Category: Animals

Animals, Weekly Photo Challenge

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Linda Gukicova
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A cat, a mouse and an Amazon Fire TV Stick

I try to post pictures of my Pepper only when it’s appropriate–this is not a cat blog. At least I pretend I’m in charge. Of course, Pepper only looks at me like, are you kittin’ me? Any cat owner knows we don’t boss them, they boss us.

So, you know how cats do this thing when they suddenly, without warning, go berserk and run round like crazy for no reason. Apparently it’s to do with them conserving too much energy, which they need to burn. (Tough I personally prefer the more interesting theory of cats chasing ghosts or aliens.) Pepper likes to do this on weekend or Bank Holiday mornings when I sleep late and chill in bed. She shoots from one end to the other (I live in a tiny flat) then stops at my bed and frantically attacks the bedstead with her claws. It could be described as something like this: wobb wobb wobb whoosh d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-r chachadada bang hooo and I realised, hey, it sounds like a dubstep song!

I love this tune. It also features one of my favourite artists–Dizzee Rascal. Enjoy!

Bonus – did you know there is a Wikipedia entry titled Cats and The Internet? Well, now you do.

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Animals, Outdoors, Weekly Photo Challenge

Solitude

Linda Gukicova

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This is my kind of weekly photo challenge! I love being on my own (have you read my description?) I even love the word “solitude“. Introverts get exhausted when they spend too much time among people and recharge once they’re alone. It’s the other way round with extroverts.

I chose the above photograph because it’s one of my most recent ones and I like crows. There are endless possibilities with this challenge: landscapes, sunsets/sunrises, any lone animals, one candle, a single cup of coffee, a book or e-reader.

I’m reminded of a quote of one of my favourite authors, Lucy Maud Montgomery, from the book Anne of Windy Poplars, which is part of the Anne series (though I think the same one, or very similar, also appeared in one of the Emily of New Moon books):

I was alone but not lonely. I held a series of imaginary conversations with imaginary comrades and thought out so many epigrams that I was agreeably surprised at myself.

Anne was an orphan and it wasn’t until the age of eleven that she found a loving home. Her imagination that helped her survive the hard years of her early childhood.

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The tree that marches to the beat of its own drum–see how it’s dancing without a care in the world?

 

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Duck Duck Goose

Linda Gukicova

On the last day of this year, let me do something I’ve never done before – participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s topic is Duck Duck Goose.

Ducks of a small lake in Heaton Park.

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Not sure it even is a lake. More like a larger puddle. Maybe a puddle lake. But the ducks like it, they always hang out there.

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Lat time I went there, when I took these pictures, it was late October and it was getting a bit late and there weren’t many people in the park and nobody except me in this wooded part. I took some shots and walked away but then, I don’t remember why, I returned the same way and I saw the ducks came out of the water.

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As I approached, they quickly retreated back to the puddle lake. Guilty!

Speaking of ducks, I once reblogged this post on Tumblr:

a person from 150 years ago would be terrified by modern stuff . however , a duck from 150 years ago would just be all like ,still got lakes? yes ? okay cool

Here are some of my other posts featuring birds.

Happy new year, everyone!

Animals, Random and Weird Phone Shots

Random and Weird Phone Shots – That Time of Year

Linda Gukicova

Christmas markets in Manchester.

Wonderful. Just close your eyes and pretend Brexit never happened.

Then you order a new Kindle Paperwhite from Amazon. For yourself, because you are the best person to buy Christmas presents for.

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Yes, it’s The Hobbit

You get the thing you wanted and your cat gets a new box.

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