One, Two, Three out of Ten game

Let's play a never ending chain game. Here's the game and you can only score up to three out of ten. Everybody wins. Good game? Why not join in. Here's my idea.

I have put together 10 items, homemade, given or thrifted from the CB or CS. There is only one item that is new to me. I will send these items to one person who may choose up to three items to keep. They will then have to replace those chosen with some items of their own (no edibles or perishables please). Now it will be their turn to post on their blog to find another recipient. Once found they will send them ten items with the directions I have just outlined (I've repeated them in italics at the end of this post.)

My ten items are:-

1. A frilly, knitted scarf (I was on a roll when I knitted these!)

2. Knitting for Tommy book which I received as a bloggy gift a while ago. It's time to pass it on.

3. A flowery stamp.

4. A set of 4 coasters.

5. A glittery beanie hat in white and silver.

6. A pad of note papers with pen.

7. A selection of my crocheted motifs - Christmas stars, tree, hearts and more.

8. A Suduko book.

9. A monkey keyring.

10. A small Me to You teddy with a pink coat.

This idea may or may not get off the ground as it depends on who is interested and who wishes to spend money on posting a small parcel. I have a page already set up a page to record each step of the parcel's journey and we should be able to view quite a few new to us blogs along the way. (My first parcel chain seemed to stop at the first post so let's hope this one will be a little longer.)

So here are the directions for the:-

One, two, three out of Ten Chain Game

1. Leave a comment to be in with a chance of receiving the parcel. Include the words 'Yes please, count me in.'

2. Choose up to one, two or three things from the parcel and replace the items to make ten.

3. Comment on the One, Two, Three out of Ten Chain Game page on Mumssimplyliving blog when you've received and sorted out your new package and posted on your blog.

4. Decide whether to post just to the UK or to the world!

5. In your post make sure you have these directions.

I am only posting to the UK because of the weight of my package so my apologies to readers from across the seas.

Remember that you must have your own blog so you can post the progress of your parcel.

 I will put all names into a hat and draw out a winner in one week's time. (Saturday 9th February 2019)

I hope all of this makes sense.

xx

Counting out rhymes

Dip, dip, dip,

My blue ship,

Sailing on the water

Like a cup and saucer.

Dip, dip, dip,

You are IT!

(An alternative last line is - 

You are not IT! - this depends on the counter and the person he wants in or out.)

'Eeny, meeny, miny moe' was another counting out rhyme but I will stop there as the version I did in the playground would be frowned upon today. There are more up to date versions recited.

One potato, two potato, three potato, four,

Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more.

(Everyone held out their fists to be counted in this rhyme. The fist where the counter landed on the word 'more' was then put behind the child's back and the rhyme started again and repeated until the last fist was left. That person was 'on'.)

I can't remember any more so I'll make one up a couple of my own to be chanted rhythmically.

Four, three, two,

One's enough.

If I land on you - 

Clear off!

I'm looking for the one 

Who starts the game.

I might land on you or 

What's his name.

If I pass by you

Then in you stay.

If I stop on you

Then

GO AWAY!

Didn't mean it.    :)

Whistle's gone, playtime over.

xx

Still playing

Yes, we did play elastics but didn't have any songs to go with it. I still remember the moves. If you look up 'elastics skipping' on Ytube there's plenty to see. 'Launch pad elastics' even have some songs to sing to the skipping.

England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, inside, outside, puppy dog tails.

 Single rope skipping with a group had quite a few songs.

House to let,
Apply within,
When I go out,
Mrs. ____ comes in.

Then there was a reciting of the alphabet and when your initial was called you jumped into the rope.

Do you remember -

All in together girls,
Jolly fine weather girls,
When it's your birthday please jump in.

All the months were then chanted.

All in together girls,
Jolly fine weather girls,
When it's your birthday please jump out.

All the months were chanted again.

Salt was ordinary skipping with a little jump between skips and pepper was fast skipping with a jump on each turn of the rope.

We even did what we called 'French Skipping' where 2 ropes were turned.


Hand clapping rhymes were good.

I am a pretty little Dutch girl,
As pretty as can be, be, be,
And all the boys in my backyard
Go crazy over me, me, me.
My boyfriend's name is Fatty.
He comes from Cinuratti, (??????)
With 10 black toes and a pimple on his nose
And this is what he said to me,
"I L-O-V-E love you,
I K-I- double S kiss you,
In the D-A-R. in the D-A-R
In the D-A-R K-K.

I'll finish with a 'rude' poem my dad taught me.

