Drifting through life

 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. Last Wednesday I set off to visit "no-one" who is home on holidays and on the way to the bus stop, I noticed this deep red in between the greens this fiery orange/red pencil pines that hadn't been this tall last autumn and the lilies in the front corner garden of the complex which faces the main road (my corner faces a side street) in the city new planter boxes have been placed around the trees on Currie Street and at "no-one's" house I saw her minia

  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 David M. Gascoigne and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:   1. variable 2. looking 3. sometimes 4. quite 5. define 6. colourful  and/or:   1. tried 2. song 3. honest 4. mood 5. answer 6. favourite also included in Charlotte's colour of the month May Green Here is my story, continuing from last week (a little rushed as I have been out two days in a row and Lola is sticking to me like glue from anxiety)   As she worked Theresa told a little more of what life was like in the village.

 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. Andrew is still on holiday so probably hasn't posted anything. this is one of the windchimes I have hanging inside, the backing is a cream coloured bed sheet doubling as a curtain until I find something more colourful. and a closer look On my porch, my volunteer sunflower has been nipped off by the cockatoos there is the dead flower head, I pulled the whole plant out and now there aere two new volunteers in its place, still in the tiny two leaf stage. in the garden, this is

  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 David M. Gascoigne and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. wine 2. oneself 3. once 4. approaching 5. admission 6. kidding  and/or:  1. face 2. life 3. accept 4. sunny 5. aches 6. dread Here is my story continuing on from last week: Simon showed the man and his son to a small room with two beds and a tray with fruit and asked them to please feel free to rest as long as they want and someone would come in soon with salve and wrappings for their feet. “May I ask your names please?” The

 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. Andrew is still away in England so may or may not join us. this is the mulberry tree growing within the grounds, you can see by the trunk it is fairly young still, although it has been here since before I moved in twelve years ago. the leaves are bigger than my hand and very bright when the sun is on them. Two or three years ago this tree was trimmed back so severely it was little more than the trunk with a small canopy, where once the branches were plentiful and hung almost t

  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 David M. Gascoigne and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. little 2. application 3. care 4. companionship 5. father 6. only  and/or:  1. farm 2. progress 3. hedgerow 4. wet 5. distinguished 6. industrial also including Charlotte's colour of the month which is May green . Here is my story: Many years had passed since the last of the industrial cities had failed, the robots that ran the machines had broken down and no one knew how to fix them. Progress had stopped. It had been at

 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 more 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. Andrew is still on holiday. beginning with one picture sent by "no-one" raindrops on the clover in her yard Back in the grounds here again now: colourful garden decoration, a painted wooden toilet seat a very ruffly double hibiscus this ginger is one of several new kittens roaming around, he allowed me to scratch his head for two seconds this tortoiseshell was quite shy and this younger tortie took off as soon as I stepped in his direction pretty tiles on S's windowsi