many thanks as usual for dropping by, look you see. although this is one of them corners of the internet what is advert free (i think, if any appear nothing to do with me), it still causes much merriment for me as and when someone clicks on and reads.
with that in mind, i do like to post the kind of things you people seem to like, at least as and when i can. one such thing that reader figures suggest a preference for is swans and swan related stuff. and why not.
a rather unexpected development is that Spiros has now taken quite the shine to swans. actually, remembering how i did that one post which featured him extracting the pleasures of the flamingo, that is not a surprise. what is, then, is that he is reading here still. i thought he was off reading that other, unknown blog, what he is quite upset with because it keeps making suggestions about his sexuality.
well, anyway, i think there might be a swan somewhere in the picture above. if not, however, then rest assured that one of the other ones off of him featured below will do so. see this one as a sort of "setting the scene" thing, if you like.
just where this picture was taken is quite interesting. you tell me, really. he was off doing his stuff as the greatest legal mind of his generation, that much i remember. whilst yes, he did mention exactly where he was, i must have got distracted or something as i cannot recall. Europe, for sure, and maybe East or Southern.
yes, though, happily i can confirm that the above swan you see was pictured in Yorkshire. i would say one of the beautiful parts of Yorkshire, but of course it all more or less is. no, i do not quite recall which part of Yorkshire it was with any precision, but an area south of where i live in it. as in, not to the north, where certain towns and councils, who for some reason have fashioned themselves as being a "valley" despite being not such, claim to be a "ceremonial" part of Yorkshire as and when it will suit them.
so far as i am aware there is just the one swan in the above image, but i allow for the fact that there could in fact be several. i mean, i just don't know. the rest look like ducks. in being as honest as i can with you i just plain have no idea what a baby swan looks like, or for that matter what the proper name is for a baby swan. i think it's something like cygnet, or maybe it is just "duckling". at no point in my life have i ever needed to know, other than when writing this, so that's that.
back over to Spiros, then, and another image from wherever the gosh jolly heck he was. that looks like a most impressive building of significance, so maybe a clever world wise traveller can spot it. again, perhaps a swan is somewhat visible in the body of water, or if you like lake, between the train track/s and that smart building/s, although maybe not. i just for some reason really, really like that train track, man.
at this point i would like to remind you that the title claims the disclaimer "and other such stuff". this i take to have a fairly wide definition, and so for the Richard enthusiasts here you go, a recent image of him.
my understanding is that the above was taken whilst he was watching that there football contest they were having in Russia. or are still having; this is a "written in advance" blog so for all i know it is all still going on at the moment. or, if you are reading it after it is all done, definitely "had", then.
in any of the above circumstances, well, splendid to see Richard healthy and happy, and indeed still enjoying a taste of the ale once in a while.
but now, back to swan/s. and ducks. i am sure some of the below are certainly ducks.
yes, same spot as the previous one from Yorkshire, whatever the name of the place was. lovely it was, had a bite to eat in a most splendid bistro like cafe there. would certainly go again, and will, as and when i am in the area and recall what it was called.
in one of the more recent posts i did on swans, and here is the link to it, i comprehensively covered the current legal status of swans in England. there is very little reason to cover it all again when you can click on the link, except doing so gives me something else to write here for you.
my understanding, then, is that the swan that is in England is a swan what is owned by the Queen. one day this shall be the King, but for now it is a Queen we have. the reigning monarch takes swan ownership very seriously indeed. whereas i have done no research or have any knowledge, i am pretty sure that killing, harming or interfering (sexually or otherwise) with a swan is one of the few crimes what you can still be hung for here in England. so, if you are thinking about it, don't do it. at least not in England.
yeah, that there is me, in one of them selfie things, at the site of the unspecified locale in Yorkshire where the pictures i have taken come from. one or two of you, i believe, don't mind me so much and quite like to see how i am getting on with things. so, there you have it. happy and possibly as healthy as it gets.
do i particularly like swans? they are beautiful creatures, but then i suppose i do try to make sure i remember to see all living things as such. but if you want specifics, i can take or leave them. i mean, if the Queen, right, woke up one day and said "they are mine, i am keeping them", and ordered her butlers or whatever to go and fetch them so she could keep them in a shed round the back yard of Buckingham Palace, i wouldn't be too distraught.
well, a little, i suppose. it is nice to see them when i am out and about. but i don't actively go looking for them, would be my point, i guess.
a final picture off of Spiros, then, off of wherever it was that he was in Europe. if, indeed, he was in Europe. the man tends to get around a bit. anyway, i am quietly confident that a swan (or two) is visible in the above. if not, well, just make do with the splendid bridge and magnificent trees.
has anyone ever been arrested, put on a "do it for the sake of formality" trial and been hung for interfering with a swan in England? i have absolutely no idea. probably, is my answer, but if you cannot find any evidence of such on the internet that will just be because as the prosecution acted on behalf of the Queen all reporting will have been banned. for all i know, i could well end up being a "victim", or "benefactor of justice", of a state sponsored assassination just for bringing the subject up.
one last image off of me above, then, of that lovely spot i found in Yorkshire where the ducks and swans seem to roam (swim) (or paddle, i suppose) freely.
right, well, that would be just about it for this post, then. if i happen to chance on any more swans during my travels, or someone takes the time and imagination to send some images, i shall certainly consider thinking about remembering to do a post here about it.
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