Chin, Chin, Chinaman bought a penny doll.
He washed it and dressed it and called it Pretty Poll.
He sent for the doctor but the doctor didn't come
Because it had a pimple on its bum, bum, bum.

xx

PS - A very big thank you to Angela and Rachel for explaining some of the games in the last post.

Playground games

Here are 2 circle game songs we used to play when I was at junior school - age 7 - 11years. I can find in and out the dusty bluebells on Ytube but not 'We are 3 Jolly Fishermen'.

In and out the dusty bluebells,

In and out the dusty bluebells,

In and out the dusty bluebells,

Who shall be my partner.

Tipperty, tapperty on my shoulder,

Tipperty, tapperty on my shoulder,

Tipperty, tapperty on my shoulder

You shall be my partner.

We are 3 jolly fishermen,

We are 3 jolly fishermen,

We are 3 jolly fishermen

Just come home from sea.

We cast our nets in twosies,

We cast our nets in twosies,

We cast our nets in twosies,

Jolly old fish are we.

Oh, the big ship sails through the Alley, alley, oh,

The Alley, alley, oh,

The Alley, alley, oh.

Oh, the big ship sails through the Alley, alley, oh

On the last day of September.

Chorus

Alley, alley, oh,

Alley, alley, oh

The big ship sails away.

Oh, the big ship sails through the Alley, alley, oh

On the last day of September.

The Captain said it will never, never do,

Never, never do,

Never, never do.

Oh the Captain said it will never, never do

On the last day of September.

Chorus

The big ship sank to the bottom of the sea etc.

Chorus

We all dip our heads in the bright blue sea etc.

We also had rhymes for juggling with 2 balls either in the air or against a wall.

Nebuchadnezzar, the King of the Jews

Bought his wife a pair of shoes.

When the shoes began to wear

Nebuchadnezzar, began to swear.

When the swear began to stop

Nebuchadnezzar, bought a shop.

When the shop began to sell

Nebuchadnezzar, bought a bell.

When the bell began to ring

Nebuchadnezzar, began to sing -

Doh, re, mi, fah, soh, la, tee, doh!

What a lot of songs we used to sing for our games. I've yet to start on the skipping and clapping ones!

Snippets

Time to plant the mange tout seeds today as the weather is fine and it's quite warm. The seeds were saved from last year and I've still got plenty over. Beetroot and lettuce will be planted tomorrow with potatoes going in on Good Friday.

I had to pull some more crochet back today as I'd skipped a stitch and ended up with a narrower strip for my checked cot blanket. Grr!

I've resumed swimming, dancing and walking so almost back to normal now. I'm back at the CS on one afternoon a week and it's good to be back 'playing shop'.

DD is taking DH and me out to lunch on Monday. Lucky us.

Whenever I put fresh sheets on the bed the cat comes and helps. She also helps when I mop the floor by putting paw prints on the drying tiles.

The dog that poos outside our front gate seems to have stopped for a while, thank goodness.

We're trying to eat up the freezer as it's in dire need of defrosting. We'll be eating fish, steak and chicken pieces for the foreseeable future with ice cream for afters. I need to pluck up courage and use some of the items I've been avoiding each time I open the door.

Spring and summer clothes are coming out now the weather is warming up. I've pulled some clothes out from under the bed and put some winter stuff away. Flip flop time is here - yeah!

I've not been posting for a while - still gathering momentum. Must try harder.

Buds are appearing on all the climbing plants and leaves are starting to grow on the apple, plum and pear trees. The grape vines are springing to life too.

Food for thought - if I've been typing snippets then have I been snipping or snippeting. I could have been sniping maybe?

Enough snippets snippeted now. Or could it be - enough snippets snoped?

xx

Tiddly bits

The back of the cot blanket.

The shadow of me.

The cat.

The addictive online tycoon game.

The park.

The sea.

The silly picture. (Never play with mobile picture apps.)

The beer.

Tiddly bits.

xx

All a load of junk

Who picks up the free mags at the end of a supermarket shop? I did and found some good recipes inside. I decided to make this throwaway mag into a junk Autumn recipe book. Two mags were needed for this and all I did was to stick papers over anything that was advertising or not relevant. Here's a comparison of the front covers.

Inside the book I crudely decorated with crafty bits.

Advertising was covered up with note paper ...

… or other recipes which were cut out of the sacrificial mag.

I even covered large advertising pages with interesting articles from another section.

Now I have a recipe book that can be brought out in the autumnal season and added to each year. Not a load of junk after all.

xx

It's raining ...

… so it's a play day today and a 'stay at home' after I'd been shopping. I saw these in Lidl and thought of Christmas - as you do! I'm busy crocheting travel tissue holders for our music group and these are going to be ideal as they have more interesting covers than normal ones.

