Friday 29th January

 Scavenger Hunt

Joining in with I live, I Love, I craft Scavenger Hunt 

My own choice

Pretty tiny Daffodil

26th January 2021

 I would like to say Happy Birthday to my granddaughter Abigail, 4 years old today

Saturday 23rd January 2021

The Moon 

This weeks photo, joining with I've joined the I live, I Love, I craft Scavenger Hunt again. 

I'm sorry I do not have any moon photos and everyone else's are so beautiful. 

My post is a bit educational  -  sorry........

• new Moon.
• waxing crescent Moon.
• first quarter Moon.
• waxing gibbous Moon.
• full Moon.
• waning gibbous Moon.
• last quarter Moon.
• waning crescent Moon.

The next full Moon in the UK

The next full Moon can be seen on 28 January 2021. The so-called ‘Wolf Moon’ will appear for around three nights.

A full Moon happens roughly every 29.5 days, the length of one lunar cycle. You can see details of each full Moon of 2021 (including every Moon’s dedicated name) below.

28 January: Wolf Moon

27 February: Snow Moon

28 March: Worm Moon

27 April: Pink Moon (supermoon)

26 May: Flower Moon/Blood Moon (supermoon)

24 June: Strawberry Moon

24 July: Buck Moon

22 August: Sturgeon Moon

21 September: Harvest Moon

20 October: Hunter’s Moon

19 November: Beaver Moon (micro full Moon)

19 December: Cold Moon

Blue Moon

When the Full Moon appears twice in the same month which, it doesn't happens that often hence the saying Once in a Blue Moon

(Sourced from google)

Sunday 17th January 2021

 

First of all I would like to say Happy Birthday to my granddaughter Scarlett,7 years old today

Think Positive, my words for the year - Huh!

Two block toilets in the matter of days, not happy.  I thought the guy who came to sort the upstairs loo and all was OK... No.... by Saturday morning the downstairs was blocked!  Not sure the blockage had flushed through properly, anyway I'll be on the phone tomorrow...........

I've joined the I live, I Love, I craft Scavenger Hunt again.  

This week  New

Another photo of my new grandson Aidan

**May I just say last weeks Gifts were all for my friend Val**

Sunday 10th January 2021

Think Positive

Well my weekend started well!

This little person, a second grandson was born about 8,30am 9th January UK time.  

He is in New Zealand.

If his parents and sister were still living in UK I still wouldn't be able to see him yet..... 

My eldest grandson is 10years old today

Happy Birthday Liam

 My late husband use to say to me Think Positive.  Wise words! 

That is my word(s) for the year!  

So I'm thinking positive!  I'm having a eat out of the Freezer January!

Someone who doesn't like injections or blood taking I am looking forward to having my Coronavirus Vaccine.  I could be in one of three groups 64yrs, 65yrs if its after April or the 75yrs and vulnerable as I have had cancer.............

I've joined the I live, I Love, I craft Scavenger Hunt again.  

I haven't done it for a while but one picture a week, I can do....

This week GIFTS

Vintage Style Market bags made using a pattern from 1942

Ascot Scarf or Bow-Tie Scarf or Miss Marple.  

My pattern, I found a few free patterns on line but they did nothing for me.  

This is for walking on Exmoor so I wanted it warm around the neck

A cross-stitch card.  

The pattern was kindly given to me by a fellow blogger.

Fairy Cakes

and sent some Flowers

It was my friend Val's birthday on 4th January, she said her birthday is so near Christmas that she doesn't really celebrate it.  I thought this year she was going to.

She is one of three lovely friends in my little bubble

Friday 1st January 2021

2020 a Year to Remember.........

I'm reluctant to say it but......

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2021 has got to be better than last year, hasn't it?

 What will this new year bring?  

What a strange year 2020 has been.  All of a sudden we had this virus which went worldwide which came from somewhere in China, and now it's getting worse.  Well they do say things have to get worse before they get better don't they.....?

Like most grandparents I haven't been able to see my grandchildren.  

Last seen last August!

Part of my family live in New Zealand and I haven't seen them for well over a year and miss them all dearly.  

Yes I have regular photos and little videos of my grandchildren but quite honestly I just want to physically see them.  I miss my three sons and their lovely wives. I did see middle son and daughter-in-law in September and had a lovely time with them. 

I do see really lovely friends who have been so kind to me since my husband passed away April 2019  if it wasn't for them I'd have gone crazy long since!  So a huge thank you to them.

 

There is a light at the end of the tunnel!

31st January - catch-up

One week without the internet.  

It kept showing up on my TV 

"can't connect to internet please check your cable between your router and phone socket then restart the router."

