His privacy is obviously very important to him, but since the photograph/picture link captioned “Peregrine Heathcote” comes from a faceBook page page featuring his art, I’m going to say it’s a photograph of him.
The link itself leads to his web page division titled “Inspiration”.
It takes the form of a interview, but as I can find no credit for an interviewer, I’m going to say it’s his version of a “frequently asked questions” page.
There is some family history there, but as I said above, his privacy is important to him.
I was told in junior high school that the reason the scientific name for the giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis (yes I just had to look up the spelling) has what looks like “camel leopard” in it was that the ancient Greeks thought they were a cross between camels and leopards.
I felt oh so smug, knowing this interesting factoid, and noting the similarity between the faces of giraffes and camels.
…
But I recently found out it’s a myth. The Greeks believed no such silly thing. The name comes from the meanings of those words.
And giraffes aren’t even related to camels… They’re more closely related to cows.
Like cows, they’re ruminants… which may be why this one is chewing its cud.
….
If you want a cool, true giraffe factoid, try this….
You and a giraffe have exactly the same number of neck vertebrae: seven.
Like all mammals.
Theirs are just longer. (Not long enough, to my mind, to explain their necks… I still need to research that.)
…
And giraffes are HUGE.
Males are about 18 feet tall and can weigh a couple of tons.
Not the delicate ctreatures you see in story books
They seem pretty docile. My daughter shared pictures from her Africa trip, where she and her friend are having lunch outside and the giraffes are quite close to them.
I know someone who wore that look back in the 1990’s.. maybe not quite so fashionable.
He wore torn Levis, and white tshirts with his vintage leather motorcycle jacket… not such stylishly remade pants and fancy leather.
But his Mohawk was tall and green, and he looked scary to some people.
He’s a lot younger than me, a teenager at that time… and with a group of friends was asked to leave the downtown mall because some people felt threatened by their presence, which became a story in the local paper…
And a cause among those who argued for young people’s right to dress in punk and goth fashions without being chased away.
….
Anyway, it turned out we both had jobs at the Wednesday Night Farmers Market, and later, he became a collectibles dealer who often had a table at the same flea markets as I did.
As dealers do, we occasionally traded and bought and sold things to each other.
One time I went to his house to do some kind of trade… I don’t remember what… and found out he lived with his mother.
She was only a bit older than me, but dressed and wore her hair more like my mother’s generation.
She brought us some cookies, and tea in vintage china tea cups. It seemed just as incongruous and funny as this picture.
…
Over the years I’ve run into him many times… We still talk about collectibles and antiques.
Also funny, though I’m sure not to him… he still dresses pretty much the same, but by about his 30s he started losing his hair, and the last few times I’ve run into him, he’s had the opposite of a Mohawk…
Bald on top, where his hair had stood tall, with a thin little ponytail in back, where it used to be shaved.
Today’s Songs:
1. ‘Hot Rod Lincoln,’ 2. ‘Hotel California,’ 3. ‘Hungry Heart,’ and 4. ‘Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Chocolate Truffles’
1. The original by Charlie Ryan is below. You will note that between the original and the ‘Commander Cody…’ version the Lincoln motor went down from twelve cylinders to eight. I still prefer the ‘Commander Cody….’ version.
2. It started life as a demo instrumental titled ‘Mexican Reggae’. the name we know it by came after the lyrics were written.
3. It was going to be a ‘Ramones’ song until Springsteen’s producer/manager John Landau advised him to keep it for himself. The title comes from a line in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘Ulysses’ (link to the poem below).
4. Beaten out for ‘Best Song’ at the Oscars by ‘Chim Chim Cher-ee’. Always titled as it was, Bette Davis liked it as the movie title over the movie’s original title ‘What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?’ as she thought that was too close to ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’ and implied a sequel. Her influence prevailed.
5. If I was going to make these, I’d drop the almonds altogether as I’m not that fond of them.
About a year and a half ago, I spoke to an ex-colleague of mine who was about to retire, we had both started as apprentices on the same day, and I had retired a few months before. He asked me a question about retiring and I replied,
“Retired people say that every day is like a Sunday, they’re wrong, every day is like a Saturday, there’s always another day to finish the job you’ve just started. There’s no ‘Monday’ looming a few hours away, you’ve got time to start things. Every day of retirement is like a Saturday, not a Sunday.”
There’s a saying: “Every 20 minute job is one broken bolt away from a three day ordeal.” It’s what you have in the back of your mind when you want to start on a job on a Sunday morning when you have to go to work on a Monday.
.
Yes! To both!
2 NOSES!
Peregrine Heathcote –love that name!
I always thought he probably picked that name so people would love it.
I want to know whether his father’s name is really Heathcote.
His privacy is obviously very important to him, but since the photograph/picture link captioned “Peregrine Heathcote” comes from a faceBook page page featuring his art, I’m going to say it’s a photograph of him.
The link itself leads to his web page division titled “Inspiration”.
It takes the form of a interview, but as I can find no credit for an interviewer, I’m going to say it’s his version of a “frequently asked questions” page.
There is some family history there, but as I said above, his privacy is important to him.
Take a gander at that Goose!
Fun fact:
I was told in junior high school that the reason the scientific name for the giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis (yes I just had to look up the spelling) has what looks like “camel leopard” in it was that the ancient Greeks thought they were a cross between camels and leopards.
I felt oh so smug, knowing this interesting factoid, and noting the similarity between the faces of giraffes and camels.
…
But I recently found out it’s a myth. The Greeks believed no such silly thing.
The name comes from the meanings of those words.
