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WAGS 11.11.2020: Remember!

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  This begs the question 'If a picture is worth a thousand words and silence speaks when words can not - Can Silence speak without being seen?' Just saying! Answers in a comment please.       Rarely does Remembrance Day fall on a Wednesday - probably about 1 in 7 if the truth be known. It did this  year. Formerly, if I had been leading a walk, I would stop and call for 1 or 2 minutes silence, for those who wished to observe the occasion. This year, 11:11am caught the two halves of the Lagos bubble in Cafe Trindade, and Chris and I were silent anyway.        The Chris and Antje component of the Lagos Bubble were at the end of their walk - a short outing at Ponte de Piedade, with no recorded stats,  and the Paul and Myriam semi-bubble had not quite got round to starting their walk when Antje called to invite us to meet for coffee. Start/Finish photo featuring the complete Lagos Bubble (thanks to the miracle of the Delfie Art App) and the 5...

WAGS 04.11.2020: The Bubble bursts!

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         At least it did in Lagos this Wednesday, as neither of the two pairs of bubblets managed a proper walk, and the potential 5th member, Peter has remained silent despite all the recent banter on WhatsApp.     I spent most of the day trying to get a photo of a bubble bursting, and got through almost two bottles of Fairy Liquid (other brands are available), which didn't really matter as Myriam has copious supplies.     I thought about claiming the one above as my own work, but here I am calling Trump a liar, and I haven't plucked the beam out of my own eye! It is from an article entitled 'How to Capture a Photo of a Bubble Bursting' by Richard Beech.  You don't need to Google it - It is next to impossible with a phone camera - even a OnePlus 7 Pro! Perhaps Yves will prove me wrong!     I won't bore you with the reasons that neither the Whittles nor we ourselves were in the field on Wednesday, but all were deemed acceptabl...