs while I’m on holidays. It is not you, it is me. ;) I just need a break. I’m quite determined and committed to taking this time off!
I probably will not be keeping up with my blog reading, meaning I will return to a lot of posts to read. So you might get comments on older posts from me mid August.
I’ve got photo posts scheduled for the next two weeks, but I am giving you a holiday as well – I’ll be turning off the comments on my holiday photo posts.. today will be the last post you can comment on until I return.
I’ll be back on Monday the 17th of August. :)
New Feeds July
New blogs to the feed reader since 30th June –
All About T
Anna in Wonderland
Birding For Pleasure
Booth #555
Buttons Thoughts
Curves & Curls
Curvy Wordy
Dkzody’s Weblog
Edwardian House Renovation
Empty Sundays
Fat Girl For Life
GreenComotion
HRH Prince Henry of Wales
HRH The Countess of Wessex
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
It’s All About Purple
Jane’s Patisserie
Lea’s Menagerie
looking for identity
Normandy Life
One Good Thing by Jillee
Paul Zizka Photography
Pfeiffer Pfilms and Meg Movies
racheerachh eats
Round The Bend
Shug…My Steps of Faith
The Lady Lawyer
The Pink Lyme
United Cakedom
Viewing nature with Eileen
Wanderlust + Sweets
Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.
There are 31 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.
Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.
If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately. I wrote this post – how to get started with Inoreader.
At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!
December/January New Feed Review –
And it has now been six months since January, so this month I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –
Amarachi Ukachu
And Then We Laughed
Balancing Meanderings
betweenthewires
Champagne and Chips
Engrish.com
Expat Eye On Germany
Goodnight, Cheese
Hollywood Housewife
Hotly Spiced
Miscriant
Not Entirely Perfect
Suburban Tomato
The Art of Simple
The Artisan Life
What I Weigh Today
Zandria.us
Why did I unsubscribe from 17 of the 34 blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.
Blogs With A Partial Feed. Where Are You? They Are A Wanna-be. I’m Overwhelmed. Too Many GIFS All The Time.
Is your blog not listed here but you would like it to be? Email Snoskred via the contact page and Snoskred will add your blog to her feed reader. :)
See previous new feeds for – June – May – April – March – February – January & December – November – October – September – August – July –
Television Tuesday Reminder – Bosch on SBS
The first episode of Bosch airs tonight – Wednesday 29th July at 9:30pm. If you tune in at 8:30pm you can catch 24 Hours in Emergency as well! ;)
Here is the trailer for season one of Bosch-
If you catch it make sure to let me know what you think. It is a slower paced show, at least to begin with.
Television Tuesday – Vet Shows
This is one kind of television show which is guaranteed to bring forth tears in Snoskred. They tend to be happy tears, though sometimes there are sad tears.
The Supervet
On every Wednesday night for the past few weeks, I’ve been tuning in to watch The Supervet on the Lifestyle Channel on Foxtel. . The operations and innovations that Noel has invented to help animals are mind boggling and quite incredible.
On a recent show there was a cat having hydrotherapy – they put a little life jacket on the animal and two people get in and support the animal in the water. This cat was meowing very loudly the whole time, as if telling the world that swimming was Not Especially Awesome, or perhaps to say that swimming is awesome fun!
The recoveries animals can make as a result of hydrotherapy can be quite incredible. And that is when the happy tears arrive – when healed animals are reunited with their owners.. In the case of the cat I mentioned, the cat meowed very loudly and quite a lot on meeting the owners, as if telling the story of what had happened in their absence.
And sometimes things do not turn out as hoped, and owners have to make difficult decisions. The show does not shy away from showing that, because that is something that happens in life. That is when the sad tears appear.
On the very odd occasion, owners arrive expecting to have to make that difficult decision to say goodbye only to discover that there has been a development which means they do not have to euthanize their much loved pet. That is when sad tears turn into happy tears.
Here is one clip from the show –
And here is Noel explaining the concept and ethos of his vet practice. He has a fantastic Irish accent. :)
Village Vets Australia
These vets live in Berry which is only a short drive from me. Because they are in the country, the range of animals they see is quite huge – they see everything from horses, cows and alpacas, plus your standard cats and dogs, plus birds and reptiles, plus many animals in between.
