#macdonnell on the heights

[clove-pinks]

I can't believe I didn't post about the Battle of Queenston Heights on October 13th: not just an important War of 1812 battle, but the inspiration for one of Stan Rogers' best songs! (Also on Spotify).

[caesarsaladinn]

Stan Rogers songs come in a few, occasionally overlapping flavors:

this boat is a heavy-handed metaphor for my personal struggles (Mary Ellen Carter, Last Watch, Barrett’s Privateers, etc)

I am being ground beneath the heel of Capital (Fisherman’s Wharf, Tiny Fish for Japan, The Idiot, most of them really)

Weeeheehee we’re shitfaced and having a great time! I recommend it!! (The Wreck of the Athens Queen, Giant, etc)

my romance is pure and true and yours is mere lust, you barbarian (You Can’t Stay Here, Lock-Keeper, Half of a Heart, etc)

an ode to something incredibly Canadian (Bluenose, MacDonnell on the Heights, Northwest Passage, etc)

[lacnunga]

Anyway, i can tell shark week is coming up bc here i am again crying over MacDonnell on the Heights

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Emily Carey Wiki, Age, Biography, Height, Parents, Movies, Ethnicity, Net Worth & More

In this article, we are talking about Emily Carey's Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Boyfriend, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Career, Height, Weight, Social Media Accounts & More Details Emily Carey is a well-known Model and actress. She belongs from London. She is famous because of her role as Alicent Hightower in the "House of the Dragon".

Emily Carey Wiki

Emily is an English model and actress. She is one of the youngest English actresses. She is known for her role as Alicent Hightower in the famous series "House of the Dragon".

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Emily Carey Wiki, Biography, Age

Emily was born on 30 April 2003. She is 19 years old as of 2022. She was born in Barnet, London, England. She is a popular actress, television personality, and model. Her zodiac sign is Taurus. Full name Jennie Emily Joanna Carey Nick Name  Emily Carey Date Of Birth   30 April 2003 Age  19 Years Birth Place Barnet, London, England Zodiac Sign  Taurus Marital Status Unmarried Boyfriend Rhys Baily Net Worth                                                         $1-5 Million

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Emily is 5 Feet and 4 Inches tall. Her weight is 53 Kg. Her hair color is Dark Brown and her eye color is Brown. Height  5 Feet 4 Inches Weight 53 Kg Eye Color Brown Hair Color Dark Brown

Emily Carey Boyfriend

Emily revealed on social media that her sexuality is queer. She might be in a relationship with Rhys Baily who is an actor.

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Emily's mother Srah MacDonnell is also an actress by profession. She has one sister Galina Baxter. She did not reveal anything about her father.

              Emily Carey with her mother Srah MacDonnell

Emily Carey Movies

Emily did many movies and shows but she is famous for her role in Alicent Hightower in the famous series "House of the Dragon". In 202 she did the role of Mika in the "Get Even" series. She also did The Lost Girls, Where is Anne Frank, and more. 

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Carey's nationality is British. Her ethnicity is White. She follows the Christianity religion. Ethnicity White Nationality British

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Emily's net worth is $1-5 Million. She earns through movies and shows. She lives a luxurious life.

Emily Carey Career, Early Life 

Emily completed her graduation from High school in England. She stepped into an acting career at a very young age. She also performed in Casualty and Get Even. She also performed the title role of Anastasia in Anastasia: Once Upon a Time film for Netflix.

Emily Carey Social Media Accounts

Instagram   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by EMILY CAREY (@theemilycarey) Facebook Twitter FAQ About Emily Carey Q.1 Who is Emily Carey? Ans. Emily Carey is a well-known Model and actress.  Q.2 Who is the boyfriend of Emily Carey? Ans. Emily Carey is might in a relationship with Rhys Baily. Q.3 What is the Net Worth of Emily Carey? Ans. Emily's net worth is $1-5 Million. Q.4 What is the Nationality of Emily Carey? Ans. Carey's nationality is British. Q.5 What is the Height of Emily Carey? Ans. Emily is 5 Feet and 4 Inches tall. Read Also:- Jennie Ruby Jane Wiki   Read the full article

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11 Questions Meme

Borrowing this meme from @Aximili because I thought it looked interesting and the questions are really unique!

