Friday 26th March

 First of all I would like to say

Big Happy Birthday to my eldest son, Forty today

How did that happen..........?

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Light & Dark

I still have my Mothering Sunday flowers.  

The Lilies are just opening

Saturday 20th March

 Spring

Vivaldi's Spring

The Spring Equinox is the first day of spring season and occurs when the sun passes the equator moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The North Pole begins to lean toward the sun again. Day and night have approximately the same length. The posh name for Spring Equinox is Vernal Equinox.

By the meteorological calendar, spring will always start on 1 March; ending on 31 May

All this week I have been feeling bleurgh.... Not helpful being on your own either, so I watched too much television and knitted.  Think I feel better now!

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Sunrise and Sunset

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I live in an East West house.  I see the sunrise and the sunset

Sorry the photos are not brilliant I know. The sunrise and sunsets this week were brighter than they look.  The photos were taken this week........

The sunrise.

Sunset

Friday 12 March

 Look Up!

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When I was younger I always wanted to do photography but couldn't afford to.  There was no instant pictures then, no digital cameras, no phones with cameras attached!  The photographs had to be developed by yourself or taken to the local chemist for developing.

I did know a photographer and he always said "look Up! when you want to take some photos. 

I learnt a lot with just that phrase..... always look up you never know what you may see...........

Warning:  Just remember to look where you are walking........

Friday 5th March

 Signs of Spring

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To me early yellow flowers represents spring.

Sunday 28th February

 Delicious

Highly pleasant in taste!

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I made some Rock Cakes - Recipe can be found here

There were ten buns

One was extra delicious straight out of the oven!

When I make these for my grandchildren I use chopped coloured cherries

Friday 19th February

Unexpected

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Two video calls from my son in New Zealand.  One last Sunday and one just now, both occasions, as I answered my 4year old granddaughter's beautiful smile saying Hello Nanny.  This morning for me was her opening parcels, book for her and the jumper for her brother.

This is unexpected too!  

My friend knows I love Amaryllis bulbs. Big blousy show off of the bulb world.

This poor bulb had a bit of a rough start

I opened the box to find it had been packed upside down. 

Turned it up right way and potted it up

And it grew......

Its very pretty though with white petals pink edges

Friday 12th February

 Spent all day Wednesday sorting out the Freeview Box.  I rang my provider, who came back my phone line is OK.  I quite clearly said You View, then my husband's cousin rang we nattered for about an hour or so.  When I put the phone down from her I rang my provider back, answered the questions hopefully clearly as I could and then the question is it about the problem already in hand, answer Yes!  I got a voice I could just about understand and she said can you do this and and this with the box, I obliged.  After about and hour she said I needed a new box.  I knew I needed a new box, I needed an upgrade as it had been on its last legs over the last couple years and gave yesterday.  I had had the box since day one of Freeview.  It made me think though.  There was someone taking control of my telephone, internet and TV at the other end of the phone line!

Thursday morning off to the hospital.  

I was OK.  Found I couldn't sleep on that side but other than that fine.

Last Sunday was my friend Jane's birthday.  I made the above daffodils and Ascot scarf and the bag, card, cakes and flowers as I did Val

Made this jumper for my new grandson in New Zealand, when it gets there it should fit!

 Scavenger Hunt

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Starts with W

This one was quite difficult so I'm afraid another lesson..........

W for Wisdom

Athena

Goddess of Wisdom. war and the craft, and the favourite daughter of Zeus. Athena was, was perhaps, the wisest, most courageous, and certainly the most resourceful of the Olympian gods.

Minerva

Roman goddess of Wisdom, medicine. commerce, handicrafts, poetry, the arts in general, and later, war.

Frigg

 Goddess in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with foresight and wisdom, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir.

Owl

The owl was a symbol for Athena, goddess of wisdom and strategy, before the Greeks gave their pantheon human forms. According to myth, an owl sat on Athena's blind side, so that she could see the whole truth. In Ancient Greece, the owl was a symbol of a higher wisdom, and it was also a guardian of the Acropolis.

According to ancient folklore in the West, the owl is considered a wise, silent and solitary bird of prey associated with lunar deities - symbols of wisdom, wiser even than the eagle - the totem bird of the Sun Kings. 

It goes back to the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena, having an owl as her symbol. I had one Naturalist tell me once that owls came to represent wisdom because of their large eyes and their success in hunting at night and catching creatures that humans weren't able to detect.

 (All W for Wisdom sourced from Google)