Seen while I was gallivanting in a multicultural landscape

Duplicating, has faded away, the term is no longer heard, the stencils, the ink and the clatter have gone from around here. Roneo was another term.
Gestetner was a Hungarian who began manufacturing in Tottenham, North London and ended up with hugh world wide sales of the duplicating machine. The design was very effective. Mimeograph and Roneo were other contenders. The company merged with others and the NRG Group appears to be the result.
My very last foray with a duplicator happened when a printing supplier failed at short notice and I tried to 'fill the gap', I was inexperienced, it was very tricky but ended up with something like the original.

The cicadas are active. An empty 'shell' and a walking specimen are captured here impromptu.   A4 scrap paper scale.

In a flash, this was flung some distance off the car in the accident yesterday. Toyota vehicles are our best sellers and they are very reliable cars.
But hey, in the southern oceans, the Japanese whaling fleet is a disgrace.

Japanese Story is having a rerun this week and the 'Toyota leap', from the ads, is made by the Japanese visitor when the car gets free of the sand in the outback. The starkness, the silences and the mundane, as someone said, are very memorable sequences and the corny parts don't stand in the way of the quirky, unexpected insights in the film.

Seat belts save lives! Last night, this driver was unharmed. ....oh! what a feeling!......
A power pole stood between the car and the side of a house.
Unrelated to this crash: does publicity about road rage cause more instances of road rage?