1. What’s your favourite poem if you have one? why is it your favourite?

That’s a hard one, because I don’t read a lot of poetry. It took a while to think of an answer, and what I finally settled on is so nerdy and not very cultured, but I’m going to have to go with the tapestry poem (“Listen, my child, to this story of dreams” and so on) from Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion. It’s very nostalgic to me and I loved unravelling what all the symbolism in it means/how it pertains to the mystery. Maybe a bit of a lame answer, but it’s what I’m putting.

On the other end of the spectrum I also considered the Aeneid but 1) I’ve only read about half of it, 2) I’m not entirely sure it counts as a poem? And 3) sounds way too pretentious

2. If you could spend a lot of money on one thing right now - and its not something practical like paying off debts, or a house or car - what would it be? something purely for enjoyment.

Okay so assuming we’re not allowed to say “charity” or “spend it on a friend” or w/e and can spend the money on something entirely unnecessary/selfish, I actually have a ready-prepared answer. I’ve been looking forwards for a long time to the Agents of Shield Season 4 Declassified Guide Book coming out (which it did on Tuesday) and yesterday I went to the Chapters here to see if they had it and turns out they don’t. No store in the city has it or even in Toronto, so it most likely hasn’t been shipped to the province (or even the country) yet. So I would use the money to order it to the store (which you can do but the price is not something I want to spend when I’m on a student budget #Firstworldproblems). Anyway I’ll probably just end up ordering it on Amazon or asking for it for Christmas or something.

3. Favourite plant and why?

That’s a really hard one but atm I’m thinking wisteria. I saw a ton of it in England and I love how it grows up buildings and drapes all over everything. It looks so old-timey and wonderful. The flowers are also the perfect colour.

4. When you’ve had a really long day and you’re super hungry,  what do you crave?

Ohhhh gosh. I guess this really depends on the day? But cheese popcorn is always a safe answer.

5. A memorable dream you’ve had lately?

Well uh. I had a very memorable but questionable dream trilogy the past 3 nights all involving cast members from Agents of Shield. In the first dream, my favorite actress from that show sent me a postcard saying that she was writing a story on Google Docs and was going to share it with me. In the second dream, that actress and a bunch of others from the show were invited over to our house by my Dad for a dinner party and I was going to get to interview her. And in the third … another actor I really like was hit by a car and killed? It felt super real and I actually had to look him up online when I woke up to make sure he was okay.

6. What does your dream home look like? what type of building/size/location/what’s in it?

Okay, so notwithstanding cost and practicality and upkeep, I’d really really love to live in a heritage home, like say circa 1890 to 1915ish. Something late Victorian/Edwardian/Arts and Crafts style. Queen Anne style with a little turret would be THE BEST but that’s a little ambitious even for my dreams lol. I’d like it to be along one of those sleepy streets in a neighborhood that’s clearly been there for a long time so the trees are very tall and the branches arch over the road. Like you’re in a green tunnel with sunlight filtering down. And it’d have a little backyard and frontyard and two stories + a basement but not be too big. Like 1 or 2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathroom, basement, that’s all I need. I imagine it either being made out of red brick, or wood painted some sort of pastel colour (white, light pink/blue/green, etc.)

I know it’s really tempting to be like “I would live in A CASTLE with 10 secret passageways and a hidden treasure!” but it’d honestly be so big and kind of creepy to be alone in it. But I wouldn’t say no to a small secret passageway in my imaginary house … like just a sliding panel or a boarded-off maid’s staircase or something. That’d be awesome.

