Archive - She, who knows nothing

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
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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

It's Dick and Liddy AGAIN!!

by isadora101 @ 2009-06-01 – 13:45:15

Isn't it 'fun when you get a comment on a post that was written nearly two years ago.

The post was about a little survey I did whilst carrying out my then occupation of 'Greeting' at the supermarket. it was about the origins of the saying 'Like Dick and Liddy' which I posted HERE See last comment for todays response
Any other Yorkies have any ideas on the phrases origins?

Talking about the supermarket, I think I ought to tell them I won't be coming back to work for the summer season ...Somehow I FORGOT!....

Coming home!!

by isadora101 @ 2009-06-01 – 12:43:27

I'm getting excited at seeing my girls this afternoon, hotfooting it here direct from Berlin!
I did the right thing by insisting they continued with their trip even though I had cancelled. There was nothing useful for them to do here as t'old man was looking out for me and as it happens there were no major issues.

They didn't meet any bloggers, not being bloggers themselves, they are really not interested in my time-consuming hobby...except they did meet La_Spice ...they chatted to her on the plane and on the train into the city and they said she was 'very nice'
I had texts and phone calls galore, when they were admiring the view from their room on the top floor of the tallest hotel in Berlin overlooking AlexanderPlatz(The Park Inn),
from the Carnival where they spent four hours watching the parade to the restaurant where they went just after getting deluged by a rain downpour.
So you see, I really was there after all even if not physically ..and to add to my involvement there were the comments on posts on blog which were unfolding, (Gilhraens and NotBobs) which I participated in too.

I've been promised lots of photos to view and there'll be tales to tell later so methinks it is time for a little siesta now