Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
Jake has created another excellent animation http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/sunday-post-collectibles/ and a challenge to post about collectables so I thought I’d show you Monstees!
and a few close ups . . .
Cute aren’t they? http://www.monstees.co.uk/
Ailsa has chosen tradition as her theme for this weeks challenge. My home town is travel for virtually all of you right? So today has been the perfect summer day and I was sure that Exeter would provide a solution. Sure enough the annual craft fair was taking place on the cathedral green with Exeter Morris Men dancing up a storm. I believe that Morris dancing has spread around the world but for those who don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s a form of folk dance that has been around for centuries. The dancers wear bells on their legs, wave white handkerchiefs and have big sticks. Exeter Morris have several musicians, accordions and drums.
To visit Ailsa and to see lots of other interpretations of the theme, http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/07/20/travel-theme-tradition/
I’ve missed Madison’s 100 word Friday photo prompt http://madison-woods.com/2012/07/18/ for a couple of weeks but this time I’ve made it. This maybe a little dark, so I’m sorry, I don’t wish to offend. The photo seems innocent enough, but look closely, see how the tendrils can wrap around and strangle.
Riesling
The vine, its naked now, stripped of its treasures, its small Riesling bullets. The master likes to watch while we crush them in the old way; it’s his tradition to make something special for himself. And as he watches, he finishes last year’s reserve.
It started off well, he was in good humour, but as always, it turned to bad. I thought I would die last night; drown on crushed grapes, I prayed to the Lord to take me. Grapes filled my nose, ears, eyes and mouth, while he filled me.
He doesn’t know where I emptied his night water today.
I’ve been waiting for a reason to post to show you the inside of Exeter Guildhall. In May there was an exhibition about the 1942 blitz and I popped in for the first time in thirty years. It is believed to have been built around the late 12th century, with a new front in the 16th and the interior was restored in the 19th century. In my photo you can see the windows reflected in the chandelier and some of the exhibition stands.
There will be hundreds of different interpretations of inside over at the Daily Post.
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/weekly-photo-challenge-inside/
Double Vision
In the graveyard today I had double vision
Double vision of the white marble statue
White marble statue on the nun’s grave
The nun’s grave where the sisters are laid
The sisters are laid God rest their souls
Their souls carried heavenwards by wings of white doves
White doves fly now at approaching black habits
Black habits whipped around legs in the wind
In the wind in the graveyard I had double vision
Of perhaps not quite rested souls
Week 50, but Julia has focussed on the weather instead of a golden anniversary, with her prompt, … the rain turned the road into a river…
and here is my entry. There will be more over at http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week-50/ and maybe you would like to join in.
Bridge Memories
It could only be ugly, you only have to see how they built that block of flats over Whipton way. Eight stories high, where do they hang their washing?
‘Come on mum. Let’s join the crowd and walk across for the first time.’ I didn’t want to, horrid concrete.
‘Look Shirley, see how lovely it was, back when I was a girl. Your dad and me did our courting there, fifty years ago.’ 
‘Huh, every year in St Thomas, the rain turned the road into a river’ she said barely looking at my photo, ‘Now there’s the flood channel and this new bridge. I won’t be long then.’
Photo is from http://demolition-exeter.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/edwardian-exe-bridge.html where Wolfpaw has discussed the copyright.
Yesterday it arrived! I popped across to Lyme Regis for an hour in the afternoon and just look how gorgeous it was. Do it quickly though because sadly today it departed again.
Jakes theme for the Sunday post this week is solid. I’m posting a picture of a granite boulder in the North Teign river, called a Tolmen stone. Legend says that fertility is guaranteed, if the rock is climbed through nine times, at the right time of the Lunar cycle.
So my ‘solid’ rock has a metre wide hole in it!
Visit Jake’s Printer, check out his animated graphics and the other entries this week.
http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/sunday-post-solid/
An easy one this time because I love the colour in this photo! I also love the look of Ailsa’a pizza,check it out here http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/07/13/food/ and join in with this weeks theme. 
Lucid Gypsy 