The furnishings would be like, high-late Victorian or Edwardian. I really like them both, and while the Victorian appeals more to me aesthetically, the Edwardian would be easier to manage and clean. But it would have electricity, TV, computer, all those modern conveniences. 

Something like the Painted Ladies in San Francisco would be ideal but to see some more feasible/local examples you can check out these pages here (which I helped set up a few summers ago *shameless self-plug*)

7. a household chore you actually enjoy?

That’s actually a fairly easy answer. I like doing the dishes, as in just loading/unloading the dishwasher. I find it kind of relaxing and therapeutic. Not saying I’d be jumping up and down to do them after I’ve had a long busy day and want to spend time doing something fun, but I don’t mind it. I also like sweeping. It feels kind of cathartic to gather up a whole bunch of dust and dirt into a pile and then throw it away.

8. who’s your favourite lesser-known music artist? which song and why?

This one’s pretty hard because a lot of what I listen to is fairly well-known pop (Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, etc.) but I guess I’d go with Stan Rogers? He was a Canadian folk singer from the 70s /early 80s who unfortunately died in a plane crash. He sang a lot of songs relating to maritime life and Canadian history. My Mom introduced me to his work when I was in high school and I really like it. Some of my favorite songs of his are Mary Ellen Carter, Northwest Passage, Macdonnell on the Heights, Witch of the Westmoreland, and Barrett’s Privateers. I have Barrett’s Privateers pretty much memorized and sometimes sing it to annoy my sister, since it’s a pretty repetitive song. :P

9. what was ur favourite toy as a kid?

 OH definitely my (creatively-named) killer whale. Just a typical plastic animal toy that came with a set of 5 or so others, but for whatever reason 3-4 y/o me really latched on to him, I guess because I love killer whales so much. I would sleep with him the same way most kids sleep with teddy bears or other soft stuffed animals. I remember my parents telling me he would chase my nightmares away. When I was 16 or so one of my dogs got into my room and chewed up his fins up a bit, but luckily I rescued him in time. I actually brought him with me to Uni, both now and when I went to Exeter, and he’s sitting on a pile of my books on my shelf right now.

10. your ideal conditions for falling asleep?

 Really dark and quiet. Not too hot or too cold. Comfy blankets. Nothing troubling my mind, preferably some sort of fictional scenario to run over in my head (like involving characters or ships or something), and I’m tired enough that I can fall asleep quickly.

11. something nice you did for someone else recently!

 Mmmm I hate saying things like this because it feels like bragging. So I’m just going to go with some small things. I took the trash and recycling out for my roommate even though it wasn’t my week to do so, because the girl who was supposed to do it had left for the weekend. I also checked up on a friend from my class on Facebook because I hadn’t heard from her in a long time and wanted to make sure she was doing okay.  

Questions for anyone who wants to do them: 

What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever beaten?

What’s the furthest east, south, west, and north you’ve been?

What’s the coolest animal you’ve seen in the wild?

What book/movie/show did you watch/read as a kid that was wayyy too old for you?

When you get a new favorite character, do you instantly know they’re going to be the one, or do they grow on you slowly?

Do you like extra content in fandom (DLCs, guide books, stuff revealed by creators in an interview) or would you rather stick to the books/movies/whatever themselves?  

Have you ever gone to summer camp, and did you like it?

Skiing, snowboarding, or neither?

Favorite Halloween memory? (If you celebrate it; if not, favorite holiday memory of your choice!)

What superpower/superhuman ability would you LEAST want to have?

Something new and interesting you’ve learned this week.

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Macdonnell Ranges-Serpentine Gorge

Hi there!

