WTF-Beta

They're all identifiable birds btw, including the hapless red-legged partridge

Have I shared this...
'The wrong tree'

She mostly creates lino prints, and is also a falconer. I liked her amusing small watercolour a lot, so it now hangs on the wall behind our piano.

@kluurs said:

This is a recent picture I purchased. It's at the framer's. I may pick it up tomorrow. It's a work by a Japanese artist who passed away a couple of years ago named Tanaka Ryohei. It's titled, "Kamo Road".

I too would buy it.
Love the composition, in fact everything about it calls out to me.

Fascinating, realistic, dull, fabulous detail, take a photo, because I can.
I couldn't walk past it without stopping to admire the whispy branches.
What size is it? A2?

(Very Japanese, like one of those incredibly clever & perfect wooden mechanical joints their joiners create. Nail, glue?)

Try back to front?

Slightly mystified...
You bought some alumni transfers/stickers of some sort and did what to them?
What's a decal?

Sometimes you almost need an English translator:

"Bear with, I'm cubing to improve my performability"

Nails, blackboard

What do you think about the verbing of nouns? It's not a new phenomenon of course, but some are like nails on a blackboard.

Apparently the latest, as an example: you are seated in a restaurant and the waiter will come over and ask
"Have you been menued?

Of the nine, I prefer the bittern photo... the light & exposure, pose in flight, wingtip splash, the bokeh.

@CHAS said:

@AndyD Saw the first episode. Will watch more.

Series 3 seems to concern rare earth mineral mining on Svalbard, Arctic Circle.

View from one of our living room windows this arternoon

Real ale

The phase out is inevitable given more modern alternatives; the logic is similar to the demise of long wave radio.

Mobile phones' connectivity coverage now works well nearly everywhere (at least in our tiny country).

People prefer them because they can carry them everywhere, internationally. They now support video, and are a multifunctional computer camera calculator.

We have a copper phone landline which was used until recently for the Internet, though like many, we've had installed a fast full-fibre cable.

And probably like many households, as we decorate, we remove the old phone sockets.

Increase

Vigil
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09pm77q
Glasgow Police drama/action, with modern military themes.
First series about our Trident submarine nuclear deterrent.
Second series about our arms sales to & involvement in the middle east.
Third series...starting now

And I'd have to change all the furniture, which irks when you're handing over 55 million.
That's like 13million per bedroom.

@wtg said:

I officially give up.

I'll pop over and you can take me for

Steinway Tower, unbelievably amazing views

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/111-W-57th-St-PT75-New-York-NY-10019/464426067_zpid/

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EgDybXhhg/

True, but I think I'm more likely to talk to someone on the underground than in Costco