Aug 10
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Jul 03
I’m finally getting around to posting some old photos to our Gallery. This lot is from a month or so ago when Sharon, Joy and I visited the “Cans Festival” located in a tunnel under the now disused Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo. The Festival is basically a “designated stencil area” for street artists to exhibit their work.
As you may have noticed from our previous blog entires, Sharon and I have some appreciation for street art. It’s often illegal and sometimes offensive, however I personally feel that more often than not it brightens up an otherwise dull and gloomy concrete jungle in which we live.
In recent years, partly thanks to the work of Banksy, it has gained increasing acceptance. The Cans Festival is a celebration of this. Some of the artworks are truly remarkable.
If you are interested, check out this site for more info.
And now here are my photos of the exhibition (my favorite being the street cleaner sandblasting the cave-art) :
Jul 01
It sounds like the setup to a joke: A crocodile walks into a bar…
A saltwater crocodile measuring just two feet long is held by a patron at the Noonamah Tavern.
Drinkers at a watering hole in the Australian outback found themselves toasting a baby saltwater crocodile that wandered up to the pub’s door Sunday.
No one knows how the two-foot long (60 cm) crocodile ended up outside the Noonamah Tavern, located off a dusty highway about 25 miles (40 km) from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin.
But unusual creatures are all in a day’s drinking for the tavern, said bartender Leila Naray.
“We’ve had a lot of horses pop up. We’ve had cane toads, which are yukky,” she said. “We have had a big buffalo come in, wander around. There’s a photo of him with a beer.”
The tavern is also famous for its annual frog-racing competition, a charity event when patrons pack the bar and bet on the best hopper.
But the crocodile was apparently a first.
Jun 11
A MAN who was bitten on the penis by a deadly snake yesterday told how he used a cold rum can to soothe the pain while he rang his mother to say a final goodbye.
“I thought I was gone,” Cairns carpenter Daryl Zutt said of his now notorious encounter with a brown snake during a roadside toilet stop in remote Far North Queensland.
“I thought, ‘Maybe, this is it. Maybe, I’m gonna cark it’.”
May 25
NEWSBREAKER Paul van Bruggen snapped these amazing pictures of a 2.5m saltie dining out on a shark on the banks of the Daly River.
“We went past one section of the river and we heard some splashing,” he said.
“We looked across and saw a shark’s tail coming up out of the water and then a crocodile’s head came up and grabbed it.” Mr van Bruggen said the crocodile knew exactly what it was doing, dragging the shark on to unfamiliar dry land before finishing off its prey.
“How smart is the crocodile? It if was you or me it would be dragging you in to drown you, but it takes the shark up on dry land,” he said.
The fisherman, who was on the Daly River last Friday for the Barra Classic, said thecrocodile definitely wanted shark for dinner.
“We were about 15 metres away and it didn’t bat an eyelid,” he said.
May 13
A car driver in Australia has been fined for strapping down his beer rather than his young child.
Police said they were “shocked and appalled” when they pulled over the car south of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory.
They said the 30-can pack of beer was strapped down between two adults in the back, with the five-year-old child unrestrained on the floor.
Apr 23
This touching story of romance and destiny is well worth viewing:
Apr 19
A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.
Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back.
Apr 15
Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.
The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera.
Then, during darkness and hidden behind a sheet of polythene, he painted this comment on ‘Big Brother’ society.
Mar 31
Another Thames Clipper has entered service in style with an escort of Royal Watermen during UK-French Summit last week.
The Clippers are built in Brisbane, Queensland and are based upon the CityCat deign used on the Brisbane River.
