On being envious
Written by wyn on March 10, 2004 – 10:11 amI said I had a tale to tell, so here it is, as promised.
Yesterday I was chatting via MSN with a very good friend in Canada who works in software support. In the course of our very agreable –as always– conversation, I mentioned that the sun was shining in Geneva as it was the end of the morning, and he said that the sun was just rising where he was and that he could see it from his office.
He then asked me if I wanted him to take a photo or two from his office window and I said: “Sure!” So he did.
I still can’t get over the shock of discovering the view he gets every day. I’m downright jealous let me tell you. All he said was : ” Wait until the Long Boats come in”.
Flabbergasted is a nice expressive English word that comes to mind, don’t you think?
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March 11th, 2004 at 4:57 am
I’m am the author of the pictures posted. The image on the left is of course a sunrise. The ship at the bottom center of the image is of the CSS Acadia, http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/atoz/acadia.html
The image on the right is almost the same shot, only on a VERY cold day. So cold in fact that the harbour waters produced what is called “sea smoke”
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/glossary/sea_smoke.html
March 11th, 2004 at 8:51 am
Well Steven Bradley - those are mighty good photographs - thank you.
Oi Wyn…. I see you managed to include Recent Comments on the sidebar. Well done!
March 11th, 2004 at 9:00 am
Thanks! I haven’t figured out how to make one comment per line yet though. It splits into two (even three if I leave “on” between the commenter and the comment itself). Sighs.
March 11th, 2004 at 9:44 am
I don’t have a great view from my office but our office block is on the waterfront and a walk around the corner will enable me to see yachts bobbing in the marina. I have photographs somewhere in my archived posts.
I could not find an email for you so here is the script you paste into your Main Index template if you want to include Recent Comments. I have the last 15 you can change the number of comments you want reflected:
on
mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=” onclick=”OpenComments(this.href); return false”>
March 11th, 2004 at 9:45 am
Trying again:
on
mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=” onclick=”OpenComments(this.href); return false”>
March 11th, 2004 at 9:47 am
*Grrrrrowl* *scowl* *fume* - it is not working so I can email it to you if you go to my blog and click on my email button?
Have a fabulous day!
March 11th, 2004 at 12:12 pm
Beautiful Wyn! It is amazing how the sun can always bring about such good feelings!
March 12th, 2004 at 2:59 am
You may also want to look at the web cam at
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/webcam/
March 12th, 2004 at 3:49 am
Nice to meet you Steven! I too am from Canada; Ontario!
March 13th, 2004 at 1:57 am
Hiya Kim, fancy meeting you here.
Wyn, I am going to check out my coding and see if I can help you out.
Steven - am checking out the webcam now - thank you for pointing us in that direction.
Now I had better get out of here otherwise people could end up thinking this is my blog instead of just being an avid fan and visitor. Byeeee