Heading west out of Alice Springs on Namatjira drive you are soon in the heart of the Macdonnell Ranges.  We went past places like, Standley Chasm, Simpsons Gap, Ellery Creek Water Hole and then we pulled up at Serpentine Gorge.  All these places by the way are easily accessible from Alice Springs as Day trips, quite handy if you don’t want to camp out in the wilds!  The Macdonnell Ranges run for about 640 odd km’s east and west of Alice Springs.  Parallel ridges on either side of the valley are quite visible and in these ridges there are gaps which provide spectacular scenery and beautiful waterholes to cool of in the middle of summer.  The Ranges were green from recent rain which really made them standout amongst the surrounding landscape of red and ochre desert colours.  If you want to learn more about the Macdonnell ranges click HERE.

Serpentine Gorge was created by a south flowing creek which has cut through two ridges of Heavitree Quartzite leaving a spectacular gorge.  The road in is not too bad for a dirt road and once you get to the parking area it’s about a 1.5km walk in to the gorge across dry creek beds and scrubland.  If you’re lucky and are here after rain there are lots of wildflowers to see.  I was the one lagging behind taking photos of plants and flowers as the rest of the family steamed ahead to the heady heights of the gorge lookout.  Now if you want to see pictures of Serpentine Gorge in all its glory, I’m not going to show them right now!  You will need to scroll through this post to find them, cruel I know but well worth it!

Here is one of the dry creek beds, very rocky as you can see.

This is what a lot of the surrounding plant scape looks like, uninspiring you may say but you just need to look closely to find its beauty.

Larapinta trail marker, this walking trail is 223km in length across the Macdonnell ranges, click on this link, maybe one day!

If you’re walking too fast you will miss this little plant.  Brachyscome ciliaris also known as Variable Daisy is found in all states of Australia and usually in sand and gibber plains(extended plain with loose rocks).  Grows to about 45cm.  Brachyscome quite often seen in nurseries and gardens around the country even more exciting to find it out here!

Remember!  Don’t just look ahead, cast your eye’s down and to the sides of where you’re walking, you’ll never know what you will find or see next.

Above is a couple of more photos of this little gem.  Now, what about some Nightshade!  Solanum quadriloculatum.  That’s a mouthful, Wild Tomato sound better? Be very wary, this plants fruit are poisonous, another reason why common names are misleading.  This plant grows to 50 x 50cm near flooded watercourses and or low sand dunes.  It’s quite prickly and flowers in winter and spring.  

Below is Senna artemisoides subsp. artemisoides, another mouthful but a very beautiful shrub which grows to about 1-2 metres with beautiful yellow buttercup flowers in winter and spring.

Maybe you can just call it the Silver Cassia.  Now for an Emu Bush.  Eremophila latrobei , commonly known as the Crimson Turkeybush, click HERE if you want to read more about this plant.  Quite beautiful!

Another stunning Emu bush is Eremophila longifolia , also known as Berrigan, tall shrub to small tree weeping in form, click HERE if you want to know more about the Berrigan.

Sorry, I got distracted with the plants in the Serpentine Gorge, lets move onto the scenery.  This is the first sort of glimpse of the gorge and it looks like its sort of straight up to the top, hmm!

Lets go for it!  Now we are starting the climb up and here you can clearly see the parallel ridge lines that run through the Macdonnell Ranges.

Another couple of views of those ridge lines

Yes, as you can see above we are getting higher, quite spectacular!  It is quite a rocky landscape and on these hillsides there is a lot of Porcupine grass, Trioda irritans.  The last past of its botanic name sums it up very well indeed, very irritating because it’s quite prickly.

Below are more views across the valley.

Another plant of interest for me to see in the wild was Dodonaea viscosa , the Broad leaf Hop Bush or just plain Hop Bush, very common in gardens around the country and useful for many things from hedging to specimen plantings.  It’s a very variable plant in the wild and widespread across the country.

Now I know photos are great but there’s just no comparison to actually being there and seeing this landscape.  I have a great digital SLR camera but it doesn’t capture the WOW! The size, scope and detail of what your eyes are looking at or what your feeling right then and there as you look at this amazing country.  Below is the Serpentine Gorge.

