Hi Peter/Pedro, You've grown a beard ( virtual , I guess) and look like a happy pirate . No offence meant, just kidding. Thanks for visiting and flattering comments. Gali
thanks Peter for letting me know...I did not realise it already ended! oh well...I should have been faster commenting then, I did not even finish it! I liked the warm brownish colours of yours ! Viviane
... and the winning comment is ... “Sushi available ???“ ... awk, you gents always think about food :-)))
... while the heavenly sound of a small bell is swifting through this green room I like to express my appreciation of all your support (even do not want to know the score *lol*) and comments which kept me so busy that I’m hungry now ;-)
Thanks to all my bro & sis, and peace be with us all
... ... you know my friend, the 2nd is the worst place to get cause you missed the win ... Zlatko is the actual winner among us two cuase he got a place on the podium *rofl*
Was quite busy today so just came in 10 minutes before close down. Saw your lovely talk on both the sites and was able to place some words too but then the contest shut down.
Definitely my Loisl thanks to you for congratulating me.
It is really good to be back Pete ,I was very despondent about it all ...........anyways ...let's kick our shoes off & have fun again .....eh ? Great to see Denis back again .......I have missed him terribly !!!!!!!
Pete , I don't know why ,maybe I had changed a setting ..I am not sure ,but I downloaded Firefox again & this time it worked ...............I am holding my breath that it stays this way !!!!!!!!!! & commenting fast on the entries in this weeks contest !!!! keep your fingers crossed Buddy !!! Hugs ~ Lynne
=======
It is annoying that you couldn't isolate the cause. It looks like it was an Internet Explorer setting though if Firefox is working now. Anyway it's good to have you back buddy.
Hey mate, the last I heard was their request for the original image, which I sent them a few days ago ! It would seem that the stripe problem is on my side, which I readily accept as it happened subsequently with an unrelated e-mail. My beef with Fotki however is the lack of access to the uploaded image, before voting is opened, to check quality etc. ! Since putting that to Fotki, I have been greeted with a stony silence !!
=======
Now listen here Springbok, you are NOT allowed to get huffy (not that you are) and leave, you're too good mate. A man of great discernment ( a passion for all the good sports !! ) AND a great & interesting photographer AND a sense of humour, we need more like you bro. I'm just putting my dibs in first in case things deteriorate !!
I think I mentioned I had trouble uploading images from my PC to the intranet at work and it turned out to be my PC that was causing it, but I still have no idea why. It only happens randomly, and the National Account Exec was kind enough to give me direct access to the admin level so I can delete any bodgy ones that get through.
If you work it out I'd be interested to see if mine is the same issue.
If you really want to iron something you just have to be persistent, they've always got back to me eventually.
Hi Peter Thanks for your kind comment on my DA entry and no worries - I've been pressed for time too! Hope to get back more into the swing of things soon. All the best, Chris
Do you hear me complain ?~~lol Yes I`m chuffed of course ! I didn`t know the word, so I had to look it up ;-) Live and learn ! Thank you so much dear friend :-))
... me either ... am not that keen of strong beers at all neither of any Lager which I normally get heartburn from ... well, I hv my smooth and in every sense sweet beer(s) a day which comes from a small Benedictine monastic brewery nearby, is not fully filtered and tastes gorgeously .. why don’t you just come over ?-)
===========
Believe me I would love to. I've only been to Thailand and New Zealand and our next trip will be to England, where my wife's family come from. I'll have to go to Scotland too to visit my fotki mates Myra & Tarbet (Irene) . Fotki is a great tool for making new friends. So far I've had friends from Holland and San Diego come & visit with us here in Oz & it was so much fun meeting with them.
... don't know about the English one, but the Bavarian one for sure ! We even have two kinds: The Bock and the Double Bock. A little similar to the Stout our "Starkbier" is slightly on the bitter side ... yep, it is some kind of a diet as long as you keep on working physically hard :-)))
==========
Stout is a little too strong for me as a regular drink (although I'm not much of a drinker these days, only on Friday night with my father in law I have one or two beers now) I like the XXXX Gold beer from Queensland where I grew up & Hahn Premium Light are my favourites these days. You're right about the exercise, we have one beer here called Blonde which is very low calories but it tastes horrible !!
“a bit of tweaking“ *lol* ... actually it is not that bad, your free translation but it isn’t that easy cause it is idiomatic in German ... ok let’s try: Bavaria is the place where they started brewing the beer. Although the Druids invented the beer long time before, the Bavarian monks actually made it the Gold for the Throat”
The Druids were some kind of sages within the Celtic society.
But actually I have to become more precise. Beer as such was invented around 3000 BC in Mesopotamia. In northern Europe the Celts and the Germanic peoples started brewing beer between 300 and 800 AC.
However, in the Medieval times the monks settled the art of brewing as it is done up today. Already 1156 Friedrich I. Barbarossa enacted a law for the city of Augsburg (about 60 km to the west of Munich) that everyone who brews bad or pour in badly beer shall be punished. This was followed by the up today famous Bavarian Purity Law for beer, established 23.04.1516 in the city Ingolstadt (about 60 km to the north of Munich) by Duke Wilhelm IV. and his younger brother Ludwig X. at the “Landstaendetag” (an aggregation of nobilities, church prelates as well as delegates of cities and markets). This law has limited the commodities for beer to Malt, Hop and Water only ... and this is why you today won’t find any Bavarian Beer abroad as long as it is/can not shipped in chilled containers (btw: Loewenbraeu beer which is exported, is therefore brewed in Belgium by Anheuser-Busch InBev which bought the Munich brewery over). All other beers in the world have also (chemical) ingredients like stabilizers which allow the breweries to ship their beer without special care where ever they like to, because it will not (unlike the original Bavarian one) spoil.
One more remark: Beer was pushed forward by the monks for a very simple reason: During the Lenten season (which are the 6 weeks before Eastern) the monks (and people ?-) were only allowed to drink and have bread. But during this time all the fields had to be prepared, means we’re talking about very tough times which you cannot survive on bread and water. Clever as the monks are, the discovered that beer gives you all minerals and vitamins your body needs. Having figured this out they even brewed stronger beer to make it more nutritious, the, what we call "Starkbier" which is some kind of stout.
========
Yes I agree the ancient art of beer making is a scientific and very important art !!
So you're telling me that Stout is a balanced diet eh ?!!
G/day Peter I better not show this to Bev ,,she was not happy sunday LOL but I had a smile on my face,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Roy Yes Peter the last 10 lap was ,,,,,,, the first lap started out ok,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,extra stops with the petrol made things a little hard to follow,,but hey clean air....... in the pits... sugar cane may be the way to go lol,,,,then Ford thought they would start a barbie in pit lane,,, so it did have some good moments,,,,thought you may have got one of them over the top with the chopper in the back ground,,,LOL you will have to lift your game next year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Regards Roy,,and Bev,, We have a Sportivo (Toyota) on order ex factory at this stage ,, will post pictures when Bev lets me get my hands on it ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Add to friends 
My friend 
