I have never written a review of my blogging year, and after flitting back to January 2018 I can see why…..
January started in grumpy mode – off to a flying start then – and I was hoping to complete a new, riveting, interactive project called Loopy Letters. That all went tits up.
I also fell off a tree and hurt my knee – IT STILL HURTS!!!!
February – Still grumpy.
March – Mr Devine had a birthday!!! There was snow in the form of The Beast from the East!!! I also had a birthday.
April – A little less grumpy. Charmaine popped in for some gruel, and I regaled my readers with tales about exotic train travel.
May – In a better frame of mind, some would say almost hysterical, as I went into a giggle meltdown due to Mr Devine’s sidebar being sabotaged by Dinah’s extra-large photographs. You had to be there to understand my mirth.
In May I also accepted that I’m a flakey ne’er do well, and the Loopy Letters project was quietly shelved. It will probably fall off the shelf in 2021 and make a loud thud.
June – I made curtains, and walked a lot.
July – It was hot.
August – My eyebrows fell out.
September – Waffled on about calligraphy.
October – Good grief. What was I thinking? On the plus side, there was a nice picture of a big blue sky.
November – Onset of Tinnitus, and Yodel van incident. BUT, I also won the FGES competition!!!!
December – Christmas!
And, after almost nothing happening for a whole year, my blogging chums still turn up to say hello!!!! Remarkable. They all deserve medals. Should I make medals in 2019??? Gilded medals… I could send them out to people???? NO, NO, stop this madness!!!
I have no plans for 2019 other than I resolve to conduct myself in a more orderly fashion. Whatever that means.
Anyhow, best wishes for a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who wander through my blog posts!!! Even the spam bots.
SXXX
Happy New Year, Miss Scarlett – hope you get your ears and eyebrows back to normal in 2019! Jx
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Happy New Year, Jon!!! Yep… I would like a bit of peace and quiet in my head…and some eyebrows!
Sx
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What? You want eyebrows IN your head?
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Don’t be silly, Dinah. I would like them in an appropriate place, i.e. above my eyes, so that I can raise at least one elegant brow to signify my disapproval.
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Happy New Year, Ms Scarlett!!! Cheers for a better 2019! xoxox
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Happy New Year, Savvy!!! Let’s hope it’s a good one!!
Sx
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I think we’re on the same train Ms S! Plans gone awry and bits of bodies caving in. I’m looking forward to a VERY long sit down in 2019 – wanna join me?!
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Happy New Year, Ms Tara!!! Yes please, a sit down would be nice!
Sx
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Oh yes, the falling off a tree episode. What with all the subsequent excitement of 2018 I’d rather forgotten about that – and it still hurts? Perhaps you should go and have a moan to a doctor. Anyway, good riddance to this year and let’s hope the new one works out better.
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Happy New Year, Mr Batarde!! I think my Doctor is tired of me and my pesky problems that he can’t do anything about!
Sx
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Happy New Year, Scarlet! We all seem to be falling to pieces as time goes by. I hope you have far fewer aches and pains, accidents and follicular fallings out in 2019 (and ever onwards). xoxoxo
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Happy New Year, Ponita!!! The older I get the more high maintenance I become. I’m beginning to relate to the film Death Becomes Her.
Sx
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Ah yes, I remember those curtains
Happy New Year Scarlet!
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Happy New Year, Mitzi!!! NO!!! I will never succumb to nylon ruching!!
Sx
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Huff! Your blogging review is far more succinct, funny and readable than the one I’ve just spent ALL DAY on. HUFF!
But, still, Happy New Year! I hope 2019 brings more mirth and merriment (even if gargantuan sideboard photos are the cause), and less physical fuss & nonsense.
Oh, and Hapy New Year to Sid, Charmaine and that ruffle-shirt wearing plumber who thinks he’s a Spaniard (I can’t remember his name. Oops).
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Happy New Year, Mr Devine!!
Yep, this sloppy post was brought to you in ten minutes flat. Appalling.
I’m looking forward to more massive sideboard pictures in 2019!!
….oh…you mean Harold…. blimey…. where did I put him? I haven’t seen him since 2016?!
Sx
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Harold! Yes, that’s him. Perhaps Charmaine ate him to supplement her gruel?
And you did this in 10 minutes? I wouldn’t have guessed a second over 12 😉
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You know what a slopster I am, Mr Devine! I will try harder next year, and perhaps write a few posts that could feature in my review.
