Drifting through life

  Saturday January 31st, from today's newspaper: Port Augusta reached 50C yesterday, (Jan 30th) that's 122F for all you northeners above the Equator. Today is a tad cooler but with much cloud cover creating the muggy effect we all know and hate.  Possibly the beaches will be crowded and hopefully all persons there are throwing bucket loads of sunscreen over each other.

  Ants at a party. 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 Sean Jeating and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1.long 2.monk 3.novice 4.spiritual 5.time and/or: 1.ants 2.boy 3.compassion 4.stream 5.trapped **Words for February will be supplied by Lissa on her blog Charlotte has not yet supplied a colour for February. Here is my story: As a boy , Father Timothy had sat for hours watching ants in the scorched earth patch that was his backyard. He would drop occasional crumbs of bread and notice how they all worked together to ...

  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 Sean Jeating and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1.long  2.monk  3.novice  4.spiritual  5.time and/or: 1.ants  2.boy  3.compassion  4.stream  5.trapped use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun. Charlotte's colour of the month is Carmine as seen above the text here. My own story will hopefully appear on this blog on Friday 30th

 It still works which is great and I had decided I didn't need a new one after all.  But... see that top left corner where part of the display is missing?  the grey triangle is the original fault and happened when the kindle was accidentally dropped. The whiter bit right next to it is new and happened yesterday when Lola knocked it off my lap, and that has been joined by thin white horizontal lines and a vertical one about an inch in from the left side. This means with every page turn I miss the first word of the text. Usually I can work out what it is, so not a big deal. But it is annoying, so I fiddled around with my budget and can afford a new kindle as long as I buy the cheapest option. So that is what I will do as soon as the outside weather cools enough to not feel like a blast furnace. 

 Okay, maybe not a proper miracle like Spring and childbirth, but it's good news anyway. When my kindle "died" I tried the usual "hold the on button fr a longer time" and even did that a few times, but it just wouldn't wake up.  I closed its cover and placed it gently in a bedside drawer for its "forever" sleep.  Then I read Andrew's comment and thought "it can't hurt to try again." So I did.  And it turned on! A lovely little yellow light appeared showing that it needed charging, so I plugged her in. look at that sweet little glow the index pages came back showing that all 410 books were still there. This is all easy reading, murder mysteries, a few Private Detective type stories, nothing at all heavy or intellectual.  Finally, the prettiest little green light I ever saw. I will speak to "no-one" soonish and see if  she will help me with transferring the books if I can't manage it myself. Just in case this happens ...

 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. In memory of Elephant's Child, the meme is now continued by myself and 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. the redheads are reunited at last: Gillian, "I missed you so much" "we have a lamp now! and a table" "Mum made them for us" "Come back inside and see what I brought you" "Christmas dresses!!" "We love them 😀 thank you Aunty N" Riley: "I'm a (Christmas) Tree standing under a tree" This is one of our public phone booths out on the street Looks a little beat up, it...

 Blogger seems to be playing games and I am unable to reply to the last few comments on my post, so I'll do it here: messymimi; thank you, I think Jim is trying to figure out his future, Archaeology or Historian. I hope he finds a balance and gets to do both. Margaret D; thank you, I used bits of memory from books I had read and my dad's love of cream cakes. Iris; Thank you. Absolution means different things to different people I think. I chose the forgiveness option.

 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 Sean Jeating and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1.absolution  2.Auschwitz  3.love  4.resistance  5.without and/or: 1.dancing  2.dreams  3.ears  4.eyes  5.talking Here is my story: Jim, Maggie and Nanna Ruby went to visit William at the retirement home a few days after he had moved in. “I can’t wait to tell him about the museum,” said Jim. “I want to make sure he is well settled and happy!” said Nanna Ruby. They found William in the common gam...

  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 Sean Jeating and can be found here . This week's words/prompts are : 1. absolution  2.Auschwitz  3.love  4. resistance  5.without and/or: 1. dancing  2.dreams  3.ears  4. eyes  5.talking use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun. Charlotte's colour of the month is Carmine as seen above the text here. My own story will hopefully appear on this blog on Friday 23rd

 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. In memory of Elephant's Child, the meme is now continued by myself and 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. Charlotte's colour of the month is carmine and I have a few more carmine or near enough to carmine things here: The faded spine of a very old book  that seems to have once been carmine Carmine tomatoes on the cover of an Italian cookbook a carmine spatula with one corner broken off and a carmine tulip on my fridge, sent to me by Sue one year after she visited the "Floriade" flower festival. A recent dinner using thr...

 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 Wisewebwoman and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1.garotte  2.kisses  3.neck  4.philanthropist  5.pragmatism and/or: 1.balconies  2.decadence  3.entertainment  4.genius  5.public Charlotte's colour of the month is Carmine , which I have not used today. Here is my story, which is complete fiction so if I have some historical facts wrong I apologise. A few weeks after William had visited the retirement complex and declared it wonderful, he was d...

  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 Sean Jeating and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1.garrote  2.kisses  3.neck  4.philanthropist  5.pragmatism and/or: 1. balconies  2.decadence  3.entertainment  4.genius  5.public use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun. Charlotte's colour of the month is Carmine as seen above the text here. My own story will hopefully appear on this blog on Friday 16th

  Charlotte's colour of the month is Carmine, a lovely shade that is a tad pinker than red, but not enough to be crimson. 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. In memory of Elephant's Child, the meme is now continued by myself and 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 one last "Christmas House" a near neighbour decorated her/his porch area a discarded football beanie. On purpose? Maybe someone was disgusted with the team? More likely accidentally dropped. Someone got a new bed for Christmas and left the old mattress out on the footpath, that dark...