Nervous

Here, dear reader, we see a welcome return to Window On Your World Part II (which was your favourite?) and an unwelcome return to my evening of nervousness.

I took the above photograph at 17:00 GMT on Sunday 4th March 2007, less than twenty four hours before I was due to meet Krafty Bitch...

Would he like me? Would my shyness impede our friendship? Would he think I was nuts? Would fear and doubt show on my face? Would my self-consciousness provoke a panic attack? What would we talk about? Should I play my cards close to my chest? Should I touch him? How should I greet him? Would we be at ease with one another or would the time spent be difficult? Were there any topics I should avoid? What would happen if I had a heart attack...?

All these questions, and more, would soon be answered... I needed to relax, think calm thoughts, compose myself, have an early night and be ready to be up with the lark for my journey to Bristol the next day.

I knew I knew something, but I didn't know what it was. I had to find out. About twelve hours until our meeting. In bed. Short prayer. Head hit the pillow. Asleep...

Vista

So, my baby's on the road, doing business, selling loads.

Run, Gladstone, run.

Window On Your World returns for a second outing. Out is better than in, dear reader. Click here, here and here for a look at past performances.

Light and shade. Time and space.

Your name isn't Stan, is it?

What the hell was the world up to at 17:00 GMT on Sunday 4th march 2007? I'll tell you...!

In no particular order, the submissions...

David:



I'm trying to upload some Michael Bublé songs on to my MP3 player so that I can listen to them at work which I will leave for in about fifteen minutes time. I was unsuccessful. Damn Media Player!

Herb:



This is actually a few minutes before 1700 GMT, so I cheated a little. I sing at a church choir every Sunday morning, so this is indeed fairly typical of where I am at 11 AM CST.

Kapitano:



This is what I was looking at on Sunday 4th March, 1700 GMT.

I was reading the Reader's Digest Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends, in a spot of research for a story. Being a Reader's Digest product, the only Myths and Legends mentioned were those of ancient Greece and Rome. And it got some of them wrong.

Dan:



Here's my entry. It's of some geese on the canal in Manchester City Centre as we were walking back to the car from the railway station.

Brian:



Enda:



This is my lovely housemate, Tony, who appeared in my bedroom and was distracted from his banana by a text message at precisely 5pm on the Sunday. Evidently he is a very popular boy, and he loves bananas. Welcome to my world!

Anjou Wu:

17:00GMT was 11AM here.



I was on a walk with my two hounds when the young one decided that she might want to lick the camera. The snow was beginning to melt and it felt a little bit like spring.

Phyllis:



The closest thing to Minge was his website.

I was missing him at 5pm, and every other hour...

Just A Girl:



This is my peanut butter frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity 3. It was the 4th day running amok in NYC with a great friend and this was one of our TV/movie stops. My feet were done in but my mouth was filled with a bit of heaven :)

It was very tasty indeed.

Moncrief Speaks:

Five pm GMT Sunday was 11 am local time here in Minnesota, USA. At 10 am, I met a friend for brunch at a restaurant that happens to be just steps away from the Mississippi River and the Lake Street bridge, which connects the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by the river. We were done eating by 10:50, and so I walked to and out on the bridge over the river, where I was when the clock struck 11.

Here's a photo looking northward.



You can see the tall buildings of downtown Minneapolis peeking over the trees on the left side of the photo, and buildings on the campus of the University of Minnesota in the center of the photo.



This is looking west towards the Minneapolis side of the bridge.



Another photo looking north, zoomed in a bit.



Just as kidnappers make their hostages hold up a certain day's newspaper to prove that the hostages are stil alive, I took a photo of a newspaper vending machine and the paper inside to prove that this photo was actually taken on Sunday, March 4th. Notice the high snowbank (which is that high due to plowing, admittedly).



A Dairy Queen -- summertime Minnesota's favorite cool treat-seller -- surrounded by snow. (For the record, this last photo was taken a few hours later ... but the others were all taken with a few minutes of 11 am!)

Minge:



Mum and I were watching Rebecca. I'd just said, "Didn't she play the Mother in Now, Voyager?"

Joan Fontaine rocks my world and Lawrence Olivier was as hot as they came.

I later commented that I thought Danvers was a lesbian. Mum poo-pooed this.

II

I'm going to England tomorrow, for a little over two weeks. Exciting! Nice to cross the border! I might even get to meet Krafty Bitch, who is Bristol bound!

Welcome, dear reader, to Window On Your World II.

