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Unfortunately I don't get out very much, so haven't been able to get many photos for today's theme. Apple eh???? Well here is my apple blossom which is the beginning of a lovely crop of apples each year. I have three/four apple trees in my garden and

Hiya folks, have been rather quiet of late - sorry!!!! I've been trying to jiggle my time between my children and my neighbours and also trying to get over my Christmas away. My daughter, Mandi, has come home, sans new hubby. She is sad at having to

Well I had the turkey stew and it was really good. Trouble is - I don't follow a recipe and therefore it rarely tastes the same!! I get a great kick out of managing to make a meal as cheaply as possible. Over here in the UK we don't have any food

Rules for dating my Son, Rule One: If my son gathers his courage and asks you for a date, this is not an opportunity to run all your errands with my car. Sweetie, you will not ask him to take you on any little side trips to anywhere, especially the

Rules for dating my Daughter Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk, you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure as hell not picking anything up. Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so

There's not a lot going on in my life at the moment - the thrill of my daughter getting married, having Christmas with my son's soon to be in-laws and having a mildish start to the New Year has sort of left me hanging at the moment!!! I've started on a

Thank you so so much folks for your very kind wishes today. I honestly swear that these birthdays come round twice a year now!!! It's been a lovely quiet day, well it was until my handyman came round to see how I was, and when he found out it was my

I have trawled through my photos and can only come up with these. I've been busy today with my children visiting me, so haven't had much time for looking up for this weeks theme. I hope you like my choices............ The beautiful elegance of an

Hello - thought it was about time I wrote to let you all know what's been going on in my life since I last wrote a blog............ not a lot!!!! LOL Well on my birthday, and again thank you so much for all your lovely messages, my handyman Ron, turned

36 PERFECTLY TIMED ANIMAL SHOTS Check out 36 perfectly timed animal shots. Taken with high precision but most of the time just lucky shots.Animal photography at it’s best, at least in a fun way.. Image Credit: Igor Siwanowicz Image Credit:

Subject: Chicken with popcorn ! Here is a chicken recipe that also includes the use of popcorn as a Stuffing - imagine that!

I can't wait for better weather and also a car, so I can get out and about and be able to take new photos to go with our challenges!!! This is a long cat stretching in the sun - he really wants his tummy tickled, but he was too far away for me to

It's been another cold day here, although we have been so lucky compared to some other parts of the country. I live in the south west of England and it's a rare occasion that snow actually visits us. I know the last couple of years or so have been the

Today I had to go to the doctor's surgery to have my blood test taken, it's to do with my annual review. While I was walking back up my driveway, I noticed that some hardy primroses were trying ever so hard to bloom, this year's first sign of spring here

Oh well yesterday was an interesting one - one that got more interesting late in the evening!!!! It all started this morning when I thought my appointment for a blood test was at 12pm whereas it wasn't until 12.15!! Luckily my driver from the volunteer

I have been very fortunate to have journeyed to many wonderful places over the years. Here are some that I have been to............ This was when I was a small child and my parents used to take me out for day trips in our old trusty car - funnily enough

7 Reasons Not To Mess With Children A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The

Well we've not had an awful lot of icy weather in my part of the world, but in 2010 we did - boy did we!!!! We had a really bitter hoar frost and it made beautiful patterns on ordinary mundane items...... Looking up through the snow at the ice

I just adore Simon's Cat and it is so true to life - had this problem at some time with my cats....... youtu.be/Te4wx4jtiEA

See if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common? 1. Banana 2. Dresser 3. Grammar 4. Potato 5. Revive 6. Uneven 7. Assess Are you peeking or have you already given up? Give it another try.... Look at each word

Trying not to sit around with nothing to do while I'm waiting for the backing material to come, I've started a quilt I'm giving to my neighbour, Yvonne, for Christmas. I know it's 11 months to go, but she's got me making some bunting for her son's

If ever you are in doubt about the weather forecast here is a guaranteed way to tell from Ireland.

I've just had a phone call from my son with some wonderful news - well in fact it's lots of news really....... Firstly he said that he and his fiancee Stevie are going for adoption. She's 45 and he's 43 and they've been trying for quite a while now to

Here are six reasons why you should think before you speak -the last one is great! Have you ever spoken and wished that you could immediately take the words back... Here are the Testimonials of a few people who did.... I walked into

I have a deep seated fear of falling so cliffs etc are a no-no for me............. These cliffs at Hartland are beautiful to look at - but they are very scary to me............. You see they are really beautiful but there is no way you'd ever

Thought you'd like to know that I've been sewing like there's no tomorrow lately!!!!!!! As I've mentioned before - I'm making myself a patchwork quilt - but for some reason I stopped - can't remember why, but while I was waiting for something to arrive so

Has anyone noticed that some words are underlined and even highlighted?? I was reading some blogs etc and suddenly noticed that certain words were highlighted and when I clicked on them, an advert for something completely different suddenly

SIMPLE TRUTH 1 Lovers help each other undress before sex. However after sex, they always dress on their own. Moral of the story: In life, no one helps you once you're screwed. SIMPLE TRUTH 2 When a lady is pregnant, all her friends touch

