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| Thursday, 30-Apr-2009 10:47 |
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Bouton-on-the-water
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Bourton-on-the-Water
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The village
Bourton-on-the-Water is a village in Gloucestershire, England in the Cotswolds area. It is known as the 'Venice of the Cotswolds' because of the bridge-spanned stream that runs through the village .
Bourton has a number of tourist attractions:
The River Windrush is spanned by several attractive small road and footbridges. During the summer, a game of football is played between two of the bridges and is medieval football rather than anything comparable to association football, with goalposts set up in the river itself. Two teams play with a standard football, and a referee attempts to keep order. Crowds line the sidelines of the pitch (the banks), and the aim is to score as many goals as possible (while getting everyone else as wet as possible).
The model village is a 1:10 replica of the village and includes a model of the model village itself (a model within a model).
The Model Railway.
The Cotswold Motoring Museum (home of Brum).
Birdland, an ornithological theme park, which is a collection of birds, from penguins through parrots to passerine (perching) birds. Children can feed the large fish. There are bird-of-prey displays.
The Dragonfly Maze
On the fourth Sunday of each month, there is a farmers' market.
River Windrush,Bouton-on-the-water
Footbridge over the river Windrush
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| Tuesday, 21-Apr-2009 09:44 |
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Daffodil....
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Spring time.....masa nie lah daffodil berbunga,sebenarnya masa nie baru beli my new canon zoom lens.kebetulan pula masa daffodil sedang berkembang.memang kena pada masanya untuk mencuba lens baru.
 
Narcissus (plant)
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Narcissus is the botanic name for a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, bulbs in the Amaryllis family native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia. There are also several Narcissus species that bloom in the autumn. Though Hortus Third cites 26 wild species, Daffodils for North American Gardens cites between 50 and 100 excluding species variants and wild hybrids. Through taxonomic and genetic research, it is speculated that over time this number will probably continue to be refined Daffodil is a common English name, sometimes used now for all varieties, and is the chief common name of horticultural prevalence used by the American Daffodil Society. The range of forms in cultivation has been heavily modified and extended, with new variations available from specialists almost every year.
Description
All Narcissus species have a central trumpet-, bowl-, or disc-shaped corona surrounded by a ring of six floral leaves called the perianth which is united into a tube at the forward edge of the 3-locular ovary. The seeds are black, round and swollen with hard coat. The three outer segments are sepals, and the three inner segments are petals. Though the traditional daffodil of folklore, poetry, and field may have a yellow to golden-yellow color all over, both in the wild species and due to breeding, the perianth and corona may be variously colored. Breeders have developed some daffodils with double, triple, or ambiguously multiple rows and layers of segments, and several wild species also have known double variants.
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| Wednesday, 25-Mar-2009 17:09 |
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My kitchen.....
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Ruang dapur yang tak begitu besar tapi banyak berjasa buat kami.setiap kali buat makan besar sudah tentunya hura hara dibuatnya ruang dapur ini.kali ini saya dan suami serta teman2 buat "surprise b'day party".Tak ramai sangat tetamu cuma dalam 10 orang.Menu kali ini nasi ayam jer.saya memang sibuk dari awal pagi lagi pada hari tu.Jadi semua gambar2 yang ada nie semua husband yang ambil,dan yang paling best majlis kali nie ada tema red n white.
 
nie semua teman2 yang hadir,terima kasih pada semua...
nie lah b'day girl
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| Friday, 9-Jan-2009 19:10 |
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Tanggungjawab.....
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Setiap pagi tepat jam 0730am dari celah tingkap rumah saya lihat beberapa pekerja binaan telah sampai untuk memulakan kerja mereka.5 hari seminggu mereka datang kerja tepat pada waktunya.Mereka mula kerja awal dan waktu habis kerja pun awal.Biasa mereka habis keje pada jam 4 petang.walaupun bunyinya masih awal tapi ketika itu cuaca sudah gelap dan suhu pada masa tu mungkin mencecah 0 degree celcius.
Walau apa pun keadaan sejuk atau panas tapi demi kerja dan tanggungjawab terhadap tugas mereka sanggup menghadapi rintangan tersebut,ini bermakna tidak kira apa jua kerja yang kita lakukan mesti dilakukan dengan penuh tanggungjawab dan hasilnya akan memuaskan semua pihak.
 
