Evening from Almondbury

Evening all, I have blogged
Sue
xxx

The Lady and the Chocolate

Thought you would all like this one, I had it on a birthday card last birthday.

THE LADY AND THE CHOCOLATE

CHOCOLATE: You want me Lady don't you? You want me! YOU WANT ME!

LADY: No chocolate, I do not want you, for after pleasure there is SICKNESS and there is GUILT.

CHOCOLATE: That, Lady is the REASON FOR MY EXISTENCE. Are you to deny me the
REASON FOR MY EXISTENCE?

LADY: No, chocolate. I would not do that.

CHOCOLATE: Thank you.

(A munching sound is heard, followed by a sigh of pleasure)

Purplekitten

My original post disappeared, so maybe this will arrive twice. This is purplekitten who begged to be allowed on the site. He came on a mother's Day card from my daughter, living in Canada, where it was M.Day yesterday.

Purplekitten

I received this from my daughter this weekend. She lives in Canada, and it was Mother's day there , this means I get 2 Mother's Days per year!
The purplekitten begged to be allowed on the cow site, so I thought you wouldnt mind.

So many thanks! and Angel Card for Patsy.

I've been out all day and have come home to find all these friendly messages on here and on my blog. Thank you all so much indeed. And thanks to Jacko for the techie help - whether I achieve it will be another matter.

Jep/Julie - you asked for an angel card on 24th May. I will try to remember, but please do remind me if I forget.

Headmistress, on my blog, thought that I should pick myself another card from her, and all of you. So I did and it was 'Release' which means 'Let go of all that keeps you in the past or takes you into the future. This may include expectations, inhibitions, control, worry or an outdated self-image'. I definitely am 'out-dated' but thats my clothes!

Patsy, as its your birthday too, I picked you 'Truth'. I hope it has meaning for you today. 'Move from a place of knowing within you rather than as a result of adaptation to outer experience. Let go of your assumptions and need to control life's creative process'.

Please, everyone, no need to comment on this post - I feel embarrassed I have taken up so much of Purplecoo's time today!

Faith x

Happy Returns

At least that is what I thought it was. I've been lost by Google/blogger since last night and had enormouse difficulty in getting them to accept I was who I said I was. Anyway, here I am again and it says at the top that it thinks I am me! (Does that make sense? I am completely befuddled after all the carry-on) And then I did a blog here and it said it had uploaded but when I pressed View Blog it wasn't there. If it is by now I am sorry to have put 2 up! Fingers crossed, I am going to try again.

Happy Return

Thank the Lord - I have finally got Google to accept that I exist again. I disappeared last night instead of being automatically logged in when I came here. I could not get Google accept that my email address existed. I have tried again today with no result - oh the frustation of it all and all the lovely blogs here and on own pages and I couldn't comment or add my own. Anyway, don't know what I did, but at last it has accepted that I exist and allowed me to reset my password - guess what, the same as before - and here I am.
I am appalled by the awful lurgies that are attacking you all. Is it Aliens? A thousand appologies to Westerwitch for sending a desperate email last night when you were feeling so rotten too.
Actually, I did a little blog before I went off the scene if you will forgive me for mentioning it here.

Confessions of a serial mower

Just sat down to read a few blogs when my family turn up for a feed - I feel rather like that man who taught geese to fly in formation - they follow me back up the yard to the barn for their tea. They are now almost teenagers in duck years and have
started to flap their little wing stumps!

Email addresses on profiles

If I, or anyone else for that matter, want to get in contact with someone for a reason that is nothing to do with either a blog or a comment ( for me it might be to answer a query they haven't realised they need to make), it is very hit and miss to put a comment somewhere in the hope that they'll see it, and a bit too much to put a post on this main page for one small thing that isn't necessarily connected or to do with anyone else.

Although the facility to add an email address to one's profile is available, many people either haven't noticed or have chosen not to do it; for the latter I imagine it's a question of privacy, they don't want their email address available for all to see, and I can quite understand that. But for those who don't realise the option's there, it's when you Edit your profile, there's a box to tick which is Show my email address which brings an email link up on your Profile page.