For the original, please click here to see what happened and here to see how it all began.

This time, hen, the time and date for photographs is Sunday 4th March 2007 at 17:00 GMT. And, times are not local on this occasion! To work out when 17:00 GMT is where you are, my darling, try clicking here, here or here. Go on, you know you want to! For example, 17:00 GMT on 4th March will be 12:00 (midday) on 4th March in Indianapolis, 20:00 (8pm) on 4th March in Kuwait and 02:00 (2am) on 5th March in Tokyo.

So... Please take a photograph of whatever you see before you on Sunday 4th March 2007 at 5pm/17:00 GMT and email it to me. Feel free to add any information you like, what the picture shows, what you were doing at the time, where you are, whether it's typical or atypical of where you are or what you do at 17:00 GMT on a Sunday (if, indeed, it is still Sunday with you at 17:00 GMT on Sunday 4th March). Anything. It's up to you. One thing: Please put Window On Your World in the subject line. That would be very helpful.

All images will be uploaded to my blog some time during the first week of my return from Bournemouth. I'm back here in Edinburgh on 12th March. Should be exciting!

Go on. Take my advice and take part. You know you want to!

We largely have David to thank for Window On Your World II, my lamb, who suggested this:

Hey, since you have global readership, have you thought about having the shoots be done at exactly the same time? For example, ask all of us to take a picture of what we are all doing at 1700 GMT, UTC, Zulu--whatever the hell you call it. So you would take a picture of what you are doing at five in the afternoon. I would take a picture of what I am doing at 12pm Eastern Standard Time. Brian, Brett, Herb, and .25 Life Crisis Kid would take a picture of what they are doing at 11am Central Standard Time. At least, I believe that there is a 5/6 hour difference between us.

In other news, I'm having difficulty deciding who did the best version of Santa Maria: Samantha Fox or Tatjana. Who do you think comes off best, my little maid? I must admit to being more drawn to Samantha.

Also, there will be no new edition of Fib Sunday until my return from England. Dom was going to do it, but he's busy boning a soldier just now. Meanwhile, continue playing with the last episode, if you'd like, by clicking here.

Go on. Go on. Go on.

Window On Your World

Andrea:

Well, I jumped up right at 5 and took my picture from where I was sitting. I was in my front window looking out to my street. We have had approx. 30 - 40 cm of snow in the last 2 days. It's really terribly late. Our Christmas was mostly green.



Reluctant Nomad:

I took up the gauntlet and did your window on the world thingy but I cheated a bit. So sue me, see if I care!

Two versions of the pic are attached, one a smaller one as it appears on my blog, the other being the larger original version.

Even though I cheated, it was fun.



Minge:

Ian and I were almost home after a trip to Cumbria. I waited in the car, listening to the radio, while Ian popped into Sainsbury's for bread and milk.







Matty:

Well, here are my 5pm picture(s): I had been out all day -- mostly at the beach! We had such an incredibly beautiful SF day! We even almost heated up to 70 degrees!!! AND, I have lost enough weight that I was able to fit into my form-fitted thermal with my way-cool Heavy Rotation Octopussy T-shirt!!! ...I've not felt comfortable wearing this ensemble since late November!!! Yay! I was going to post about that. ...but everyone seems to think I'm obsessed or too thin. So, I guess I will not! LOL!

Anyway, I took 3 pictures at 5pm within the span of less than a minute. I wish I had still been at the beach but I was, instead, in The Castro -- on my way home when 5pm hit.

The first picture I took was of the Castro Theatre -- which I think is my fave the second was of Hot Cookie (which is part of the reason I gained too much weight since I left the glitter dental disco job!) and the third was of the gay flag that was hanging
above me to my right. So, you can pick which you want to use.




Krafty Bitch:

Boring picture, I know, but I was working on a grant proposal at the time.



Kapitano:

It's not easy to show you what was in front of me at 1700 on Sunday afternoon, for two reasons.

First, none of my four cameras work. I just spent 10 minutes trying to take a picture with one, and all it did was beep at me with messages about "Invalid Format".

The second reason is: I was asleep at 1700.

However, the first thing I did at 1734 (after getting out of bed and getting dressed) was switch on my laptop. And fail to take a photo of it. However, remembering your post about desktop screengrabs, I did a quick google search for "Fabulous Minge", and grabbed the first result that obviously wasn't about your good self.



JAG:

I took this a little early as I wasn't sitting in the back of the theatre like I normally do. I had to sneak it and hope I didn't get caught and tossed out the door!