I enjoyed the first season of this show last year, and I’m looking forward to season two which starts this Thursday on the Lifestyle channel on Foxtel. The website for the show can be found here.
Planning A Caper
Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman celebrating the awesomeness of magnets.
One of the reasons I am such a fan of Breaking Bad is the fact that so much of the show is what I like to call “Planning a caper”. As in, making crime plans.
While 99% of the capers shown on the show are things I would never, ever, not in a million years attempt, there are two local capers I would consider planning, if I were at all inclined towards being a criminal.
Of course, the fact that I am sharing them here tells you everything you need to know about whether I would actually do any of these things. I’d need a personality transplant, plus, installation of a more criminal bent of mind, plus, for one of the capers, I would need to be more physically fit.
If I could commit a caper, these are the ones I would attempt.
Caper One
Within 2km of where I live, there is a field where they do athletics. They have a speaker system there. It is very, very loud. Starting around 8am on weekend mornings, an announcer starts making announcements. This goes on all day. One of the two regular announcers has taken to calling the races, like you’d hear if you were watching a horse race. It is disturbing to everyone who lives within earshot. That is a lot of people!
To fix this, I would need to plan a caper. It would likely involve “casing the joint” first – then some climbing of fences in the middle of the night – never going to happen! – and then, if possible, the cutting and removal of speaker wires. Sadly, my feeling is this would not disrupt the noise for very long.
Caper Two
They installed a new roundabout here recently. It is the only roundabout in town where you can turn right from two lanes. The amount of times I have seen someone nearly get themselves killed turning right from the left lane..
One day someone will get killed there, and then I’m gonna kick myself for not actually going ahead with this caper – which would involve going out in the dead of night and painting the turn right arrow out with black paint. Like this –
I’m thinking summer would be the better time to do this particular caper so that the paint would dry faster, however, there are some major problems with this – most problematic would be the fact that the roundabout is on a high traffic road, even in the middle of the night. I’d need some witches hats, and maybe a yellow flashing light, a high vis vest, and a ute type vehicle.
The Breaking Bad Caper
So what is the 1% of caper from Breaking Bad that I would attempt? Magnets. In the first episode of the 5th season, a laptop has been impounded by the police as evidence. That laptop happens to contain some incriminating evidence, so Walt, Jesse and Mike plan a caper. And thanks to Sony posting two videos on youtube, you don’t have to watch the whole show to see it. Here is a discussion of the possible caper –
Here is a test of the caper, which features one of the most epic Mike Ehrmantraut lines of all time, including Miller time.
And here is the actual caper itself. The music makes this all the better.
Sunday Selections Week 30
Last week I posted some photos of Yananyi Dreaming, a special Qantas livery on a 737. This week I have the two special 747s together for you, taken together in 2004 at Sydney Airport.
The blue art-plane was known as Nalanji Dreaming.
The red art-plane was known as Wunala Dreaming.
You can read more about these special flying artworks here.
Would you like to join in? The rules are very simple:-
1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title
2. link back to River at Drifting Through Life, somewhere in your post
3. leave River a comment so that she knows you’ve joined in and can come over and see what you’ve posted.
Weekly Wrap Up –
On the home front, there is good news and not so good news. GOOD: We now have two areas of concrete laid. BAD: The trouble is, there is one area missing, and it is the most important one, the part that connects the driveway to the new concrete. Our cars will be sitting out the front for at least another week. :(
On Wednesday I went with a friend to watch Take That Live. These guys always put on a fantastic show but I usually have to wait for the DVDs to come out. It was amazing seeing the concert on the big screen. There were, admittedly, only 6 of us there, so chances are it will never happen again.
You can find unusual upcoming screenings via the Advanced Tickets page, and also, the Alternate Cinema page.
If you like Pink Floyd, this one might be for you.
Posts Snoskred Enjoyed –
Before posting the links, I will like to say this. Bloggers, there is a way to make your post titles in capitals without actually having to use capitals via CSS. It is called uppercase. I’ve been re-writing post titles to remove the caps, and I’m done doing that. I’m just going to post them in caps from now on.. no offence meant!
