...and a book walked in!

Do books find you?

or

Do you find books?

I ask, because sometimes I will pick up a highly recommended 

book and no matter how I try I can't get into it

Three months later I try again and can't put it down!!

Go figure

Sometimes I have a craving for suspense

sometimes soppy romance

sometimes something historical

sometimes an old classic is all that will do 

but whatever I choose there is

one absolute criteria

It always has to be well written

*****

Whilst we have had a wonderful time with our UK daughter

it has been a sad few weeks here and

I desperately wanted something light and breezy to read

Now doesn't this cover just scream

Chick lit?

Well it did to me

 so I grabbed it and raced home.

Chick lit

it is not

Beautifully and magically written

 it is

Light and breezy

it is not

A book to bury yourself in

it is

But sad and funny and uplifting as it is

it turns out it was just the book I needed

When I finished

I was so entranced with this authors writing

 that I went searching for anything else she had written

and found

this

I wish I had read it first

 as the characters are the same

and Belong to Me follows on a few years later

But had I picked it up first

would it have been the book I needed now?

I don't think so.

I can only say if you haven't read either of these

 do yourself a favour and get them

 but it might help to read in the right order

Goodnight

It's just a piece of paper....!!!!

a simple sheet of paper

 is a wondrous thing

it can carry your words across the world

in the form of a letter

it can wrap a parcel

it can be the first page of a wonderful novel

or you can do this with it....!

                                                                                       see more of this at here

or this

I don't have any idea where I got these from

 but I have just found a link that

shows more here

they have been sitting in my files for ages

and I decided today was a good day to share them

as a collector of shoes these are a must! 

and this is just amazing and I recommend the link

I have included if you want to read about this artist 

                                                                                                                                          from here

of course

 if you are like me

 you just use paper to

wrap a gift like this!!

and then think you have done a wonderful job!!!!!!!!

Goodnight

Whoopeeeeeee.......!!!!!!!

this is a picture of me!

incandescent with joy 

because

                                            I hope this is just dress up and make believe!

UK daughter

arrives in Sydney tomorrow morning

for two whole weeks!!!!!!

I have not seen them for two long, long, long years

so I may be missing in action for awhile

goodnight

A truly lovely blog........

I can't put it of any longer

I have to make a decision

a hard decision

well a sort of hard decision


weeks ago
Karina from
Karina Gentinetta
gave me this lovely award





I took weeks to tell you the 
seven things about me
just so I didn't have to make the decision!
but now the time has come


I follow far too many of you
and I feel a very strong connection to some of you
and follow your  every post and I thought
how will I decide
and then I looked at the award again
and realised that
it is very specific


it's for
one lovely blog


and then suddenly it was clear as day
there was only one person I could pass it on to.


A lovely young blogger
who fills her days with more than I fill a week


A lovely young blogger
who makes incredibly beautiful things out of scraps
and ingenuity





A lovely young blogger
who shares her day and her family with us all





A lovely young blogger
whose house renovations are a joy





A lovely young blogger
who spends her hours studying


A lovely young blogger
whose comments always make you feel better







who,  is more deserving of this award than
the beautiful Tina at
Rubies place

Tina this is for you




I think I got this right
don't you?
off you go and visit her
and if you don't already know Tina 
you will fall in love!


Goodnight

Things I have to tell you ..6 & 7

No 6

is.... I am not a great fan of television

it has to be a really great show to hold my attention

but I never missed this lady

on this show

the cook and the chef

                                                                                                                                                the cook and the chef

I have several of her books

this being my favourite

I buy a lot of her products

just for us, as well as when we entertain

have been known to claim it as my own then!!!!

...

not being a fan of television

also meant I missed this rather

emotional moment

when Maggie Beer accepted her award

from our then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd 

as she was named

senior Australian of the year

but I did see her on this

                                                                                                                                                        from....Masterchef

when she was the guest on Masterchef.
...

 which brings me to the final thing

No 7

and

6 degrees of separation

because I also missed

this show

                                                                                from... who do you think you are

'Who do you think you are'

and so missed the fact

that this incredible woman

this magnificent cook

and yours truly are 

related

distantly I will admit!!

  we  share

a great, great, great Grandmother

yep, there we are again back

to the Rottons  here and here

Maggie is the Great, great, Granddaughter

 of Walters wife Jane

So if you don't know Maggie Beer go

here

and you will find all sorts of lovely food stuff!

Goodnight

p.s. next post and I will pass the award on

Who knew how hard it is to narrow down

the lovely people I follow to just one!!!!