Day 103- SHOCKING

When I got todays word I realised that a lot of things shock me, must be my age LOL!
Here is my list
1) dog poo on the pavements and grass in public places
2) rubbish thrown down by people on the pavement and roads
3) The foul and unnecessary language used by young and old in aggression and in every day speech
4) some programmes totally unsuitable for viewing at peek times or at any time!
5) the lack of respect for others whether people are young or old

I could continue but this list is enough!
So today I thought my photo would be easy as we always have dog poo on our pavement outside our house and definitely rubbish, cans bottles and food wrappers as we live just the right distance from a corner shop.
So out I went with my camera to find only dog poo on the grass and no rubbish as the local council have done a cleanup this week, bless them

Don't you just hate seeing this when it is so easy to pick up with a bag and dispose of it in a dog bin which is just across the road from this grass!

Winkle up and my DIL's blog

This is the new statue at Winkle Island in the Old Town. The Winkle Club is a charitable organisation in Hastings that our Queen is a member and so was Winston Churchill

and this is my DIL's new blog, she makes fantastic bunting. click on the link and see what she makes

Day 102 - ELEGANT

Well I am definitely not elegant!! When I first went to SW and lost 4st in weight in 2009 I tried on my wedding dress from 1985 and could JUST get in it, did I feel elegant, no not really!!

Now I always think formal weddings are elegant and here is my very close friend Ann at her son's wedding in 2008. She has always been elegant every day when she was at work (a teacher) going out or is at home. Here she is with me...I had no hat or jacket LOL!! OK she was the grooms Mother :)

Today it rained on and off all day. I have spent the day dyeing my black summer clothes a strong black again!!

DH came home and wanted to go out. I had seen on local TV about our new 'Winkle up statue in our Old Town and we went to see it. First I saw this boat on a roof top!

Then our local net huts displaying the sign that locals have been saying "NO to Gerwood" the new Art Centre that HAS been built! Here is the new building

The Winkle Island statue seems to have disappeared from my blog LOL!!

Day 101 - CLUTTER!

This was any easy photo today as we have plenty of clutter upstairs from our rooms and hall downstairs!! All this is in our spare bedroom until after Saturday when we get the carpets laid.
Glad to do this early today as we have our DGC coming for the day as it is still the Easter school holidays!

Day 100 - GENTLE

Wow day 100 has arrived!! Easter Mon Bank Holiday and cold wet and windy here in SE England though I think it is the same everywhere which is a shame for those having a weekend or day break.
DH and I walked into town today. I have decided I need to walk daily to get ready for our holiday in the lakes. I am not a walker so I am not very fit after the winter months at home LOL!! This pm I have been to hospital to visit someone and returned to find Peter had taken over my craft room and is tyeing flies!!

This then brought me to the word for a photo today. I had looked it up earlier to find GENTLE can be a noun and a verb. There were a lot of meanings and I learnt something new!

Meanings: 1) honourable, belonging to or fit for a class of gentlemen, well born.

2) generous, noble, courteous.

3) tame, quiet, angling or other activity of patience, easily managed moderate, kind, mild, tender.

4) Maggot, larva of meat fly or blue bottle used as fishing bait

5) make gentle, break in gently

So as you can see I have the photo for GENTLE, a maggot artificial fly that Peter has already made and....who is also a 'gentle' man (kind, quiet and patient as fishermen are!!)

The first fly photo, he was making was a diawl bach (welsh fly???!!)

Easter Sunday Day 99 - LOTS AND LOTS!

A dull and cold Easter Sunday here and apart from church am I haven't been out and instead scrapped and did the UKS WC. I peaceful and happy afternoon.
Lots and lots could have been several things, but something we don't normally have in the house are sweets but DD bought me lots of jelly beans yesterday instead of chocolate, she knows I love them. Here they are waiting to be eaten LOL!!

Day 98 - GIRLY

Well today's word 'girly' just had to be DGD Xanthe! As our youngest and a girl she really adores dolls and soft toys and they are all her 'babies' LOL! Never known such a girly girl having had 2 sons !
Easter Sat has been an at home day and really not doing much but avoiding our lounge and upstairs and playing on the computer and doing a bit of scrapping, a lovely lazy day!

Our Church Easter Meditations

1. In the Garden of Gethsemane
Mark 14:32-36

2. Jesus is betrayed by Judas and arrested

Mark 14: 43-46

3. Jesus is condememned by the Sanhedrin

John 15:20

4.Peter denies Jesus

Luke 22: 61-62

5. Jesus is scoured and crowned with thorns

Matthew 27:26-31

6. Simon of Cyrene carries the cross

Matthew 27:32

7, Jesus is crucified

Mark 15:24

8 The Seven Last Words of Jesus

Luke 23:34

John 19:26-7
Matthew 27:46

John 19:28,30

Luke 23:46

9. Jesus laid in the tomb

Matthew 27: 57-61

10. Angels at the tomb

Matthew 28:2-8

11. The Road to Emmaus

Luke 24: 13 - 35

12.Jesus appears to the disciples at the lakeshore of the Sea of Galilee

John 21: 1 - 14

13. The Great Commission

Acts 1: 3, 8

From the first Easter to Easter 2012

Here we look at just some of the ways our church is involved in proclaiming the Gospel in word and deed both here in Hastings and "to the endsof the earth" often working with those of other fellowships

Day 97 - PASTEL

I struggled with this word whilst I was out all day thinking about pastel colours but on coming home I realised I had a brand new pack of pastels that I have never used!! With the help of Picasa I have changed the colour and surrounds to more'pastel' colours!!
Today being Good Friday and a very important day for a Christian we went to church for an all age worship which was good and then to one of our families for lunch. It has been a cold but glorious sunny day and hope those on holiday this weekend enjoyed today in Hastings

Day 96- WHAT'S THIS THEN?

Our church has done Easter Meditations during Holy week.
This is installation 11) The Road to Emmaus - Luke 24: 13 - 35

Day 95 - NOISE

If I had listened to the noise of the hot tank filling during the night I might have looked for our leak earlier? But our water and heating was set for twice a day over the winter months!

Day 94 TEENY WEENY!

What wonderful weather we are still having in the SE England, once again we had blue skies and sunshine. I didn't get the prompt til late afternoon (thanks Helen xx) so was thinking along the insect line when we stopped at one of DH's fishing haunts and came across these fellows, just love the teeny one, so this is my photo for today!
It was DGC day out with DH and myself. We set off at 8am for DGP duties and finally arrived at the beach at Bexhill for icecream and coffee late am and then we went on for a picnic lunch at the animal rescue place at Raystede nr Lewes. Here is a collage of our day out

Today

As I am blogging the TV news tells me it is 30yrs since the Falkland wars! I was returning on a coach with school children from our local schools having been on a ski trip when we stopped at a rest station in Germany and saw that we were at war with Argentine in the Falkland Isles, we had no idea where these islands where then!!
Today we went to Bewel Reservoir to see how low the water in our area is. They are pumping water from the R Medwad daily throughout April at 2" a day but this shows you how low it is

Our water ban I believe starts this Thursday in the SE England

Day 93 - CHILDHOOD

Well I thought about this early this morning and I could have done DGC and DC too but thought about my childhood instead, Alas all my things from my childhood I have not kept, DS2 has my book that all school children received when Queen Elizabeth came to the throne in 1953. I also had a mug which he also has LOL!
So I looked for photos that I have and made a collage of them.

Day 92 - COSTUME

It has been a cold but lovely sunny April Fool's day. I have had a busy day and I have only just managed to get on the computer and upload a photo for today's word!
Here is DGS Zac in a pirate's costume!!