An ideal solution would be to have some sort of routing system, like there was on the forum at the other place, where you clicked on the Email image and an email was sent without you knowing where it was going to, and I'm looking into that at the moment.

Confessions of a serial mower - medical matters

I have blogged but as everyone is so poorly at present, and you might not be bu**ered to read it - I have posted the photo with the purple folder that accompanied it, for your perusal!

Feeling Under the Weather

And goodness knows we are having a lot of weather at the moment. Poor old Matron had the flu and I cybernursed her over MSN . Couldn't visit - as I had to be well for last Friday's One Act Play festival - so we made the Janitor do all the work. Well the little flu bug must have wriggled through cyberspace and pounced at me from my screen - or I caught the bug at Matron's Birthday party. Either way I feel more than a little sorry for myself right now. I do indeed have Sjogrens Syndrome and Hashimoto's disease and now with the flu as well I have got joined up aching. Hah Flu and stuff I spit on you ptooooey - when I'm not sobbing down the MSN - another symptom of the bug - getting tearful. Berludy hell. So forgive me if I don't read too many blogs, or do one of my own for a few days. I can wander around the site in short bursts - then I need to sleep and feel sorry for myself again.

On the up side - our team came second in the East Kilbride One Act Play Festival - I will blog about this at some point. And over three weeks ago (got lost during the sudden and unexpected birth of Purplecoo) I passed my third assignment on my Stress Management course and was awarded my probationer's pass to practice!

And my cat is a dark chocolate brown - but looks black. Hahhahahaha . . . . boo hoooo booo hoooooo!

Happy Birthday Patsy!

Happy birthday old fruit. Keep those Manolos clicking!

Just to cheese you all off

I'm sitting here waiting for the Tesco delivery - sorry I have given in, but not being able to drive at the moment and OH working funny hours, well for gawds sake we've got to eat - any road up, I thought I would let you know that my Mum has just got back from shopping. She popped in to the charity shop to look for a new raincoat and walked out with a nearly new gents navy blue Burberry for - wait for it - £8. I looked it up on their site and new they are £710. Coo jammy or what? I told her if she decides she doesn't like it we can put it on ebay.

Elizabethd - I'll get very confused

I didn't blog properly. I had intended to post two horsie photos ( one of each of the boys ) and tell you about their holiday. They are both on holiday, now, for the whole summer, but when I added the second phot, the first one went away, so I thought I'd post the one I'd got, go back and re-do the first one and add the blog to that. Then BOTH photos turned up at once ! I can't even do the EASY bit Elizabethd!!

The Traveller Returns and the Email, too.

I had just blogged last Thursday - in something of a hurry as usual and after having some trouble with putting up a pic that I had taken of the garden - when my internet connection crashed. A JCB or maybe a screwdriver had severed my line somewhere between the junction box round the corner and the exchange. So I have been incommunicado until this morning when a nice BT engineer came round went away and then rang me to say the line was fixed. So I never got the chance to announce that I had blogged. And as there doesn't seem much point in saying I blogged last Thursday on the 'I have blogged today' spot and as in any case last Thursday is really a very long time ago now and as I hope to blog tomoz anyway I mention it only in passing with a big thanks to those wandering adventurers who nevertheless dipped into Corner Cupboard while I was away and left a nice little comment. As things turned out I was away at the weekend and crossing the Channel on the stormiest night I can remember for a very long time and so therefore couldn't have emailed anyway. Thus the severing of the line was moderately timely in so far as these things ever can be.

No, it's a Kentish saying then I expect

......seeing as it was misunderstood:

Whilst I was whinging the other day about the osteoarthritis, Westerwitch said that she has sjogrens. Sjogrens is nasty, and I said so, adding " I've got no right to complain ", but then
Westerwitch said to me: " I did not mean to upstage you" and I replied: " I don't believe that you have a black cat "

Now are we all following this so far?
I know it gets complicated with the ' I said, she said, and she said, so I said...' stuff.

