A touch of Monty Python

I feel like I am living in a blogging world with a very definite touch of Monty Python.

 

You know ...

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the sketch about spam

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In case you don't ... and it is very dated ... this is the sketch

 

 

Well I have more spam than I need. Not the vile processed meat sort. The totally iritating blogging sort.

I am being bombarded by spam comments.

I had 120 comments yesterday on old posts which were selling me everything I needed to be more virile, see better, save money and all manner of other things. Spam the lot of it.

So I apologise to commenters that your comments now have to be approved. I hope I only have to do this for a couple of days as it is a periodic fault and may well get resolved.

My post today is brief becasue there simply are not enough hours int he day at the moment. I am jolly glad I am on a strict diet as eating is only taking a short time! See - good in everything eh!

 

Today's page was made for the weekly challenge on UKS last week and is a Florida page

 

 

 

It was to us the colours of the flag of your country. Well my country is the UK so red white and blue. I would LIKE my country to be the USA - also red white and blue.

The pictures are from Epcot a couple of trips ago.

 

Today I am thankful for

getting a lot done (though I still have a lot to do)

a short walk at the end of the day in the sunshine. Fabulou. I was shattered when I got home and was about to start work straight away and Nigel refused to let me and forced me out for a walk. He was so right. 

 

And finally I have an article to share which I thought was fabulous. It received mixed comments but I loved it.

 

One of the women - Jane Goodall - I am proud to have met and she was indeed inspirational.

 

It is from The Daily Mail here 

Mother shuns Disney Princess ideal and dresses daughter up as five REAL heroines from history to commemorate fifth birthday

By Margot Peppers

PUBLISHED: 16:43, 13 May 2013 | UPDATED: 20:59, 13 May 2013

A photographer has commemorated her daughter's fifth birthday by dressing her up as five different influential women from history - Amelia Earhart, Coco Chanel, Susan B Anthony, Helen Keller and Jane Goodall - and capturing the images for a photo series.

Jaime Moore from Austin, Texas, wrote on her website JaimeMoorePhotography.com that instead of dressing Emma up as a Disney princess - which is 'an unrealistic fantasy for most girls' - she decided to take photos of her emulating real women worth admiring.

'My daughter wasn't born into royalty,' the mother-of-two explained. 'But she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that's what REALLY matters.'

Real-life heroines: For her daughter Emma's fifth birthday, photographer Jaime Moore dressed her up as five inspirational women from history, including designer Coco Chanel (left) - minus the cigarette, of course

Taking flight: Emma (right) imitates aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (left) by sporting pilot goggles, a fur-lined leather jacket and a white scarf

The mother-of-two said she chose five women since it corresponds to her daughter's age, but that 'there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world.'

What's more, she said she wanted her daughter to learn about women who 'without ever meeting Emma have changed her life for the better.'

In the series of black-and-white images, called 'Not just a girl', even Emma's hair is styled to look like the heroines she is imitating.

True heroine: Emma is captured looking peaceful and pensive in her accurate interpretation of Helen Keller (left), the famous American author, lecturer and political activist who was both blind and deaf

 

All walks of life: Emma rests on her hand with her hair in a ponytail as she impersonates 79-year-old British anthropologist Jane Goodall (left)

One photo, in which Emma is pretending to be civil rights heroine Susan B Anthony, sees her in black top and white collar, her brunette locks pinned up in an old-fashioned braided hairstyle.

In another, Emma wears strings of pearls, a black hat and and black long-sleeve top in the manner of Coco Chanel - minus the cigarette hanging out of her mouth, of course.

And to impersonate aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, Emma wears pilot goggles and a fur collar, perfectly copying the famous woman's whimsical stare.

Each of the images is accompanied by an inspiring quote from the woman being portrayed.

Beating the odds: Emma imitates civil rights activist Susan B Anthony (left), one of the 'amazing women who had gone against everything so she can now have everything,' explained Ms Moore

 

In the photo that sees her impersonating deafblind political activist Helen Keller, for example, the quotation below reads: 'Be of good cheer.

 

At the end of the photo series, the photographer has written: 'Let's set aside the Barbie Dolls and the Disney Princesses for just a moment, and let's show our girls the REAL women they can be.'

Ms Moore's final pictures show Emma as herself, donning a pin on her shirt that says: 'Emma for president 2044', a testament to her overriding message that her daughter should dream big.

 

 

 

Comments

[stitching lady]

Thanks for sharing these fabulous photos. They are truly an inspiration in a world obsessed with celebrity and fame for it's own sake.

[Scrappyjen]

Fabulous article. Love the photos, jenx

[Barb in AK]

Love the post about Jaime and Emma Moore! What a brilliant idea. It's very popular here in the States for little girls to have a tea party for their birthday and all the attendees dress up like princesses.
Great r/w/b layout :-)

[Barb in AK]

I meant to say how much I loved the Monty Python clip :-D Steve and I always loved watching English sitcoms on PBS when we lived in Alaska. Better programming than what we had here! :-D

[tracey mcintrye]

I love the photographs and everything about the idea. You get sometimes forget about these fab women and others like them.