Drifting through life

Long, long ago, in days of yore...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. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Drop in to Elephant's Child and have a look.  A few weeks ago, Joanne, from Cup on the Bu s , mentioned Swedish Apple Pie, which sounds delicious and she included the recipe, which I immediately copied and printed. The next weekend I made Swedish Apple Pie.  A few problems were immediately apparent, the first being that my pie dish is way too small and couldn't possibly hold the eight apples the recipe called for. So I used five.  Second problem, the topping seemed to be quite stiff and not easy to spread over the apples in the dish, I plopped it on in spoonfuls and spread it around ...

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 and read it. This month the prompts are supplied by Cindi and can be found here . This week's words/prompts are: 1- pardon my French 2- my mind is in a fog 3- you are on thin ice Well, I'm counting this week as a big fail. I should have known it would be too soon to let Joey take charge. I'd turned up to the interview, listened as his teacher explained why she had called me in and now my eyes are spinning as I try to make sense of it all.  Joey had fully disrupted the class by declaring his mind was in a fog and he couldn't possibly answer the questions on 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 and read it. This month the prompts are supplied by Margaret Adamson and Sue Fulcher and can be found here . This week's words/prompts are: 1. orange 2. dizzy 3. perpendicular 4. languishing 5. virtuous 6. theatre and/or: 1. pedestrian 2. laconic 3. stable 4. typewriter 5. dashing 6. branches here is my story: I was almost dizzy at the thought of dashing off a few sentences on my typewriter instead of languishing on the sofa reading about dashing heroes being all virtuous yet laconic at the same time. The news from the latest publishing company had me alm...

Welcome back to Sunday Selections. Begun way back in the mists of time by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock and now continued by Elephant's Child , who gladly accepted my offer to keep this going, with a drastic relaxation of rules. Originally meant for showcasing old photos lost on your files, never seeing the light of day, the meme has morphed into photos of your choice, new or old, good or not-so-good, anything you please, but nothing rude please. If you are participating, please leave a comment so I can buzz along and have a look. I bought this Halloween Candy bowl so I could fill it with goodies that I knew I would eat myself since we don't get trick or treaters here. The label on the bottom read: Danger: choking hazard. Keep away from small children. you see here the bowl is 30cm across and it is about 12cm high. I don't know a single toddler who can open his or her mouth that wide.  the footpath garden just down the road a bit is in full bloom again. 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 and read it. This month the prompts are supplied by Margaret Adamson and Sue Fulcher and can be found here . This week's words/prompts are: two photos, taken by Bill Dodds, which I have included in my story: Every day for a week, the young boy had been coming through the woods, finding his way unerringly, though he had never been here before. Always wearing the same blue jeans, the same red jacket, with a hood. I believe they call them hoodies these days. But he always stopped near the giant firs.  Afraid to come any further, he would stand by the stump and watch the gl...

A couple of days ago the predicted temperature for Wednesday November 20th, was 38C That's 100.4F, already too hot for most people, including me Then "they" predicted 40C,  which is104.0F,  getting a little hellish.... Tonight the updated prediction is 42C That's 107.6F That's an extra 2C per day (so far) and it's only for the one day, with days either side being much cooler than that.  Tuesday at 29-30C= 84-86F, Thursday at 25C= 77F WTH?? (if "they" keep adding an extra 2C per day to the current prediction, Wednesday will be 50C=122F ) (highly unlikely) I miss autumn  😔

A recent image sent to me by 'no-one', a dust storm rolling across a part of Western Australia. the photo was taken by an un-named nurse living and /or working in the area at the time Most of our 'outback' areas have this deep orange/red soil, which doesn't readily grow crops or even grass.