tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71691939891424575302024-02-19T14:48:09.108+00:00Wobblymousethe handmade life, the joy of making things and sharing them with othersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11660534093327428936noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169193989142457530.post-12877372132163110612014-03-18T21:22:00.001+00:002014-03-18T21:22:10.880+00:00<h2>
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<i>Well what a gorgeous walk I had to see my Gran - the queen B at the weekend. After getting off the train and seeing the sun shining I thought seeing as I'm giving up not exercising for lent, I would walk rather than get the bus.</i></div>
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<i>My decision was well rewarded by the beauty that I saw along the way. Daffodils lifting the faces to the sun, pink cherry blossom gently blowing in the wind.</i></div>
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<i style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This beautiful Magnolia reminded me of the one in my grandparents garden. It was stunning every year and had gotten so big. I wonder if the new owners of their home are enjoying it this spring.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The music on my phone helped me pace out the couple of miles I had to go. Mostly I was listening to The Instant Classical Collection, with a bit of Caro Emerald, Christina Perri, Nina Simone, Bon Jovi, Paulo Nutini, Lady Antebellum, and the Wicked and Les Mis sound tracks thrown in for good measure. </i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although realising that you are singing along at the top of your lungs as you walk is rather interesting! At least it explains some of the odd looks that I got.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The sunshine, the music and the beauty that I saw along the way as I took my walk up the main road really made a wonderful interlude in my day. Much better for the soul than the bus. Look at what I would have missed, all the beauty of nature showing itself to remind us that winter is passing and new life is beginning again. We should put the dark in our hearts away and move into the light.</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11660534093327428936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169193989142457530.post-79765487032493698102013-08-30T22:23:00.004+01:002013-08-30T22:23:33.450+01:00happy hols part 1<br />
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Whilst the life guards are on duty about 10am -5.30/6pm no surf boards are allowed as the cove doesn't make too flag sections possible. Which I'm sorry all you surfers makes it more fun in the sea for us body boarders. In the evening all sorts of water users appear with surfers, row boats, canoes, paddle boarders, including yoga on paddle boards - yes that isn't a typo! I only wish I'd had a camera in my wetsuit. </div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then to my surprise I reached down to get my drink and saw a little snail sat at the bottom of the chair leg. I don't put anything down to get rid of slugs and snails. Plants just have to cope with these little garden poppets.</span><br />
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The cosmos that I planted from seed have started booming<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like a flower, a picture, flying a kite, a piece of ribbon. What does it make me think or feel. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do I think that it links to a certain thought or to a particular</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> event in life. I</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">s it peaceful, happy, a mad moment or just make me smile. And after all is that not why we craft, it makes us feel good, we want to share that with others and hope that they will see it to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well the fruit has been growing well, the raspberries have got to the top of their canes and the strawberries have taken over the old wheel barrow that I plant them in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I can't wait for the taste of some home grown. But without a lot more sunshine here in wales I will definitely have to have some patience for the strawberries and blueberries. </span><br />
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5k race for life in Cardiff. We were of
all ages from babies in slings and pushchairs, to the eldest being 93 in a
wheelchair being pushed by family. Some of us walked, some jogged, some ran and
some did it in fancy dress. All of us were doing it for someone, the messages
on the backs of all the tee-shirts were testament to that.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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think was the amount of people who had more than 2 names on their backs. I’m not sure why I am surprised there were 3
women in our group who had overcome cancer and I know at least 7 other friends
or family members who have been affected by cancer. It truly does seem to be
the disease of our generation – I don’t mean that only our generation gets it,
just that we seem to be the one watching our parents, grandparents, aunts,
uncles, siblings, cousins, friends and children fighting, some winning and
unfortunately some loosing to it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #d99594; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">Now I have not had cancer, so don’t know what hell that must
be or know how I would react to being given that sort of news. All I know is
how it felt to be told that my dad had cancer.
He was diagnosed in 2000 and won against his cancer once, but it came
back 2 ½ years later. The second time although
he fought so hard it just wouldn’t go away and for a while we thought he would
be able to live with it, however the cancer had other ideas. He finally lost the battle in 2005. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #d99594; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">However, what does it mean to be a family member of a person
with cancer – to watch them become so ill and struggle, not always with the
disease but the medications given to fight it. To watch our loved ones loose
hair, weight, suffer awful side effects and be in hospital with tubes and
drips. Never to know how much time they have but never want to talk about our
fears as we must stay strong and help them through. After all they actually
have the disease, they are the ones actually fighting. For me it was like the
world had shifted on its axis. Nothing felt safe anymore, how could I trust a
world that could let this happen. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #d99594; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">My dad was my rock, a good guy, he didn’t smoke, drink, he
exercised fairly regularly not so much in recent years but previously had run
marathons for charity. He worked hard in a job that he didn’t really like to
earn money for us, so that we could have a good life. He did his job well and with care to ensure
that those he worked for got the best job they could. His family were important
to him and he always made me feel loved and special. I always knew that he would do anything he
could to help me. Now don’t get me wrong
he wasn’t a saint but he didn’t hurt anyone or do anything awful in this
world. It didn’t make sense that so many
nasty pieces of work, who were doing such horrible things, could still be well
