It was there!

It was there in the middle of the night pestering, pestering!

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It was there in the early morning calling and entreating me to pick it up!

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It stayed with me throughout the morning and it wouldn't go away!

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It was so compelling, it attached itself to me and I couldn't put it down. At each turn I was more and more drawn in.

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Aha! I know what you're doing and where you're going. You're not going to catch me out. 

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It did!

Welcome new follower. I hope you enjoy your visits and please visit the Bloggy Blanket Chain page for a recent update from JuliaB.

Nine to Five

I was reading Thrift Deluxe's blog and really liked her 'Nine to Five' posts and she kindly said I could copy her format so here goes. I've added in an extra question about what I'm doing.

9am 

What am I wearing? Stretchy trousers, stretchy top, gloves and boots. 

What am I doing? Listening to music on my Ipod through earwarmer headphones. 

Where am I? Walking through the residential streets to the gym.

What's the sky like? Blue with fluffy white clouds.

What's motivating me? The thought of swimming, dancing, torture gym apparatus and Tai Chi.

2pm

What am I wearing? Slob around black stretchy long dress.

What am I doing? Eating dinner of yesterday's leftover pasta and chicken casserole.

Where am I? Sitting on an easy chair listening to the news on TV.

What's the sky like? Blue with fluffy white clouds.

What's motivating me? The thought of having a little sit, blogging, crocheting and reading.

5pm

What am I wearing? Slob around black stretchy long dress.

What am I doing? Finishing of my little glass of sherry, reading a magazine.

Where am I? In our garden room because it's now nice and warm with the sun still shining.

What's the sky like? Blue with fluffy white clouds.

What's motivating me? The thought of going out for a meal tonight with our music group.

This was yesterday, not today but I'm still slobbing around I'm my black stretchy long dress!

Welcome Thrift Deluxe - hope you enjoyed reading about my day.
And thank you for people who commented yesterday - I have another musical friend who is asking her German musical friend about suitable hymns.

If we can help each other as we go along!!!!

Help needed please

Exciting times - son and partner are getting married and I've been asked to research and suggest some hymns for the wedding. The hymns need to be familiar to both English and German families and guests should be able to sing them in either language. I've found some ...

this one is lovely

... but am sure there must be more to add to my list. Can anyone help?

Thank you for all your fantastic comments on my last post and welcome to my new follower.

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How come?

How come that my back or side is able to find the crumb in my bed but my hands can't?

How come that when I put the single sock from the wash in a safe place until the other one turns up, the other one never materialises and more single socks arrive to keep it company?

How come when tea is ready to be served no-one is ready?

How come as soon as I've cleaned the kitchen floor someone walks on it?

How come that as soon as I do a clothes wash and empty the dirty clothes bin, I find more dirty clothes appear 5 minutes later?

How come I'm asking all these questions? Is there really an answer to them?

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PS Perhaps I shouldn't eat toast in bed!

Guided Tour - Part 4

These shelves don't get any tidier. I  keep moving things around to get to other things and they end up untidy again. You may have seen some of these items before such as the Keep calm and carry yarn postcard and the wedding columns. Behind the picture frames are books and music.

This one was a present from another cat lover.

This one I bought at a car boot sale years ago.

I'm afraid I'm not good at deciphering theses Magic Eye pictures. You're supposed to see a picture in 3D if you put the picture to your nose and then gradually take it away focussing on a point behind the picture.

Not a chance!

Do you remember games with string? Cat's Cradle, The Eiffel Tower, Bow Tie?

Another cubbie holds sewing paraphernalia - all manner of bits and pieces. My sewing threads are elsewhere. They wouldn't fit in the basket. There are some cross stitch patterns in there aswell. Will I ever start finish them?

I should really tidy up. Ah well, back to my crocheting!!!

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Whoops, a follower appeared and then disappeared. Perhaps they don't like playing Lego.

No nails

I'm on a bit of a space theme with Lego at the moment with the Blacktron Space Base 6987 ...

and the Blacktron Alienator 6876. Lots of bits move in these models. Beam me up,  Scottie!

My time for making up these models is improving but my nails are deteriorating trying to prize the small pieces apart!

Back to playing

"Let me in!"

"Not likely!"

"Go on then. I'll lower the drawbridge."

I had fun making this model (6080) with all the horses and knights in shining armour. It builds very quickly with large castle pieces.

It looks like my town is not the only place where the bad and the ugly surface, judging by all the comments yesterday.

My walk today was down to the gym for a swim, a workout on the torture machines, a dance and a bit of Tai Chi followed by a walk back home. I didn't have the beautiful scenery shown in the video but the streets were a lot tidier walking another way!

Welcome to my new followers and commenters. Hope you've had some time to play today.

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