Back to real life tomorrow...or maybe not!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Not entirely wasted...
Back to real life tomorrow...or maybe not!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sliding back in.....
to blogland.
Well, the inevitable happened and I landed in hospital myself but it is all sorted now and it is onward and upward!!!!!!
I amused myself for the two weeks by knitting cute stuff and making more origami. I did try a bit of eraser carving to make stamps but it wasn't a success.
Bear with me folks, it will be full steam ahead tomorrow now that I have access to the internet....got to get myself one of them there wireless hotspots!
Hatsue, I watched the DVD of your train etegami, it was great, didn't understand a word but that doesn't matter, I really enjoyed it...good work.
Well, the inevitable happened and I landed in hospital myself but it is all sorted now and it is onward and upward!!!!!!
I amused myself for the two weeks by knitting cute stuff and making more origami. I did try a bit of eraser carving to make stamps but it wasn't a success.
Bear with me folks, it will be full steam ahead tomorrow now that I have access to the internet....got to get myself one of them there wireless hotspots!
Hatsue, I watched the DVD of your train etegami, it was great, didn't understand a word but that doesn't matter, I really enjoyed it...good work.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Amazing handmade postcards
Along with the cards was another etegami he had painted of a Japanese Jomon clay figure, these figures are from a time in Japan's prehistory and are evidence of an ancient culture. What I like about his work is that they are obviously done by a man and show a strong character.
I have tried to use the paper with limited success, the texture is quite strong, my poor Kangaroo looks a little like a weasel! Did I mention before that he makes the paper from grasses?
I hope my Japanese friends can understand the pathetic pun.
My dear Mum is still in hospital and I am afraid the effort of going in every day and the stress of seeing her in pain is telling on me. I do hope I am not heading for another 'tune-up' in hospital myself. That would be inconvenient to say the least.The Prof. is as usual doing a great job of holding the fort, he is not allowed to get sick!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Curve ball
The story so far... or why I am not blogging or indeed doing anything creative.
Last Monday had to take my mum to the ER, vomiting and shaking, called an ambulance for her as she was so ill.
The ensuing week has been one round of tests after another, hospital visiting by me and general exhaustion.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible...stay tuned, our technicians are working on the problem.
Last Monday had to take my mum to the ER, vomiting and shaking, called an ambulance for her as she was so ill.
The ensuing week has been one round of tests after another, hospital visiting by me and general exhaustion.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible...stay tuned, our technicians are working on the problem.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Happy New Year to all of my bloggy friends.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Happy
Our son and daughter-in-law and their little girl have arrived from Singapore, there was some worry that the nasty weather in London would cause them to be delayed but luckily their plane was one which got through.
This is all the Christmas present I want. Thank you Santa!
I hope all the readers of this blog will have such a lovely wish fulfilled.
Happy Christmas to everyone.
Carole
This is all the Christmas present I want. Thank you Santa!
I hope all the readers of this blog will have such a lovely wish fulfilled.
Happy Christmas to everyone.
Carole
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Be nice....
Maybe this is my way of justifying my lack of Christmas shopping this year, anyway, have a good one.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Lotus eaters...kindof
Lotus
Every year I 'eat them with my eyes'. They are so beautiful that I feel as if I have captured a magical creature for a brief time, I could just sit and watch it for the two or so days that each bloom lasts.
My very first blog post was a photo of the lotus in bloom last February.
Christmas matters proceed apace (a snails pace) and we are just marking time 'til the arrival of our Singapore family.
