I have missed a couple of days blogging over the last month - totally unlike me as I like to blog every day - It keeps me sane in a crazy world.
So I figured a bumper day today with not one but two pages and a bit of a waffle and a challenge too.
The sun shone today and so we headed out to explore the Wheels festival at Bournemouth.
It was kind of fun I guess, but not really our cup of tea. The cars were not that fabulous – I mean we have Beaulieu on our doorstep. The seafront was crowded and neither of us are fans of the slow shuffle kind of walking. Not even keen on that in Disney let alone on Bournemouth prom.
So ice cream quaffed we headed back home for some R and R and a bit of scrapping.
I don’t plan on sharing the page I made today – ever. No-one else needs to see the photos charting the progress and the healing. It records my journey over the past month – and yes it has been a month almost to the day since my life changed. The journey isn’t even so much about what happened but about how it changed me … for the better. I have made my blog into a daily gratitude for the past three years now but I plan on more gratitude and less fuss and pessimism. I feel I had a very near miss (I pray it IS a near miss and the second round of surgery will not show up anything horrible) and that near miss is for a reason … to show me just how much I have to be thankful for each and every day. And it is a lesson I plan on paying a great deal of attention to.
So I have a couple of pages I made a while ago but didn’t share which is from our UK tour.
It features a picture of Nigel sitting by Loch Achray in the Trossachs and is, of course, a digital page.
I also share a page made for my 2013 album and because it is for an annual album it is an 8 ½ “ x 11” as that is my preferred size for regular annual work.
It showcases the lovely autumn colours we saw in Bourton-on-the-water.
And finally another digital page – this time of Emily just because it is happy
Now I have an interesting poem to share - if it works.
I snaffled it on Facebook today and I think it is brilliant ... I hope you have fun with it. As an English teacher I really enjoyed it
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labor to reading six lines aloud.
Today I am thankful
- For learning a really important lesson ... OK soit was a painful lesson but a really important one.
- Granola bars ...Tesco were out but Marks and Spencer are fab
- The busiest bird feeding station ever. We have a fanmily of tits on there - there were 6 at one time, plus a pair of robins, endless dunnocks, more tits, woodpeckers, pigeons and magpies, a family of blackbirds, all eating us out of house and home and worth every penny.
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