It is not uncommon for a homeowner to purchase beautiful outdoor furniture only to allow it to simply sit outside in the sun for weeks or even months without actually enjoying it. Not only is outdoor furniture something that you truly need for your home if you have a patio area but it will convert some of your property into additional liveable space. The results of your choice to go outside with your friends and family to enjoy the weather on a comfortable chair or chaise will completely improve the way that you enjoy the outdoors from the moment that you first position the chairs and table into place.
If you currently have one or more children living in the home with you, it is not uncommon for you to see them climbing on absolutely anything within reach even if you want them to calm down and stop tearing up the furniture. Outdoor chairs in Melbourne are not so easily destroyed because the fabric and materials used to create outdoor furniture must be strong enough to withstand the intense Australian sun throughout the entirety of the year. For this reason alone, great outdoor chairs and other options will make it possible for you to sit in comfort while your children play and have a great time in the beautiful outdoors.
Typically available for just a few hundred dollars, great outdoor furniture will not force you to empty your wallet just to enjoy many years of comfortable seating. Outdoor patio furniture is great for entertaining guests of any age, gender, or background in an environment that is inherently comfortable and unrestrictive. The patio is the perfect place to hold meals and gatherings with people you know. The simple addition of such furniture to your property will dramatically increase the appearance and charm of your home while allowing you to cover the things that you need without emptying your budget all at once on just a set of chairs.
Patio chairs look amazing and are difficult to get wrong when you consider just how many wonderful types and patterns are available. This durable fabric will stand up to absolutely anything including the fading powers of the sun and the passing of time that many other types of furniture cannot keep up with at all. It is imperative that you consider this option before the heat of the summer is at its peak so that you may take the best advantage of the many hours of great fun that you will get to spend with friends and family on your newly-decorated patio.
If you should want to do so, you may simply order your furniture online and then arrange it as you see fit after you receive it at your home. While DIY methods are not always ideal, the truth of the matter is you can enjoy the best hybrid of conventional and DIY by choosing a reputable Melbourne provider who will then help you to discover the perfect look for your patio in the grand scheme of things.
LONDON.- Today at Sothebys in London a new auction record was sent for any book illustration, when the original map of Winnie-the-Poohs Hundred Acre Wood by E.H. Shepard sold for £430,000. Possibly the most famous map in childrens literature, this charming sketch from 1926 was unseen for nearly half a century ahead of the sale. It was offered with an estimate of £100,000-150,000 in Sothebys sale of English Literature, History, Science, Childrens Books and Illustrations.
Featuring on the opening end-papers of the original 1926 book, the sketch introduces readers to the delightful imagination of Christopher Robin and his woodland friends. Exactly 40 years later the map played a starring role in the landmark Disney film - Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Tree - where it was brought to life as an animation in the films opening sequence.
As well as mapping the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh the sketch also captures the unique personalities of A.A. Milnes much-loved characters. Eeyore is depicted in his rather boggy and sad gloomy place with his head hanging sluggishly in the grass, whilst the energetic Roo bounces towards the sandy pit where he plays. A solitary Winnie-the-Pooh sits thoughtfully looking out over the wood to his friend, Christopher Robin, who stands with boyish arrogance looking back.
The charming childishness of Christopher Robin is marked by clumsily spelt locations, such as NICE FOR PICNICKS and 100 AKER WOOD, as well as a compass marked with points spelling out the title characters name. Shepards own amusing personality seeps into the illustration, as the map is signed off with the words Drawn by me and Mr Shepard helpd".
For full information, please click here. The previous record for any book illustration was £314,500, set at Sothebys in December 2014 for the original illustration for Poohsticks. More information here.
Among them was a most poignant illustration showing Christopher Robin and Pooh walking hand-in-hand to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest to say their final goodbye. In the emotional conclusion to his much-loved book  The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne finally signs off with one of the most heart-rending farewells in childrens literature: "wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place in the top of the Forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing." Estimated at £70,000-90,000, this drawing more than doubled its estimate to finally sell for £200,000 today. More details are here.
Two additional illustrations taken from Chapter Six of The House at Pooh Corner, showing the characters and a game of Pooh Sticks, were sold together for a combined total of £112,500. Originally reproduced on pages 95-6 of the published book, the ink drawings record the creation of the game with the first drawing showing Pooh, Piglet, Roo and Rabbit eagerly peering over the Poohsticks bridge, and the second, depicting an unexpected but comic turn of events, with Eeyore floating from beneath the bridge. More details are here.
Dr. Philip W. Errington Director and Senior Specialist, Department of Printed Books and Manuscripts, Sothebys said: I suspect that there isnt a single child who wouldnt instantly recognise this wonderful depiction of The Hundred Acre Wood. This is the first drawing you encounter in the book and is the visual guide to the entire world of Winnie-the-Pooh. In this group of original drawings, you can see the real skill of the artist, the skill of the strokes of his pen. They've never been brought out in the UK or the US with illustrations by anyone else apart from EH Shepard and that is the power, and ability of the illustrator, and why this is probably the most famous map in English literature.
In The Outstretched Shadow, which was named by VOYA as Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror book for 2003, Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory introduced readers to The Obsidian Trilogy and a complex new fantasy world populated by humans, centaurs, elves, talking unicorns, and demons. The Golden City of the Bells, where only humans live, is ruled by the Mage Council, practitioners of High Magic---a powerful magic that is stable and reliable, though rigidly controlled and performed only by men. Outside the City's walls, humans and magical beings mix freely and call upon Wild Magic---a system sometimes erratic, always driven by desire and need, and performed by both men and women. Now, in To Light a Candle, the Demon Queen sends her forces against her human and elven enemies, sowing distraction and death. In the human City, the Queen's agents work to divide the Council and foment rebellion among the City's citizens. In the countryside, they target the most vulnerable and valuable---the young Elf Prince and the Wild Mages who might be the Demons' most dangerous enemies. To his own surprise, young Kellen, once the disappointing son of the great Mage who leads the City's Mage Council, has become a powerful Knight-Mage. Valued for his bravery and his skills as both wizard and warrior, Kellen joins the Elves' war councils. Yet he cannot convince the City of his birth that it is in terrible danger. Kellen's sister Idalia, a Wild Mage with great healing ability, has pledged her heart to Jermayan, a proud Elven warrior. Someday Idalia will pay a tragic Price for a world-saving work of Wild Magic, but until then, she will claim any joy life can offer her. Jermayan, who has learned much while fighting at Kellen's side and loving the human Idalia, finds that everything changes when he Bonds with a dragon while rescuing the Elf Prince and becomes the first Elven Mage in a thousand years. Furious at her enemies' success with the dragon, the Demon Queen attacks in force. Light struggles against Dark, like flickering candle flames buried deep in the shadow of Obsidian Mountain. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys. But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually “think for themselves”? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia? By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind—and on our own.
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