and healthy. It just didn’t seem fair, I
wanted my dad to live forever and until his diagnosis I thought he would. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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we were coming to get it on our tee-shirts, we were raising money and awareness
which helps with research, and that research is developing new treatments,
combinations of medications and surgeries. All of which are hopefully more
successful than past options and give people more chance to come out the other
side. However we could just give money, but there is something about coming
together in the name of one cause that makes you feel some hope in the society
we live in, as long as you didn’t focus on the number of lost loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11660534093327428936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169193989142457530.post-85590888451090196142013-04-17T20:28:00.002+01:002013-04-17T20:31:39.684+01:00<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I wandered into the conservatory after a long and busy day, and a smile was brought to my face. I spotted through the moisture of the yoghurt pot little green leaves, so I peeked inside and saw my little sunflowers shooting up. I find that Activia intensely creamy yoghurt pots make excellent individual covers. Especially as the council here don't take them to recycle. So nice to find yet another use for them. My gorgeous yellow happy flowers are on their way.</i></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Mr photography and I have been attending some weddings with family so I made some cards for mummy and grannymouse. What made it really fun was that I got to make them with mum when she visited for her birthday. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #c27ba0;">We got all the bits out on the table, chose colours, toppers, layers and then the words we wanted inside. Thinking about the love and hope that two people are showing when they decide to spend the rest of their lives together. Plus it is so much fun to get together with old friends and family whilst making new ones too. </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thankfully my fruit garden is fairly self sufficient and due to the amount of rain and then the occasional bit of sunshine everything is growing beautifully.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzFdgUn0yIM9OrKyepvdpVGCgQEORiiYeQuoruUxvIBQO2q0pgPGSLjfcdUpS4q-2864-gD0U9TxQTMFJW9PrrCgfnc9uL5tndcUqm59I9hQFwt67pIAvNNtf4FuiaoYpWD0IYvrDlTWb/s1600/may+082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzFdgUn0yIM9OrKyepvdpVGCgQEORiiYeQuoruUxvIBQO2q0pgPGSLjfcdUpS4q-2864-gD0U9TxQTMFJW9PrrCgfnc9uL5tndcUqm59I9hQFwt67pIAvNNtf4FuiaoYpWD0IYvrDlTWb/s320/may+082.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rasperries are one of my new fruit crops for this year. I received them as what can only be described as 3 sticks last autumn as part of a Gardeners World deal, I am hoping they will be yummy. I can't decide if I should net them or just let any little creatures share in my fruity goodness, if they are prepared to risk the cats.</span> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL-9h3ag8eCn5NHpsPZvNzLzj_Cw1SNrzkZadYb6CKQffH6VqLXYIdG88DZN4TNNFYyZuSLVM6sspAC54YMPgYktDrjb9-CwEWRdEQjawVg77t0ZI6URIDrlJSyezKLFDQDFaaQmZ9dy9H/s1600/may+118.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL-9h3ag8eCn5NHpsPZvNzLzj_Cw1SNrzkZadYb6CKQffH6VqLXYIdG88DZN4TNNFYyZuSLVM6sspAC54YMPgYktDrjb9-CwEWRdEQjawVg77t0ZI6URIDrlJSyezKLFDQDFaaQmZ9dy9H/s320/may+118.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My next new plant this year is blackberries. After a few years of trying to contain brambles from over taking behind the shed but never getting to enjoy the fruit. I decided to dig it up and plant it where I wanted it and see if in a pot I could make the brambles work for me. Especially seeing the cost of buying a bush (stick) from the local garden centre! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> As you can see it is frilly and has little sequins on it. One ball will make a scarf and it has the instructions on the inside of the paper wrap which is very helpful if you haven't knitted with ribbon wool before.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana;"> I used a circular needle for the first time which I had been given by my Gran. It was fun and very easy to use and was also a good way to keep the ribbon loop row on the needles safely, as you don't don't control the tension or size of stitch the loop size does. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana;">I really enjoyed knitting these and will definitely knit with this sort of ribbon wool again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I had a wonderful birthday which started with a trip to a show which was such a great night out, the cast were amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then out to lunch with a good friend at Jekka's Herb Farm near Bristol, a truly inspiring place, they don't have many open days but when they do I highly recommend it. Everyone was so helpful and friendly, Jekka gave an interesting and really useful talk and the selection of organically grown herbs was massive. For more information go to - <a href="http://www.jekkasherbfarm.com/">www.jekkasherbfarm.com</a> I brought a number of wonderfully smelly herbs one however just for the name - a marsh mellow plant it is meant to have gorgeous flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I was blessed with being able to spend time and have a meal with my lovely family who spoilt me rotten. </span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> They gave me a wonderful gift which once I'd recovered and dried my eyes, enjoyed looking at the photograph album of my life and those who have been a part of it, some of whom are no longer with us, I will treasure it forever, so many memories. I was especially surprised by the amazing cake that my niece organised - it looked stunning and tasted really yummy although it almost felt wrong to cut it. It was made by a very talented lady, see her page on <strong>Facebook - Cakes by Trish</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day I met up with some friends for a picnic in the park, it was a beautiful day filled with so much laughter.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hylands Park in Chelmsford is beautiful place to spend time. As a child many hours were spent there running around the formal gardens and the more wild areas with my family and friends. So many happy hours at anytime of year. I remember with my brother making a snowman by rolling a snow ball for ages until it got so huge we couldn't push it any more. We got slightly separated from our parents and our dog who liked to try and round us all up spent so much energy running back and forth between us. The house and stables used to be boarded up but now they have been renovated and now have tea and gift shops and a crafts centre, there was also an additional market on selling all sorts from local traders, you can even get married there, or attend a V festival.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after being thoroughly spoilt all I could come up with was to make some thank you cards. Not nearly enough to express how much fun I had and how loved and blessed I am to have such wonderful people in my life, and that's without a special mention to the wonderful photo genius that I am lucky enough to be married to.</span></div>
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