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 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 occasionally. Brother R came to visit and brought me some old paperwork belonging to my dad, who has been dead for 25 and a half years now.  They'd been stored in a container with moth balls and were quite stinky so I pegged them out on the clothes rack in the back porch three days later, most are now inside, but the heavier items such as dad's passports are still smelly so they are still out there. I now have the original copy of his natu...

  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 here This week's words/prompts are:   1.absent  2.satisfaction  3.combination  4.fun  5.echo  6.exempt  and/or:  1.between a rock and a hard place  2. knuckle down  3. long in the tooth Here is my story: There was much concern over the recent number of absent students at the Meadow Hill College. Situated high on a bluff, overlooking acres of untouched meadows, it was the elite choice for the brightest students whose futures...

 the Mickey Mouse plant is called Ochna Serrulata and here is the information I gathered via Google: being indigenous to South Africa it probably isn't a plant that would do well in the northern hemisphere areas such as Europe or the UK unless in a sheltered warm area, such as an airy greenhouse.

 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 occasionally. Beginning today with something my phone app tells me is a "Mickey Mouse" plant/flower: Looks more like a Jester to me here's one with a berry already ripened to black, I guess the colours are Mickey Mouseish bright green leaves of a newly grown violet patch but this one has white violets instead of the purple usually seen in these gardens my aeonium stem began flowering and was then knocked off the plant by a careless someone o...

  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 Messymim i and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:   1.easy  2.student  3.invasion  4.encourage  5.housing  6.spectrum   and/or:  1.gaud (a trinket)   2.moil (drudgery)  3.pore on (pore over, think about, dwell on) Also including Charlotte's colour of the month: straw yellow Here is my story: It isn’t easy being a student these days, nor a teacher. The constant invasion of mobile phones pinging with messages does nothing to e...

 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. Possibly Elephant's Child won't be with us this week. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us occasionally. the new house near my bus stop is coming along nicely, quite large too, I'm wondering if it is actually two houses with a dividing wall in the middle. some of the seats on the buses have been replaced, the blue red yellow is the old seat which only has a new back in the grey blue diagonal pattern, others have new seat and back. a small container of gravy from my freezer had a...