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Weekly photo challenge – on top

Originally posted on Third Person Travel:
“On top” another fun theme on the the WordPress weekly photo challenge. Captured at the Guggenheim Bilbao on a rainy day, “a spider does not an umbrella make.”

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“Roda de Samba” by Carybé

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Bloomingdales?

Originally posted on LUST & RUM:
Not sure if even I get this. A weeping, begging creature that defies belief. Outside Bloomingdale’s on the corner of 59th and Lexington. Is this for real? This ‘homeless’ woman wrapped in bed sheets,…

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Chorlton Market – 19/04/2014

It was our first time at Chorlton Market and what a wonderful surprise! The small market is packed with high quality produce and delightful sweets. Besides our usual favourites – venison Scotch eggs and sausage rolls from the Moocher, the…

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Before I go out to Play

Originally posted on Life is but a Labyrinth:
I must do the honours here. I just love mamão I have posted on all blogs, mostly satire-type thingies, I have watered the plants, I have replanted a mamão tree (papaya) from…

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Guardian: How evangelical Christians are using social action to revivify church brand

Originally posted on Doing or Not Doing God: religion, policy & politics:
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, told the Guardian this week that “there is a certain toxicity about the brand” of Christianity. It is a concern most keenly…

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manchester

Originally posted on christina wilson sweet nothings:
another flying visit to see my mother and my brother and I went to see a film in deansgate – i was shocked to see how the whole of the area around deansgate…

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Report indicates that US aligned regimes are preparing for war

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: a master of remarkable opening sentences.

Originally posted on Carol Freire:
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel…

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April 17: 100 Seconds of Solitude

Originally posted on Libby Weber:
How fortunate are we to live in times When libraries exist most everywhere, Which burst with novels, research, art, and rhymes, And we can call upon them through the air. And still, the tactile pleasures…

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