The view from my "office"

[Flashback]

What wasn’t there? The ML?

Been to the US already, It’s been a mean game of global hopscotch keeping ahead of the damn bug, if that’s what you mean.

The roped off queue to view it..... In fact I think the Eiffel Tower had a lot less rigidity there too compared to now.

 

[Flashback]

The view from my Manchester office - this is the shot I wanted to take last week but @TonyHancock beat me to it! Got here a bit earlier today as had a good run except the as usual WOEFUL MAN T3 security........

 

[JohnM]

Today’s top-up of quota included a couple of jumbos.



Aaaahhh, the Abrolhos - another day, another cray...

 

[Foreigner]

At SYD in Plaza Premium lounge, better than QF business imo

 

[Daver6]

Another sunset from Gracetown and the town site. A truly horrible part of the world

 

[Daver6]

Busselton Jetty office

 

[RooFlyer]

If JT has to ask where this is, I’ll be disappointed



View up the road to the next office stop



Grande Arch La Defence



Which happens to be where my actual office was, when I was visiting Paris on business (between 1999-2004). I didn't drop in to say bonjour this time.

 

[VPS]

And I see the Louvre is now closed completely. You do seem to have been just one step ahead

 

[JohnM]

PERfectly happy days.
With another quota top-up of crays.

Killing it every morning at the Abrolhos. Third today; two to go.

Hit a patch of recently-moulted ‘whites’ today.



The great cray-killer in one pot.

 

[VPS]

Adelaide Festival Fire Gardens at the Botanic Gardens - absolutely spectacular and the photos don't do it justice. It was almost as though you were in a camp of ancient people that didn't have electricity yet.

French artistic collective Compagnie Carabosse are renowned for their spellbinding illuminations of public sites all over the world, from Stonehenge in England to Moscow's Kremlin Square, from Hue Bridge in Vietnam to Pont du Gard in the south of France. For the last 20 years, Compagnie Carabosse has transformed these extraordinary landscapes into mesmerising wonderlands of firelight, kinetic sculptures and live music. Their show at the 2018 Melbourne Festival sold out weeks prior and attracted over 30,000 visitors with a waiting list almost as long.
Now it's Adelaide's turn.

Over four magical nights the city's Botanic Garden, already a charmed space once the sun has set, will become a dreamspace of mystery and revelation fashioned from thousands of individual flames.

Carabosse paint with the palette of fire – its colour, warmth, sound and scent; the stuff of our dreams and rituals for millennia. Their luminary alchemists create site-specific sculptured landscapes from nearly 7000 handcrafted giant candles. Strolling through them is a feast for the senses: fire sculptures that flicker and dance, urns that cause shadows to play and a soundtrack every bit as brilliant as the garden itself. Making your way through this dense and wondrous garden is both a personal journey full of surprises and a shared experience of elemental forces in full effect.


All those white things inside the palm house were white singlets just hanging up

 

[Flashback]

Cherry blossoms are out quite early this year, in full bloom in London.

 

[JohnM]

Magic sunset with a very nice Adelaide Hills La Prova Aglianico rose after a magic day at the Abrolhos Islands.

 

[sinophile888]

Oi - what's this over 70 stuff?

Due to the Covid-19 problem, I am postponing my 70th birthday until I can reassemble all my children and grandchildren.

 

[JohnM]

Abrolhos Scraps(TM) cont.

Crayfish omelette and creamy garlic mushrooms for breakfast and the boys prepping crays for our superb chef.





A few crays a day keeps covid-19 away.

 

[OATEK]

Abrolhos Scraps(TM) cont.

Crayfish omelette and creamy garlic mushrooms for breakfast and the boys prepping crays for our superb chef.

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A few crays a day keeps covid-19 away.

Who knew that a Cray boat could produce such splendid isolation!!

 

[JohnM]

Abrolhos Scraps(TM) cont.

Cray Thermidor for lunch.




Now, I wonder what’s for dinner?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Abrolhos Scraps(TM) cont.

Cray Thermidor for lunch.

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Now, I wonder what’s for dinner?

Stop it or you’ll go blind!

But at least it’s positive given the general doom and gloom elsewhere!

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Abrolhos Scraps(TM) cont.

Cray Thermidor for lunch.
Now, I wonder what’s for dinner?

OK where do I sign up for this cruise ??

 

[RooFlyer]

Some more non doom and gloom. QR office at LHR

 

[JohnM]

But at least it’s positive given the general doom and gloom elsewhere!

I’m going way above and beyond my AFF duty to buck you people up while I self-isolate in this purgatory.