    Where does one go now from these heights?  Down one would expect and lo and behold something I missed on the way up nearly hit me fair and square in the head on the way down.

Leaning over the rocky pathway was this intriguing large shrub with what looked like  stems twining around themselves like a climbing plant.  This is Pandorea doratoxylon also known as the Spearwood Vine.  The Aboriginal people use this plant for spears hence its common name. The long twining stems are light weight and are straightened and hardened over a fire.  The flowers are quite pretty when one comes upon them in such a tough landscape.

If they look familiar to you, you may be thinking of Pandorea jasminoides the Wonga Wonga vine or also known as the Bower Vine or one of the many hybrids available today.  You would be correct because they are in the same family Bignoniaceae.  Check out this closeup below!

This next photo doesn’t show too much, I just liked the detail of the bark.  To me it tells a story of the harsh landscape in which it resides.

These next photos show an interesting Grevillea, the Holly Leaf Grevillea, Grevillea wickhamii.  There are a few sub species but I’m not sure which one this is.  I have pictures of this flowering at a different location which will be revealed at a later date!

You can see above that the new growth gives the plant a tinge of yellow which from a distance look like flowers.Some more plants of interest here included another beautiful Emu Bush, Eremophila freelingii. The Rock Fuchsia Bush.

A characteristic of this plant is that it sheds its lower leaves during drought to conserve moisture, you can see that quite clearly in the above photo, the plant looks half dead but it’s not!  Grows to about 1.5 metres.  The lilac flowers are stunning and are produced after it rains.  Just a few more views below of this beautiful plant on the sides of Serpentine Gorge.

Funnily enough another surprise was what looked to be some type of Fern here as well and yes it was.  Not sure of its identity but quite possibly Cheilanthes brownie , The Northern Rock Fern, either way still remarkable to me to see a fern out here.  Nature is amazing.

Another interesting plant we saw was a parasite.  Lysiana exocarpi , the Harlequin Mistletoe.  This parasite is found mostly in inland locations and is very colourful.

Now we have made it back down and headed into the cool of the gorge, being winter it wasn’t hot out in the open so one could imagine how nice and cool it would be in the heat of summer.

In the above photo in the distance you can see some cycads, Macrozamia macdonnellii , the Macdonnell Ranges Cycad.  Here they are below as well.

Ah well!  That’s about it for the Serpentine Gorge, here’s a few last photos of plants and foliage.

Lets have some lunch, its been a great morning in the Macdonnell Ranges.  Serpentine Gorge has been a truly magical experience.

Finally a last look into the gorge.

Cheers!

A trip to the Northern Territory. Part 7. Macdonnell Ranges-Serpentine Gorge Hi there! Heading west out of Alice Springs on Namatjira drive you are soon in the heart of the Macdonnell Ranges. 

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Kinbane Castle from another angle.. 😍 this Castle. It was built in 1547 by Colla MacDonnell, younger brother of the notorious Sorley Boy MacDonnell, during the height of the MacDonnell supremacy along the coast. The name Kinbane means White Head and refers to the white limestone on which the castle stands. (at Kinbane Castle)

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An American Spy Base Hidden in Australia’s Outback

By Jackie Dent, NY Times, Nov. 23, 2017

ALICE SPRINGS, Australia--Margaret Pestorius arrived at court last week in her wedding dress, a bright orange-and-cream creation painted with doves, peace signs and suns with faces.

“It’s the colors of Easter, so I always think of it as being a resurrection dress,” said Ms. Pestorius, a 53-year-old antiwar activist and devout Catholic, who on Friday was convicted of trespassing at a top-secret military base operated by the United States and hidden in the Australian outback.

From the base, known as the Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap, the United States controls satellites that gather information used to pinpoint airstrikes around the world and target nuclear weapons, among other military and intelligence tasks, according to experts and leaked National Security Agency documents.

