12 days of Christmas - blogging - day one

Blogging the 12 days of Christmas - staying home, resting and quiet enjoyment.

Lovely, busy day and one spent at home in our fair town, an unusual thing for us as we always travel to be with friends and family at this time of year.

I am thankful that we had a relatively good year and reflecting on the adventures and travel we achieved and new friends and relatives we met and even though JB was very sick at the end of the year, he is recovering well and getting his strength back.

Keeping it brief for the first day... a few visuals from the day.

Our Christmas morning sky for the 25th of December 2013 - fine and warm.

Our 'Christmas Breakfast muffins' were yummy

 

The verandah was cool and quiet

 

 

We played and ate and enjoyed our day.

 

I hope your day was merry merry and you had a nice rest from the every day.

 

@kalgrl

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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