Drifting through life

 Not that I'm afraid of them, I just don't want the little buggers in my house.  I was rummaging around in my pantry looking for something when I shifted a plastic bag of flour and it left a trail. Picked it up and saw a chewed hole, teeny tiny tooth marks in a ragged circle. Serves me right for storing flour in a plastic bag and forgetting about it. For five years. This under bench corner cupboard is my pantry. I tossed out that bag of flour, then set about emptying the whole cupboard onto my kitchen floor. Swept out the line of mouse poop on the top shelf, washed the shelves and went to visit my elderly neighbour while they dried. She'll be 88 this year and hs shrunk six full inches since I saw her last. She's losing weight too.  Anyway, I got home and started putting things back into the pantry. Well gosh, how long has this been in there? And that! I don't need that if I haven't even looked at it all these years. Into the bin with it. And the other thing, and...

 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. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us. Recently I met up with family members at Brighton Beach> where we saw this gorgeous little red car walked along the jetty and watched the waves rippling in marvelled at the changing colours according to water depth and sun angles imagined living in one of these homes or even way out on the bluff, if I am correct that is way down where Marino begins, that's where the boardwalk is that I keep meaning to get down to again. we saw this drawn on...

  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 Elephant's Child and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. camel 2. bone 3. carving 4. application 5. river  and/or:  1. journey 2. shock 3. family 4. crown 5. colours Charlotte's colour of the month is Clay Brown , but I didn't manage to fit that in this week. Here is my story: I had my job application forms filled out and in envelopes ready to be posted the day we got back from our holiday, but for now, Chris and I were busy packing, repacking and re-re-packing as w...

I wrote this many years ago and think it deserves another airing:  books, reading, writing the words are on pages, visual, tactile. descriptions, emotions, drama, happiness, passion. sublime blissfulness plummeting into despair. the wanting, the needing of a certain someone, without whom you will be forever empty. actions taken, roads not travelled. stories woven into tales of unexpected happenings. each open to personal interpretation. new beginnings, sad endings, happy endings. confrontations, welcomed or not. challenging adversities; drifting on seas of contentment. gazing into the eyes of a newborn. days, nights, or both, when that newborn will cry as if heartbroken and you won't know why, your own eyes will spill with tears, your own heart will break, until finally you both sleep, the deep sleep of exhaustion from which both of you will wake refreshed and ready to start again. there are words of lives lived; real or imagined? fiction based on truth? biography? fantasy? we'...

 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. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us. some fast moving clouds while waiting for a bus recently and further east the sun peeking through a tree Lola doing what she does best This is a council truck cutting down a tree branch that was hanging on the electrical wires - at 11.40pm! the old white willow out the front had begun splitting some time ago and split much further during the last wind storms we had we woke up Tuesday morning to find the lower section hanging less than a metre ...

  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 Elephant's Child and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:   1. glass 2. equally 3. paying 4. join 5. forage  and/or:  1. palace 2. silent 3. bullet 4. stars 5. extraordinary Also included is Charlotte's colour of the month: clay brown  Here is my story: I was the new girl at school and after a week Hannah invited me to join her "Girls Club". "We're very exclusive," she said, "you should be happy we asked you," as her followers nodded and smiled. ...

 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. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us. remember my new gnomes? the painting has begun with a bright red cap and a green cap. These are oil based paints, not so easy to clean up when the paint runs where it shouldn't. I over-loaded the brush 😟 many of my other gnomes also need a little touching up where they have faded from being in the garden years ago, I need to buy more paint. a fence nearby still has its Christmas look and I was cheered to hear the whistling of this blue budger...