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Sunday Selections #803

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 Long ago, Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us. In memory of Elephant's Child, the meme is now continued by myself and a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us occasionally. this is a sunset view from the bedroom window of my brother's new house. this jungly garden is hiding something... a lovely old concrete birdbath grevillea flowers, these ones are quite large at 3-4 inches long, while many other grevilleas have flowers so tiny they are barely seen. The shrubs are prickly, which makes them perfect hiding places for birds as cats avoid them. a metal panel in someone's garden has a nice design e...
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This is for Mary Moon who lives in Florida

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 I hope she finds it. On her blog I mentioned that I recently had my sneakers re-heeled and she wondered how that was possible since only "high end" shoes can be re-heeled where she lives. unless I misunderstood. I took a few photos: these are my newest sneakers, not yet worn, and this is what the soles&heels look like on an older pair, you can see how the outside edge of the heel gets worn down, that's where my foot strikes as I walk, both feet-outside edge and when they get too far worn, my stride is "off" and I start feeling it in hips and lower back pain. So I get them re-heeled. here are my older white sneakers with the new black rubber heel, it doesn't match, but who cares? the shoes are now stable for walking. see the name? Tough "good-year" rubber. These are the people who make car tyres. Look closely and you will see one edge already getting worn, I had these fixed quite some time ago and these are the shoes I wear all day every day.
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Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.  If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words are supplied by messymimi and can be found on her blog as well as here on mine . Charlotte's colour of the month is Steel Blue. This week's words are: 1.well  2.understanding  3.challenge  4.person  5.genuine  6.suffering and/or: 1.faith  2.ambition  3.chance  4.hard  5.design  6.closet Here is my story: Dean sent around a message asking for a meeting at the old wishing well at 10am. Sam was waiting when he arrived and soon after they were joined by Jesse and Ryan. "What...
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Words for Wednesday

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  Three times I have tried to schedule this on the new laptop and it just won't. I haven't managed to get it properly set up, the date and time are wrong and won't change no matter how many times I try, the language is set to UK English instead of Australian English and won't change. And I am unable to add links, pictures or underlining. 😒 So here I am on the old laptop, with all fingers crossed 🤞🤞 The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by messymimi and can be found on her blog as well as here on mine This week's words/pro...
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Aaaarrrgh! Why does it have to be so hard?

 I have been battling to sort out the new laptop, a Lenovo. It came with Windows 11, not such a big change there. But everything else, (the entire operating system?) seems to be light years ahead of everything I know. So far I am able to read and reply to emails, read and leave comments on blogs and that's about it. I am unable to make the time and date correct for my country and daylight saving, I've been to "settings" and clicked around several times but it hasn't worked. Language ditto. I mistakenly chose UK English instead of Australian English and now I can't change it.  I am able to write a "new post" but any formatting such as underlining words or sentences can't be done, pictures cannot be added in (bye bye Sunday Selections?) and scheduling a post for the next day or the next week is also out of the question.  Shouldn't blogger just be the same from one laptop to another? Even with a different operating system? The general format of ...
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Sunday Selections # 802

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 Long ago, Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us. In memory of Elephant's Child, the meme is now continued by myself and a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us occasionally. on my way to somewhere last Saturday I noticed this section of garage wall looking quite unsteady and as if it might tumble down any day now. in another street I saw this row of neat garages looking a lot like beach huts where one would change clothing in days of not-quite yore and another very fancy-schmancy car dealership it is also a repair shop I believe catering for a range of up-market vehicles but this wasn't my destin...
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Alert Notice

 My laptop is dying, sluggish and many (all) icons on task bar are unresponsive so I may be off line for a day while I buy and set up a new one. I hope I remember how: plug in, type in password and good to go, right?  We'll see.  I have written down all the websites I need to visit my favourite blogs, and Sunday Selections is already prescheduled.  All is good, right? 
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