As a result, the facility, dotted with satellite dishes and isolated in the desert, has become a magnet for Australian antiwar protesters. Over the past two weeks, Ms. Pestorius and five other Christian demonstrators were convicted in two separate trials of breaching the site’s security perimeter last year. They could face seven years in prison.

“In terms of actions like this, it’s pretty basic: We are called to love our enemies,” said Jim Dowling, 62, a member of the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement who was one of the protesters. “Do good to those who persecute you. To turn the other cheek. Put up our swords. All the teachings of Jesus on nonviolence.”

The trials--and the Australian government’s uncompromising prosecution of the protesters--has put a spotlight on a facility that the United States would prefer remain in the shadows.

Born at the height of the Cold War, Pine Gap was presented to the Australian public in 1966 as a space research facility. But behind the scenes, the station was run by the C.I.A. to collect information from American spy satellites about the Soviet Union’s missile program.

Since then, American spies, engineers, cryptologists and linguists have flocked to Alice Springs, the small town closest to the base, to work at the facility. At least 599 Americans lived there in 2016, according to the latest census. Though their presence in town is low-key, there are some telltale signs: a baseball diamond at a local sports complex, Oreo cookies and Dr Pepper in the supermarket, and beef brisket on sale at a butcher shop.

The base is reached by a dead-end road, marked with a sign warning away visitors. Without clearance, the only way to see Pine Gap is by air, or by climbing the craggy ridges of the MacDonnell Ranges that surround the site.

Photos taken from the air show a sprawling campus punctuated by white geodesic domes that look like giant golf balls. Inside these spheres, called radomes, are antenna systems that send and receive information from satellites in constant orbit above the earth.

The staff at Pine Gap was predominantly American until the 1980s, when the two governments, responding in part to public pressure here, made it about half Australian. Today, more than 800 people from both countries are believed to work at the base. But the United States is firmly in control.

“Pine Gap has changed and developed enormously,” said Richard Tanter, a senior research associate at the Nautilus Institute and honorary Melbourne University professor who has investigated and criticized the base for years.

In documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the American intelligence contractor turned whistle-blower, Pine Gap is described as playing “a significant role in supporting both intelligence activities and military operations.”

What that actually means, Professor Tanter said, is that the station is involved in real-time contributions to the United States’ global military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

Pine Gap, he added, also “contributes data for C.I.A. drone operations in countries in which the United States is not at war--Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and so forth. It is also critically important in whatever the United States is going to do on the Korean Peninsula.”

Professor Tanter has gleaned information about the secret site from unexpected public records, including the LinkedIn profiles of Pine Gap contractors and satellite photos that reveal new construction at the site.

Professor Tanter, who is president of the Australian board of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, said he wanted the government to “make a very clearheaded assessment” of whether it is in Australia’s best interest to contribute data for drone assassinations and targeting nuclear weapons.

Other experts, however, said that hosting a base like Pine Gap helps maintain the country’s alliance with the United States, and that other partners of the Americans carry considerably larger burdens.

Last year, in the early hours of a cold, dark September morning, Ms. Pestorius, Mr. Dowling and three other “peace pilgrims,” as they call themselves, breached Pine Gap’s security perimeter.

As the activists scrambled up a rocky hill to get closer to the base, and with the police moving in, Ms. Pestorius picked up her viola. Another protester strummed his guitar. As they played a lament for those killed in war, Mr. Dowling held up a large, laminated photograph showing a bloodied young woman with her foot missing.

A sixth activist, Paul Christie, 44, carried out his own protest at Pine Gap days later; he was tried separately and convicted last week, charged, like the others, with entering a prohibited area. During the activists’ back-to-back trials this month, a modest band of supporters gathered at the courthouse. Many were members of the country’s antiwar movement, parts of which are religion-infused.

