Thursday 4 April 2013

Staffy dressed up as Moroccan (Sudanese?) woman


Remember that photo of the Staffordshire Bull-Terrier dressed as a Moroccan woman I kept telling everyone (especially Joanne) that I had accidentally deleted?  Well I lied. I must have missed it because it was so dark. Sorry.

Cute, eh?

Oh, and here's the finished result of the post on turning that I put up in it's place. Before you ask - no, I did not get any part of my anatomy caught in the lathe. Sorry again.


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    1. This was just for you, John - maybe Joanne as well. Glad you liked the white marble turning.

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    2. And I never noticed the cat vomit under the sofa either.

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  2. I'll never forget a day in counselling in Hamburg when a colleague called me to his room: two women in a burka sitting at his table. One was the mother, the other the would-be-student - no way to see who was who.
    I like those marble turnings: what will be put upon them?

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    1. There is a good photo of a whole load of women having their photo taken - all in burkas. Must have looked good on the wall at home.

      They are for small urns with heraldic devices carved on them.

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  3. I once threw a scarf around my cat's head and took a picture before he bolted. He did not have the grace to look like anything but a disgusted to the bone cat. It was a purple scarf, too.

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    1. Cats are such difficult models, but dogs are the easiest - like humans.

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  4. I need those bottoms to add a bit of class to my farm sign just completed. Make me a deal eh?

    Beautifully done by the way

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    1. I still have your Celtic gravestone to make yet - everything in good time.

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  5. Maybe Sudanese would be better.

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  6. I wish we had marble in New Zealand. Although I think the greeny stone my son brought back from Fiordland is a nice piece of New Zealand jade (shhh - we Pakeha are not allowed to take it). It's extremely hard and consequently was prized by the Maori for their weapons.

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    1. There is a seam of jade high up in the Italian alps too, Katherine. They found a neolithic axe down in the village, and someone went up the mountain to find the very block from which it was made, with the chippings still lying there after a few thousand years.

      Part of what makes the jade objects so precious is the time it took to make and polish them, in a era when they did not have diamond abrasives.

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