Through a phone blurrily

[katiefoolery]

I wish my camera phone took better pictures.  Actually, what I really wish is that I hadn't forgotten to take my camera with me to Beechworth, but I'm over that.  I've moved onto the camera-phone-hate.

Nevertheless, it was all I had and I used it when necessary although I now have cause to curse its complete inability to focus on anything, anything at all and its general crapitude.

With this bitter disclaimer out of the way, I hereby present for your viewing pleasure, the following images...

Oh, this cat has a hard life.  How tedious, to be forced to spend all day napping in the sun and occasionally being woken up in order to be fed.  No wonder she always looks so damn smug.  Notice the sun.  There was a lot of that.  I approved.

Canola is a big crop in the north east.  It grows heartily even in the midst of the severe lack of rain and it looks incredibly impressive.  Fields of yellow, stretching out to the horizon...

Well, this is a cute little house.  It seemed to require me to take a photo of it, so I did.  Who am I to argue with cute little houses?

Grammar rage!  Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghghghghghgh!  I saw the same ad on TV, too, with the same lack of spelling.  Are things really this bad?  Are people now unaware that the plural of any word ending in "y" should be "ies"?

See, I told you it's a hard life for Buffy.  She really knows how to look relaxed, does that cat.

And that was my trip to Beechworth.

Comments

[the-kaytinator.livejournal.com]

It's a cute little house!!!

Oh, I just want to wrap it up and put it in my pocket!!!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

You reply at the speed of light! I only just posted this!

*is amazed*

It's cute though, isn't it? An adorable little house in the middle of nowhere, more or less.

[dizzy-liz.livejournal.com]

Great photos! I'm sorry you're still not feeling well... get better soon!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you and thank-you. I had to play around with them in PSP to get them looking like this... they were much worse when I began. :)

I'm feeling a little better today, although it doesn't sound that way.

*coughs*

[blackswans.livejournal.com]

Yay for pictures! I gotta say, your phone camera option is way more impressive than mine. Think pixellated. Very pixellated.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I had to do a bit of fixing up on these photos. The quality is set to "fine" but it doesn't seem that fine to me... Still, it's better than nothing.

Glad you enjoyed them. :)

[sirgallivant.livejournal.com]

Your photos are lovely! Especially the first one. What a delightfully cute Buffy you have.
I share your grammar rage. Altough I've always been confused about words like 'monkey' and 'bushturkey', which are always pluralised as 'monkeys' and bushturkeys'. Why are they exceptions? Is it because they are marvellously plendiferous animals? Or some other reason?

[purpletigress.livejournal.com]

The rule is where you have a vowel and a y, as in monkey and turkey, you simply add s (monkeys, turkeys). However if you have a consonant and a y, as in territory and nanny, you drop the y and add ies (territories, nannies).

I too share the communal grammar rage.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

There's a lot to rage about as far as grammar goes these days, isn't there?

[purpletigress.livejournal.com]

There most certainly is. It makes me want to offer my proofreading expertise to the world :-).

I completely love your user iconn ;-).

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you! She's such an old cat now, is Buff. I think she's earnt her naps in the sun, really. :)

I believe they're exceptions because of the "e" preceeding the "y". It would look weird if the plural of "monkey" was "monkeies".

[silverwerecat.livejournal.com]

Aw, Buffy! So hard, a cat's life...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It's awfully tedious, isn't it?

[saltedpin.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous photos, despite having been taken on a phone :D

You see more and more grammatical errors in books these days -- it makes me really annoyed. LJ is one thing, published material is another!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly! I'm annoyed that I had more interesting photos that I couldn't share, simply because the phone camera made a mockery of them.

As frustrated as I was by the "Territorys", I was almost grateful that they at least hadn't put an apostrophe in there...

[rilla06.livejournal.com]

Buffy is the cat version of my dog Zoe :P All she does is sleep in the sun, except when she's hungry.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

And she really sprawls out when she sleeps, as you can see on that chair. She's made it into an art-form, really.

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

Poor Buffy. She has such a hard life yet she still goes to the effort of trying to conceal it when people show up with cameras... :P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed. And she's very practised at it, as you can see. You'd hardly be able to tell she's putting on an act in that last pic...

