lovely surprises

Macarons

the eating and making off

have become my new passion.

The last lot I made were just about perfect

 and if I could upload our images from our camera

 I would show you

 but we do seem to be having just a wee problem with that.

 Every time I do so the computer goes into fatal error and crashes!!

Anyway that was not the point of this story

The point is I went to check a page 

I knew I had bookmarked on the making of Macarons....

to compare of course!

I searched and 

I searched and

 one hour later I found!!

Do you have 100's of bookmarked pages?

because, really, this was ridiculous 

I didn't even remember what half of them were

so slowly and painfully, I checked each one and went

 delete....

delete...

delete...

whoa stop there OK you can stay...

delete...

delete... 

and so on till I came to this site here

These images make me think of summer and family

 and I just wanted to throw open my door

 and welcome these rooms right in

I am only half way through the bookmark file

 so I will now trundle back and see what else I can find

who knows 

there could be all sorts of beautiful things

 still waiting to be rediscovered!!!!!

Goodnight

Boasting....again!!!!

Some time ago, 

I posted here

about our beautiful  handsome

Grandson Harry

Harry and his team had a wonderful few days and

 I am still hearing stories of his amazing sportsmanship

even though the results, for his team

 in the Special Olympics,

were only so so

so...so

was I surprised when we heard the latest news?

Not a bit!

He is our Grandson after all!!!!

and now I share it with you

Next year 

ratatatat

drum roll please

Harry 

will join 

129 other special athletes from Australia

as they travel to Athens to participate in the

 WORLD SPECIAL OLYMPICS

!  !  !  !  !

You go Harry!

Goodnight

A long, long whinge!!!!!!

For the last three weeks,

every time I turn on blogger,

I find the new design thing

Tonight,

I say

Tonight is the night

I will use a new design.

For the next three hours 

I try every template

I play with colours

I preview

I make the page 3 columns

I preview

I add pictures to fill up the empty spaces

I preview

My header won't centre!

I don't like the colour down the side!

The font won't work!

The colours are dull!

I need a new header

and paint won't do what I want

 whinge!

Whinge

Whinge!

Whinge!

I delete the whole lot.

Think about what I want to post.

Look up at the clock,

 and those three hours 

I thought I had been here

Forget it!!!!

It has been five hours 

and if I don't go to bed soon

I will be useless tomorrow!!!!

So no post again.

I wonder if I need to get very brave

 and find someone

 who can tell me how to make it the way I want!

It's really quite embarrassing

 to have once been a designer

 and then to own the dullest blog on the block

 (not looking for compliments here)

We need a bloggy school where all the hints

and ideas are in one place

IN LANGUAGE

old people can understand!

I am fine until they start speaking

computer instead of English

You know how they have the piece on the bottom of a page

 that say something like

did this answer your question!

Yes O

No  O

then you press no

(because you have absolutely no idea what the page said)

 and up pops another little survey

and absolutely nothing changes

Does anyone else have this problem?

Am I just totally computer ignorant?

Have I just made this all too hard for myself?

Goodnight

PS. Tomorrow I will try again!!!!!!!

a lovely new blog

Youngest daughter 

is a writer

she writes speeches,

she writes newsletters

she writes things I don't understand

and she writes them for a large

London organization!

She also writes nonsense rhymes

and she has started a blog

http://apinkfaeriefarfromhome.blogspot.com

She does not post often enough

 to satisfy her

 MOTHER!

I think she needs some encouragement

How about it?

Goodnight

             

a gift for you....!

Oh my goodness

two posts in one day!!

This, though, is a gift

 for all of you who read my little blog.

I don't get around to cleaning my computer screen very often

and I have always found it 

nearly impossible to clean the inside 

where all the marks seem to be...

 and then I found this....

and for those of you who don't have it

I thought I would gift it to you so just press

(sorry link collapsed) 

and your screen will loo as good as new in no time!!!!

Goodnight

    

P.S. 3 people have downloaded my signature!

Why on earth would any one want to do that?!!!!

I have to visit Guernsey!

This is just a quick word before I go of to visit the children,

drop in to the Sydney gift fair

have afternoon tea at the Queen Victoria building,

and help my daughter with plans for no 2 son's 21st birthday

but

I had to post to 

all you readers out there

if you have not read 

The Guernsey 

Literary and

Potato Peel Pie

 Society

by

Mary Anne Shaffer

do yourself a favour and go right out now and buy it

You will not be able to put it down

Mary Schaffer was 70 when she wrote this book

 and unfortunately didn't live to see it published

It is everything the written word should be and I am

 enthralled,

entranced,

amused,

and

amazed  

at the story,

 the writing and the

 sheer poetry of this written work.

Enough said

 go and get it now

Unless of course 

I am just the last person to read it

if so, I would love to hear

 what you all thought about it

 and if you loved it as much as I do 

Random house also have a lovely site here

Goodnight