She, who knows nothing

Answer to lies all lies

by isadora101 @ 2009-07-03 – 20:00:24

To clarify...two statements are true, one is a lie :roll:

Statement No 1 is true

In the early 1970's I was a single parent living in a in a Camden council estate and had a 'daily help' job in a mansion block overlooking Regent's park. It turned out to be the home of Mr and Mrs Jack Cohen. She asked me to prepare vegetables for dinner and when she saw me wielding the kitchen knife she showed me how to shred the cabbage with my hands and scrub the potatoes with a nail brush!

Statement No 3 is true

I did once briefly date the manager of John Otway and Wild Willy Barrat.
I used to hang around the Roundhouse bar on Sunday afternoons (jazz sessions) and met him there...he took me on a date to the newly opened Camden Palace to watch Otway and Barratt perform live.

So that leaves No 2 as the lie

It is actually 25 years since I gave up drinking alcohol not 15
Bella was a baby and needed a sober mummy

Most of you got it right but was it because you thought I still drank alcohol ? ..or have I mentioned it before

I'm losing it

by isadora101 @ 2009-07-03 – 17:35:20

I've had to edit my last post therefore creating confusion within myself...as Bushka pointed out

I wrote
"One statement is the truth and the other two are lies"

instead of
"One statement is a lie and the other two are true".

I did say to La_Spice that I couldn't apply myself to anything lately, just goes to show I was right

I'll still post the result of the now revised last post soon though!

Lies all lies

by isadora101 @ 2009-07-03 – 13:03:41

I'm about five days too late with this 'Captain's challenge' but never mind here goes!

Which one of these is the lie...?
One statement is a lie and the other two are true.

No. 1

I was once taught how to prepare vegetables for dinner by the late Mrs Jack Cohen(founder of Tescos)

No.2

It is fifteen years since I last partook of an alcoholic beverage

No. 3

In 1977 I dated the then manager of John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett (google them if you don't know who they are)

Answer revealed this evening

A clean sweep

by isadora101 @ 2009-07-02 – 19:03:57

I thought i'd spend the day resting today?

Did I?

Did I ummery!

I spent the morning sorting out my cupboards..well sorting out anything belong to Bella, things she chose to leave behind when she left for uni seven years ago, as well as household items we have been storing for her for when she has a house of her own.

Hooray, after three years of living in a tiny rented flat that day has almost arrived for she and her fella will receive the keys to their very own permanent home tomorrow, a three bedroom 1930's semi in Greater Manchester.

It is a slightly bigger house than the one she grew up in so there's no excuse for not taking everything including uni work, portfolios, bicycle and old guitars etc!!!...and YES..there will be space in my wardrobes, garage and loft at last...something it has never known....I wonder how long it will take for me to fill them up again

A working wednesday

by isadora101 @ 2009-07-01 – 21:07:46

I walked into the U3A spanish class this morning, the first time in six weeks...the OAP's(bless 'em) were really pleased to see me
One of their number, a friend, has been keeping them informed of my progress and so they were really pleased to see how I was much improved from the report given to them last week.
The pattern is that I have two really lousy weeks then one where I feel relatively human
The class is a self help group so the members bring articles to translate etc. One guy had recently returned from holiday in Spain where he went to church on the Sunday so he brought the readings from the Mass to translate, we learnt the words for 'disciples' and 'commandments'
Not really what we all wanted but each must have their turn

When we had finished translating that another member of the group decided we would do a role play in booking hotel rooms by telephone.
I excelled in that as I had it off to a fine art!

"See you in a month or so" I said to them as I left
"OK petal" they replied

A random hello

by isadora101 @ 2009-06-25 – 13:39:38

Just to let you all know that i'm still here but haven't felt like blogging lately.

i've been reading my 'Little book of Calm' by Paul Wilson
here's a quote I opened at random.

KEEP AN EYE ON THE LIGHT

There's a light side to every situation -
even those that, at first, may seem distressing.
Look for this light side, have fun with it, and let it relax all over you

I'll keep trying
------------

Now for more complete randomness!
here's a photo i've found in my media which I snapped last year in a back street of Nimes, France.

I reckon there must be thousand of streets, restaurants, bars etc. named after the American in the most unlikeliest as well as likeliest of places.
:wave:

This afternoon I went to.........

by isadora101 @ 2009-06-16 – 19:55:09

"What should I do today?" I thought "on this lovely sunny afternoon"
"I know, i'll go to church!

Wakefield Cathedral to be exact as there was a free lunchtime concert featuring an accapella band called 'Umdumo Wesizewe'
Umdumo Wesizwe hail from Zimbabwe's townships of Nkulumane. Singing songs of love, hope, worship, courtship, hardship and African social commentary.

I went alone and was pleased to see a large number of people had turned out to see the group and we were not disappointed. The short concert was a delight and just the tonic I needed before my appointment tomorrow.

I made an attempt to record them singing and although the quality isn't very good nevertheless perhaps you can see how the Cathedral made an amazing setting for their performance.

To see a better video about the group follow this link to their website
http://www.umdumowesizwe.com/

or watch better quality video of them singing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sBo5xfcDAY

Isadora101 is four years old today

by isadora101 @ 2009-06-16 – 11:09:33

Not the most viewed blog in the world nor the most interesting blog in the world :no: but little old me is simply amazed at how many posts and comments I have received over the last four years..so thank you one and all.

................... Entries ........ Comments

Isadora blog...... 970 .............. 9295
'Snippets' blog.... 114 .............. 689
Isadoraplays....... 52 .............. 314
Olive and Popeye... 19 .............. 241

TOTAL ............. 1155 ............. 10539

and i've over 1000 photos in my media..how on earth can I wade through that lot 88| ?

Yes, four years ago today I decided to take my daughter's advice and join a new blog community called 'Blog.co.uk'
Lulu was about to go off and do a month's voluntary work in Sri Lanka so she started a blog in order for her friends and family to read her reports.
As it happens she only made three entries HERE and that was as far as her blogging life went.
Now me on the other hand, I thought "What's a blog?..what would I do with a blog?
As it happens I was about to embark on a mini-adventure of my own that month. I was 56 years old, the kids had flown the nest and I had decided to create a few challenges and try to rekindle some of my old adventurous spirit beginning with a trip which came completely out of the blue.
At my spanish language class I was given a contact name and number of a spanish family, the grandfather(abuelo) was a retired lawyer and the grandmother had a florist shop in the city to indulge her creative self. They lived in the countryside in a converted water mill with their married daughter and grandchildren and were wanting an "english speaker" to live them with as a member of the family for a month or so. Some of you will know the rest as I stayed with the family four times in total!

So on my bloggity birthday(I registered on the 16th June 2005) here is a link to my very first blog post written on the 27th June 2005.

Nobody commented on it back then so can someone do me the honours now

Tennis and beer

by isadora101 @ 2009-06-12 – 19:38:15

I've watched more television these last few weeks than i've watched for the last six months.
It has been the tennis at The Queen's club which is being broadcast that has t'old man and me cosying up in the afternoons this week.

Between the games, the camera zoomed in on the crowd and t'old man spied a man lifting a pint of beer to his lips!
The fine 'head' on it made t'old man exclaim
"Blimey, look at that!! I thought they only served flat beer down south"

Mind you it's a long time since he last drunk a pint down south...did someone educate them?

It's Miramazes' birthday

by isadora101 @ 2009-06-09 – 22:01:57