The weather is still sticky and hot. I am still struggling, and continue to arrange and attend various appointments. I am extending my break for another couple of weeks.
I miss you all.
The weather is still sticky and hot. I am still struggling, and continue to arrange and attend various appointments. I am extending my break for another couple of weeks.
I miss you all.
I am tired and overwhelmed. Physically, mentally and emotionally.
In the next few weeks I have a lot to do, including arranging some overdue medical appointments for me and for Batty and some long neglected paper work. Not to mention weeding.
So I am taking a blog break and hope to be back at the end of this month or perhaps early in March.
I will miss you.
Take care.
This
meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her
to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now
Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a
movable feast.
Essentially
the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice
of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we do
with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem,
or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some
of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on
their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible
joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.
This month I am providing the prompts
This week's prompts are, first an image, a photo I took at a Hyper Real exhibition.
And for those of you whose creativity is triggered by words
I usually run with a theme. We are having an odd summer in my city. It is not (usually) as hot, though still outside my comfort levels, which is unsurprising given that my sweet spot is about 14C. We have had a lot of rain (though not fortunately to flood levels unlike much of my country). It is MUCH more humid. Summer is my least favourite season and the garden has got away from me.
So I have been going out early and doing an hour or so weeding. Which means that not only am I up at first light I am dressed and ready to head out. And I have been delighting in very different sunrises, and heading out with the camera.
After I feed the cats, deal with the skitty litter and the garbage I weed and then and come back inside before it gets too hot. Hopefully not as I did one morning last week falling face first onto the lawn. Which was my own fault. I knew I was tired and did a little bit more then headed down to the green bin carrying too many things at once.
This
meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her
to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now
Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a
movable feast.
Essentially
the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice
of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we do
with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem,
or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some
of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on
their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible
joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.
This month I am providing the prompts
This week's prompts are:
And/or
I usually run with a theme.This week we had an outing and headed off to our National Museum to see Journey to Ancient Egypt brought to us from the Egyptian and Nubian Collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities.
Himself has been to Egypt several times and loved it. I find the culture and the incredible workmanship of the items on display fascinating.
The exhibition included intricately decorated coffins, statues, jewellery, amulets and a few mummified people and animals. The mummies were in a secluded area of the exhibition and viewing them was at your discretion. We did and I was blown away by the intricate wrapping and how well the linen was preserved. Photos of the mummies was prohibited, but there was more than enough other things to give my shutter finger a work out. There were constantly changing photographs projected onto the walls too.
Less talk, more photos.