Sx
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I like you review dear. I had to have some gins during Mr. DeVice’s and now Im drunk.
Happy New Year to you , you talented person you. And Codfanglers…..I have been so busy but I must stop back to read more now that the holidays are over.
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Happy New Year, Mistress Maddie!!! And thank you! May 2019 delight us with a multitude of codfanglers!!
Sx
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You and our mutual friend in Norfolk have both reminded me of the time I re-blogged someone’s post, not realising that writer’s images had not been re-sized. It was rather funny, wasn’t it.
So…other than being told by a GP that “the bunny test confirms you ARE pregnant, Mrs MGillicuddy ”
we never really not what might be in store for us, do we? So it follows that we should hope for the good things, like blog stalwarts, someone to have fun with. (Muriel! Go back to your own room.Now!), a powerful god or a magician to sort out Brexit, Ferrero Rocher on special…
Yes, hope. Here’s to the old cow getting into gear this year! Oh—MURIEL!
I do apologise for her, Scarlet. She means well, but the meds…
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Happy New Year, Dinah!!! Oh that big pink picture was the best thing in 2018!!! I laughed solid for a week!! More please!!
Sx
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I still have pink afterimages burned onto my retinas, Dinah!
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Funniest thing ever 🙂
Sx
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What is this word, O-R-D-E-R-L-Y?
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Happy New Year, Kylie!!! I know…. BUT… I think I need perhaps a smidge of discipline in my life, and not just with blogging…. don’t fret though, I don’t have the capacity for serious discipline!
Sx
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I hope your knee gets better. I wish you and your loved ones good health, happiness, and lots of fun.
Happy New Year!!!
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I wish you and your loved ones a Wonderful and Amazing New Year! May the New Year bring you lots of joy, laughter, and love.
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Happy New Year, Mr Swings!! And all the very best to you and yours, you lovely sweet man!
Sxx
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Out of curiosity I consulted Blog Advisor, which gave Wonky Words three stars and had some rather abusive reviews of your distinguished blog. They totally fail to appreciate the ground-breaking, trend-setting, opinion-forming nature of your unique enterprise. They even criticised your constant grumpiness. Don’t they realise grumpiness is now the number one emotion in fashionable circles? Onwards and upwards!
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Happy New Year, Nick!!
Oh, you’re referring to Bog Advisor. Yes, they have had it in for me since the days of The Friday Flush and my tour of UK public toilets. I stole their thunder…and the last roll of loo paper from the Whiddon Down service station on the A30, leaving the staff at Bog Advisor up a paddle without a creek.
Sx
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Happy New Year, Scarlet.
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Happy New Year, Rimpy!!!
Sxxx
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Medals? Did I win one yet?
Happy New Year Miss Scarlet!
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Stop it, Mr Lax!!! I mustn’t make promises I can’t keep!!!
Happy New Year!!!
Sxxx
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Yay, New Year, New profile pic!!! Bit less grumpy.
Sx
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2018. Feh. Who needs it? Your eyebrows fell out. I wound up in the hospital for a back procedure. Trump is still President. The coming year has *got* to be better, right? In any event, hope you’re well and that you don’t overextend yourself. Keep an even keel.
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I have just read that you are coming to London this year!!! Are you going to pop over to Devon…. I have an attic with a camp bed. There would be fish finger sandwiches. I know – a tempting offer that must be very hard to refuse!
Sx
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I don’t imagine I’ll have any time to myself. Going with my family, my sister-in-law and her family, my MIL and FIL. 10 of us. I’m hoping I can dump them to go to the Tate modern.I don’t know what a fish finger sandwiches. Will Google it.
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I haven’t been back to London since I moved here. I miss going to the Tate. Sigh.
Sx
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Happy New Year, Monsieur Pain!!!
Overextend myself???? Moi????? *falls off chair laughing, and damages other knee*
Sxxx
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Falling from trees, getting run over by yodels, this Devon is a dangerous place …
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Happy New Year, Mr Mags!! Yes, Devon is a particularly wayward, lawless county!
Sx
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I remember those curtains are they still hanging on? Just don’t close the curtains on your blog.
I often refer to an old post but I don’t do annual reviews. I noticed your avatar has a fresh face and a smile.
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Yes, Bill, the curtains are still up!
I thought it was time I freshened up my look and cheered myself up 🙂
Sx
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Happy New Year, Scarls, please stay out of trees and away from Yodel vans. X
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Happy New Year, Eryl!!! So far, so good….!
Sx
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