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| Wednesday, 7-Jan-2009 22:34 |
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Boxing Day,2008
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Pengalaman yang memang tetap akan menjadi kenangan.Seawal jam 0630am kami dah keluar sebab sale di Debenhams bermula pada pukul 0700am.Tepat jam 0700am pintu masuk di buka secepat kilat Debenhams di Oxford Street,London di banjiri oleh orang ramai.Saya pun sempat jugak membeli beberapa barang.Tak banyak barang saya beli di Debenhams kerana barang idaman ada di Selrfidges,satu lagi shopping mall yang sale akan bermula pada jam 0900am.
Bila pintu masuk ke Selfridges di buka untuk orang ramai kami adalah orang terakhir yang dapat masuk,semua pintu utama masuk ke shopping mall tersebut terpaksa ditutup kerana terlalu ramai orang sehingga berhimpit-himpit.Memang ramai sungguh orang yang bershopping masa tu.Tapi memang kebanyakan barang on sale di Selfridges.bila saya buat perbandingan memang barang di Selfridges lebih murah.Barang yang saya memang nak beli tu pun harganya paling murah di Selfridges.Semasa dalam shopping mall tu ramai betul malaysian yang saya jumpa.Memang untung kalau dapat bershopping masa boxing day di London,harga memang jauh lebih murah dari biasa.
Setelah selesai kami pun nak balik ke hotel,tapi satu lagi halangan yang terpaksa kami rempuh sebelum sampai ke hotel.Sepanjang Oxford street di banjiri oleh ribuan manusia sehingga kami berjalan seperti ketam baru lah dapat melepasi rintangan.Saya rasa sehingga sesak nafas kerana ramai sangat orang sehingga tak nampak jalan.Saya rasa letih sangat bukan sebab membeli belah tapi letih melepaskan diri dari lapisan manusia.
Tapi saya rasa ini memang antara kenangan yang tak dapat saya lupakan sepanjang saya berada di UK selama 3 tahun.....
  
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| Sunday, 4-Jan-2009 23:11 |
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Xmas 2008,London
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Setelah hampir beberapa bulan tidak menjengok fp akhirnya tahun baru pembuka lembaran baru dengan azam baru.Baru2 ni kami menhabiskan cuti christmas di London,setelah 3 tahun di UK ini kali pertama kami berada di London masa christmas.Biasanya kalau ke London masa cuti christmas ni tentunya nak habiskan masa untuk Boxing day sale.memang tujuan kami pun macam tu lah.
Tapi memang selesa sungguh kalau ke London masa chistmas day tak perlu nak berhimpit2 sebab memang tak ada orang pun masa tu.Nak ambik gambar pun rasa tenang je,pilih je tempat yg kita suka n ambik lah banyak mana gambar yg kita nak ambik.
Happy New Year to all,may all ur dream come through......
  
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| Thursday, 31-Jul-2008 23:40 |
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Stratford-Upon-Avon
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Stratford-upon-Avon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, 22 miles (35 km) south east of Birmingham and 8 miles (13 km) south west of the county town, Warwick. It is the main town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon, which uses the term "on" to indicate that it covers a much larger area than the town itself.In 2001, the town's population was 23,676.
The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world.
The administrative body for the town is the Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council, which is based at the Civic Hall in Rother Street (not to be confused with the Stratford-on-Avon District Council, which is based at Elizabeth House, Church Street). The Town Council is responsible for crime prevention, cemeteries, public conveniences, litter, river moorings, parks, and grants via the Town Trust, plus the selection of the town's mayor. Locally, the town is known simply as Stratford, and as such can be confused with the Stratford in the London Borough of Newham.
  
Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)
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Anne Hathaway (1556 – August 6, 1623) was the wife of William Shakespeare. Very little is known about her, beyond a few references in legal documents, but her personality and relationship to Shakespeare have been the subject of much speculation by historians and creative writers.
Life
Anne Hathaway is believed to have grown up in Shottery, a small village just to the west of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. She is assumed to have grown up in the farmhouse that was the Hathaway family home, which is located at Shottery, and is now a major tourist attraction for the village. Her father, Richard Hathaway, was a yeoman farmer. He died in September 1581, and bequeathed Anne the sum of £6, 13s, 4d (six pounds, thirteen shillings and fourpence) to be paid "at the day of her marriage".
Hathaway married William Shakespeare in November 1582 while pregnant with the couple's first child. Hathaway was 26 years of age when she married, whereas Shakespeare was only 18. This age difference, and Hathaway's pregnancy, has been used by some historians as evidence that this was a "shotgun wedding" forced on a reluctant Shakespeare by Hathaway's family. There is, however, no reliable evidence for this inference.
This argument was apparently supported by documents from the Episcopal Register at Worcester, which records in Latin the issuing of wedding licence to "Wm Shaxpere" and one "Anne Whatley" of Temple Grafton. The day afterwards Fulk Sandells and John Richardson, relatives of Hathaway from Stratford, signed a surety of £40 as a financial guarantee for the wedding of "Willam Shagspere and Anne Hathwey". Frank Harris in The Man Shakespeare (1909), argued that these documents were evidence that Shakespeare was involved with two women. He had chosen to marry Whatley, but when this became known he was immediately forced by Hathaway's family to marry their pregnant relative. According to the Oxford Companion to Shakespeare most modern scholars take the view that the name Whatley was "almost certainly the result of clerical error".
Germaine Greer argues that the age difference between William and Anne was typical of couples of their time. Women, such as the orphaned Anne, often stayed at home to care for younger siblings and married in their late 20s, and often to younger eligible men. Furthermore a "handfast" marriage and pregnancy were frequent precursors to legal marriage at the time. Certainly Shakespeare was bound to marry her having made her pregnant, but there is no reason to assume that had not always been his intention. It is likely the bride and groom's families had known one another.
Three children were born to Anne: Susanna in 1583, and the twins Hamnet and Judith in 1585.
It has often been inferred that Shakespeare came to dislike his wife, but there is no existing documentation or correspondence to support this supposition. For most of their married life, he lived in London, writing and performing his plays, while Hathaway stayed in Stratford. However, when Shakespeare retired from the theatre in 1613, he chose to live in Stratford, not London.
Much has been read into the bequest Shakespeare famously made in his will, leaving Anne only the "second-best bed." A few explanations have been offered for Shakespeare's bequest. Firstly, it has been claimed that according to law Hathaway was entitled to receive one third of her husband's estate regardless of his will.[4] Second, it has been speculated that Hathaway would be supported by her children. More recently Germaine Greer has come up with a new explanation based on research into other wills and marriage settlements of the time and place. She disputes the claim that widows were automatically entitled to a third of the estate, and suggests that a condition of the marriage of Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susanna to a financially sound husband was probably that Susanna (and thus her husband) inherited the bulk of Shakespeare's estate. This would also explain other examples of Shakespeare's will being apparently ungenerous, such as the treatment of his younger daughter Judith. Greer also discusses some indications tending to support speculation that Anne may have been financially secure in her own right. The National Archives states that "beds and other pieces of household furniture were often the sole bequest to a wife," and that customarily the children would receive the best items, and the widow the second-best.In Shakespeare's time the beds of prosperous citizens were expensive affairs, sometimes to the value of a small house. The bequest was thus not as minor as it might seem to a modern person. Finally, in Elizabethan custom, the best bed in the house was reserved for guests. Therefore, the bed that Shakespeare bequeathed to Anne could have been their marital bed, and thus significant. The simple fact though is that Shakespeare, the last surviving of his brothers, was an old man for his times and Anne was eight years older than him. She may well have been feeble and dependent on her daughters. He would not have expected her to outlive him by any great length of time, and thus it made sense to leave the estate directly to her daughters.
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Anne Hathaway's childhood was spent in a house near Stratford in Warwickshire, England. Although it is often called a cottage, it is, in fact, a spacious twelve-roomed farmhouse, with several bedrooms, now set in extensive gardens. It was known as Newlands Farm in Shakespeare's day and had more than ninety acres of land attached to it. As in many houses of the period, it has multiple chimneys to spread the heat evenly throughout the house during winter. The largest chimney was used for cooking. It also has visible timber framing, a trademark of vernacular Tudor style architecture.
After the death of Anne's father, the cottage was owned by Anne's brother Bartholomew, and was passed down the Hathaway family until 1846, when financial problems forced them to sell it. However, it was still occupied by them as tenants when it was acquired in 1892 by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which removed later additions and alterations. In 1969 the cottage was badly damaged in a fire, but was restored by the Trust. It is now open to public visitors as a museum.
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| Thursday, 31-Jul-2008 22:50 |
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MY PHOTO HAS BEEN SELECTED.........
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FlickrMail
From:
Emma J. Williams
Subject:
Schmap Cardiff Fifth Edition: Photo Inclusion
Hi Mira,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released fifth edition of our Schmap Cardiff Guide:
Millennium Stadium Tour
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If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same link will take you directly to your photo in the iPhone version of our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in the iPhone version of our guide at:
Millennium Stadium Tour
www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=cardiff&sid=activities_guided&p=163762&i=163762_8
Finally, if you have a blog, you might also like to check out the customizable widgetized version of our Schmap Cardiff Guide, complete with your published photo:
www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=7140449N05/c=SH1081350
Thanks so much for letting us include your photo - please enjoy the guide!
Best regards,
Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
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| Tuesday, 3-Jun-2008 13:32 |
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si comel bernama "IMRAN SYAMIL"
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Imran bersama ummi
  
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| Tuesday, 3-Jun-2008 09:54 |
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gelagat 2 sahabat
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setuju tu
