Cloud nine
gets all the publicity,
but
cloud eight
actually is
cheaper, less crowded,
and has a better view.
George Carlin said that and I find it very apt.
Photo by Rii. All rights reserved.
PS
Me entries are on the light side at the moment….
but am brewing some stuff with more substance,
so get ready, Folks!!
(Cloud Nine explained on Using English [...]
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“Those of you who feel knitting has changed your life, welcome to the club. I can think of no better occupation to reveal your own creativity.”
Kaffe Fassett
Wikipedia defines knitting as “a method by which thread or yarn may be turned into cloth. Knitting consists of loops called stitches pulled through each [...]
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‘Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.’
Oscar Wilde “The Importance of Being Earnest”
You might think that I come from the sticks or that I was born and grew up in the middle of nowhere but that is not the case at all, as there was quite an influx of travellers [...]
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“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Honore De Balzac
The brilliant thing about an international motherhood is that you can take the best of all the worlds and combine them into a tasty mixed salad of varied ingredients. That is: when both the parents [...]
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“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience”
Kin Hubbard
There was a BBC comedy called ‘The Good Life’ – that was about two couples who were direct opposites to the other, and that is what made the comedy, comedy, and so very funny, but what I am telling now is not comedy [...]
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Rose is not a Rose by any other name.
“What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
–From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
I was tagged by LearningNerd the other day. The rules of this meme are simple: share eight random facts about yourself, pick eight bloggers to keep [...]
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“I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.”
Bette Davis
(American actress 1908-1989)
All of the females know the saying: ‘To have a Good Hair Day’ when everything of you and on you looks absolutely a million dollars! The opposite is also so familiar to us. I came to think of this subject because my [...]
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The fact of the matter is that Donald Duck and I share the same predicament in being persons for whom things happen – whether one is looking for them to happen or not!! Sad things, mad things, glad things, do roll out in a never-ending roller coaster. I have said in another entry that I [...]
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”The lack of emotional security of our American* young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.
No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world [...]
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Sometimes it does feel like this picture*
that we are looking from the outside in…
‘My Home is where My Heart is.’ Tis for me, for after living in many countries and cultures, it really has been the only way to survive to an extent. Lapland is the country and place where I always say that I [...]
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