The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Step into this south coast B&B and you are transported back to the 19th century.
This is my perfect house, its just so wonderful I must go and stay there, and you must look at the photographs.
‘I don’t really see the point of minimalism,’ Paul Oxborrow says. ‘You’re always going to have to have stuff, so why not show it off?’
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98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.
though a well known fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living instead off his monthly state pension of 80 euros.
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Inkeri, 18
“I like clothes that are 130-150 years old. Old-fashioned clothes are made from sturdy materials and they fit better my body type than contemporary clothes, high-waisted trousers for example. I like hats, ties, bow ties and men’s clothes. Steampunk inspires me.”
14 May 2013, Yrjönkatu
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It is a good thing that we have to face difficulties and opposition from time to time, because this brings us back to ourselves; it makes us realize that we are exiles and cannot pin our hopes on anything in this world.
—Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
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Iona Augustinian Nunnery and St. Ronan’s Church
This Nunnery was built in 1203, one of only two houses of Augustinian nuns in Scotland. It was made derelict during the Reformation,despite its ruinous state, this is one of the best examples of a medieval nunnery left in Britain. Next to the nunnery on the right is St Ronan’s Chapel, a small building was the islanders’ parish church from around 1200 to the Reformation in 1560. Excavations have revealed that there was a chapel on the site as early as the 8th century. The chapel is surrounded by a graveyard which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France. By the wall near est the sea is the grave of John Smith, former leader of the British Labour Party. His grave is marked by a stone with an epitaph quoting Alexander Pope: ‘An honest man’s the noblest work of God’.
Oh sweet Baby Jesus…
This makes Rome all the more appealing.
Presiding Bishop Schori has an interesting take on Paul casting out a demon from a slave girl in Romans…
She seems to have missed the message of Christ liberating us and, instead, saw a message of recognize the glory of our fellow humans.
Le sigh.
To quote Father Robert Hart of the Anglican Catholic Church: “We may summarize the problem very simply: She is on the side of the demons.”
Rooney Mara photographed by Mikael Jansson for Interview, March 2013
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Painting by MARIE-FRANÇOIS FIRMIN-GIRARD (French, 1838-1921)
I wonder what the name of this painting is?
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