June Quotation Challenge

June quotation from Lynne

“Life is like a camera.

Just focus on what’s important,

Capture the good times,

Develop from the negatives

And if things don’t turn out 

- Take another shot”

               ~ Anonymous

A popular quote found frequently in adverts and other web sites

https://www.google.co.uk/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=life+is+like+a+camera&oq=Life+is+L&gs_l=hp.1.0.35i39j0l3.4393.8498.0.11476.9.9.0.0.0.0.148.968.5j4.9.0...0.0.0..1c.1.17.psy-ab.C3c6qhTMeuo&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48293060,d.d2k&fp=2da79b5fde7ad2ac&biw=1280&bih=711

I am keeping my week simple. We all seem to be very busy these days and sadly so few of us blogging, so I decided to try and tempt you to get out that camera and start blogging again. Just show us several times this week what you are snapping!  Hope you can?

Looking forward to seeing what photos you take!

Take care and Happy Lucky Snapping!

Love Lynne xxx

Nostalgia Challenge: Off on Holiday!

So, it's Week Three again and we are almost half way through the year! I have been less bloggy than I would like, but hopefully that is good for me because lots of things are happening and I like nothing more than to be in the thick of things!

You may know that we have had a long awaited extension to our kitchen done of late and this means we haven't had a holiday in a couple of years.. oh, but I will be in that kitchen everyday!  And we will all enjoy the extra light and the family space it has made for us!

Holidays ... ahhh, do you remember when the summers were longer, the evenings were balmier and the summer holidays from school went on and on and on...

.. so tell me about them..I am sure they will be many and varied..tell us about your holiday memories from your childhood or the ones you have made for your own children..

here's a few ideas, I am sure you will have a story or two:

... school holidays when the sun shone!

...mini breaks which made maximum memories, be they good or bad..

 (here is a good memory of mine of a less than successful few days on a canal boat .. the pictures are so much better than the reality!!)

... seaside holidays and city breaks

...improvised holiday days at home 

... your first holiday / first flight / first trip without your family

...holiday treats and holiday disasters

...holidays for special events... and this one is for me this weekend.. for Christmas Lisa bought us tickets to see Robbie Williams next Tuesday in Manchester so we are leaving home early to make time to see some pals before the night...oh and sure enough, the weather forecast is for heavy rain and we are in a Stadium....watch my space for news of how that works out!

Looking forward to reading all your stories.. wallow a little in the nostalgia of it and enjoy yourselves this week everyone.. xxxxxxxxxx

Let's reflect - June

Hello everybody,

This month is an important one for the Let's Reflect challenge, for one reason :

We are finishing the 1^st word : SILVER.
YEAH !!!

So, after :

Serendipity

Impossible

Laugh

Vulnerable

Enjoy

our word for this month is :

Relax

What a nice word I hear you say. I agree, that’s a word I love too, mainly because it’s not on my To Do list very often, not to say almost never.

It’s a fact that at the time I am writing, my parents just left after spending 10 days with us and as much as I love them, I need a bit (A LOT) of quiet each time they leave, LOL, so what a better time than this one to relax !

Something I love doing to relax is for example playing with the girls. It's great to teach them some new things and as they are eager to learn, it' always a guaranteed pleasant moment for us 3.

So what do you do to relax ? I am not going to spoil it by enumerating all what one could do and you certainly have a pretty good idea of what the word “ Relax “ means, LOL, so you will be able to talk in length about your experiences.

I cant wait to read what you have as new ideas for us all.

Take care everybody, Anne xxx

The View Challenge: June

Crikey, we are nearly at the half way point of the year! It does not seem possible does it?

As usual I am using the Sara Coleridge poem.

The Months

January brings the snow,

makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,

thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes loud and shrill,

stirs the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,

scatters daisies at our feet.

May brings flocks of pretty lambs,

skipping by their fleecy dams.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,

fills the children's hand with posies.

Hot July brings cooling showers,

apricots and gillyflowers.

August brings the sheaves of corn,

then the harvest home is borne.

Warm September brings the fruit,

sportsmen then begin to shoot.

Fresh October brings the pheasants,

then to gather nuts is pleasant.

Dull November brings the blast,

then the leaves are whirling fast.

Chill December brings the sleet,

blazing fire, and christmas treat.

I am hoping some of those flowers will be showing in my kitchen window photo this month!

My view of the coastline is one I took from Woolacombe beach on friday as the whole family went down for the whole glorious day.

I look forward to seeing your views if you get time.

May Quotation Challenge

May Quotation week from Lynne.

As I write this I still have to blog the last 3 weeks which I am finding very enjoyable and easy having just come back from a lovely holiday in France 

 Maybe this week my quote is more on the serious side but another dimension to our lives

“ The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”

This month my quote comes from a very famous man that we have all heard of......Mahatma Gandi 1869 – 1948  

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.

Even after his death, Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living--making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest -- has been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.

Please try and watch the videos as they are historically interesting. Well I found them informative and interesting!

Video here http://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898/videos

Biography here http://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898

I shall be interested to see how you interpret this quote. 

We all serve others, at home - our family, at work and in other ways whether we raise money for charities or work for charities.  [I know some of you do both of these.]  I also know that children are very involved in thinking of others and often are raising money, definitely for Comic Relief and Red nose days!

It is good to see most of us back weekly once again, I know several of us were worried we wouldn’t see the year out, but I am sure we will. 

Love to you all

Lynne xx

Nostalgia Challenge.. Party On!

Here we are again at Week Three, I can't believe how the months are flying by. Col and I have been lucky enough to have a few odd days away and it has really made up for the lack of good weather and the chance to get the boat in the water, but it has also made the weeks just fly by!

We are very home based this week and next as we are playing host to a bunch of family and friends who are coming to us for Colin's 50th Birthday... to be honest it is his birthday early June but we wanted to celebrate over a Bank Holiday weekend to add to the sense of 'party' and also so we all had the extra time to recover!  
Zac was due to be away on his ship by now but they have kept all his cadet cohort back a month so they can be at the naming of the new 'Royal Princess' in June, so it is all working out nicely. 

So we are at my prompt for May..' Party Memories'.... tell us about some of your special party memories.. they can be a long way back to your first birthday party memories or as recent as a good party for New Year or a wedding in the past year.. all you have to do is share the memory, the laughter.. or even the tears!

• childhood birthdays
• weddings
• graduations
• college parties (!!)
• milestone celebrations .. 21st / 40th / 50th birthdays or anniversaries
• fancy dress and themed parties.

One of the best do's we had in recent years was Col's folks' Golden wedding, so many friends, family and colleagues over a few days; it was so good, we had fishing trips, cream tea afternoons and fish & chip suppers.. everything to make a memorable time..

I will pop in and out and say hello, and say sorry too for being a little elusive the past couple of months.. maybe getting my house back to normal will help me settle back to blogging more regularly.. oh and if Zac goes to sea it's a better incentive too, to keep him in touch with life at home! 

Add you links here.. party on my friends xx

Let's Reflect May - End of the Enjoy Week

Hello blogger friends,

I hope it's only the end of the challenge week but you will continue to enjoy life. 

If we are lucky enough, the weather could turn around and the sun might even show a bit of his nose again.

Thanks to everybody who participated. May be it's just in my imagination, but I have this impression that we are all busy but try to share our time so everybody organizing a challenge gets some participants.That's really nice.

Tomorrow will be Kathy's turn. She said my week was nicely announcing hers, so let's see what she will surprise us with.

I will see you again for another let's reflect challenge on June 10. 

In the meantime, take care everybody, 

Anne xxx