I also bought a pair of scissors for the kitchen as the ones we have already are blunt. These will be for best.

I'd run out of lemons for my lemon drink so they went in the trolley too. I hate to throw anything away so as it was play (stay at home) day I had a pleasurable morning recycling. 

The tissues went into the crocheted tissue holders and the lemons' bag I made into a wool holder by threading 'that pesky ribbon' from my dress through the top. 

The plastic scissor holder is now a handy needle holder and the label made a present label with another 'pesky ribbon'. My wool shouldn't tie itself into a knot now.

A warm welcome to my new readers and commenters I hope you enjoy popping by.

xx

Rhubarb, rhubarb

Rhubarb, rhubarb?

Neigh, neigh.

Rhubarb, rhubarb?

Knot, knot.

Rhubarb, rhubarb?

Nein, nein.

Rhubarb, rhubarb?

Eye, eye.



Rhubarb, rhubarb

Diddly doo, diddly doo, do di do di doo!



xx

It's in the bag

The pegs are in a bag. When I'm pegging out I simply sling the bag over my arm and pick up the pegs from by my side.

When I've finished pegging out I peg the peg bag up on the line.

The loaves are in the new bags from I-kee-ya. The cords are colour coded so I've got my wholemeal in one and DH's white in another.

Both bags go --- in the bag.

And the recycling goes in the basket. I am enjoying carrying these around. (Sad, sad!)

xx

Day play

I-kee-ya first and then ...

we fired up the barbie and threw on a couple of beef burgers.

The new baskets brought the gubbins to the table,

cutlery, jug of water and serviettes and ...

our feast of meat was accompanied by a salad and ...

followed by fruit salad. The table was set with a flowery centrepiece and ...

the daily bread sliced ready for the feast!

Not an alcoholic drink in sight.

Hope you've had a lovely day today.

xx

Weather

And the weather today is sunny ...

… but cold.

Whether the weather be fine

Or whether the weather be not

Whether the weather be cold

Or whether the weather be hot

We'll weather the weather

Whatever the weather

Whether we like it or not.

xx

Sparkling wine?

The wine in this glass has the added protection of a glittery cosy to keep in the cold.

Ideal for festive occasions ...

… or just the occasional sparkling treat.

The bottom of the cosy expands so it can be fitted on the wine glass over the base and when the ties are pulled it can be secured around the stem for a cosy fit. This is my prototype and it looks good but as the wine is consumed the cosy sinks happily downwards and flops on the floor in a restful droop!

xx

Collections

I think I'm making a another collection. Is there a name for people who do this? Is it one of my hobbies? Could I be a collectoholic? A look at the Collections label shows the makings of an addiction.

I seem to be collecting blogs at the moment - my own. My Filofax blog is a record for me and I'm quite enjoying my Filofax adventures but here's another blog - hot off the press - and, again it's for me but it may be of interest to others. (If it's not to you then read no further than its title and certainly don't click anything!)

Grandma's Crazy Crocheted Cat Couture

:)

xx

PS Welcome to my new followers - I'm not too sure about one follower so I've not visited their link, having read somewhere that it's not a good idea. Beware.

If it is a good link I apologise but I'm not taking the risk.

Now listen to me

* Don't eat chocolate every day.

Oh but I like a bit of chocolate now and again. It's so very more-ish.

* Drink more water.

I try but there's an awful lot of going to the loo involved if I try to drink 8 glasses a day.

* Have fruit rather than crumble and custard for your afters.

I've plenty more crumbles in the freezer to eat up. It was a good year for rhubarb, apples and plums last year.

* Don't have fried food.

Don't you just love chips and they're so easy.

* Steam your vegetables.

The steamer takes up quite a lot of room on the work surface and if I only want small portions of veg it seems silly to get it out, with all that washing up afterwards.

* Get yourself walking.

It's cold outside.

* Stop slobbing about in your old stretchy clothes.

My, they are comfortable and it's weekend.

Consider myself told off!

xx

Is it?

Is it a Christmas decoration?

Is it a mitten?

Is it a sock?

No!!! It's a crocheted fan holder.

Here's the fan inside.

I decided against pink wool to complement the pink in the fan and I only added the fuzzy wool as a bit of glitz for the ballroom and the fact that I'd run out of turquoise. :)

I couldn't find a pattern anywhere on the net so perhaps I should go into business. Crocheted fan covers for sale. I'm sure there's a market for these!

xx

PS - Note to self: Perhaps I shouldn't have used the fuzzy wool to finish it off. Hmmm! Hope I''ve satisfied the curious commenters.