My weekly flick: carwash

Peggy wanted to have her car washed. We were on our way to Culzean Castle, and stopped over. Of course, I used my camera! Aren’t the colours amazing?

Carwash

I don’t think I have been in a car being washed since I was a child. I am not even sure that in France, you can remain in the car these days.

My Weekly Flick: tourist show at Gretna Green

Like a fashion show

We were in Gretna Green, a village that used to be the first Scottish village on the road between London and Edinburgh, where a lot of runnaway marriages were celebrated in the old days.
Nowadays, it has become a tourist must stop, with coaches full of tourists from all countries and I was amused by all this tourists marching in order to have their photo taken by a friend next to the bagpiper.

My Weekly Flick: Au revoir, soleil

There was a family behind us watching the sunset and you can hear a little girl’s voice saying

Au revoir, soleil ! (goodbye, sun), à demain, soleil !(see you tomorrow, sun)

Saying goodbye to the sun

And hoping it’s not goodbye for a long time, since this is the first sunny day in over a week, in Normandy!
They ARE announcing rain for tomorrow

My Weekly Flick: Slow as a snail?

Well, I have not really been slow or lazy, but busy! So much so, that I didn’t have time to post a Wednesday Window, as I was on the road on Wednesday, on the road on Thursday, getting some rest yesterday, and getting around to posting a couple of things on flickr today, FINALLY!
Sorry for missing several weeks of Weekly Flicks, but things should get back to normal, now.

So here it is. More soon! Promise!!!

You can hear my friend Catherine’s voice, in French, complaining about my spending time filming a snail, and my friend Peggy’s voice in English.
The snail was going his own sweet way on a map of Holy Island…

My Weekly Flick: who’s watching and who’s being watched?

Don’t you love watching monkeys and apes. I do and we were fascinated when at the Jardin des Plantes Ménagerie, we watched that little scene involving an orangutang and a kid.

One wonders who is watching and who is being watched

Remembered travelling through the Malayain Peninsula eons ago with my husband, and among the few words we had memorised, there was Orang=man and Utang=forest.
I found this ape’s expression incredibly pensive and human-like. I missed filming the beginning of the scene, in which a woman held her hand out to him and at that point he got really interested, when just before, he had looked bored. It felt like she was a regular visitor, and he was acknowledging her.
And then he got interested in the kid.

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