A Quaker knitted flower brooches. A Buddhist brewed coffee from the back of his van. A collection of colorful banners tied to fences read “Close Pine Gap” and “End the U.S. Alliance and Pine Gap Terror Base.”

Mr. Dowling, who said he had been arrested between 50 and 100 times, was found guilty once before of trespassing at Pine Gap, in 2005. The conviction was later overturned.

One of his co-defendants this time was his 20-year-old son Franz, the guitar player at the protest last year. The younger Mr. Dowling and two other defendants--Andrew Paine, 31, and Timothy Webb, 23--live together in a Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Brisbane, where they regularly take in homeless people.

All five were found guilty of entering a prohibited area, and Mr. Paine was convicted of an additional charge of possessing a photographic device.

During their trial, the five--who acted as their own attorneys--tried to argue that they had acted in the defense of others, but Justice John Reeves did not allow it.

Pine Gap has “to bear a big responsibility for all the murder and mayhem that has taken place in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Jim Dowling, who appeared in court barefoot.

Mr. Dowling seemed unperturbed by how few activists had traveled to remote Alice Springs to support him and the other defendants.

“There’s not a huge number engaged in nonviolent resistance in the name of their faith, but numbers don’t matter, do they?” he said. “Just follow your conscience, you know?”

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Positive Body Campaign

Kyra MacDonnell

  Every single body is beautiful from slender wrists to big stomachs. Having thick thighs and wide shoulders don't make your body disgusting just like well toned arms and a 6 pack don't make your body above ours. Everyone has had there moments of hating certain aspects of there body whether it be there arms or there feet, but we shouldn’t have to feel insecure about any of those things we should be told that your body may not look like the girl in that ad but it looks like the girl in this ad for cardigans, they should never see that there body type is only on weight loss products as a before photo. There body should be normalized and not seen as gross.

  I can honestly say I will never have to deal with the same issues that plus size people deal it and I'm thankful for that because I don't want to be told my body is disgusting because I have cellulite on my thighs and have a big belly, no one deserves to be treated like that ever! Although I have had my experiences with body shaming I can't even  imagine how hard it is for those who are bigger and get 10x the hate for something they can't always control.

  I would say that the first time I had my body pointed out to me as a negative thing was around 9 or 10 years old. I was bending down because my sister wanted someone to do her exercise video with her so I volunteered . We were stretching and shirt was riding up my back so that my spine was sticking out. Its ridges popping out against the skin and my back was clearly detailed with little bruises that match up with each ridge because I was so skinny and the skin on my back was so fragile. My sister noticed and almost vomited she turned to me and told me to leave because the way my bones pushed against the surface of my skin was disgusting. 

  The next more influential comment someone said about my body and continues to say is that I don't have big enough breasts and I look like a have child's body, and although it could be worse it is something I get told on a weekly basis so yeah I did get really insecure about not having a better body but I'm fine with how my body looks now.

  My friend is pretty hefty and people and school make fun of her behind her back all the time for that, even though she doesn't deserve she is one of the kindest people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting but now she hates every aspect of her body from her height and her down to her weight. She does not deserve this treatment but she also can't speak up for herself.

  Her body is gorgeous, My body is gorgeous, my friends bodies are magnificent, Your body is beautiful. It doesn’t matter what they say because only you can judge and only you can speak the truth about your ankles, and your chest. It is your body and your body only.

[clove-pinks]

tagged by @theancientvaleofsoulmaking, thank you my friend!

Favourite colour: all shades of purple

Last song: MacDonnell on the Heights by Stan Rogers. 😭 (Someday... someday I will visit Brock's Monument and Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonell's grave.)

Last movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Very underrated potc movie, Javier Bardem put his whole pussy into Capitán Salazar and deserved more screen time and a better ending,

Currently watching: Putting the Flint in Flintlocks. A really interesting short instructional video about sourcing and using flints for blackpowder/flintlock gun enthusiasts; practical tips and tricks and shows how the flint is set in the gun. How all your blorbos from c. late 17th century to the 19th century prepared their gun locks and maintained them. (You can get 50 shots from a flint in good conditions!)

