What to do when swimming lengths

Keep a count of the lengths and work the brain by linking the numbers with facts and fiction.

I can swim one length in one minute (at a  push!) so I had a minute to associate the number of my length with all sorts of nonsense.

I'll try it again now giving myself one minute to think for each number.

One - 

one is one and all alone and ever more shall be

one hand one heart

a partridge in a pear tree

one, two buckle my shoe

You're the one that I want

one is a prime number

Two - 

a pair

twins

snap

two turtle doves

an even number and a prime number

weeks in a fortnight

Three - 

Holy Trinity

Three Little Maids from School

triangle

Reliant Robin

Trois

steps to Heaven

Four - 

suits in a pack of cards

corners to my bed

seasons

specky four eyes


Five -

snakes alive

half of 10

pentagon

Dave Clark Five

gold rings

fives


Six -

pick up sticks

a favourite number

place settings

hexagon

faces to a cube


Seven -

heptagon

20p

50p

7 Brides for 7 Brothers

7th daughter of a 7th daughter

prime number

swans a-swimming

days in a week


Eight -

octopus

octogon

lay them straight

furlongs in a mile


Nine -

nine-pins

3x3

no? :)

nine men morris

nine ladies dancing


Ten - 

ten lords a-leaping

decimal

decahedron

fingers and thumbs

ten, ten, do it again

ten millimetres = one centimetre



Right, brain exercised for today! I'm off to a car-boot now.

xx

Alphabet Blogging - K

K is for Knitting

I'm still ploughing through the 'knitting of the socks'. I will finish a pair but it's slow going. The first sock I knitted up was very difficult to get on as the top didn't stretch and the sock itself was too small. Back to the drawing board and Youtube to learn elastic cast on. There are quite a few different ways of casting on, aren't there? I chose one and started a new sock, knitting it up in a different size. So far so good - the top seems stretchy and I've made it to the foot part but it's slow going. I'll probably have this sock number 2 finished next week and that will mean that I have 2 odd socks so I'll have to do a sock number 3 to match sock number 2 (Are you following me?) but -

I've forgotten which cast on method I used so I may end up with 3 odd socks!

It's a good job I've got a lot of the wool left.

Now for more Alphabet Blogging please follow the links below.

Dreamer

johnnyjumpsup

KC's Court

Cathy

Next week's letter is L.

Edit: Silly me - should be going backwards. Thanks, Julie.

Next week's letter is J.

xx

De-light-ful jolly

… to Illuminasia at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Blackpool is famous for its outdoor Illuminations and now it has its own indoor ones. My friend had a voucher which gave us free admission for four so off we went for a look-see and we were quite impressed. (I don't think we'd have paid £12 each for admission, though.)

There were different 'themed' rooms to walk through ...

and a guide gave us some facts about the creation of the lights.

Colour was everywhere,

with visits to different lands, real and imaginary.

I was born in the year of the Dragon.

We even had a work sheet with questions about the exhibits.

I think my favourite part was the Land of the Giants ...

… and the underwater world came a close second.

We were treated to a laser show at the end of the tour. It was such a shame that there were only a few people visiting. I'm sure they would get many more visitors if they lowered their prices.

A video showed the construction of the area.

We were then able to view the exhibits from above.

A pot of tea for four was very welcome at the end of our visit and we were entertained by the pianist in the cafe area of the Winter Gardens. Very sophisticated, (apart from his holdall by the piano stool)!

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Because I could

I went to the SeaLife Centre, because I could, with my Annual Pass.

Poor fish, cooped up in small tanks.

I think they should live in their natural surroundings.

I won't be going again.

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Just pondering

I bought these pins because I thought I'd lost my others.

I hadn't lost my old ones,

they were just mis-placed.

Never mind. I like these ones better.

I bought lots of salad stuff and fruit today because it was going to be the start of healthy eating (again).

We went out for fish and chips at dinner time,

just because …

Never mind. I'll start the diet tomorrow.

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Winner

The cat's on my knee and I'm having difficulty typing as the cursor keeps jumping to another place as the cat turns over! 

I wrote the virtual raffle names on pieces of paper and folded them up. Instead of picking names out of a basket, I threw the pieces on the floor and chucked encouraged the cat off my knee. The first piece he sniffed at is the winner.

And the lucky winner of the Nature Notes book is

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Jo from Through the Keyhole. Jo, if you email me your address, I'll send the book off asap.. I hope you enjoy reading it and thank you to all who joined in the Spring Fair.

xx

PS Note the top I'm wearing? I tidied my shelves this evening. Do you see a theme here?

Alphabet Blogging - L

L is for Litter

I have just been out and picked up a pile of litter from the front garden. It blows in off the street under our gate. I also picked up the litter outside our house and the rest of the houses on our block. I think the bin men must have dropped an awful lot because there was a plastic milk bottle and various wrappings from foodstuffs. As usual there were offerings from people who just couldn't be bothered to put their litter in a bin - cigarette ends, fast food wrappers, cigarette boxes and cellophane wrappers, sweet papers, cans, tissue, and more. I can't see why these litterers can't hold onto their litter until they meet a bin. Who do they think will pick it up?

Me, of course!

Now for more Alphabet Blogging please follow the links below.

Dreamer

johnnyjumpsup

KC's Court

Cathy

Next week's letter is K.

xx