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Nick was challenged by Scarlet Blue to answer ten questions that might lead us to learning more about him.  Part of the deal when the work was done - well partly done, was to provide a list of new questions and to ask six bloggers to provide the answers etc.

Kindly old Nick broke the rules by choosing only FIVE questions and four bloggers to torture with them!.  Uckle Smuckle here happened to be one of the four!

So let me see….

1: Do you believe in life after death?
I’ll think about it if there is a promise of no potatoes to peel!

2: Do you believe in fate?
I do.  How else would Jack and I have met?  Despite aborted holiday plans for both of us, more than one set of plans in my case; we land up in the same resort on the same day and in the same hotel!

3: Do you ever have dejà vu?
Regularly, but then I have lived a long time and covered many a mile!

4: Have you ever read someone’s mind?
Another regular habit of mine.  No wonder, Jack said I was a witch!

5: Have you ever had a premonition?
I do from time to time and feel a need to make contact with the person.  If I am successful in talking to then, then they will be fine.  They are never told of my premonition.  The problem is when I am unsuccessful in making contact…..  I often get word, maybe weeks later, that they have become very ill or died!

So now it is my turn to be wicked… questions, questions…

1: Do you like to be challenged?
2: What is your favourite time of day?
3: Are you punctual?
4: The world is your oyster - where would you like to visit?
5: Favourite taste?
6: Who would you like to meet from past history?
7: What mark would you like to leave on the world?
Now there you have it, not ten questions and not five, but one question for each day of the week.

Now who to Call…. Two to my East: Gaelikaa & Ramana, two to my West Judy & Wisewebwoman and two in between: Kate & Nelly.  Now if anyone else feels like playing jump right in and join us!

Our Loose Blogging consortium includes Anu, Ashok, Conrad, Gaelikaa, Ginger, Judy, Magpie 11, Maria, Ramana and yours truly.  Each of us when available, will contribute a piece for the topic for the week. The call of work, study or family concerns, often prevents some members from taking part on the day or indeed the week in question.  This weeks offering was chosen by Gaelikaa.

Speechless

Twice in my life I have been rendered speechless.  The first was many moons ago when I worked as a telephone operator.

Number please!

Working as a GPO telephone operator was all about voices.  I caught a cold that was flying through the family and indeed in my workplace.  Within a couple of days I was in trouble.  I woke to find I had no voice. Gone! Vanished!  Not even a croak or a squeak could I manage.  It might have been very amusing for my brothers, but no voice meant no working for the duration.  The family doctor provided the necessary sick note that covered two weeks with the instruction not to try to talk in the mean time.  I was also to check back with him before returning to work.

I was not sick, just voiceless.  I was up and about the house and able to do my share of the chores.  There was one big problem… Mammy kept asking me questions that required more than a nod in reply.  Eventually I walked around with a notepad and pen to write down the answers.  She got tired of waiting for me to write everything down and refusing to answer the phone, but the message finally got through.

Days passed, the voiced returned and I resumed my work.

The years moved on and so did technology.  Do they still have telephone operators any more?  Nowadays I can chat through my fingers, on voice calls or with video calls that bring the other party right into my home.  The day might begin with family or friends in Australia, move on to spend the afternoon in India, then check out friends in the UK and Ireland before finishing up the evening across the pond in the US of A!

With video calling I have met many people who were but names in the past.  Those offering spam have been blocked.  Genuine people are encouraged and brighten my day.

There was one young man, who excitedly told me in his early attempts to learn English, about his latest purchase - shoes with straps!  They turned out to be sandals.

Another man regularly uses our calls to do a striptease….. only from the waist up!  While yet another gentleman wished to have a shower and get dressed before calling me on Skype for an evening face to face chat.

On the down side, I have been dumped in favour of work, food, for a sink full of dirty dishes, varicose widows, bimbos and bounty hunters!

But the other day I was speechless when one gentleman offered to show me his dickey!

He even sent me a photo.

Now calm down ladies!  The dickey is in the top right hand corner!

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You can find out more information here.  If you want to see how it is used visit Home Grown.

This Gazebo almost looks like it was made of Lace.

Before you ask, it is not my garden.

On your way home from work, stop at your pharmacy and go to the thermometer section and purchase a rectal thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson.

Be very sure you get this brand. When you get home, lock your doors, draw the curtains and disconnect the phone so you will not be disturbed.

Change into very comfortable clothing and sit in your favourite chair. Open the package and remove the thermometer. Now, carefully place it on a table or a surface so that it will not become chipped or broken.

Now the fun part begins.

Take out the literature from the box and read it carefully. You will notice that in small print there is a statement:

‘Every Rectal Thermometer made by Johnson &Johnson is personally tested and then sanitized.’

Now, close your eyes and repeat out loud five times, ‘I am so glad I do not work in the thermometer quality control department at Johnson & Johnson’! .

HAVE A NICE DAY; AND REMEMBER, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE WITH A JOB THAT IS MORE OF A PAIN IN THE ASS THAN YOURS!

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Thanks to anonymous for this one

DANGER Spider on the loose.

Well, Today I do have a spider for you but, he has not finished the web yet.

So for a progress report of the week….

Freehand sketch of spider

Fabric, lining and interlining to back the web

Placing the web spines in the fabric

A Spider being created

A finished spider

He is coming this way!

Now it is time to get back to work.

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I sat looking at the screen for a good ten minutes this morning waiting for inspiration to strike!  It was the old blank page syndrome all over again!  So I slid my finger over the keys like a young child at the piano.  Hey Presto!  I think it will work.

When Elly was a little girl, in those first years at school.  We were up with the larks and out early to literally skip, hop or jog to school.  Coming back up the hill was no bother to me back then and I used the time to plan my activities for the day.

When the weather was wet with a heavy laden sky, I worked indoors and the music set the pace for the first two hours.  Glen Miller was in the bedrooms, James Last in the bathroom & kitchen and by the time the music ended, I had finished the chores and was ready to settle down until it was time for the school run once more!  Settling down with a cup of coffee and my latest project of sewing or craft work, the hours passed and I forgot about the dreary day outside.

Today is such a day.  No!  Elly is not at school… I am hoping she is at ‘her good warm work’ - as a friend of mine used to say!  I am turning my eyes and mind indoors because I have homework to finish before tomorrow!   So far things are going the way I want them to, so fingers crossed..

Calming background music is called for.  Any suggestions?