Perhaps I can convince Sephy to create a how to guide for that one day. I talked him into writing a how to guide for Tunnelbear, which people might be interested to read. You know when you go to a US or UK website and it says “this content is not available in your region”? Tunnelbear is your solution. Licensing agreements, piffle to you!
How To: Use TunnelBear – I use Tunnelbear regularly to watch everything from tv trailers to video clips.
Last Words: Six Things to Say When Someone is Dying – While I am hopeful I won’t have to be saying these things anytime soon, I do want to point out that saying them now to the person(s) you love is worth doing. I wrote about being that person and saying those important things to people.
The Best Whole Grain Breakfast Recipes on the Interweb (Round Up) – Need more grains in your diet? You should be able to find something here.
Donald Trump Is The World’s Greatest Troll – and it isn’t just the hairstyle that gives it away.. :) Seriously Donald, quit hanging onto those hair scraps, man up, shave whatever that is, OFF!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE! NEW PHOTO RELEASED AND TWO YEARS OF GEORGE’S BEST EXPRESSIONS – This is a beautiful post well worth clicking through to read.. :)
MORE MUSHROOM LOVE – MY SPEEDY, SIMPLE MUSHROOM PATE – I have been cooking mushrooms for lunch every single day this week and I think maybe this mushroom pate might be worth a try. It would spice up my cheese and crackers nicely, I think.
Roasted Asparagus and Mushroom Carbonara – this sounds incredible!
Here On The Blog –
Last week I showed you Yananyi Dreaming in Sunday Selections Week 29 – I spoke about how Your Religious Beliefs Are Yours. – and told you about some shows I have been revisiting in Television Tuesday – Old Shows.
You saw my sparkly kitty WW – Sparkly Kitty – and on Friday I said Blogger, Don’t You Lose My Comment!
Blog Spotlight –
Each week, I will link to a blog I am reading to shine a spotlight on it and tell you what I like about it. This week –
Passive Aggressive Notes – The most recent post is somewhat hilarious. :)
Coming Up –
I’m going to tell you about the capers I might plan, if I were more criminally minded. Lucky for the world, I’m not so inclined.. :) Plus, we’re almost at the end of July, so New Feeds July will be posting on Friday.
Blogger, Don’t You Lose My Comment!
I think I have finally learned my lesson in regards to commenting on Blogger / Blogspot / Google blogs – always, *always* copy the comment I have written before clicking on Publish! That way, if Blogger loses my comment, I can at least paste it back in again.
In the course of learning this lesson, I think I have unearthed a couple of clues that might tell you when you will lose your comment for certain. And here they are.
1. Missing Notify Me Box
If you are leaving a comment on a blog you are familiar with and you have used the notify me tickbox before.. when you find the notify me box is missing, that is a sign that Blogger does not know who you are, and therefore does not know where it should email any future comments.
If the notify me box is missing, this is a sign that when you hit publish, your comment will disappear into the ether never to be seen again.
Another way to double check if the notify me box is present is to make sure when you tick the box, the correct email address appears, as you see above.
2. Missing Account Name
If your Google account name is missing from the Comment as: area, this is another sign that blogger does not know who you are, and therefore cannot leave a comment for you, unless you pick one of the other options. It should look like this –
If it doesn’t look like this, you may not be signed in properly. If you hit publish, your comment will probably disappear into the ether never to be seen again.
However, it is important to note, you can be signed in properly but Blogger can still not know who you and lose your comment. Which leads me back to my number one tip –
3. Regardless, COPY!
Google/Blogger/Blogspot can lose your comment but if you have copied it, you can paste it back in! Always do this, but especially if you have spent significant time writing your comment. This is your number one way of giving a huge middle finger to Google! You can lose my comments Google, but you cannot take my SANITY! :) or, my ability to hit right click, copy.
This is a good habit to get into wherever you are commenting, because sometimes things go wrong and your comment may vanish. With that said, Blogger loses my comments way more often than any other blogging platform.
Do you have a blogger blog, but you do not have a notify me box? Check out this post – How To – Add Tickbox For Blogger Comment Emails.
Over to you –
Do your comments get lost very often? What steps do you take to prevent this? :) Do you have any hints or tips for fellow blog commentators? Leave them in the comments! ;)