I am a cat person as you've no doubt realised by now and the last few years I've been so happy with my cats and also very sad by their quick passing. Roxy was 12 years old but he got some illness and died last year. He wasn't all that keen on

This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It is reported to have been listed in the Cornish Guardian. SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the

This is an actual answering machine message from an Australian school - I think we should all have this on our schools...................... www.youtube.com/embed/Pwghabw4N80?rel=0

Hi Folks, Subject: STUDENT WHO OBTAINED ZERO IN AN EXAM

This is taken from the "Late Show" on BBC Midlands Radio................ ALEX TRELINSKI - What is the capital of Italy? CONTESTANT - France ALEX TRELINSKI - France is another country. Try again. CONTESTANT - Oh, um, Benidorm. ALEX TRELINSKI -

Okay I've trawled through some photos and found these................ This is a bent river flowing into the sea in North Devon.............. This Christmas tree decoration is so pretty with the bent wire ................... The necklace has a

.......so glad that I'd had something to eat way before I ventured out into the big wide world. I'd done my shopping, and we'd just loaded the car up with our bags and I took the trolley back to the little plastic covered place to stack it back in line

I'm only keeping up with Mickey & Max and their pets being ontop of them.......... This is my old cat Pani who's favourite position was to lie flat out on his back. He was such a laid back cat............... Here Pani had to lie on Mandi's

Well I've got a few pictures here of reclining............. My son Tony reclining on a hammock when he was on holiday in Crete................. My daughter Mandi very cleverly positioned these foam pipes to be able to recline and eventually fall

Well I'd measured the blocks for my neighbour's quilt and it seemed to be the right size - BUT............ I hadn't realised how much hand quilting was going to "shrink" the quilt!!!!!! I've lost over 12" all over - so I'm going to have to make 10 more

Hiya folks, Just thought I'd let you know that I won't be around for a few days, I'm going to stay with my daughter until Monday night, so I won't be able to come and visit you until about Tuesday. As she has lost a lot of weight, there are many

Ah did you miss me then?? LOL NOT!! I had a great weekend away, it was a lovely warm day on Friday when I went by bus to meet my daughter, it was sunny and I really enjoyed sitting out in the sun waiting for her. I spent Saturday morning taking in so

This is brilliant and I do remember everything on it - it was great to see so many of the things I'd forgotten about youtu.be/HeEWtNaW6KE

Well this is a good one I must say - it certainly made me think of what to put here......... So I thought of a X-mas tree.............................. A sunset with a "X" marking the sky............ Sorry folks couldn't think of any more for the

You don't have to own a cat to appreciate this. We were dressed and ready to go out for the New Year’s Eve Party. We turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard. We phoned the local

Forgot My Glasses

All hair removal methods have tricked us with their promises of easy, painless removal. The epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now.... The Wax!! My night began as any other normal weekday night. Come home; fix dinner; played with the kids. I then had

Hiya folks, Thought I'd just write a small blog to let you know how's things are going on. I've had a nice quiet few days which was really necessary for me as I'd done such a lot the previous week. Anyway I've just been sewing my friend's quilt so

I've just tried to access my Multiply account which was fine a couple of days ago and wanted to get more photos off there, but there is a big page saying that the Multiply social site has now officially closed down, but we are welcome to access their

Took a couple of photos of myself this evening and of course Pippin had to get in on the act!! LOL. Anyway as you can see the mole that had been bothering me for years and I had taken off a couple of weeks ago, is gone and you can't see the scar at all -

As you can see - I'm well cushioned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL As is the quilt I'm nearly finishing.................... Friends I made on holiday who were enjoying the cushion of a lilo to have some fun......... Okay folks that's about all.

Paddy had been drinking at his local Dublin pub all day and most of the night celebrating St Patrick's Day. Mick, the bartender says, " You'll not be drinking anymore tonight Paddy. Paddy replies, "OK Mick, I'll be on my way then." Paddy

My neighbour, Yvonne, came up today to sort out what design and what colours she wants for the quilt for her daughter that I'm making for her. She'd decided before she came that baby blue kitch would be the order of the day and so I said that it would

This isn't an easy subject - it required some deep thinking on my part, which isn't a good thing as it stands!!! LOL So I looked around and couldn't find any pom poms and I'd be darned if I was to make some just for you lot, so I had a good

Well today we had lovely sunny periods and out of the wind it was actually warm-ish!! So I decided to go out and get some healthy lungfuls of fresh air. I walked up my driveway and noticed quite a lot of clumps of primroses in places they haven't been

Couldn't believe it but it was sunny again today!!!!!!!!!!!! I had to do a wash, and so I thought I'd see if I could get it dry by putting it on the line. When I took it out of the machine, somehow I'd left a tissue in a pocket!!!!!!!!!! You can guess

Well it was a gloriously sunny day today, although the temperature didn't rise over 9C, but the sky was clear all day and that yellow thing in the sky shone all day. I did another wash and this time the whole wash dried beautifully. That's twice already

My son's first book had not only been published but has actually arrived at my home!!! I am so so proud of his achievements and to hold it in my hand is incredible. I have read some of the stories before, but must revisit them and then write my feedback

It might be almost the end of the first week of April but it's damn cold and I have to still light a fire to keep me warm........ It's a bummer too that I have to have it lit in the middle of the day too................ Pippin was feeling the cold as

The quilt is finished!!!! I almost can't believe it myself. My fingers will be very pleased too - they are quite sore at the moment, well the middle ones are where the needle has been pressed into them while I did the handsewing. You can see how

This sticky toffee pudding was more than succulent - it was scrumptious.............. This flower looks very succulent to the bee......................