I went to a matinee of Letters from Iwo Jima with the dad before he heads off for a month or two.

I think this was the first Japanese language movie I've watched and the only words that were familiar to my ear were names and place names.

I am used to auditorily recognizing more words even when I don't understand the language.



Ian:

The view as you leave one of the check-out places within Sainsbury's supermarket, Straiton.

We were returning from the Lake District and had to stop for some provisions before making it home. In the shop they encourage you to consider their banking and financial products - as if supermarkets were not already taking over too much of our lives.



Deni:

This is the view from the window as I look out of my computer room, kinda fuzzy, lots of snow.



Debbie:

After seeing Dan's Blog this is what we see from my Kitchen Window, the Dog's Kennel, with dog Sasha, and Charlie, Charlie and dog are not full time residents of the kennel.



David:

Taken at the Speedway gas station in Niles on the corner of old 31 (11th Street) and Fort Street. I stopped in to top off my tank and buy a bottled water to take with me to the Y. The cloud formation is actually a band of lack effect snow.



Daniel:

I didn't read your request for photos until Monday, but I thought having taken a photo at 17:05 was too much of a coincidence to pass! 17:05 is allowable, isn't it?

This is a picture of a cat in Ashton-under-Lyne while we were waiting for our friend Paul to get ready.



Enda:

Here's my contribution for your delightful Window on your World event!

My lil bro was driving us back Dublin-wards having spent le weekend avec mon folks in the west of Ireland. We got stuck behind this tractor carting bags of turf (solid fuel crafted from peat) and were resigned to crawling until we could overtake. Then all the traffic stopped; just outside Athlone (slap bang in the middle of Ireland), we ran into a bit of a kerfuffle involving a horse box which had come a cropper. The gardaí (police) were there looking important and things got moving again reasonably quickly. What was in the horse box? Peat briquettes (solid fuel crafted from peat). [Cue spooky Twilight Zone music]

Ta-dah!



Old Cheeser:

Okay as per your instructions I have taken a snapshot and attached it - sorry for slightly small size and less than brilliant quality, but it was taken on me mobile and it's not very high definition, as they say...If you want to make it bigger just increase the 0%.

Anyway the picture is taken at home. I'm sitting at my laptop at my desk. To my immediate left is the sofa and shelves containing, as you can see, chock loads of CDs. Beyond that is the kitchen and the guy in the brown shirt with his back turned is my dearly beloved, preparing dinner.

At the time I was sat at my laptop surfing the net and (supposedly) hunting for jobs!!

It's quite typical of what we'd be up to on a Sunday i.e. chilling at home...



Anjou Wu:

At 5:00pm I was in the middle of the film “Babel” when I had to pee.

Thus, here is my picture.

Not glamorous, but realistic.

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We wondered what the world was doing at 5pm on Sunday. Now we know.

In other news:

CD:UK has got the go-ahead. Hurrah!

Try it (I'm in love with Fib Sunday)

I think of you each day. I think of you at night. Do you think about me, darling, when you make love to your wife?

Phyllis and I are just back from the lakes. It was fabulous. I'm going to sort out the thousands of photographs we took, upload them to my computer and blog about the funkiest of weekends tomorrow.

Not only is today Fib Sunday, but it's also Window On Your World day. Depending on your global location, 5pm/17:00 has either passed or is looming. Please take part and remember to email your photograph to me, dear reader, at your earliest convenience. I hope to get all the images online by the middle of next week.

But back to today, Fib Sunday:

If you don't know what's going on or indeed what Fib Sunday is, click here to read the original instructions. Go on, you know you want to.

Go on!

In brief:

1) I take the topic as given in last week's final entry, write a Fib and give a new topic.
2) Your reply to the topic is in the form of a Fib in the comment section.
3) You then supply the next topic.
4) The next visitor replies with a Fib on the newly given topic and then provides a new topic and so on...

A Fib is a six line, twenty syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8. The only restriction on a Fib is that the syllable count follow the Fibonacci sequence. An example of a classic fib:

One
Small,
Precise,
Poetic,
Spiraling mixture:
Math plus poetry yields the Fib.

Last time, Kapitano left us with the topic of Boom Bang-a-bang. My rockin' response:

Loud
in
my ear:
Lulu shouts.
Please sing instead, hen.
Don't boom! Chirp! Bang - and then we're done!

Next topic:

Living out a fantasy!