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Would I Tell a Lie?

Published on February 9, 2010 by Margaret6 Comments

Well, only because

Kay at My Random Acts of Reading blog has given me an award that’s known as the Bald Faced Liar…whoops….”Creative Writer” award. Now I have to list up to seven things about myself, six of them lies and one absolutely true.

So, here are seven things about me. Six of them are not quite true, although they might contain some truth, and only one is absolutely true. Can you guess which one is true? I’ll reveal the answer in a few days.

I can play the piano – I passed Grade 5 with merit.
I can speak Welsh – my Taid (grandfather) taught me.
I have won prizes for my flower arrangements, my mother-in-law taught me.
I’ve been to the top of the Eiffel Tower, when I was staying with my French penfriend.
I had dancing lessons from an early age and have danced the French Can-Can on stage.
I used to love diving and learnt to scuba dive on holiday in Cyprus.
My Great Great Uncle was Frederic, Lord Leighton, a Victorian painter and sculptor.

I’ve seen this meme on many blogs, but if you haven’t done it and fancy having a go please consider yourself nominated.

Soon I’ll be posting another meme about me – the Kreative Writer Award – listing unknown, but all true facts about me.

Lucy and the Snow

Published on January 27, 2010 by Margaret6 Comments

Lucy has now ventured outside. We kept her in the house after we moved in, as you’re supposed to (the vet said so) and we didn’t have an address tag for her anyway. Then the snow came and she didn’t want to go out. If she had I think she would have been buried in the snow, as she’s so small.

She has a tag now, so we thought she could go out into the garden. She didn’t really want to the first day, just looked very warily out of the door. Yesterday she had a walk along the decking, which extends round the back and side of the house. She didn’t stay out long – well it was cold – and she hasn’t gone down on to the grass yet. She’s getting to be an indoor cat!

Today the snow has nearly all gone and there’s just this patch left on the decking.

Is it just my imagination, or does it look like a cat running?

Yet More Snow Scenes

Published on January 10, 2010 by Margaret6 Comments

Earlier this week we couldn’t get the car out of the drive, so a couple of days ago as the sun was shining we decided to walk to the village shop along the main road about a mile and a half away. I love seeing the trees looking as though they’re covered in royal icing. This is one in our front garden, so beautiful:

We had only just got onto the road when a car stopped and a voice asked if we wanted a lift. We have only been here a few weeks and haven’t met many people yet, so it was lovely to meet this couple who live just a short distance along the road from us.

They dropped us at the shop and having bought some essentials like milk and potatoes we walked back home. The scenery is stunning round here and I just had to take more snowy photos.

: The Road Home

: The view from the road home

: The view from the road home

The snow is beginning to thaw today. We dug the car out this morning and can get up to the road, so now we can get out and about! The snow is still thick on the ground in the garden, but the trees are now free of snow.

Coldstream Guards March to London

Published on January 9, 2010 by Margaret6 Comments

I opened the front door last Wednesday and saw to my surprise the road was full of marching soldiers. I just caught the end of the troops as they marched past and didn’t have time to get my camera. Talking to my neighbour she said they were marching to London – now that is a long way away from here.

I checked online and discovered that they were troops from the 7th Company Coldstream Guards marching 425 miles to Tower Hill in an effort to raise money for comrades wounded in Afghanistan via the Army Benevolent Fund.

Coldstream Guards march from Coldstream to London, stopping off at Berwick and Alnwick on the first day. Picture by Captain Mark Hayhurst

Picture by Captain Mark Hayhurst (copied from JournalLive.co.uk)

They’re re-enacting the journey of more than 350 years ago when more than 6,000 soldiers under the command of General George Monck marched from Coldstream to London to help to restore Charles II to the British throne.

Frozen In

Published on January 8, 2010 by Margaret10 Comments

I wasn’t going to write anything else about the weather, as it’s getting boring now all that white stuff everywhere and I certainly wasn’t going to post any more snow photos.

But this morning, peering out of the windows to see if by any chance the snow might have gone away I saw this through the front door:

The door was frozen. Eventually my husband wrenched it open (I couldn’t budge it) and this is what we saw.

A Winter Walk

Published on January 5, 2010 by Margaret10 Comments

We had a break in the snow this afternoon, the sun came out, the sky was blue so we ventured out for a walk across the road into the fields alongside a wood and then down to the river.