I did promise I'd try....!

Jane does this count?????

I have a secret to confess

but before I tell

Jane you must promise you will still speak to me

OK

promise?

I have terrible trouble picking flowers or pruning shrubs

the reason I have trouble is...

I am not totally convinced that it is painless

to the said shrub or flower!!!!!

What if the plant is soundlessly screaming

 as I have at it with the secateurs?

Dumb...I know....really dumb!

but every time I go to cut

I get this terrible picture in my head and just can't do it.

AND

that is the reason for my dashing pink paper roses!

and why I enjoy this in my garden 

Now to see really beautiful floral arrangements in the home

go to

 Jane at Small but Charming

and just enjoy her utterly charming blog

Goodnight 

shades of green....!

Petty jealousy is really very boring!!!!

and not something I normally suffer from

...thank goodness!

BUT... 

a wonderfully eccentric friend 

rang tonight for a chat

and half way through the conversation said

go and check out where I have been staying!

so I did

and I could so see myself lying by the pool

enjoying a wee pre dinner drink

then settling in for the night

perhaps grabbing a good read of the shelves

and day dreaming

after lunch in the shade before another dip

or wandering through the beautiful gardens

so I suggested next time she went she had better take me!!!

                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                        all images from here

Alas....too late

 as it will probably be sold

she replied

So

 just slightly

 tinged green am I!!!!!

Goodnight

We will survive this disastrous summer......!

It started at the beginning of our summer

with our  little flood

that we thought such a disaster

ruined crops, roads and fences

Little did we realise what was in store for

Toowoomba, the Lockyer Valley, Ipswich

 and Brisbane

as the rain continued to fall and fall

                                                                               St Lucia shopping centre photo courtesy The News

As we were recovering from this

 the news that Victoria was suffering it's own destructive flooding

 and more and more people were losing their life's belongings

then Western Australia was fighting

out of control fires

                                                                                                     image from here

But Queensland was still in the line of fire as Cyclone Yasi

came hurtling towards the coast

                                                                                                                                            for more photos go here

and cyclone Carlos drowned Darwin with

26 inches of rain in four hours

                                                                                                                                                                         from here

and, as all across Australia,

 we struggled to cope with the aftermath

of so many major disasters

we were not prepared for the news

out of New Zealand at lunchtime today

                                                                                                                                                                        from here

as an earthquake again hit Christchurch

the damage is horrific

and as I write this,  search and rescue teams

from Queensland (and the rest of Australia)  are on

their way to help.

We are two strong nations and with each others help

we will survive

My prayers are with the people of Christchurch tonight

Goodnight

up and running again...!

Thanks to our local computer shop

we are back!

The computer has survived

the modem has not

(It fried in the heat!!!!)

I have so much to catch up on

 and it has only been 10 days!

withdrawal was the pits!!!!!!!

NEWS FLASH

they came early to look at the house

so  they saw it warts and all!!

they say they are coming back

but do I really want them to?

how mixed up is that

I really, really, really 

want to move into something

much smaller and newer

but I love this house with a passion!

The little bedroom, as we call this one,

has pink days as above

or blue days

and it holds a lot of my favourite treasures

The fourth bedroom has two 

French pine beds I found at a swap meet

and the desk is early Australian

absolutely useless for anything

 other than old fashioned letter writing

Oh dear when I look at these photos it is

really hard to believe that once, I was

a photographic stylist!

Apparently it only works when I am not holding

the camera!!!!

If we move where am I going to put all these things

and how am I going to decide what goes and what stays?!!!!

Goodnight

Crash and burn....!

In spectacular circumstances

would be a good way to go

but

no

first the modem...

then the computer

gave a last heaving gasp

and quietlycollapsed

our computer just could not cope

with the weather

we are currently having here

We have dropped it into

computer hospital but they are not

hopeful!

Alas, a new computer is not high on our

priority list just at present

so I may be missing for a while.

I guess that means I will have lots to catch up with

when we are back on air.

Depending on how long I will continue to drop in here

at the local library on a Saturday morning

Kerry keep knitting,

Jane keep the flowers coming,

Tina, I will miss your next great thing

Sharyne I hope everything is OK

Renee, what will I do without you!

I will miss you all but be back eventually

Goodnight