Anyway consider the person who has a bigger problem than yours ( regardless of the size of yours )
or the person who got a better bargain on their new ( whatever ) than you did
or the person who is more ill than you are
or whose children did better at school than yours
or if you've got a black cat - their's is blacker than yours is!
So if somebody is being in any way ' upstageful ' we ask what colour their cat is.
So when I tell Westerwitch she doesn't have a black cat, I don't mean she's telling lies about the colour of her cat - I mean I know it wasn't a ' degree of pain ' competition.

Regional variations abound, no doubt. On the subject of which: I thought we'd agreed to leave the rain dancing??? It's looking a bit black over Wilf's mother's.

How do I...

Yet another technical question.
How do I put photos or pictures, other than the ones I have stored on my PC, onto a blog?

An ornathological question for you all: why do I keep hearing an owl hooting in the daytime? For the past week or so I keep hearing one in the garden. Would it be a baby, or is it actually quite common to hear them in the day? I love owls, and am used to hearing them constantly at night, but it's surprisingly eerie in the daylight!

Skool Prayer

Coming In

All right, all right! In the face of so many requests to stop dancing and out of respect to Faith on her birthday I am getting dressed and coming back in. Besides I have a Welsh class to attend and it's going to be a bit tricky when we exchange news. Just give me a shout Bodrun when you are next up for a spot of nature celebrating.

It's my birthday today !

I am 50 and I have blogged! The blog is not all sweetness light and optimism about being 50 though, so please be warned!

I have laid out 10 angel cards on the desk and would like the first person who comments here to pick me one - any number from 1 to 10, starting from the right. Thank you!

I have just had my postman deliver a huge box - in it was three star shaped balloons, tied together, and a card about the year 1957, and chocolates too! Inside the card it says 'For all the times you bought us balloons on our birthdays - Happy Birthday!!! 50 years young!! Enjoy your day. My love forever. It is signed by my eldest daughter. Ah! Sweet. It was always a tradition when they were young, that we went down the town and bought them a helium balloon.

PURPLE POWER

Could Purple Power please tell me the correct etiquette on replying to questions in ones comments ? do you reply on your own blog ? OR go to said persons blog and comment ? Have sent you all some lovely lavender out of the garden by way of a thank you !!

Blocked Fosses!

Could someone please tell the little man on Aberystwyth sea front with the water cannon pointing this way - TURN IT OFF! We have a flooded yard - the ducks are happy, the sheep are not! It appears to be down to - wait for it - A BLOCKED FOSSE! Now should I complain to one who knows all about such matters her being on the committee and all that..... can you send MMe G over to dig it out -err NOW! Before the water comes in the house!!! Thats why I'm wearing wellies in the kitchen in case you were wondering......ALL RAIN DANCES STOP NOW please!

Batten down the Hatches

Will somebody please run up Bodran mountain and stop Jo doing her rain dance. Shut her in a cupboard or something. Woken up to not only lashing rain but gale force winds as well. It's like November.

Picking the wrong clothes

It's hot out there on the beach, particularly with jeans and boots on - what was I thinking?!

Slightly later than mid-life crisis

Well, the Great Dane has done it again. The birthday/mother's day gift was a complete shocker! The only problem is that it doesn't hold many swap-meet treasures.

Come on over for a ride in the mountains - just bring a head scarf!

Another day

I was going to write a blog about procrastination but I've put it off for another day..
Patsy x

Horse whisperings Chez Loufoque

Up at some unGodly hour to get Eldest of to Poland via Paris and Berlin so have blogged horribly early please excuse advertising the fact here not quite awake yet!

It is like the seconds deluge here and I expect to see Noah adn his vesselatteh door at any moment if the rain does not stop. Would you lot either stop paraying for rain or at least give God the correct delivery address as some of us are getting rather wet over this side of the channel!