And giraffes aren’t even related to camels… They’re more closely related to cows.
Like cows, they’re ruminants… which may be why this one is chewing its cud.
….
If you want a cool, true giraffe factoid, try this….
You and a giraffe have exactly the same number of neck vertebrae: seven.
Like all mammals.
Theirs are just longer. (Not long enough, to my mind, to explain their necks… I still need to research that.)
…
And giraffes are HUGE.
Males are about 18 feet tall and can weigh a couple of tons.
Not the delicate ctreatures you see in story books
Washington Park Zoo has a place a their giraffe space that you can stand at head height and watch them eat.
Dunno whether I want to see that up close!😁
They seem pretty docile. My daughter shared pictures from her Africa trip, where she and her friend are having lunch outside and the giraffes are quite close to them.
NOSE!
The Mod Squad
Clarence Williams III: (August 21, 1939 – June 4, 2021)
Margaret Ann Lipton: (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019)
Michael Cole: (July 3, 1940 – 83 years)
Grandson and his grandmother
On DeviantArt, this French photographer goes by darkwave1963
I know someone who wore that look back in the 1990’s.. maybe not quite so fashionable.
He wore torn Levis, and white tshirts with his vintage leather motorcycle jacket… not such stylishly remade pants and fancy leather.
But his Mohawk was tall and green, and he looked scary to some people.
He’s a lot younger than me, a teenager at that time… and with a group of friends was asked to leave the downtown mall because some people felt threatened by their presence, which became a story in the local paper…
And a cause among those who argued for young people’s right to dress in punk and goth fashions without being chased away.
….
Anyway, it turned out we both had jobs at the Wednesday Night Farmers Market, and later, he became a collectibles dealer who often had a table at the same flea markets as I did.
As dealers do, we occasionally traded and bought and sold things to each other.
One time I went to his house to do some kind of trade… I don’t remember what… and found out he lived with his mother.
She was only a bit older than me, but dressed and wore her hair more like my mother’s generation.
She brought us some cookies, and tea in vintage china tea cups. It seemed just as incongruous and funny as this picture.
…
Over the years I’ve run into him many times… We still talk about collectibles and antiques.
Also funny, though I’m sure not to him… he still dresses pretty much the same, but by about his 30s he started losing his hair, and the last few times I’ve run into him, he’s had the opposite of a Mohawk…
Bald on top, where his hair had stood tall, with a thin little ponytail in back, where it used to be shaved.
“Red bench in the snow” By: Jaroslaw Grudzinski
Uh… no thanks.. I think I’ll just stand…
Or use your mitten-protected hands to free that bench.
I guess.
To a Californian that still sounds cold.
We’re babies about snow.
If I’m going to get any exercise I sometimes have to sit. And it’s usually frozen too hard to brush off!
I’ll need a little more snow to ski.
DWA DZIOBY!
You’re kinda cute.
Come here often?
Like.
If artist/illustrator, Jon Klassen, has given this a title, I did not find it.
NOSE!
The attachment below comes from HERE.
You’ve failed to explain why I’ve posted that anthem… 😉
Umm…that would be up to you.
It’s based (melody-wise) on that old Scottish folk-song mentioned by nighthawks.
You posted the new composition.
Here’s the one I’m sure you meant. The photographic collage is very well done.
Ok, now I get it.
1. ‘Hot Rod Lincoln,’ 2. ‘Hotel California,’ 3. ‘Hungry Heart,’ and 4. ‘Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Chocolate Truffles’
1. The original by Charlie Ryan is below. You will note that between the original and the ‘Commander Cody…’ version the Lincoln motor went down from twelve cylinders to eight. I still prefer the ‘Commander Cody….’ version.
2. It started life as a demo instrumental titled ‘Mexican Reggae’. the name we know it by came after the lyrics were written.
3. It was going to be a ‘Ramones’ song until Springsteen’s producer/manager John Landau advised him to keep it for himself. The title comes from a line in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘Ulysses’ (link to the poem below).
4. Beaten out for ‘Best Song’ at the Oscars by ‘Chim Chim Cher-ee’. Always titled as it was, Bette Davis liked it as the movie title over the movie’s original title ‘What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?’ as she thought that was too close to ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’ and implied a sequel. Her influence prevailed.
5. If I was going to make these, I’d drop the almonds altogether as I’m not that fond of them.
LINK TO THE POEM, “ULYSSES”
☺
For the final Bunday of 2023, I present you with some bunnies to end the year with.
You’re no bunny ’til some bunny loves you …
2 NOSES!
3 NOSES!
BUNNIES!
Now that I’m retired, no more rabbit-transit commute, no more being told to ‘hop to it’, no more pulling my hare out. I tell ya, Jack, life is good.
About a year and a half ago, I spoke to an ex-colleague of mine who was about to retire, we had both started as apprentices on the same day, and I had retired a few months before. He asked me a question about retiring and I replied,
“Retired people say that every day is like a Sunday, they’re wrong, every day is like a Saturday, there’s always another day to finish the job you’ve just started. There’s no ‘Monday’ looming a few hours away, you’ve got time to start things. Every day of retirement is like a Saturday, not a Sunday.”
There’s a saying: “Every 20 minute job is one broken bolt away from a three day ordeal.” It’s what you have in the back of your mind when you want to start on a job on a Sunday morning when you have to go to work on a Monday.
Cleo Family…
Thanks. – I needed that.
May 2024 be better than the previous ones…
Likewise.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
Happy happy joy joy to you and everyone!
Happy New Year to you all!
Great to see you here!