Maggie Leighly from El Cerrito in California has been appointed to Minister of Landscape Architecture.
Minister Leighly says: “As minister I will oversee the forests of Ladonia, as well as its bosques, wetlands, river systems, lakes, vineyards and meadows. Additionally I will be charged with regulating the design, construction and renovation of Ladonia’s piazzas, courtyards, fountains, processional staircases, belvederes, amphitheaters, bicycle paths, pedestrian paths, parking lots and all other public spaces.”
View from El Cerrito. Probably the landscape details are a work by our new minister.
Progress report: The hangar for the Ladonian Air Force has at long last
been completed. We are awaiting the installation of electrical service
so we can open the main door (makes it easier to get the Ladonian Air
Force in and out.) The doors and windows have been installed in the
temporary headquarters building (otherwise known as “the guest house”),
and the next step is to have the block exterior installed. Then we add
wiring, plumbing and drywall, and that one is done. (Whew.) More to
follow. Building a house is hardly rocket science, but it does take
attention to detail and almost fanatical persistence. And some money.
Best Regards,
Mike Arman
Minister of Finance
It should be said that even if Ladonia will have aircrafts in the US, they will only be used for peaceful operations.
The Ladonian Pope has written:
“The Catholic Pope may wear a weird hat, but the Ladonian Pope (at
least this one) wears a very neat green one which he (the Ladonian
Pope, or rather, one of the Ladonian Popes) thinks is rather
good-looking.
Pope Sillius LXVIII, Wearer of the Funny Green Hat”
Unfortunately I have no available picture of the green hat Holy Sillius but just take a look at the hat fashion in the Vatican:
Who is going to live at the outpost of the world, the new part of Ladonia, Ultima Thule?
They are already there:
My ministry proposes that Ultima Thule will be proclaimed as the official colony for polar teddy bears and teddy seals.
Taru
minister, Ministry of Teddy Animal Reservoirs
Here they come:
Minister Taru had a dream and performed an exhibition:
“In the dream I was going to see a Ladonian art exhibition on an island in somewhere in the Arctic Sea, it could have been Spitsbergen belonging to Norway or Novaya Zemlya belonging to Russia, but most probably an imaginary place somewhere in between. In the beginning I met Lars and another Ladonian artist I didn’t know before. He was definitely Nordic, looked like a Norwegian or a Dane (all Swedish Cabinet members surely recognize the style: take anyone from the Danish football team, add 15 years and make him wear a shabby woollen pullover), but we talked in English, so that I did not really hear where he was from. First he took me to see his artworks in one basement. It was made of small statuettes, it was hilariously funny, and it had a point which I found brilliant but had totally forgotten by the time I woke up.
But even better was the town which was fascinating. The style was 20th century European architecture, mostly early functionalism, white and concrete, but still with traditional city plan with long, somewhat curvy streets, or rather channels, because the whole city was built on water, so that we moved around on boats on these narrow streets and through corridors to courtyards, still covered with water. Still, there seemed to be not much floods or waves, since people lived on the ground level as well. I remember having thought how this town must be beautiful in winter too, when all channels are covered with ice and snow.
Next I went alone to Lars’ exhibition and found two miniature Russian kids outside (the scale of statuettes must have stucked in my mind, I seldom mix sizes in my dreams). This museum located on some kind of island, so there was some rocky land outside, wher the kids were playing. They asked me to take them to see the exhibition and so I raised them to my hand and took them inside. Inside was totally white (although there may have been something on the back wall of the L-shaped room, otherwise walls were bare). Lars had changed the perspective of the room with white plastic structures so that there was no angle or corner visible on the ground level, but everything was curved somehow. These structures of hard plastic reached me to waist-breast level, but for the miniature Russian kids they were huge and they enjoyed sliding down the structures when I placed them on the top. Inside was Lars, preparing for a coal grill to grill sausages, which was to be a part of his exhibition.”
Yes, the state secretary is very happy to have three visitors. I have made a small drawing of the event:
As you can see, the white room, the playing children, the grill man and minister Taru entering.
The first car has arrived to Ladonia. We think it is wise to begin with cars before we take any decisions on roads. Thus we have very few traffic accidents. The Bentley is owned by Minister and Prince James Hartman who just has begun to drive around in his Hartmanburg.
Minister Hartman’s Bentley in Ladonia
We have a new minister in the cabinet: Andy, Endre Toth (Hungary) Minister of Bows, Archery and Croquet. We are happy to have a represent from Hungary where more than 700 Ladonians are living.
Minister Andy at work
Latest news from the Ministry!
From today the mail at the ministry is divided up in three major groups, The Minister, The Ministry and The Ministry Gallery. This way the swedish mail service easily can distinguish the different operating departments and deliver the mail divided and accurately.
Minister of Art & Jump Fredrik Axwik
We are a couple of weeks late with this celebration, but nevertheless, here we go for it and give the word to the minister:
“The Ministry of the River Ladon in Arcadia is
celebrating it’s Two Years Anniversary on August the
8th.
Proud to be part of this Nation, I’m presenting the
“Two Years Anniversary Commemorative Stamps”.
A sheetlet of stamps picturing the Ministry’s Army.
The Minister will go on celebrating by:
- Releasing his new Web Site by the end of August.
- Presenting a new game for you and your kids at the
begining of September!
Thanks to anyone that made my Ministry worth
excisting!”
The Minister of the River Ladon in Arcadia
Sir Vassilios Roumeliotis,
Knight of Arcadia
http://www.geocities.com/vassilispe/
James Hartman, minister of future science and prince of Hartmanburg, is a keen designer. For the design year in Ladonia, he has made this beuatiful vase. Already now a modern classic.
“Nimis Vase” A James Hartman Design 2005