[naelany.livejournal.com]

cute kitty! What exactly is canola?? I know they make oil from it, but....

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Wiki knows all! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola) Actually, I don't know much about canola. I think it's used in margarine as well.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

huh, interesting

[alankria.livejournal.com]

It's such a hard life being a cat, isn't it? Lie around all day, look beautiful, occasionally wander languidly over to the food bowl and get instantly fed, look beautiful a bit more, have another nap, wander outside for a stroll in the sunshine, look beautiful, be stumbled across by diligent human who proceeds to lavish attention, lie down a bit after that exhausting process, eat a bit more, look beautiful...

I. Want. To. Be. A. Cat.

ARGH!&£%%^&£ at the grammatical error.

That yellow stuff looks like the wonderfully-named rape seed grown over here. Wonder if it's the same thing. Certainly the same garish yellow.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's a harsh life, alright. No-one appreciates just how difficult it is to be so beautiful and cat-like. It's tiring!

"ARGH!!" was pretty much my reaction, too. You can't really tell because of the crapitude of my phone camera, but that's exactly what I scrawled above the abomination of the basic rules of spelling.

And yes - canola is also known as rape-seed.

[ilexarts.livejournal.com]

I get grammar angry too, despite the fact that I make plenty of mistakes myself (I believe you have pointed out a few for me.) Still, you wonder sometimes about people... this mistake you saw was in an advertisement? If so, sometimes the clients are so fussy that they insist copy be printed as they presented it, even if there are spelling errors. Even if all the proofreaders and the designer have pointed out the mistake.

There's a town I drive through on the way to the in-laws' house that has 2 convenience stores - both owned by the same person (I think - they have the same big signage on the roof), both proclaiming "Discount Cigarets" in big red letters across the roof. After 10 years of going through there, either no one has had the cajones to tell them the sign is spelled wrong or they just don't want to shell out the extra $ to add a T and an E. As you know, money always trumps grammar when it comes down to it, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the latter.

Your pictures don't look so bad as little thumbnail-ish things. :) I forgot to charge the batteries on my camera nad ended up with some like that for my daughter's birthday. :(

Hope you are feeling better.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

You don't make that many mistakes! I didn't think that it might have been the fault of idiotic clients. It almost makes me want to barge into the world of advertising, if only for the pleasure of beating clients over the head with a very heavy dictionary in the hopes that some of it will sink in.

The photos definitely look better in their small form. They started off as 640x480 pixel images and they looked... um... less than wonderful, even after I'd fixed them up a bit. Thank goodness things improved when I changed the size!

Thanks - I'm feeling a little better. I won't mention the six tissues I went through whilst writing this comment... :D

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

Such a sweet little house. We should buy it and become a hippie-esque commune where of course the grammar grows as high as an elephant's eye and the cats can laze in the sun all day!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It would be a very small hippy-esque commune, I can assure you. That house is every bit as small and adorable as it looks. For once, my phone camera told the truth. :D

I do like the sound of grammar growing as high as an elephant's eye, though. If only we could actually do that.

*sighs wistfully*

[arieo.livejournal.com]

Sigh. It looks like a tough life, being a cat :)
Beechworth looks so nice. It looks like a very carefree and relaxing place, where you could sit on your front porch and look out at your fields of canola :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It is very relaxing... unless you go into the main part, where you're forced to do battle with tourists. It's much safer to stay on the porch with the cat, really.

[arctic-firefox.livejournal.com]

*sigh* ... at the ABS induction session there were a lot of misplaced apostrophes, so I completely sympathise. How the literacy level in this nation has sunk so low I cannot understand.

Canola is a wonderful plant; in fact, if we were to use it as a fuel, it would be so much CHEAPER and LESS POLLUTING. Okay, so it only works in diesel engines, but I'm sure someone could find a way around that!

Life seems so much simpler in regional Victoria ... *sigh*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Hi there, AF! It's nice to see you around on LJ. :)

It'd be great if we could all make use of a cheaper, less-pollutant fuel but I guess that's not going to happen until the government can work a way to make a great deal of money on it. Not that I'm cynical or anything...

I suppose it is a little simpler out there but it'd a bit more fun if there was some more water going around. It's so dry and it just keeps getting dryer.