Friday, June 27, 2008

The Scatterdaisies are back with new monthly photographic Challenges!

Di has issued the first of a new series of challenges for the Scatterdaisies who have been enjoying some R & R. The Challenge for June is "Frame Your View" and here are my 3 offerings.

I revisited my holiday photos from our European trip in 2005 and came up with three of my favourites.

This is the view through the French doors, looking out over the neighbouring olive groves from Angela's villa in Tuscany where we love to stay.

Now let's look through the arched window. This little Renault was parked in the garden of a fabulous Art Deco B & B at Corbie in Northern France.

So many young lives lost. This was the War Cenetery at Serre Road in the Somme region, row upon row of headstones.
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Happy Birthday, June!


It's my dear friend June's birthday today, and at our handcraft group we helped her celebrate with a butterfly-shaped carrot cake topped with a twisty candle AND a sparkler! I won't tell you how old she is, but she is a remarkably resilient lady and a wonderful role model.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Life's Little Mysteries #3

"Detective Di" has been on the job again! Here's the latest mystery package left at my front gate - a super-sized sports bag. The mystery lies not in what it contains - a full set of hockey gear, pads, face protection and crash helmet etc (sans name labels) - but in why it's still here 24 hours after I first spotted it.

Surely, if you were hauling this hulking great kit bag around you'd pretty easily realise when you stopped hauling it, wouldn't you?

I've phoned the school next door, where I think the owner probably goes (the girls are picked up after school by their parents outside my home), but the receptionist simply sighed and remarked on the scattiness of young people. With no name, she said, she could do nothing.

So here it sits, just inside my gate for safety, while I hope its owner will soon realise her/his loss and come to claim it.

... or I could take up hockey. After all, I have all the gear.

Late Note: I've just found a zippered package of pencils, pens and calculator on the front fence. No name again. I'm well on my way to a garage sale!
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