A selection of Hong Kong holiday snaps, with side trips off to a Chinese theme park and Macau.
Photos by me and husband. #nofilter, as they say on Instagram.
Alien fruit On holiday, I like to relax. And take pictures of fruit.
The sound of one glove clapping Lost gloves.
Tiny tablets and toys It was a quiet morning at home. I was pondering the largeness of my multivitamin tablet.
On holiday, I like to relax. And take pictures of fruit.
camera + fruit + toys = alien fruit
Here’s one I wrote earlier
Tiny tablets and toys. It was a quiet morning at home. I was pondering the largeness of my multivitamin tablet.
The sound of one glove clapping. Hold my hand…
I’ve been suffering from an extreme case of blog procrastination. If this blog was a small child, well-meaning strangers would frown at its unsuitable footwear and thin arms.
But hooray! All the planets are aligned, the Interweb is working, and my hands are warm enough to type.
Quite a few people stumble here by searching for Lego. So to feed up my poor malnourished blog, here are some amusing Lego pictures. Does anyone ever get tired of cute Lego? Not me.
Proof that I was in New York
I did make an ambitious claim several weeks ago that I would put up some pictures from my NY mini-break. Here they are:
So, the blog child-beast has been fed. And I can happily procrastinate away for another short while.
Here’s one I wrote earlier
Lego love for all the family. It really really hurts when I step on hard, sharp, pointy bits of Lego. I suffer through strange foot indentations because Lego is wonderful.
Too lazy for words. Greetings from New York. I’ve just popped over for a high-end mini-break with husband.
It was a quiet morning at home. I was pondering the largeness of my multivitamin tablet.
Then I took some pictures:
Here’s one I wrote earlier
I heard a bus shelter singing In these drippy flannel grey spring days, I love colour. My eyes are hungry for bright shiny colourful things. Like these…
Pictures of words Someone has poured concrete in to my sinus cavities (I have a cold). This is a lazy ‘picture post’ today. I am too tired to write many words, so here are some pictures of words that have made me smile …
Last night I heard a bus shelter singing. I was sitting alone, watching the lights of a basketball court flicker on and off, waiting for the promised number 46. There was a gentle “Ah – oooo. Ah.” Like Ladysmith Black Mambazo (circa 1986) under a large bucket. It was a calming, meditative repetition of those 3 notes.
This bus stop whale song was magical, until I realised it was coming from the shelter’s brightly lit advertising sign. Each time it scrolled to a new ad for highly engineered underwear or lifestyle drinks, a distant South African choir sang sadly: “Ah – oooo. Ah.”
Colour starvation
In these drippy flannel grey spring days, I love colour. My eyes are hungry for bright shiny colourful things. Like these…
I’ve never used these as chopsticks. Far too chunky and clunky, and slightly bent from the move to the UK. But beautiful to look at. [Dinosaur Designs resin.]
Well, look what happens when I shop for clothes on a dull flat day… [Very creased Josh Goot and some faux-Missoni.]
Look how utterly terrifying that faceless flying monkey thing is.
This is a magic carpet and a prayer mat. That’s the kind of school we go to here.
And here’s one I wrote earlier…
Pretty things offscreen. The more of my time that is sucked up by websites, email, television and mobile phones, the more I appreciate solid physical beauty. Here are some pictures of pretty things I have seen offscreen…
Wandering in the www garden. I tend to lose all concept of time as soon as I open up a web browser. I start with a task (e.g. look up a train timetable), then somehow find myself 1 hour later looking at pictures of husband and wife cutlery.
Someone has poured concrete in to my sinus cavities (I have a cold). This is a lazy ‘picture post’ today. I am too tired to write many words, so here are some pictures of words that have made me smile …
I saw this sign first.. and it made me smile. Then just a few doors down, I saw this next sign …
And can you see the tiny “No uterus no opinion” sign as well? Teehee.
[Poor picture quality blamed on iPhone camera…]
I saw this note left on my neighbour’s car one day. The note said:
“i miss you. come back soon. the cats are waiting and there’s an egg in the toilet bowl. always remember where you were born because someday you’ll fight a midget there.”
Wise words indeed.
One day I was calling out to my son to come inside. I was getting annoyed as he kept saying “I’m just finishing…” And later, this is what I found written outside the back door!
The more of my time that is sucked up by websites, email, television and mobile phones, the more I appreciate solid physical beauty. Here are some pictures of pretty things I have seen offscreen…
A rainbow duck
Earlier in the year I was at Point Lonsdale in Victoria. I saw this crazy rainbow/aviator duck at a small fairground. It was such a cold grey day that these colours stood out like neon lights.
A fox said to a rabbit …
I saw this on a city wall in Melbourne. I believe these well-dressed animals would be singing along to the Pet Shop Boys version of ‘Always on my mind’. It made me smile…
Climbing roses
During the Biennale of Sydney, I visited Cockatoo Island to see some art. This wallpaper wasn’t actually an artists’s work, but it looked wonderful anyway.
Pinkness and light
At the Biennale, I loved this room by Melbourne artist Rosslynd Piggott. (There’s a picture of the room in the article here.) I stood alone and contemplated fogotten memory, remembered experience and transient loveliness… until a group of older ladies in sensible shoes stomped in to shelter from the rain.
