Smelling the flowers
An imaginary chocolate fish to the commenter who can accurately name this temple and where it is.
The leftward and other blatherings of Span (now with Snaps!)
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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- Span likes to think of herself as a mysterious interwab force for feminism and leftwingedness. However the truth is, as always, more mundane, what with blogging being the natural home of the frustrated and rant-inclined. Span is most certainly of their ilk. Sometimes she even talks about herself in the third person. We rest our case.
Spanblather News
- Sat. 6th Oct. 2007 - Spanblather ends
- Sun. 29th Jul. 2007 - Updated blogroll
- Mon. 7th May 2007 - Added off-black, eggs ben etc, The Ex-Expat, Blair's Brain, The Watermelon. Re-added Stupid Internet Name, and fixed links for Legal Soapbox and Tvfmw.
- Sun. 29th Apr. 2007 - Added Webweaver to blogroll.
- Sat. 28th Apr. 2007 - Added Feministing, I Blame the Patriarchy, The Legal Soapbox and Ethical Martini to blogroll.
- Fri. 27th Apr. 2007 - Added Pacific Emprie and Ghetsuhm to blogroll.
- Sat. 21st Apr. 2007 - started this feature (hat tip to NZ Conservative), added to blogroll the following: Your Dirty Answer, the blonde canadian, Parrot on Policy, High Windows, and Short and Sweet Like Me
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- If Span were Oztraaleean
- National cuddles up to the sidestream vote
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- Things - the return
- Smelling the flowers
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9 comments:
Haven't actually seen it in person, but I reckon that's the Porch of Maidens, part of the Erectheum in Athens.
I've no idea, sadly (because I really do want that imaginary chocolate fish), but it's so beautiful, with the flowers in the foreground. I want to be there right now, eating chocolate.
I'm sure I've seen it in the El Greco subdivision in Papamoa.
PS: is it me, or is your word verification longer than any other? I'm pleased you demand a certain type of contributor...
jarrod is indeed correct (as therefore is dritchie). Well done, imaginary chocolate fish is being astrally projected in your general direction as I type.
Bloglily, I was fortuitously eating chocolate when I read your comment. Yum.
LR - sometimes it does seem to be awfully long, and I've had a few spam comments get through lately, so maybe that's why?
Thank you all for your comments :-)
I was trying to work out why it looked so familiar, but isn't that right by where they gouged out some of the Elgin Marbles?
And today your word verification seems to be awfully like a noise you'd make on someone's stomach. fbdwlgy... maybe that's just me.
Yep Ghet, it is on the Acropolis, not far from the Parthenon, and in fact the British Museum also stole one of the dryads (?) in the pic - the Acropolis Museum has the real remaining ones and the ones in the pic are fakes.
It was quite weird seeing the Elgin marbles in London about six weeks after I took this snap.
I think they're caryatids or some such -- there are some at the British Museum IIRC.
I did think they might be caryatids but then I thought I was getting confused with a rose pest. Thanks for the confirmation David.
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