I asked a friend's son to look at the it for me.  I can use a computer but not that technically minded.  

He popped in on way home from work and within five minutes he said I need router.  The following day I contacted my service provider.  It took them from 9am to 3,45pm via text messages to say I needed a new router which duly arrived yesterday,  They originally told me 1-2 days but the text quickly changed to 2-5 days but it arrived the next day.

I never contacted them immediately as at first the problem was intermittent, but by Sunday I was feeling isolated because it was another of my grandchildren's birthday this one is in New Zealand and was three on Sunday.

I think she loved her binoculars and her Unicorn Tshirt

I also missed these two too with their new hair do!

Mind you no internet I was able to go off and do something else instead!

I've been patchworking, knitting and sorting - lots of sorting!  

I like the internet and Instagram but it is a great time-waster..........

20th January

6.30am put the rubbish out on a very cold frosty morning, very boring but one of those mundane jobs that needs  to be done!  

Yesterday I went to my son's for birthday gift giving.  

Friday 10th January was my grandson's 9th birthday and one of my granddaughter's 6th birthday.

My Tiger Came to Tea

Before I went I baked Rock Cakes  Because of two of my granddaughters being dairy free, instead of using milk I put in freshly squeezed orange juice and multi-coloured glace cherries (and dairy free spread - Vitalite).  We had the usual don't like cherries nanny and my reply was they are exactly the same recipe we had on the beach last summer so they were then happy to eat them.

6th January - Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, Epiphany, 12 days after Christmas.  

Three kings followed a star to Bethlehen to meet the baby Jesus

The Three Kings

Three Kings came riding from far away,

Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;

Three Wise Men out of the East were they,

And they travelled by night and they slept by day,

For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.

 

The star was so beautiful, large and clear,

That all the other stars of the sky

Became a white mist in the atmosphere,

And by this they knew that the coming was near

Of the Prince foretold in the prophecy.

 

Three caskets they bore on their saddle-bows,

Three caskets of gold with golden keys;

Their robes were of crimson silk with rows

Of bells and pomegranates and furbelows,

Their turbans like blossoming almond-trees.

 

And so the Three Kings rode into the West,

Through the dusk of the night, over hill and dell,

And sometimes they nodded with beard on breast,

And sometimes talked, as they paused to rest,

With the people they met at some wayside well.

 

“Of the child that is born,” said Baltasar,

“Good people, I pray you, tell us the news;

For we in the East have seen his star,

And have ridden fast, and have ridden far,

To find and worship the King of the Jews.”

 

And the people answered, “You ask in vain;

We know of no King but Herod the Great!”

They thought the Wise Men were men insane,

As they spurred their horses across the plain,

Like riders in haste, who cannot wait.

 

And when they came to Jerusalem,

Herod the Great, who had heard this thing,

Sent for the Wise Men and questioned them;

And said, “Go down unto Bethlehem,

And bring me tidings of this new king.”

 

So they rode away; and the star stood still,

The only one in the grey of morn;

Yes, it stopped—it stood still of its own free will,

Right over Bethlehem on the hill,

The city of David, where Christ was born.

 

And the Three Kings rode through the gate and the guard,

Through the silent street, till their horses turned

And neighed as they entered the great inn-yard;

But the windows were closed, and the doors were barred,

And only a light in the stable burned.

 

And cradled there in the scented hay,

In the air made sweet by the breath of kine,

The little child in the manger lay,

The child, that would be king one day

Of a kingdom not human, but divine.

 

His mother Mary of Nazareth

Sat watching beside his place of rest,

Watching the even flow of his breath,

For the joy of life and the terror of death

Were mingled together in her breast.

 

They laid their offerings at his feet:

The gold was their tribute to a King,

The frankincense, with its odor sweet,

Was for the Priest, the Paraclete,

The myrrh for the body’s burying.

 

And the mother wondered and bowed her head,

And sat as still as a statue of stone,

Her heart was troubled yet comforted,

Remembering what the Angel had said

Of an endless reign and of David’s throne.

 

Then the Kings rode out of the city gate,

With a clatter of hoofs in proud array;

But they went not back to Herod the Great,

For they knew his malice and feared his hate,

And returned to their homes by another way.

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

1st January 2020

New Beginnings!

This past year my life has changed a lot.  So I have hopefully deleted my last blog(s) and started again.  I have kept my logo so some of my old readers may recognise me.

Well.... I really do wonder what this year will bring..........? Glad to see the back of 2019 that's for sure! My dad passed away in February then ten weeks later my beautiful lovely husband passed away. I am now an orphan and a widow.

Another reason I renewed my blog was because I was getting unwanted comments on my old blog but found I could not delete some of them

Things can only get better I hope......