Drifting through life

 You all know the ice cream company? Very expensive ice cream, which I recently discovered in small tubs at my local supermarket.  I'd heard about Salted Caramel ice cream, with some bloggers raving about it, so when I saw the Haagen-Dazs tubs on sale for only $5 I bought some.  I loved it! Fabulous stuff. Just the right amount of salted caramel streams to counteract the sweet ice cream. I would have rated it five stars. But just lately, I have been disappointed with the product containing far too much of the salted caramel and my rating now would be only one star. I went to the website and clicked on "contact us" to let them know I was no longer happy. The link popped up with an address to "General Mills" which I then clicked on only to find a small popup informing me they were "offline".  Just because it is past regular business hours or permanently? Who knows.  So I'm airing my grievance here instead. If this results in fewer sales of their Sa

 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 overseas bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Starting today with my fridge:  and the cartoon I found on the side I never see anymore, enlarging it should enable you to read the words. behind the fridge is 11 years worth of dust which I discovered when I had to pull the machine out to untangle the extension duster I was using to swipe under it. look at that! clearly 11 years worth of swiping with the extension duster has only pushed most of the dust to the back wall . a lot of it got dragged out when I pulled the fridge, I

  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 and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. Cyrillic 2. rogue 3. perish 4. Paris 5. parish  and/or: 1. a foolish waste of time 2. overcome 3. reading secret messages 4. new orders  and/or: a movie clip of musicians playing the theme from Mission Impossible. Here is my story: Studying the curriculum for the upcoming year, my father exploded, “what is this?” as he read out loud, “Selective exotic language.” I told him that the new orders for schools wanted each of us to choose an uncommon

 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 overseas bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. In Port Wakefield near the tiny beach (on the way to Port Pirie) were these nicely painted planter pots across the road was this old gun/cannon? which is very nicely maintained in the Edward Robinson Memorial Park. There are other plaques with more information but I won't post those today. Port Pirie grain silos, huge, white, boring. Behind these is a smaller row of grey silos that were being built when I lived here. much prettier is this painted silo, set at the end of a d

 I spent the day with family and friends of family, at my grand-daughters baby shower. The weather was perfect, the food was great, games were played, groups of people formed, moved apart, reformed with different faces. So much chatter all around, it was so wonderful. I didn't take the camera, but wished later that I had. I can't post photos of people without their permission anyway. I'm home now and so very tired, all the sunshine and clean hills air will see me sleeping very soundly very soon. I don't even need to cook dinner! Not after all the food I ate there.

  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 Sandi and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. I will forgive this  2. Let me help  3. Tomorrow you'll see  4. How will I know it's you?  5. You will  and/or:   1. Those chains will break  2. Tell me  3. It's a lie  4. Tomorrow  5. Again also: a short video clip from the TV series Battlestar Galactica which I have not used. Here is my story: total fiction, not a true story He cracked his little whip so close the tip streaked across her bare toes, drawing blood. She flinche

  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 overseas bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. on the way to Port Pirie we stopped at Port Wakefield for lunch and I learned there is a tiny beach there. I'd never seen it before as we had always driven along the old highway which bypasses most of the town and had service stations on either side. We would fill up the tank, fill up our stomachs and keep going. So this little beach was a nice surprise that R had known about for years. there is a boardwalk spanning the water here you can see that is really is quite narrow