Granddaughters are here for some of the holidays, we have been baking up a storm and watching movies. The baked goodies hardly make it past the kitchen door the heat makes it a different experience, baking in 30 degrees celcius and 90% humidity. Sometimes I remember the cold Christmas times in the USA when we were students there and how Christmas preparations were so elaborate . Here we are as like to put on our cozzies (swimsuits) and go to the beach for a barbeque for lunch. The Prof. however still insists on the full baked disaster, ham, pork, chicken (we don't like turkey) with all of the trimmings. Thank goodness we have been able to dispense with the plum pudding and mince pies...Our English/Irish ancestors have a lot to answer for.....I confess that although it is a lot of work and we usually sit eating it in an airconditioned room, I would miss it. Besides, we wouldn't have a few glorious days of left overs to give the cook a rest if we didn't do it!Today it was making meatballs which we had for lunch and froze some...exciting stuff!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Steam powered internet
I just want to say, if you are contemplating using a 'dongle' for mobile internet, forget it. A dinosaur could deliver a message faster and they are dead! Have tried every which way to upload a photo this morning and just would not do it. Grrrr!
So, all that is left is for me to bore you to tears once more dear friend with Ta Da...
Pemberly
Chapter 2
It is not to be supposed that Frederick alighted from his post chaise onto the steps of the great house to universal approbation.
His election as the future inheritor of Pemberly did not sit well with the daughters of the house and their opinions had been loudly voiced by their elder sister Jane, So named in honour of her well beloved aunt.
"Mother, are we still to be denied the freedoms and rights so long withheld from our sex when a woman, the princess Victoria is to come to the very throne of England? Rational men cannot cling to these outmoded customs! The placing of an entail directing property away from a natural inheritor denies a woman her rights and is abhorrent, it must and should be addressed by an act of Parliament to right the wrong!"
"Be still Jane, that is as it may be replied her mother, the prevailing state of affairs is that you and your sisters MUST marry well, moreover it is as easy to love a rich man as one who has only his personality to reccommend him, even though his family be ever so worthy. Love grows in time in the case and you have only to look to the example of poor silly aunt Lydia to educate you on the evils of the path she chose in marrying for what she supposed to be love thus disregarding her future."
Privately Lizzie felt all of the injustice of her daughters' situation having experienced a similar imperative in her youth.
"Thank goodness I was able to see the goodness in Darcy and the evil in Wickham before it was too late, even though one had all of the virtue of it and the other the mere appearance of goodness" was her thought as she reviewed the many happy years she had spent with one whom she had first perceived as a proud haughty man. Fortuitously for her, love had come with a large estate attached. Indeed her first glimpse of Pemberly and its magnificent grounds had cemented the growing regard that she fostered for its owner, the taciturn but tender hearted man whom she had loved these twenty odd years past. Lizzy could only hope such good fortune would befall her daughters.
It is here we must enumerate and name these beauties who while having all of the cogniscence of their position in life but none of the hauteur usually associated with it were, nevertheless Darcys and proud of it. Jane we have met, a girl not unlike her namesake, possessing beauty and a calm nature but with perhaps a little more sharpness of wit than she. Her capacity for outdoor sports was boundless and it was said that "No one sat a hunter like Miss Darcy". Miss Darcy was admired for her energy and and would think nothing of tramping miles in the mire in search of an interesting wildflower specimen to draw. Her energy stood her in good stead also at county balls where she was so much sought after as a dance partner and many a young swain was observed to sport a black eye gained in a contest to see who would become Jane's next partner in the waltz (waltzing being a fashion come lately to the county but much practiced during the London season). Her unfailing good humour did not prevent her from peevishly noting that they "Had much better be using their time playing at tiddlywinks than fighting as if they were disputing the ownership of the better pack of hounds!"
During the course of the last London season she had successfully parried at least five declarations that "A chap might just shoot oneself" if his suit were not successful, a boast happily never executed to her profound relief.
Jane's good looks and friendly nature exerted a powerful inducement to these many declarations from admirers who chose to ignore her lack of real prospects in pecuniary matters when the melancholy day of Mr. Darcy's demise should eventuate.
Still Jane would not be swayed.
"Pray do not make of my Jane an old maid" thought Lizzy, "There is too much goodness and beauty in her to waste in a lonely spinsterhood".
So, all that is left is for me to bore you to tears once more dear friend with Ta Da...
Pemberly
Chapter 2
It is not to be supposed that Frederick alighted from his post chaise onto the steps of the great house to universal approbation.
