Day 340
Prompt 340
"Let us pause to warm both our hands before the fire of life"
-Walter Landor

I used to love warming my hands in front of an open fire. Before central heating I remember sitting in front of an electric fire and burning my shins, this was how we got chilblains too!! In my very cold bedroom I had a 'posh' fan heater when I was in my teens lol!!

All my life we had a fireplace in the homes I have lived in. We downsized 13 yrs ago ready for retirement and this house has no fireplace to warm our hands!! but we are happy with just central heating warmth and able to change the focal point in our lounge in any direction without a thought of where is the a fireplace! and how wonderful not to clean out the fire or relight it, though we did end up in the late80's putting a 'living fire' in our old house fireplace. This photo was taken by going into an electrical shop and asking to take a photo!! Stark raving mad? no I am a 365er!!

December 04, 2008
Day 339
Prompt 339
"If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on you hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate'er you do."
Anon

we have plenty of family birthdays this month, Step DD and Step DS, a DGS and niece but I cannot say that any of them have had great success in life. but all I ask is that they are happy and content with their lives.

Day 338
Prompt 338
“How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"
-William Shakespeare

Oh how I hate these dark, cold days and nights of winter and yearn for the summer warmth already!

Day 337

Prompt 337

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”- Dr. Seuss

[The end of the year is nigh, our 365 journey is coming to an end, what has changed since June till now?]

Well it has to be ME who has changed in the last 6 months

My foot has mended having broken 5 small bones on June 5th

I am now a size 16 instead of a size 20

I am fitter

BUT more important I am happier and feel more confident and having fun again

Other changes since June

the weather! - it is very cold today with a frost on the car this morning!

the grandchildren Tom is a teenager and he and Amie are now in yr 8.

Matt is in yr 6 and Lewis in yr 5 and Zac in Foundation yr (reception)

made and met new friends especially 365ers

haven't scrapped as much as I would have liked

My how time flies though and each year as I get older the year goes even quicker! There is never enough time in each day!!

DLO for a CJ - Household Planner

I chose the month of July

Day 336
Prompt 336
Embarrassment
Embarrassment is an emotional state experienced upon having a socially or professionally unacceptable act or condition witnessed by or revealed to others

Today I am embarrassed because I missed a long awaited dentist appointment so I am having to phone up and explain.

This is a series of embarrassing moments at the moment, the worst being last week when I went to the hospital and saw Margaret's DIL who I knew was having a lump removed. She looked so different reddish long straight hair that didn't suit, her in fact I wouldn't have recognised her if she hadn't been with Margaret. I kept saying how different she looked and how her hair was so different straight and a diff colour [she was dark and curly last time I saw her and thinner faced!! ] Oh boy was I embarrassed when I realised she had had chemo before this op and has lost all her hair and was wearing a pretty awful hair style!! I had to find her and apologise but she was thrilled I hadn't realised it was a wig!!

Day 335
Prompt 335
Love, loving
Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong effection

The obvious photo today was DH who I love dearly but I have chosen 2 photos of me with my grandchildren Matt and Tom. The photo was taken yesterday when they visited. It isn't often I get photos of them. Tom is our first born grandchild and became a teenager 2 weeks ago! Now he is taller then me!! Matt is 10 1/2yrs old

I like to think I am a loving person and of all emotions I would always chose LOVE - "for if I do not have love, I gain nothing" [ 1 Cor v3]. As a Christian I am called to love my neighbour as myself . It is sometimes hard for us to love ourselves but I think I owe it to my Father God who I believe created me in his image to make the best of myself and strive to improve in my Christian walk on this earth, to care and to think about others less fortunate than myself and of course to love God before anyone else.