In The Pink

Greetings. I have been unable to blog as much as I'd like of late....not an apology, just the first line of the ' word from me '; in fact I have had little time for much recently. I have spent some quality time with family which is always a top priority and treasured event but have found myself a little confused to where the rest of the time goes, and what I would like to fit into it! Above is a picture of my crafty pursuits. (Blimey that's a bright picture. If it looks likely to leave permanent retinal burn when posted I'll change it for a black and white version!) Anyway, I play the guitar and have recently taken up the piano again, (top soundtrack and film for those who haven't seen The Piano by the way). I have crocheted.......crocheyed......well you get the gist, for many years having been taught by my paternal grandmother but have recently started to push myself into more advanced crochet under the experienced and extremely skillful supervision of my Mum, ...

For anyone who has not heard Alan Johnston was freed last night after 4 months of captivity! This is wonderful news to wake up to and I would like to extend my heart felt thanks to everyone who supported the campaign for his release. Welcome home Alan!

Greetings. I have become dissatisfied with the appearance of my blog recently. I cannot find another template that I like and I lack the necessary skills to further develop my blog apart from adding columns of add-ons that I don't want. My sister bought me a brilliant blogging book a while ago. I devoured it in the first .....well few days I think and feel I am ready for the next step. The book I have is The Rough Guide to Blogging. Can anyone recommend another book to help me progress? I am not adverse to learning html and have made a few steps there myself but there must be a book for this?!?!?There's a book for everything isn't there? All help gratefully received!

Ginkgo biloba

This weeks 'weekly six' is dedicated to 'public open spaces'! Yesterday I went out with my camera to one of my favourite local parks. I used to work in local government as the tree officer and this was one of the parks that I looked after, my parade square if you like! Its been raining in England (really throughout all of it!) ' a hard cold rain. A kind of rain that washes away the grimy cover of would be villains and out into the darkness ' .... sorry about that deviation anyway it has been raining for weeks now which has great effect on vegetation so everything looked verdant, albeit all to a grey backdrop! I wish to pay tribute to parks and open spaces for the benefit they provide for all. This particular park is situated in the centre of a large, busy town however once inside the avenue of trees situated around the entire park boundary, the traffic sounds are replaced with bird song and you could be anywhere, for an hour or two. This avenue leads into the ...

I have found a Vogon Poetry Generator, have a go here ! This is my Vogon Poem. See, see the sweetness sky Marvel at its big scarlet depths. Tell me, bob do you Wonder why the human ignores you? Why its foobly stare makes you feel dissappointed. I can tell you, it is Worried by your mergelfuntbarblery facial growth That looks like A cheese. What's more, it knows Your bum potting shed Smells of frog. Everything under the big sweetness sky Asks why, why do you even bother? You only charm poos.

I am a big Star Trek fan. I used to watch the original as a child my my family but as an adult really got into The Next Generation, second time round! Brent Spiner, pictured here, played Lieutenant Commander Data for those who don't know. He was an android, void of emotion, who strived to become more human. The role gave way for a weekly analysis by Data of the human being, in an attempt to understand humanity, and I found this to be very thought provoking. At the same time the character attempted to replicate the behaviour he leaned, and lived by a code of conduct programmed in by his humanoid creator, Dr Nunian Sung.(Also played by Brent Spiner). Ok, for those of you nodding off I am not going to tell you anymore about Star Trek, but I am going to show you some of Data's poetry! It's much better then Vogon Poetry really! (But please follow the Vogon link, there is a Vogon poetry creator tool there that looks like good fun!) I give you - 'Ode to Spot' by Lieutena...

Giant Granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis Image Credit: Trade Winds Fruit

Greetings. Having gone on about how many posts I had planned over a week ago I have found myself.... un-bloggy! Anyway, thankfully my very good friend has stepped in and saved the day with some wonderful words I thought deserved a bigger airing. So I give you a few words from T-Bone. (SEE COMMENT 5 FROM LAST POST .) Went for the kind that were mellow and sweet And the world's sweetest eggs are the eggs of the Kweet Which is due to those very sweet trout which they eat And those trout ... well, they're sweet 'cause they only eat Blogs And Blogs, after all, are the world's sweetest frogs And the reason they're sweet is, whenever they lunch It's always the world's sweetest bees that they munch And the reason no bees can be sweeter than these... They only eat blossoms off Beezlenut Trees And those Beezlenut Blossoms are sweeter than sweet And that's why I nabbed several eggs from the Kweet.