Ode to my Wellingtons (Repost for TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“I may be an optimist, but I always pack my wellies”

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Ode to my Wellingtons

You beautiful lovelies
My sweet red Wellingtons
Luckily I wasn’t swayed
By those tempting sandals
I would have been betrayed
When the rain came pouring down
Hopeless without my crown
Puddles all over the ground
No safe harbour to be found
Taking a small step
Anticipating the get wet
But to my surprise
You saved my life!

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Welcome To Finland’s Midsummer (Repost for TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“At least there is no snow on the ground” Gun Roswell

Welcome To Finland’s Midsummer

Not creature stirred
Not even a mouse
Vision getting blurred
Or just an illusion
If you come to the conclusion
And dare to leave the house
Heed this warning
The rain come a down pouring
Soon you will be scorning
The streets empty and deserted
The barbeque outside forgotten and defeated
Shivering in ten plus degrees
Wishing you had paid the fees
Of a nice vacation abroad
But your plan was flawed
Planning on spending
The day never ending
At home in stead
Spending the Finnish carnival
An event most formidable
Even though holier than thou
Or the proverbial sacred cow
That was all but a dream
You hear yourself scream
If you’d only been so lucky
But now feeling yucky
Your midsummer
What a bummer
Surely a nightmare to remember

So what really happened:

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Growing Up? (Repost TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional”

Growing Up?

Growing up?

Such a pain in the ass
Can’t I just pass?
Fifty knocking at the door
Oh what a bore
The golden middle age
The wisdom of a sage
But feeling closer to nineteen
Like the proverbial prom queen
Act your age
Usually the phrase
Leaving me wondering
Who are you mothering
I’m not a child
Even though wild

Growing up?

What’s the point
Not even a joint
Or a few
Can cheer you
If you can’t have fun
On the play ground
Beyond fifty one

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World Wide Wednesday 2016-02-10

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

A glimpse into the archives of photography from around the world from Rantings Of A Third Kind on Wednesdays.

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

World Wide Wednesday, Around the World in Black and White and Colour

This weeks posts, let’s visit Lanzarote of the Canary Islands in colour.
Enjoy!

Vehicles of Various Kinds: One and Two

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The Moonlight Sky

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Feathered Friends

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Take a Load off

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Odds and Ends

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Odds and Ends

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

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Odds and Ends

Objet d’art
Or something smart
On the odds and ends
Our time we spend
Without our creature comforts
We might be up the rafters

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Take a Load off

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

Take a Load off

A bench of stone, wood or wire
Can get you out of the dire
When feeling spent and tired
Take a load off and enjoy the fire

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Feathered Friends

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

Feathered Friends

Our feathered friends
The windy air bend
Flying to the world’s end
For their leisure time to spend

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The Moonlight Sky

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

The Moonlight Sky

From tiniest of crescent
To fullest of size
Each time a present
But never a surprise

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Vehicles of Various Kinds: Two

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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Vehicles of Various Kinds: Two

They are motorized
Some may even tantalize
All vehicles great and small
Some faster, some crawl
Dented or ship shape
You cannot escape
Stopping and glaring
With nostrils flaring

“I want one!”

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Vehicles of Various Kinds: One

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

Vehicles of Various Kinds: One

They are motorized
Some may even tantalize
All vehicles great and small
Some faster, some crawl
Dented or ship shape
You cannot escape
Stopping and glaring
With nostrils flaring

“I want one!”

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…And the odd one out!

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