...disguised as a garden light! We cannot be too careful in these days of transhumanism and the interconnectedness of everything!
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Australia's Giant Kingfisher...aka Jackass...aka Kookaburra...possesses one of the World's great birdcalls.
The enormous outdoor mural at Wat Pho, by the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, requires continuous refreshing, so here is the team at work.
Some will recall that a team from Australia was first to wrest the Americas Cup for Yachting from the USofA, who had failed to give it up in about 100 years. Some say it was superior sailing skills. Others say it was the controversial keel design on the Australian vessel...its end cap had two shapely tips!
Now...I may be wrong...I suspect the yacht team held their design sessions at a resort on the Isle of Phi Phi in the South of Thailand...it is just possible a pimply assistant designer was gazing out to the beach scene through the window of their comfortable meeting room, and noticed the twin keels on this Thai Mermaid just as the head designer was saying something like "We really need to put our minds to work on the design of a keel cap that will give us an advantage and excite half the World's sapiens". Khun Sek, our house architect and friend, visited us during the New Year holiday. He was riding his new Ducati Monster 795, a rather stunning Italian creation that is assembled in a small factory in Bangkok.
Khun Sek kindly offered to let me ride it, and I didn't need to be asked twice! It is at least 30 years since I last rode a big motorcycle. So, I can tell you that it is a very nicely designed and built machine, and it handles beautifully. I am impressed, also, with the little aesthetic touches Italians bring to their vehicles: Sooty in flight...frozen in the act of jumping to a sarn [spirit house] table to see what snacks might be available.
Sooty began life as a Bangkok street cat...we brought her with us when we came to live in Surin Province ...she has now become totally at ease in the up-country environment. |
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