Thursday, February 06, 2014

My family are the best.

Last month I had a major birthday. I was hoping it would just pass me by as I didn't really want to draw attention to my 'three score years and ten' When I was growing up that was considered 'life expectancy' and you did well to reach that ripe old age!!

Those who are FB friends will know that my youngest daughter, Beccy, and my two youngest grand children arrived on my doorstep from Dublin on the day. It was a lovely surprise and I thoroughly enjoyed their overnight visit, they even brought me a cake with a 'few' candles.

I always love the cards they make; so the purpose of this post is to keep a record that I can look back on and enjoy in the future.

Just after they arrived.
Beccy made a lovely doorstop out of some of my old skirt material.

Hope you can read Mollie's card (she knows me so well!) They always groan when I want to take a photo every time I see them!

From Ben

Dillon very cleverly made this pop up card. 

Beccy knows I love this colour!

Other daughter Sam had one of her photos made into a card (she is currently trying to develop a career in photography)
So if you haven't guessed I'm now starting my next decade!!!


So this is why I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family-thank you everyone for making my birthday so memorable x

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Monday, August 08, 2011

Birthday Boy!!!!!

He says he can have what he fancies for breakfast at his age!!!!!!
It is diabetic choc biscuit
This card suits Embee as he is not a computer expert! He found it funny and had a good laugh
A very apt card from Beccy as she gave him the Sat Nav holder.


Happy Birthday Embee









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Monday, December 21, 2009

Fun Monday # 148 What's in the Christmas mail!



I'm late, I'm late for a very important date! The snow we had last night had to be cleared and it took me about three hours and I now have backache so I'm glad to be sitting down and taking a rest. Oh and today is the Winter Solstice so it's the shortest and darkest day of the year. Roll on the lighter evenings not that we'll notice it for a couple of months!

Right down to FM.
Today Faye is our hostess and she says:
Your assignment, should you decide to play, is to share some of your favorite holiday mail that you've received this year. Possible categories:

Best All Around Card
Most Meaningful Message
Best Kid/Pet Holiday Photo
Best Family Newsletter
Most Humorous Card

As it's Christmas this is what I'm going to concentrate on...
For the best kid picture I've chosen this one of my youngest grandson. I pinched it from Beccy who posted it on facebook and I thought it would make a perfect Christmas Greeting. I just love the expression on his face!

Although I get news letters from friends I don't get any family newsletters; however, I do get some hand made cards which I love...

Ben made me smile...look what he has written in his card....now when I was staying with them last month he actually told me he wanted to stay in Dublin for Christmas and he's got his wish as his dad has some work commitments and they can't come until 28th. I think this might count as a meaningful message!

The other card I'm going to show came from my blogging buddy Daffy I love her blog and she supplies me with a lot of my material for my Witty Wednesday posts (not that I can share everything she sends ;))

I was thrilled to get this card so thank you very much Daffy.

Well that's all I can come up with today. I'll come visiting soon.

Archives:
2008: Winter Solstice
2007: Christmas Greetings
2006: Winter Solstice

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Saturday, September 06, 2008

How to keep a man!!!!

I read articles in both the Daily Mail and the The Telegraph about the following book:



From The Daily Mail By Annette Witheridge

Male author set to top bestsellers list with book telling women how to get a man - keep slim, stay home and cook dinner

A self-help guide that tells women to follow their man’s orders if they want to keep him has become an unlikely hit.

The book, titled The Re-education Of The Female, also says women should wear sexy clothes while doing the cooking and cleaning.

'The Re-Education of the Female', by single father Dante Moore, puts the blame for women being unable to find a good man squarely where he says it belongs: 'On the female'.

Stay skinny, cook, clean, wear sexy clothes, and do whatever he says because men are here to command - that is the way to catch yourself a good man, says Moore.

And with chapter headings like 'Appearance, Appearance, Appearance', 'You Knew He Was a Bum When You Met Him', and 'Are You an Indirect Prostitute?' he aims to force women to re-evaluate themselves and - ahem - clean up their acts.

Why does he feel such an overpowering urge to do this?

Because, Moore writes in his introduction: 'I want to express my anger and frustration as a man with the women I feel are mis-educated, misinformed, and ill-prepared about their responsibilities in getting and maintaining a relationship with a man of quality.'