His election as the future inheritor of Pemberly did not sit well with the daughters of the house and their opinions had been loudly voiced by their elder sister Jane, So named in honour of her well beloved aunt.
"Mother, are we still to be denied the freedoms and rights so long withheld from our sex when a woman, the princess Victoria is to come to the very throne of England? Rational men cannot cling to these outmoded customs! The placing of an entail directing property away from a natural inheritor denies a woman her rights and is abhorrent, it must and should be addressed by an act of Parliament to right the wrong!"
"Be still Jane, that is as it may be replied her mother, the prevailing state of affairs is that you and your sisters MUST marry well, moreover it is as easy to love a rich man as one who has only his personality to reccommend him, even though his family be ever so worthy. Love grows in time in the case and you have only to look to the example of poor silly aunt Lydia to educate you on the evils of the path she chose in marrying for what she supposed to be love thus disregarding her future."
Privately Lizzie felt all of the injustice of her daughters' situation having experienced a similar imperative in her youth.
"Thank goodness I was able to see the goodness in Darcy and the evil in Wickham before it was too late, even though one had all of the virtue of it and the other the mere appearance of goodness" was her thought as she reviewed the many happy years she had spent with one whom she had first perceived as a proud haughty man. Fortuitously for her, love had come with a large estate attached. Indeed her first glimpse of Pemberly and its magnificent grounds had cemented the growing regard that she fostered for its owner, the taciturn but tender hearted man whom she had loved these twenty odd years past. Lizzy could only hope such good fortune would befall her daughters.
It is here we must enumerate and name these beauties who while having all of the cogniscence of their position in life but none of the hauteur usually associated with it were, nevertheless Darcys and proud of it. Jane we have met, a girl not unlike her namesake, possessing beauty and a calm nature but with perhaps a little more sharpness of wit than she. Her capacity for outdoor sports was boundless and it was said that "No one sat a hunter like Miss Darcy". Miss Darcy was admired for her energy and and would think nothing of tramping miles in the mire in search of an interesting wildflower specimen to draw. Her energy stood her in good stead also at county balls where she was so much sought after as a dance partner and many a young swain was observed to sport a black eye gained in a contest to see who would become Jane's next partner in the waltz (waltzing being a fashion come lately to the county but much practiced during the London season). Her unfailing good humour did not prevent her from peevishly noting that they "Had much better be using their time playing at tiddlywinks than fighting as if they were disputing the ownership of the better pack of hounds!"
During the course of the last London season she had successfully parried at least five declarations that "A chap might just shoot oneself" if his suit were not successful, a boast happily never executed to her profound relief.
Jane's good looks and friendly nature exerted a powerful inducement to these many declarations from admirers who chose to ignore her lack of real prospects in pecuniary matters when the melancholy day of Mr. Darcy's demise should eventuate.
Still Jane would not be swayed.
"Pray do not make of my Jane an old maid" thought Lizzy, "There is too much goodness and beauty in her to waste in a lonely spinsterhood".
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Dogoo (plus stamps)
Thank you to my blog buddy in Japan, 'Senior' for sending me an interesting etegami of Dogoo (I think she is a character in a popular Japanese TV show).
Also in the envelope were the name stamps for me to use on my etegami, carved by Senior as well as a blank postcard that he has made himself using plant matter to make the paper, very clever! As you can see on this postcard the paper is a very interesting texture and colour.
Thank you very much for these, I will use them on an etegami to send to you and maybe you can put it on your blog?
Also in the envelope were the name stamps for me to use on my etegami, carved by Senior as well as a blank postcard that he has made himself using plant matter to make the paper, very clever! As you can see on this postcard the paper is a very interesting texture and colour.
Thank you very much for these, I will use them on an etegami to send to you and maybe you can put it on your blog?
As usual, a misunderstanding, Dogu, which I think the TV series (Dogoo) is loosely based on, is a warrior woman clay figurine of the Jomon period, a Japanese national treasure.
So, I looked up Wikipedia for Dogoo and in English it is Dogu also in Wikipedia ???? Thanks Senior hope that clears that up.
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