Drifting through life

  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 Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. clawing 2. sunglasses 3. landscape 4. Grandee 5. anodyne  and/or:  1. descriptive 2. resilience 3. country 4. slice 5. finger  and a few extra words:  1. rainbow 2. coriander 3. falling 4. art 5. exhibit 6. sage Also included is Charlotte's colour of the month: turquoise blue I have not used all the words this time, but here is my story: Clawing through the miscellaneous items in her big shoulder bag, Carol finally

 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.  is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. the jade by the front porch is flowering more than it ever did before, this one is in a pot autumn leaves on the geranium one of my aeoniums has developed a flower stalk! first one ever for my garden, the blooms will be yellow. the recent rains have washed all the bird poops off my mushroom I had high hopes for my one lonely potato plant but when checking yesterday I found all the leaves chewed away so I'll be digging it up tomorrow. Hopefully there is at least one little potato unde

  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 Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:   1. archetype 2. clouds 3. rummage 4. weakly 5. shovel  and/or:  1. grace 2. blot 3. jackdaw 4. legume 5. poet also included is Charlotte's colour of the month- turquoise blue Here is my continuing story: Grace rummaged in the old hope chest until she found her Grandpa’s floppy old gardening hat. Once a bright azure in colour it had faded over the years to a softer turquoise blue . Jamming it onto her head, she made he

 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. going way back into the past: My very first captures of The Roulettes back in about 2009 I think, taken with my very first digital camera. More recently, about 2013 or later: I had bulbs in my garden before I put the Jades in, these are Ixias, in varied colours all beautiful, but tall with flower heads too heavy for the thin stems so they flopped over, I planted many of them inside the windmill frame hoping it would support them but it didn't. here we see Mick and Paddy diggin

  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 Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. mimsy (somewhat feeble) 2. bitter 3. dress 4. thyme 5. boom  and/or:   1. dish 2. genre 3. embroidery 4. bread 5. spread Also including Charlotte's colour of the month, turquoise blue . Here is my story, a further chapter in the new "free village" With Gunther and Sven both being able to read and write, a type of classroom had been established in a corner of the original library with the help of the ancient

 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. late afternoon sun across my grass no prizes for guessing what I am making ready to bake, the tiny white blobs are> baby bocconcini ready to eat, it was very yum. these two front-end loader/ backhoe machines were parked out front of my flats for almost a week some moody clouds which promised a storm but broke up and floated away Gen likes to help with the shopping now that she can reach the shelves from the pram mmm, let's try this cake stuff doesn't taste like broc

  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 Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. eyebrow 2. roiling 3. refuse 4. gratifying 5. newsreel  and/or:  1. knead 2. air 3. journey 4. port 5. crime I have included words I didn't use last week. Also including Charlotte's colour of the month which is Turquoise Blue (my favourite) for June. Here is my story:  The television newsreel showed thick black clouds of smoke roiling upward and outward from the firestorm devouring the tons of refuse that ha

  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. Nothing but babies here today and I am using photos sent to me from other people's phones so the order is quite mixed up. I didn't take my camera, thinking I would rely on my phone, but I don't know how to transfer photos from phone to computer, something I still have to learn. Anyway, get ready for twins overload, at their birthday party. Anastasia, one year old now Genevieve also one year old now me saying hello to each in turn, notice the little curls beginning