Indeed.

Moore, a computer engineer and 33-year-old father of an 11-year-old boy, insists he is doing this out of love for women.

Growing up in America he only met his father a handful of times, he told the Washington Post, but was raised by his mother, two sisters, two aunts and two female cousins.

When he was a boy his mother told him he had to treat a woman 'like a queen'.

He tried that, he insists. For two years. And he lost every girlfriend he had.
Author Dante Moore, who claims he wrote the book out of love for women

So, he decided, it was time for a change. 'Once I started being myself and saying, 'look, I'm not going to do this, this, or that for women,' the phone didn't stop ringing,' he said.

It wasn't long before he decided to spread the wealth of his realisation.

Women, he insists, make it 'much harder than it is' to get a man. He distills a man's every desire down to three basic things: food, relaxation, and, of course, sex.

And all a woman has to do to fill those desires is stay skinny and sexy, cook, clean, and do whatever the man says.

'Here's a little secret, ladies,' he writes. 'Men never really ask for anything. They command.'

Echoing the sentiments of Beyonce's hit single 'Irreplaceable', he adds: 'And believe me, what you won't do, ten broads around the corner will.'

Size does matter, he says - very much. 'The fatter you get, the more you decrease your potential single-man pool.

'Let me give you an example. When you go to the grocery store to shop, do you pick out the nastiest-looking, most rotten, smelliest fruit or meat you can find? Oh, you don't? Why not? . . . It's the same with men when they see baby elephant-sized, out-of-shape women.'
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Similarly from The Telegraph

The Re-education Of The Female, by first-time author Dante Moore, advises women to follow their man's orders.

Despite the chauvinist opinions, copies have been flying off the shelves in the US.

One piece of advice reads: "Here's a little secret, ladies. Men never really ask for anything. They command. And believe me, what you won't do, ten broads around the corner will."

Mr Moore, a 33-year-old computer engineer, who has never married, continues: "The fatter you get, the more you decrease your potential single-man pool. Let me give you an example.

"When you go to the grocery store to shop, do you pick out the nastiest-looking, most rotten, smelliest fruit or meat you can find?

"Oh you don't? Why not? It's the same with men when they see baby-elephant-sized, out-of-shape women."

Mr Moore, who has an 11-year-old son from a previous relationship and has a girlfriend, says he has never found true love.

He insists all he wants to do is help women because he loves women. He grew up in a house with his mother, two sisters, two aunts and two female cousins.

Dr Gilda Carle, US feminist and TV therapist, has questioned Mr Moore's advice however.

She said: "He's never found the one, fallen in love and got married, so what make him an expert?

"Frankly, I would like to get any woman who has ever dated him on my therapist's couch."
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So what do you think readers:
Is this guy for real and does he believe what he wrote or is he very clever because his aim was to sell books and he's certainly doing that and probably making a fortune. The cynical me will opt for the latter, and I certainly won't be buying the book even though it sound like a good

.........when I read the article to Embee he said and I quote:

"I'm a tad disappointed you didn't cook dinner in a pink bra and frilly knickers" and we had a good laugh.

PS
on embees birthday he had this card I think it clarifies things in this household!!




Archives:
2007: Lavender Blue

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Greetings from the Dordogne


Yesterday this post card arrived from my grandchildren. It is a cave painting of a horse with a very long tail and Mollie tells me these caves are 1300 years old. I think the card came via snail mail as it was posted ages ago! I am delighted to get the card even if it arrived the day they came home. Yes, Beccy phoned me at 9pm last night to say they were back we only had a quick chat so I am as eager as everyone else to hear about her holiday. Not sure when she will start blogging again but expect it will be soon. Welcome Home and I have missed you all xxx

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Look what came in the post today


I think I have complained before that I only ever get bills and junk mail delivered through the door. Well today I got a lovely surprised and what I thought was a letter from Beccy, was in fact some beautiful cards from Emma sent via Beccy. Emma has a wonderful talent for making beautiful cards and three of them are now sitting on top of my TV where I can admire them. The words are so true for example "It takes a long time to grow an old friend' and 'How beautiful a day can be when friendship touches it'. Not sure I will be able to part with them but on the other hand they are so lovely I need to share the sentiments. So BIG THANK YOU EMMA.

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