Post Of The Day

Today's winner is that amazing British bruin, Bob T Bear Esq with Another Mistry Solved. Up there with the best of the day's offerings were Mushy's The Days Of Bonding - Part One; Frazz Mom's Big Brother Is Calling You; Parenting Issues with Call Me Edward Scissorhands; Epijunky's Playing EMT; Andrea's Well Of Spring Water; Valley Girl's Can’t Hardly Wait; Shrinky's Kissed By An Angel; Suldog's The Honeymoon of the Millennium and Viking Conquest with What Not To Say. Do pay them a visit and leave them a comment if you have time.

Post Of The Day

Along with today's gong, Bob T Bear Esq also gets a prize for tongue-in-cheek investigative reporting with Aha – Gotcha! Among the other posts that caught my attention over the past three days were Driving With The Brakes On with Letter To A Dear Friend; Colleen's Good Times; Katherine's The Christmas Lights Train; House of Lime with Hello Out There; Suldog's Solomon The Milkman; Miss Sniz with Make The best Of It; Moonshadow's About Talented Kansans; Martin Strickland with Once Upon A Time In Combe Martin and One Gal’s Musings with Thursday Thirteen.

Post Of The Day

The pick of the bunch today is Bob T Bear Esq's hilarious post Dogs And Their Bottoms, which is closely followed by Martha's innovative presentation Dog Fight. Next up is It's The Little Things with The Scent of Roses and Suldog's poignant tribute 5-24-76. I'd also like to nominate Danielle's powerful Leaps in Logic, Vic Grace's rich humour in Why Do Women Take So Long In Washrooms? and for an incomparable image, visit Old Man Lincoln's exquisite Drunken Bumblebee.

No Free Launch

I'm Ya Skipper, Don't Call Me Mate

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON

As you can see, I've been delving into my archives. These shots were taken in mid-September last year, on a warm, blustery day at the St Kilda Marina here in Melbourne. I had just got my hands on this Pentax and it was a great way to get used to my first digital SLR. I just want to point out to my friend Bob T Bear that the warning in the picture below says ``No bare feet'', and not ``No bear feet''.

FOOTNOTE: The hulls are alive, with the sound of music.

Click here: Pentax K100D, Shutter speed 1/250, F11, ISO speed 200.

Trouble Bruin

Huge Bear Was Just An Easy Target

This post is dedicated to the very talented British blogger Bob T. Bear Esq. German police were called out midweek, after sightings of a huge bear, but found the beast was a giant stuffed teddy. Locals in the Black Forest region in south-west Germany rang police after they saw a brown bear in woods near the town of Titisee-Neustadt. Police, fearing another case like Bruno the bear that last year rampaged around the Alpine border region between Bavaria and Austria killing livestock, sent out a special squad to capture it. But a police spokesman said, "It had been put there by a local archery club to use as a target."

Post Of The Day

Today's gong goes to Ker-Plunk, by Bob T Bear Esq. Specifically, the award is on the basis of the very clever presentation of the two lawn-mowing graphics. I guess that's one way of establishing lawn order!

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