Some Very Old Game Pieces
Jan 14
Jan 14
Lady Church(ing)
A PAINFUL POSITION.-An unmarried lady, a perfect specimen of an old maid, being on a visit to a friend who lived in a large manufacturing town, went one Sunday to church alone, and was shown into a large pew, in which half a dozen females were seated. The prayers were drawing to a conclusion, when…
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Jan 13
Hurt :(
Hurt my hip yesterday. Took my laptop into town to get some work done, and had my legs on a chair with laptop resting on it and that seems to have strained a muscle or something. It wasn’t hurting before and then it was. This is very much not good. Sleeping/lying down makes it worse….
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Jan 12
Jan 11
Fashion, tea frogs and the trouble with web pages
Some more reading of the Fashioned from Penury book. I’m reading it on the bus, and not much travelling going on over the holidays so slow reading. There’s a bit about the change from “tropical/Indian-influenced clothing (i.e. predominantly white) to European-influenced clothing (i.e. predominately black). This apparently happened sooner in Sydney and later in Queensland…
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Jan 11
Discarded things.
Discarded items was the theme Lena gave me. Now this one puzzled me. I mean, rubbish sneaks into photos from time to time but mostly it is something to avoid in photos. Who deliberately takes photos of discard items. Then when I looking for photos of something else, I realised lots of people do. Take…
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Jan 10
Tuesday is Tuesday
Lots of little things today. Worked through some newspaper accounts of trials in the Supreme Court in 1872 and was able to compile of a “chart” of the procedures. It seems much the same as modern procedures, just varying in the details. Whereas 50 years earlier, the procedure was different. I don’t think I could…
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Jan 10
Doors & the Door Challenge.
Mag gave me doors, which was hard because… I’ll admit it, I really like taking photos of doors. So I have a lot, even just looking through random folders I found a lot so I had to cull it down to the more interesting ones, but still there is a lot. I think there needs…
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Jan 9
Traffic Lights
Sam gave me traffic lights as a theme. Now, as with leaves it is important that the lights, or at least the intersection is the main focus of the photo. As with this overhead view of a central Hobart intersection. Now this one of the Hobart waterfront towards sunset isn’t so much about the lights…
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Jan 9
Chimneys: from a different angle
Debbie gave me chimneys as a theme. Behind the coach house at Clarendon there is workers’ housing. Some debate about what sort of workers but that’s not the point today. The point is, they, at least the ones on the left, have recently constructed chimneys. Now let’s consider the one on the end. Which is actually…
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