Every Tuesday, step by step, I’m walking with my readers from A to Z, last week we had “U” (visit tagged U), so this week we have “V” – I’m sure you’ll find a story or a short reflection tagged with “V”! Feel free to add in the comments below the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “V”!!! Myself I’ll feature “V” for discussing the term Vikings:
Vikings
When “greenmackenzie” commented in my article https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/vikings/: “I think we have lots of viking blood here in Scotland…”, I remembered that my mother lived at the Baltic Sea on the island Ruegen. So for sure some Viking blood also is in me; every time, when I enter our kitchen I feel the spirit:
1 – “Fergiemoto” comments: “A unique portrait of yourself as you prepare for battle. Your helmet looks like a common kitchen tool, if I am not mistaken.
2 – Frizz-feedback: “Well sometimes my wife makes a dysfunction of my battle helmet and uses the thing for salad and noodles …”
3 – mezze: Last time I went out with a soup-pan on my head was in ’71, when I really, finally hád to walk my dog, hurricane or not, roof tiles falling down everywhere…
4 – ReyGey: Reminded me of images from World War 1
5 – Rob Hogeslag: Je krijgt er wel een plat hoofd van. (= You do get a flat head!)
6 – David Haggard: at first I thought you had taken the resonator out of your dobro.
7 – Leenda K.: I often say I have a head like a sieve…but never thought of you in that way!
8 – emrxgs: The model has stoic Mona Lisa quality!
9 – iceman75 (read below, from France): I’m not sure it will be efficient in a war, so let’s make peace!
above: me on a restaurant’s wall…
https://twitter.com/Sisyphus47/status/341505708325474305
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Hehehehehe…so funny!
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Ah, what a lovely portrait of you. And your helmet is just so fashionable. 😉 Pity the wife who uses it as a kitchen tool. 🙂
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This is HILARIOUS!!!!
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You are fantastic! And, you’ve made me laugh. One of our sons used to wear a plastic salad bowl on his head when he was little, he’d put it on and dash out the door to man the battle stations.
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i cracked up laughing when this came through the inbox!!!!
thanks for a great smile, and reminder that i’m fashionably behind – thanks to zero internet progress in the daytime!
z
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Just love your Blogs and your helmut Frizz! After searching my library wildly I have decided that V is for……………http://vastlycurious.com
Hopefully you will forgive the venial deed as it was done in true veracity and intended for some to live vicariously through the projected vignette of being just vastlycurious.
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I needed translate.google.de
Ich hoffe, Sie verzeihen die lässliche Tat, alldieweil es um der wahren Wahrheit willen getan wurde für einige von uns, um stellvertretend durch eine projizierte Vignette des Seins uns gewaltig neugierig zu halten…
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HAHA! Nur Wörter Ihr Freund Kathryn
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you’re too funny frizz.. i love your helmet, hehehe!
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rather late .. here’s my tagged V … http://starlight427.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/tagged-v-vibrant/
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Actually posting early this time! Thanks for the fun. http://angelinem.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/the-letter-v/
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Love it!
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Hi frizz … this is seriously and adorably funny 🙂 but the play of light and shadow is perfectly beautiful!
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funny 🙂 For us, Viking came in Normandie to settle. Maybe this man on the beach ( https://icezine.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/week-42-wake/ ) had some viking parents….but not a beautiful helmet like you 😉 I’m not sure it wll be efficient in a war so let’s make peace 🙂
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You make out a great Viking Frizz. Love this shot! 🙂
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That is a brillant idea. A very cool hat for a very cool Viking. Oh, and the wall photo…just awesome!
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This is a really fine portrait.
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Lol awesomely funny, I loved your comments! Really great blog thanks for making me smile! 🙂
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The photograph – and the commentary – shine with a the character of a great personality – such a pleasure to meet the kitchen Viking in person. 🙂
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I love the hat. Wondered for a while (very short while) if I could do that for Ascot this year! Thanks for the laugh
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This could start a new trend – wear your kitchen gadgets with style. Such panache! (I think that’s almost a pun)
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Love the portrait: A viking with a sense of humor.
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And here is my entry: http://travelwithintent.com/2013/05/28/v-is-for-vesuvius/
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good luck to Naples, Vesuvius could be worse than any tornado could …
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This weekend I was in Bordeaux…
And I took these pics that may suit your challenge…
http://ilargia64.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/vertical-lights-visual-signs/
Hugs from Spain…
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Love this, Frizz! It’s a beautiful portrait, funny and creative as well.
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hi Myra in Singapore,
you amused me with your MOZART quote: “A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not…” Mozart liked sarcasm! Also Karl Kraus, maybe even Sigmund Freud… – I like to watch news made in Vienna about Germany – of course they have more distance, skepticism and irony than the Germans talking about Germany …
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OK FT, it’s a bit of a stretch. My subject doesn’t start with a V but the first photo definitely features one! http://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/moon-over-the-marshword-a-week-anglessunday-post-perspective/
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And BTW, LOL on your viking character!
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music with “V”:
Rare U2 The Edge Live 1990
Van diemen’s land
(I always sang “Van Dietmar’s Land” –
to have a country for my own):
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen's_Land
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Genocide of the indigenous population:
With the arrival of Europeans began a systematic extermination of the indigenous population. By the declaration of martial law, the natives were actually released for launch…
source:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van-Diemens-Land
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This is too funny, you managed to keep a straight face, that must be down to your Viking blood 🙂
Great photo by the way, and I agree its about time we ditched Columbus as the ‘discoverer of America’.
a) The Vikings beat him by centuries
b) America didn’t need discovering as it was already there!
Did you know that there are stone carvings of maize in Roslin Chapel ( just down the road from me) which pre-date Columbus’s visit by a couple of hundred years. It was built by the Knights Templar, perhaps they had some Viking relatives 🙂
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hi Seonaid, interesting:
“… stone carvings of maize in Roslin Chapel ( just down the road from me) which pre-date Columbus’s visit by a couple of hundred years. It was built by the Knights Templar, perhaps they had some Viking relatives…”
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Isn’t it. Another of the scattered clues…..
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You are amazing, I loved it. Thanks and Love, nia
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You look ominous and very Viking-ish. 😉
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You make a great viking. Here is my entry, Vintage Cars http://wp.me/p23TG1-2JW
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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This was a hard one for me, Frizz. Next time around let’s do away with the letter V. Although I have a few weeks to think on it. 🙂
http://imissmetoo.me/2013/05/29/tagged-v-violas/
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hi Pat,
thank you for your humor: “I guess I could have used violence but that would mean someone would get beaten up, so I could photograph and post the action. Not in my nature…”
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Your welcome, Frizz. Sometimes people don’t appreciate my humor but life would be so boring without it. 🙂
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Great self-portrait. I hope this goes on your walls.
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Love your Rembrandt Frizz. I’m on a bit of a pin-up binge – please have a look at
http://acrossthebored.com/2013/05/30/story-challenge-tagged-v/
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Vintage Velma
was a Vixen
+
brought traffic
to a halt…
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Her cakes are pretty sweet too!
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My entry for this, Frizztext – http://mywordwall.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/v-for-veterans/
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Certainly a distinctive look. As for my V contribution, it’s V for Victor. Victor Hugo http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/an-ode-to-victor-hugo/
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http://playamart.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/v-is-for-valdivia/
you surely know this mana song, vivir sin aire?
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mana’s amazing! they have such a unique sound!
thanks! z
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I appreciate, cause I found exactly what I was looking for. You have ended my four day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a great day. Bye
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