It’s Saturday. This is my 4th post of my 10 day stint!! I know, time is flying and Jon will be home before he knows it, his holiday already receding into the past in 6 days time…
Anyhow as it is Saturday, and we all want to chill, I am simply going to upload some weather pictures that feature sky…and er…clouds and weathery imagery. But, quick question: Did anybody see The Northern lights last weekend??? I saw nothing – I did have a picture of a black sky. I have excluded it from this little gallery of the weather that was this week…
Have a lovely weekend! Or feel free to continue the chat about party lines and telephone boxes.
P.S Click on the gallery to make big to see the weather in all its glory!
As a child I could often be found in the living room studying the Yellow pages. My natural inclination has always been to gather information – any information – stuff about plumbers; electricians; piano tuners; and even astroturf. When I grew up the internet came along and I found myself lost in a vast vat of Yellow pages – a veritable walk-in wardrobe of cobblers…
Well, that all sounds a bit peculiar. This is because I have lost the last 5,623 words of this post and I can’t be bothered to type them out again – especially the morose bit about feeling like an unwanted dog at a rescue centre.
Crikey, the gist of it was that I spend too much time fannying about on the internet to get anything done, and I have lost opportunities because of this – AND that I feel sad about all of that. And I regret all the time I have wasted reading about stuff that really is none of my concern.
However – I DO NOT REGRET BLOGGING!!! I mean the random surfing stuff.
Right, that’ll do. I really DO have OTHER STUFF to get on with. AND, be very grateful that those 5,623 whining words were lost as you might have been tempted to read them.
My most recent collage:-
I so want to make more collages with calligraphy….
This is the first bit of gilding I’ve done for a few years, I think. It’s a bit rough around the edges as it was an experiment to find out if I could gild on to any sort of paper – yes I can!
Do you know what I often feel glum about? Those loopy letters that I never sent. I failed. Maybe I will still send something to the addresses I have – though some of you have probably moved – which could be interesting!
He sent a rook – no, not a chess piece – A ROOK. It landed in my wood burning stove yesterday morning after scrabbling away at the flue liner and making a right racket, the baffle was removed and there he was staring at me from the back of the stove demanding that I write a blog post this weekend. There wasn’t time for idle chatter as the bird was off via the conservatory window before I could whisper a question, or offer it anything shiny. Only Mr Devine would have sent a bird to do his bidding!! And obviously I have been downgraded from Cormorant to Rook. Then again I’m not sure a Cormorant would fit in the wood burning stove?
So where have I been?? What have I been doing??? What does my mantelpiece look like now??? That’s easy to answer, it looks like this….
….it’s now a cupboard. The cupboard is Rook-proof. Ha. Though my shelves are not…
Anyhow, the upshot is that I can no longer continue my thrilling series of posts entitled: News from the Mantelpiece. Instead I will excite my readers with: Tales from the Cupboard – I know – a truly inspired title! And here is the first:-
I only wish that I looked as calm and serene as Edna when I was dealing with a storm; or rain; or acres of mud; or a rook down my chimney.
P.S It is Mr Devine’s birthday on 22nd March – Happy Birthday if I don’t see you again before then!
I have always disliked my birth name – it smacks of posh gel writing with a quill at a private school, wearing a neat and tidy uniform and having a craving to be a milk monitor. The shortened version of my birth name, the name I go by in everyday life, is even less attractive and smells of ferrets. Perhaps this is why I enjoy giving people nicknames, or name variations, because it is me who desires a change of moniker.
For blogging purposes I changed my name to Ms Scarlet. I thought it was a pretty name, colourful, playful even, with a hint of revolver laying abandoned in a conservatory attached to a stately home. Unfortunately, Mrs Pouncer, a blogger of yore, started referring to me as Scarls. Grrrr. To my ear this sounded like a hybrid of Scowls and Snarls. And then more bloggers started calling me Scarls. I let it go because…. it’s nice to be worthy of a nickname? Because I adored Mrs Pouncer, and she could do no wrong? Because what??? Anyhow, I was back where I started – with a name I didn’t really want.
Back to my loathsome real name – I sometimes wonder if it has undermined my sense of self, such is my dislike of it, and perhaps if I’d been given a more likeable name I would have more of a liking for me. How would I have felt if I had gone through life as a Scarlet? Or as Georgina, or Karen? Would having a different name have changed who I am, and how I see myself?
Anyhow, this rambling post is an apology to Melanie, who I have been calling ‘Mels’, and ‘Mels’ has bad associations for her. Maybe I am just jealous because Melanie is a lovely name, and I wouldn’t have minded it for myself! I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone else to whom I’ve given an unwanted name tag – though this doesn’t mean I’m going to stop doing it! After all, it’s fun making them up, and it probably means I like you.
A tune…. I wonder what Mr Lax would have thought of this?
Remember my thrilling series of posts called: News from the Mantelpiece??? Well, I am no longer able to continue the series, as this is what the mantelpiece looks like now…
The mantelpiece is no more! I have been busy. The decluttering has moved on to redecorating, and about time too! I have loathed the lilac walls for about a decade, and the disproportionate mantelpiece. I’m not sure when my room will be ready for reoccupation – a new floor is on order and won’t arrive for at least 8 weeks, so hopefully I will be back in there, and have an ‘after’ picture, before Christmas.
For the time being I am camped out in a much smaller room, and I don’t know where anything is, and The Instructions on Page 11 have been packed away and are no longer accessible. Apologies for that.
I am writing a quick post to dislodge the giant cardigan wearing man from Mr Devine’s sideboard. Future readers of this post, and my previous post, may be baffled beyond belief, they may not know of the havoc that a WordPress ‘featured image’ can cause on certain types of Blogger sideboards. Anyhow, this post should clear up the mess.
Meanwhile, I have not been very creative this year. I’m not sure what I’ve been doing. I do waste a bit of time on Apple Arcade games…
Top of the leaderboard!!I am very rarely at the top of the leaderboard – this position was a one off for me!
And I do take long walks looking for moody photo opportunities…
And I am trying to declutter my home, and redecorate – this might be my major time suck, as I do own a lot of rubbish that I really should have thrown out years ago
In all honesty, I really would like to get back into collage and calligraphy. I am back doing the Copperplate Special Interest Group envelope exchange, and for this I made a set of prints of one of my favourite quotes…
I am now contemplating starting my CHRISTMAS cards. Yes, I have used the word: CHRISTMAS! But before all of that I think I will enjoy the Indian Summer – finally some warmth in the UK!
Wonky Words 