3oth July photo - I have made a card!

It was so wet & miserable yesterday - that after consoling myself with J20 and chocolate cake - I ventured into my craft room and made some cards!! I am not a great card maker so it does not come easily, but I had some new Sugar Nelli stamps that I was itching to use - thanks Vicki for her post showcasing these new stamps - I have used your ideas - hope you don't mind!

After eventually getting them to stick to my block - I used Herma in the end - they stamped quite nicely and I spent an hour or so colouring and cutting and coming up with a few cards like this. This is my POTD.

Roll on sunny weather - so that I can get some nice outdoor photos again.

tagged

I have been tagged by Dorothy to type a particular sentence in a book. So here goes.

You have to:-

1) collect the book that is most handy - its in bed beside me - I read before I went to sleep this morning.

2) Turn to page 161

3) Find the 5th complete sentence

4) Cite the sentence on your blog

5) pass the tag onto 5 other blogger friends.

This sentence comes from Pablo Neruda : A Passion for Life by Adam Feinstein

It is still not clear how Neruda's head came to be cut open. It was variously ascribed to  a bullett or the but of a revolver, but what we do know is that the attackers were a group og German Nazis who had been infuriated by the pro-Allied cheers emerging from Neruda's table over lunch.

I will pass it on to 

1) Karen

2) Vicki

3) Joy

4) Linda 

5) Pam

Thanks Dorothy!

29th July photo - my new favourite drink

There is torrential rain outside so no chance of a walk today, so I am consoling myself with my new favourite drink - Apple & Raspberry J20 - lush! This is my POTD

28th July photo - my watch

Sorry its a bit dull today - but I am a bit photoed out after the last few days - but I actually love my watch!! Its a Timex Expedition and I have had it for years. Its has survived water and bashings about on my expeditions! I like it because it is very reliable and it also has a face that illuminates.

27th July photo - Angelsey

Today I found myself in Bangor - North Wales and very nice it was too. I had no doubt what my POTD would be - the Menai Bridge. It was the first time I had been over it so it was very exciting. Unfortunately all my photos were taken into the sun so have come out badly - just one I took from the other side seems to be OK - but it does not show all of the bridge. So I think this one will have to be my POTD.

Its very hard to take decent shots of a bridge whilst you are actually on it!

This lovely bridge was built by the famous Shropshire engineer Thomas Telford in 1826.

A good example of how NOT to take photos!! Despite 7 months of this - I don't seem to be getting any better!

Anyway there was a lovely view from the bridge.

After landing in Angelsey I went to the Village with the longest Welsh name (Lanfair PG for short) so of course had to have my photo taken there - but I look ghastly so am not very keen to use this one - even though I am unlikely to return there for another chance at a better photo.

If you fancy trying to pronounce it - here is a little lesson.

I did a little geocache here at the railway station which drove me mad. The clue was 'at the white wooden fence post' and there was 100's of little white fence posts!!! I found it in the end - I was not going to let it beat me.

26th July photo - Eleanor

As this weekend in Liverpool was all about Eleanor she really must be my photo of the day - but which one?

I love this one of Dad and his girls outside the Cathedral.

I also like this one but is not very sharp or focused - so I think I will have to rule this one out.

Always a daddie's girl! Even at 24 you are never too old to hold your dad's hand.

Eleanor's research is coming to an end so we had to take some photos of her in her beloved lab.

One of the smaller microscopes she works on - she also uses some supa dupa highly magnifing microscopes - in fact she has one of these booked for an over night session tonight.

In the stock room with the fly stocks!

So Eleanor - which photo would you like me to use as POTD?

25th July photo - Liverpool

Steven, Jess & I are spending the weekend in Liverpool with Eleanor.

Steven & I left the girls shopping today while we did some geocaching on Bidston Hill. It was a lovely hill to walk over and we managed to find lots of sneakily hidden geocaches. Apart from random plastic boxes hidden over the hill there were also other unusual surprises on top of the hill such as 1) a windmill! - this is my POTD.

2) an observatory!



3) a lighthouse (I forgot to take a photo of it - so I have borrowed this one from the net!)

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Not the usual assortment of things you usually find on the top of a hill - but very interesting all the same. The hill also afforded fine views across the Mersey and the Liverpool skyline.