[Leica] opening bell

[bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)]

Wondering whether it was a good spoof or fact, I left my screen to  
head for the sitting-room/lounge to collect the Times atlas of the  
World, passing the kitchen on the way .......... and there I saw  
celery stalks; red, green and yellow peppers + some long yellow ones;  
red tomatoes of differing sizes and .......... I thought that after  
all this discerning talk over Scotch (nobody mentioned the quality of  
Irish and Welsh malts), one of you just must know what ingredients  
and what weights are used to make a slender/thin pizza  
base ........... and is the topping to be cooked at the same time or  
can the base be baked alone?

I found the island group Kiribati where it has always  
been .............. almost on the International Date  
Line ............. and entitled Gilbert Islands, appertaining to the  
British, not English. Would it have to do with the origin of the atlas?

Does the "rusting scrap metal" have a use for travel-weary Leica  
repair men or users ............. rare metals for shutter-fixes, the  
film retainer, winder battery support. At least there are a couple of  
hotels to pause before action.

To further excite the potential traveller to Kirimati, could you  
share your photographic renditions with the rest of us ...........  
please?

B.

On 15-dec-2005, at 18:01, reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us wrote:

> In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it
> is just after sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica
> Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is officially open for
> business.
>
> Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is
> prounced "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as
> Kirimati and Kiritimati. Kiritimati is pronounced
> "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was an
> English colony, it was  known as Christmas Island. There
> is another unrelated island with that name (an Australian
> territory in the Indian ocean). Kirimati is part of the
> Line Islands archipelago.
>
> Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service.
> Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it
> is now safe in terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot
> of cast-off military hardware littering the edges of the
> island, but it serves more as a replacement for pandanus
> leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of
> rusting scrap metal serve as landmarks.
>
> There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow
> sand flats around the island.  It's slow film country; the
> light is incredibly intense, being very near the equator.
>
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