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Working BC – Before Chainsaws
To most people, the past is glowingly referred to as the good old days. This pie-in-the-sky idyll never existed apart from people’s imaginations. The overwhelming majority of people a century ago – 92%+ in the case of Britain – what work entailed was back-breaking manual work whether in foundries or as reflected here in a logging operation.
Hard grinding physical labour was the lot of these workers. What was more iniquitous was the pittance that they were paid for these long hours of toil.
Main picture: Lumberjacks besides their handiwork. The height of the man is indicative of the diameter of the tree
The chain saw is merely a metaphor for machinery
Why you should never travel with paint in the car
A funny thing happened on the way back from Builders Warehouse. At least all the bystanders had a great laugh but for the victims of the paint attack, it must not so pleasant. Never ever put a 25L container of paint instead in the car. Here is the reason why.
Only in Africa Again
Africa has its own unique way of doing things as evidenced by this new array of photographs.
Unusual sights from around the World
Most people accept the ordinary as the normal and will follow the well-trodden path . Obviously none of these people follow this prescript. Instead these iconoclasts have created their own path much to the delight and amusement of the other 99.9% of the population.
How could they ever have permitted adverts like this?
In this era, Political Correctness had clearly not been invented. Women were meant to occupy the kitchen and babies to drink copious quantities of Coke. What about smoking? Even the doctors were advised their clients to smoke.
What will our grandchildren berate us for? Advertising breads and pasta. Perhaps even hamburgers will a distant memory with the Golden Arches of a McDonalds only serving fatty foods and salads but no carbohydrates or starches. That is the excruciating difficulty in making predictions about the future as the future is synonymous with change but where will that change lead us to.
What it sometimes takes to get to School
As a child we never got a lift to school. In Primary School it was on foot albeit only for half a dozen blocks. High School was a little further, so I cycled to school. Given the fact that my mother could not drive, and that we were a one car family, that was our lot. In my children’s generation, they never experienced the pleasures of walking or cycling to school as they were fetched and carried.
In the case of many third world children, even our experiences are minor in comparison. This blog highlights their plight or perhaps that their real determination to obtain an education.
Main picture: Children of Gulu in China should be run up to 5 hours on a cliff path that is sometimes 50 inches wide to reach their schools
Quintessential Images of Various Countries
Every country has its own set of images which evokes the essence of that country; England with its lush verdant fields, Norway with its fjords and Japan’s paddy fields. Each of these photographs will evoke such a response: “It only happens in…………”
Main picture: This was an easy one. Of course it could only be Australia where one would take a pet kangaroo to the supermarket.
The Yukon Quest: The World’s Toughest Dogsled Race
Of the dogsled races, its contemporary, the Iditarod is the better known. Both cover 1600kms of frozen terrain. In the case of the Quest it stretches from Whitehorse, the tiny capital of the Yukon to Fairbanks in the heart of the Alaskan interior. Notwithstanding that, of the two the Quest is widely acknowledged to be the more difficult.
The surprising aspect of the race is the unbelievable resilience and hardiness of the dogs. The most prevalent breed is the Alaskan Husky as opposed to its purebred Siberian variety. Their stamina is demonstrated by the ability to run all the way between check points which are up to 320 kms apart with tails still wagging as if it was a Sunday picnic jaunt.
Stunning Photographs
This is a sample of the 173 000 photographs submitted to the 2014 Sony Photographic Competition.
Main photograph: Orangutan in Bali