Other stuff I watched this year: Les Mis the stage musical, in Chicago (A++ peak experience)

Shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: idk, I always have quite the to-watch list going on.

Currently reading: endless academic papers, mostly

Currently listening to: PLÜM – To Stay

Currently working on: Finishing a project about the role of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic

Current obsession: Haunted by thoughts of Fort Meigs and (perhaps relatedly) how much I would love a pair of Napoleonic-era boot gaiters.

tagging @maudeboggins, @cadmusfly, @fleur-de-paris, @agnetaseafoam, @victoriansecret, @mooseofthesea, @sanguinarysanguinity, @kaxen, @rowzien, @meerawrites, @apurpledust, @linguisticparadox, @artgirlfunkel, @nebylitsa, @iamthemaestro, @suddenly-frankenstein and @suburbanbeatnik if you feel like doing it!

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Australien Urlaub - Port Fairy

Australien #Urlaub - Port Fairy #GreatVic @visit12apostles

Weiter geht es auf zur Great Ocean Road, von Port MacDonnell nach Port Cambell über Port Fairy. Sehr Port lastig war die heutige Strecke also. Erst einmal hieß es aber wieder alles einpacken. (more…)

[epoxyconfetti]

From an interview given by Stan Rogers, "...Perhaps this is one way of vindicating the historical vagaries of this nation. It gives me no small amount of satisfaction to think that more people will know that there's more than just Brock under that huge stone monument". Ironically, I could only find a small monument of stones where John MacDonnell fell in The Battle of Queenston Heights in the War of 1812, while there are many items dedicated to Brock. Brock is the hero, though MacDonnell rallied the troops to lead an "almost" victory after Brock was killed. Stan Rogers tribute to an unsung hero of Canada. "From Fresh Water" is Rogers last album & was mixed and mastered after his death.

[madtomedgar]

For you know what it is to scale the heights

And fall just short of fame

And have not one in ten thousand know your name

[iamcharlotteaddams]

Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Queenston Heights which felled John MacDonell, who is immortalised in Stan Rogers' MacDonnell On The Heights.

[clove-pinks]

"People are saying that only fans of a TV show would ever know 'Barrett's Privateers'? Ridiculous! Who doesn't enjoy a classic Stan Rogers song?"

— Guy who only knows 'MacDonnell on the Heights' due to being in the War of 1812 fandom

[clove-pinks]

The Battle of Queenston Heights: October 13th 1812

An Officer and Private of the 52nd Regiment of Light Infantry, 1812, from Charles Hamilton Smith's 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations 1812', published by Colnaghi and Company, 1812-1815 (National Army Museum).

According to Jonathan Riley in his book A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock, the British troops led by Brock at Battle of Queenston Heights had a similar appearance: "Aside from the yellow facings, the light company of the 49th that Brock led up Queenston Heights would have been dressed in very much the same way."

Brock meanwhile had taken stock of the situation and come to the conclusion that the American attack at Queenston was no feint, but the real thing. The guns of Fort Niagara had begun to bombard Fort George shortly after Brock left and the batteries in Fort George had opened up in reply, which Brock would have heard as he made his way south. His aides John Glegg and John Macdonell would have been able to assure him that no landing force had appeared from the direction of Four Mile Creek, at least before they had left.

— Jonathan Riley, A Matter of Honour

After General Brock fell in battle, his aide-de-camp John Macdonell led a second counter-attack that almost succeeded, but he "was seriously wounded and the attack lost momentum as the troops lost heart without their leader. Macdonell was carried from the field; he lived another twenty-four hours in agony before his death." (A Matter of Honour)

The sacrifice of this obscure and minor officer might be forgotten, except that Stan Rogers immortalised him in the song "Macdonnell on the Heights."