Blog July - week 3

Driving part of the holiday begins...

Left London - we has GPS (comment from end of driving - thanks be!)

It took us to Kings Lynn - Norfolk 

My Great, great, great grandparents emigrated from here in 1851 to Portland in Victoria. 

Then Scarborough and Whitby

Where we saw a castle (Scarborough) and a ruined abbey (Whitby) and a very lame Dracula experience in Whitby.. So bad!

We then travelled to 'the North' and around the area where JB was born ...

This is known as 'the angel of the north' by the same artist (Gormely) that did the sculptures on Lake Ballard near Menzies in WA.

I lost about 2 days with a virus bug thingy , JB was good to me .. 

We met his cousins and uncle and Aunty. Nice people.

We climbed up to the Penshaw monument... visited the Durham Cathedral, and JB's old house and where he was born - Rose Avenue. 

We left the area with some fond memories of the family we met and the places visited. 

We ended the week with a drive across the country to .... 

Bye for now 

@kalgrl

Blog July - week two

And so to London to see the Queen...'s house

Went to Harry Potter tour at the studios 

And to 221B Baker Street

Then saw Shakespeare at 'The Globe'

And Tim Minchin's 'Matilda' at the Cambridge theatre in '7 Dials'

Ran around the underground, ate, traveled on the Thames went to the Tower of London ( where the guide said 'creepily' Ann Boyelyn [spell?] still resided in her grave)

So tired, so hot (heat wave here in London), and quite happy :)

Off on a new adventure today - driving to the North of England .. Should be cooler and hoping to see the 'Angel of the North' and meet some of JB's family.

One more image to round it out .. 

Portebello Markets - near Notting Hill Gate - London 

Bye for now ... Off to navigate out of London - should be fun if we don't take a wrong turning,.. :)

@kalgrl

Blog July

#summer/winter holiday 

Blog July - week one

A day in Paris

Louvre

Love this image of Michaelangelo's slave and the small yawning tourist. 

I love his work and was happy to see two of his sculptures at the Louvre.

This image was from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower - where we had lunch at the restaurant.

Next was Notre Dame

You can light a candle for a prayer under the Rose window. 

Beautiful place.

Bon soir.

@kalgrl

Any ending is also a beginning - blog the 30th

All good things must come to an end and so with the end of June, #blogjune is over.

I have to say, this year was inspiring and wonderful. 

posts about work, 

posts about play, 

posts about the same time everyday... (2:45 to be precise :)

posts about music

posts about food (yum)

posts about 'embedded librarians' FTW

posts about reading

posts about crochet

posts about our furry friends (chihuahua's rule that one, ok)

I've been sharing, and caring and laughing with you all (yay go PLN)

please keep writing no matter how small...

(Any and all from tweets to keek... )

Thanks to @flexnib for getting us excited and active again. Thanks to you all for writing.

I will be blogging in July, however my access may be limited to free wifi when I can get it... so normal service will not be possible, I hope those who are par-ti-ci-pating in 'comment July', enjoy it as much as Blog June.

So goodbye June *waves*, hello July *bows*...

Yours in possibility

@kalgrl

#blogjune

Blog everyday in June

Beep...

An - ti - ci - pation - blog the 29th

Anticipation. (With apologies to Richard O'brien)

How do you do, 

Have you met my,

Planning,

Readying, 

and

Wishing?

How shall we go,

Shall we be,

brought down,

strung out,

or

Fine?

Is it the way we look,

Or how we feel,

Shall we,

Will we be,

ok &

Climb?

An - ti - ci - pation

Things are often very different to expectation...

I hope your anticipation for the rest of the year matches your experience, if you wish it to.

Yours in blogging

@kalgrl

#blogjune

Blog every day for June

Gadget redundancy - blog the 28th

Bought one of these small stylus thingys for the eye phone.

How 'rock and roll' am I? 

Looks nice - reasonable quality - good spring.

I lost it on my desk 'between phones' and found it yesterday.

It was bought for an eye phone 4 which has the earphone jack on the top... So plug the thingy in and it hangs ready for use.

However ...

The earphone jack is on the bottom in the eye phone 5 ... Renders the thingy useless as dangles, gets in the way.. Etc. 

This is the same for anything i used to use with the 4 and even my bedside clock with player is no use now. I liked that gadget. The changes to the charging cord also mean I need 2 cords when travelling as my eye pad is now different to the eye phone. 

I think I will give it to ms 16 who inherited the 4.

I don't really like this sort of phaffing about any way. Perfect for a teenager. :D

#update - she loves it. 

@kalgrl

#blogjune

Blog every day for June

Search for meme (ing) - blog the 27th

Doing a meme today - my way...

Idea lifted from @flexnib 

5 things you don't know about me

1. I'm allergic to rubber. (so no bondage for me - unless hmm leather? O.O)

(Yes I can hear the 50 shades of 'what did she say??? Omg - it's a joke Joyce)

2. At high school I chose the wrong subjects - all of them - took me years to recover from 'economics'. 

Just don't get me started on the periodic table or the chemical formula for DiHydrogen Monoxide. 

3. Very young, I  broke down late one evening on lonely road. In the parents car. I could not find the spare tyre. Older Subarus have them strapped to the top of the motor, and I forgot. 

Then two, very drunk, hard rock Miners, mature friends of my father, stopped to help change the car tyre. It. was. hilarious. (Slippery gravel, no light.. You get the idea.) 

4. My husband owns my iPhone - it's a Phone company rule - for the 'one account' to rule them all..

5. Cannibals frighten me. I mean some one who eats people on purpose - vomit. 

(Plus those running spiders / we have big ones here.)

@kalgrl

#blogJoke 

Blog every damn day in June.

ps. even on holiday. I'm dedicated & I love reading everyone's posts & nearly there - 'party'.

July is BIG for us... 

And now a picture via FB