Cowboy Solution. I really like the gasoline part at the end!!! I have lived, loved, lost and loved again. Life is not easy,..... but it is what it is.

I felt bereft today - I didn't have any sewing to do!!!!!!!!!!! So I decided to try and do what I've been advised to do - and that was to rest my sore fingers. I lasted about 2 hours and then................... I hoovered the lounge and the kitchen,

For those of you who are old enough to remember, enjoy. For the rest - it's a history lesson!! Very surprising how time and memory has taken its toll. Have things really changed this much in our time? - EATING IN THE

THE GYNAECOLOGIST WHO BECAME A MECHANIC

Spring will bloom next week as the cold snap that is winter's last blast moves away, according to forecasters. Temperatures will reach up to 20C on Sunday in parts of the south and east and will get up to double figures across all of Britain after one

Well today's theme is a good one - it's making my little grey cells work overtime and the poor little things are still recovering from last time!!!!!!!! So my contribution may not be to everyone's idea for today's theme, but it's the best I can do!!!

Mandi has just rung me and it was wonderful hearing her voice again after a two week lapse. She is apparently lovely and brown (hiss - boo - hiss!!!!), she's more in love with her hubby now than before, if that had been possible. They were going to go to

Well today the temperatures actually reached double figures!!! I think we hit the heady heights of 11C. So inbetween the showers - see we can't have mild weather without a down side - rain!!! - I went out and sowed some wild flowers in the banks. I wanted

You'd never have known that yesterday was a lovely warm sunny day by looking out the window today!! It's overcast and the wind is very strong. It's gone back to being cold again, so that's a bummer. I was going shopping today and so I had to scramble my

The weather has been wonderful today. Blue skies, light winds and sun!! Bliss. It was warm all day, to the fact that I actually had the lounge window open all day. So now my house has been aired out for the first time since October. That's 6 months of

The tulips in my driveway are starting to come out..... Then I noticed some bluebells peeking out along the banks of the driveway....... The little primroses have found a way of growing in the pot next to a small tulip - how I just don't know

Well Summer has brought this very intense theme..... my poor brain cells were strained to their limits to think of what to put here - thanks Summer!!! This is Tippi looking very intensely at something in the garden........... and then I can see she'd

She arrived this morning all brown and it wasn't from rust!!!!!!!!!! After I'd hissed and booed, I really had to admire the wonderful colour she was............ She's looking good and just see that colour of her arms!!!!!!! Makes you want to spit

To appreciate this joke, you need to be able to picture the event as you are reading it. A little boy blows up a balloon and starts flicking it all around the house with his finger. His mother tells him to stop it as he's liable to break something,

Ann & Peter's garden is definitely a spring garden. The flowers are just so beautiful and as for the primroses - there are hundreds of them. Between you and me - I swear they've been over to my garden and dug some of mine up!!!! But don't tell them I

The weather was great - blue sky and sun, but damn that wind was like a cheese wire!!!!!!!!!! It was so bitterly cold, but if you got out of the north easterly and could find the sun, it was a lovely day. I noticed this morning that the cherry blossom had

Oh boy this certainly stretched my little brain box somewhat................ Well to try and find some different pictures for you all............... So here is my contribution to this week's theme........ The rocks here stretch out to the

A supermarket chain, which has stores across the North West, has withdrawn bags of nuts from sale because they contain nuts. Booths decided to pull its Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts from the aisles because its label does not declare it contains

This is oh so funny. youtu.be/polvp085M7A

Well some of the UK has had rain over the last couple of weeks, but my tiny bit of the south west has avoided any. I've seen the dark clouds coming ominously closer and closer, but then some kind wind drove them away and so they could deposit their load

When people ask what you learned today ... Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship. It was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common. It was shipped

Just seen that the coastline in the county next to mine - Dorset, has fallen into the sea. This is quite a dramatic fall, and luckily it happened during the night and hopefully no-one was on the beach or on the coast path when it happened. It was

It's been a gorgeously warm day today with wall to wall blue sky and sun, and if you got out of the wind, it was gloriously warm too. I had to go shopping today with my neighbour, but I still managed to take a couple of photos of Pippin snoozing away on

Right here are my contributions to this week's theme - constriction. Now my poor little brain had more than it's usual work-out trying to think of what I could put up for this title. I wasn't going to strangle myself like our Mr Ferris, but what could I