LIZZY FOREAL

SEVEN OAKS ART : As much use as a chocolate teapot animations and more

nellibell49 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:46:51 +0000

As much use as a chocolate teapot animations and more.

GIFFLING

nellibell49 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:55:23 +0000

Snez Music

nellibell49 — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:16:18 +0000

Snez Music.

AND THE SWINE FLEW

nellibell49 — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:33:49 +0000

As subtle as a dead pig

II ne faut pas jeter les perles devaiit les pourceaux.

A pig’s tail will not make a good arrow. SPANISH.

No one gives his pig to the hyena to keep

Do not drive black hogs at night

People don’t give black puddings to those who kill no pigs

Proverb Lore: Many Sayings, Wise Or Otherwise, on Many

“Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.” Polish Proverb

A NEW YEAR: TOO MUCH FUN

nellibell49 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:05:01 +0000

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Audio. They contemplate having TOO MUCH FUN.

The child of a frog is a frog.

Ask not what fun does for you.
Ask rather what you do for fun.”

“Fun is not a 4-letter word”

Rocky De Koven

”You’d be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.”

J.P. (James Pinckney) Mille

IN THE SUMMER OF ’09

nellibell49 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:19:47 +0000

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Foto. They contemplate ambling through the Summertime of ’09. Lizzy’s nose is burned and peeling and her eyes stare white balled from a black face. In Centro at Tweed - they asked her – So you like sarongs eh ? We have sarongs – and buckles for $2. Mad O’Brian was much affected by the attention to his mother. Lizzy will include some images of the Mad O’Brians at some stage. In the Meantime – lets Gif Off.

	MAD O’BRIAN – XMAS 2008 “Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle” Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, 1813-1855)
	A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone. Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist
	A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. Chinese Proverb A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue. Russian Proverb
	What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace. — Ellen Goodman
	Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

SWIMMING IN JANUARY PART 2

nellibell49 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:03:50 +0000

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Foto. They contemplate Summer Holidays, Beach, Sun and Sand and SWIMMING. Lizzy tried to think about swimming in the last post but drifted into BEACHES. This Summer has been filled blissfully with SWIMMING. This summer Lizzy saw a little lass swim for the first time. I AM A MERMAID- said she. Lizzy is a SWIMMER – not distances and she always feared she would be asked one day to do as Grace Darling did and brave fierce waters to rescue sailors from a sinking boat or swim across shark infested waters. 60 years later she simply SWIMS. Noone has as yet asked her to swim for 24 hours from a sinking ship to reach a wave battered shore upon which she would likely perish at the last moment. She simply swims and prefers swimming with the children to swimming with dolphins. She saw a small girl try to ride a unicorn in a pool this summer. Last Summer, she swam at New Year in a large pool on top of The Hill on full moon. This year, He finally let sun shine on his skinny legs and now he might be able to swim.

	The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson
	“I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.” Amanda Beard Olympian
	Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense! George Carlin
	My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, “Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.” Paula Poundstone quotes (American Comic, b.1959)
	It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head. (Danish)
	“To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.” - Masaru Emoto in “The Hidden Messages in Water” - Northwest Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 4
	“Well, my swimming pool problems are solved. I just found myself miles and miles of open lanes.” “What is that smell?” “That’s East River.” “You’re swimming in the East River? The most heavily trafficked, overly contaminated waterway on the eastern seaboard?” “Technically, Norfolk has more gross tonnage.” “How could you swim in that water?” “I saw a couple other guys out there.” “Swimming?” “Well… floating. They weren’t moving much, but they were out there.” - Kramer and Jerry Seinfeld, in “The Nap”

SWIMMING IN JANUARY

nellibell49 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:14:32 +0000

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Foto. They contemplate Summer Holidays, Beach, Sun and Sand. Beaches of the Tweed Coast. Pottsville and Kingscliff. Hastings Point and Wooyung. Beaches of the Mid North Coast of NSW and the Southern Border of Queensland. Beaches of Sydney. Beaches !

	“You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach”
	I do not wish to die - There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of rose flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls. The room is suddenly filled with sun, Like a sacrament one can never be Sufficiently thankful for. Door ajar, The eye reaches across from one Open window to another, eye to eye, And then the healing spaces of the sky …… - Alfred Leslie Rowse, 1903-
	If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Bible; Psalms (ch. CXXXIX, v. 9-10)
	You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
	All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know the ocean merges into the drop. … Kabir
	You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. … Frank Kafka
	The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood On dusty shelves, when held against the ear Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood. We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood In our own veins, impetuous and near. – Eugene J. Lee-Hamilton, Sonnet–Sea-shell Murmurs

A TRUE SUMMER HOLIDAY

nellibell49 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:10:32 +0000

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Foto. They contemplate Summer Holidays, Beach, Sun and Sand.
	“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkien, author of ‘Lord of the Rings’ (1892-1973)
	An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Come, my friends, ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved the earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — from Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson	To Summer by William Blake. O thou who passest thro’ our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou, O Summer, Oft pitched’st here thy goldent tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair. Beneath our thickest shades we oft have heard Thy voice, when noon upon his fervid car Rode o’er the deep of heaven; beside our springs Sit down, and in our mossy valleys, on Some bank beside a river clear, throw thy Silk draperies off, and rush into the stream: Our valleys love the Summer in his pride. Our bards are fam’d who strike the silver wire: Our youth are bolder than the southern swains: Our maidens fairer in the sprightly dance: We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy, Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven, Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
	Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
	It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees. ~ an Arab Proverb
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock	In the Good Old Summertime There’s a time in each year that we always hold dear, the good old summer time; With the birds and the treeses and sweet-scented breezes, In the good old summer time. When your day’s work is over then you are in clover, And life is one beautiful rhyme, No trouble annoying each one is enjoying, The good old summer time. In the good old summertime, in the good old summertime. Strolling through the shady lanes with my baby mine. You hold her hand, and she holds yours, and that’s a very good sign. She will be your tootsie wootsie, in the good old summertime. song by George Evans and Ren Shields

FLOWERS AND OTHER PLANT LIFE

nellibell49 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:22:27 +0000

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Foto. They contemplate Flowers because sometimes that’s a fine way to start a New Year.

	Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver
	MAY SARTON A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
	None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. - Forbes Watson
	HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigour and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
	A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees. - Rick Hilles