Edited to add (Thursday afternoon): please pray. Due to the NHS sending me a further delayed appointment for Wonderboy to be seen at the hospital on the 27th August instead of the 6th of August, I spent 45 mins on the phone speaking to 5 different hospital secretaries and managed to get Wonder [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 15, 2008
My 4 Year Bloggaversary & Conversion story.
Today I celebrate 4 years of blogging!
I never thought i’d make it to 4 years since i’ve griped at least every couple of months about my cyber torn attachment to blogging and pondered so much about whether or not to continue with it over the years, and of course i must have carried on [...]
July 14, 2008
Home Improvements
Believe it or not, enquiring minds want to know (via email and comments) what’s happening with the improvements that were being made to the kitchen and bathroom.
There have been lots of blunders by the workmen, lots of inconveniences too like them not showing up at all on days when I was expecting them and them [...]
July 13, 2008
Free Apron Patterns and Tutorials!
The fabulously talented Kitchen Madonna is familiar to many of you I know. Not only is she known for her blogging, but also for her making of aprons with a Christian twist.
I never knew there were so many apron lovers out there until I came across KM’s blog and so I thought I’d share [...]
July 12, 2008
Rest in Peace Steve…
In memory of Steve who died on 21st July 1992 when our daughter was 8 months old, I made a Youtube video which contains photo’s of Steve and me and of Primadonna as a baby, shortly before he died. On the site, if you click on where it says (more info) you can read [...]
July 12, 2008
Colour me stupid
My ex-husband text to ask me if I had a spare 2008 calendar as he has done something to his (I didn’t ask what) and when I couldn’t find one around the house though i’m sure i have at least 2 unused calendars somewhere, I thought an act of charity was called for and decided [...]
July 11, 2008
Encouragement E-Card
“The name of the Lord is a strong tower”
I took this last summer when we were on our holiday in Wales. We return to Wales next Saturday for our final family holiday of the year. Can’t wait! Click the image to enlarge it and see if you can spot my daughter in the [...]
July 11, 2008
Books Glorious Books
I’m not sure which i like most.
Books
…or photographs of books.
Hence a post about and including both.
I’m almost ashamed to say that I had forgotten quite how pleasurable it is to while away an hour or two with a good book. I used to be a voracious reader, but reading has taken a back seat [...]
July 10, 2008
If there’s one thing I hate
Edited to add: I chose to remove the visible stat meters on the blog. I still have the private one that automatically is installed in the wordpress template, but it gives so little info i tend not to look at it very often, so all in all i think this is a fairly healthy decision [...]
July 10, 2008
Prayer Requests in the combox
From Jadown:
“please pray for my business,which is very defected because of unseen powers or evil spirits,i am a rice exporter and my every deal fails due to no any reason.so please remember me in your special prayers.i realy need your prayers.
Thanks”
From Maria:
Widow problems what facing
Stress
Jobless
lonliness
Finance
My Son Job, Promotion, Health Stress what he is going through
Brother [...]
July 10, 2008
Ayd’s in a box
I was reading Rosemary’s post this morning and thinking to myself how wonderful it would be if some real life Willy Wonka invented a ‘weight loss’ fudge.
Then i remembered.
In the 1970′ and 80’s weight loss fudge really did exist.
With the benefit of hindsight however, the company may have done better to have called [...]
July 9, 2008
a note about comments
When years ago, I received the blessing of having my blog visited regularly by your thoroughly delightful selves, I endeavoured long and hard to respond to each individual comment that was left here.
Being by nature something of a people pleaser and a worrier, i tend to become rather angst ridden and anal about ridiculous [...]
July 8, 2008
Anglicans to swim the Tiber in droves?
I have read so much about this lately, but I’m going to be a lone reed here and say, I actually am more than a bit concerned about this.
And i’m going to say something else….why isn’t anyone else more than a bit concerned about this too?
Writing as a former Anglican myself I feel very much [...]
July 7, 2008
Without and Within
If God created us, and I believe that he did, he knows our inmost being. He made us. We were no ‘accident’ regardless of the circumstances in which we were conceived. We have purpose. God created us because he loves us and he expresses his love through all of creation. He [...]
July 6, 2008
Weird Stuff
I forgot just how entertaining it could be to spend 5 minutes browsing the searches that lead people to my blog. In the last few days some (possibly very disturbed) people have visited Ukok’s Place by typing the following search words and phrases in their search bar:
the youngest high heel girl (I’m thinking [...]
July 5, 2008
Drumroll please…..
I allocated a number to each blogger who entered the handcrafted card competition.
1. Mac McLernon
2. Adrienne
3. LPA
4. Rosemary
5. Rosemary daughter, Liz
6. Maggieclitheroe
7. AutumnRose
8. Barb Szyszkiewicz, sfo
9. Rita
10. Timothy Selig
11. teresa_anawim
12. Jean
13. Sarah
14. Melanie
15. mm
16. John
17. Easter A.
18. Karen
19. thankevann
20. Esther
21. mary
22. Gina
23. Karen H. – gemoftheocean
and then used the Random Number Generator [...]
July 4, 2008
You’re all
…too kind. That’s why you didn’t remind me about the card competition isn’t it? Either that or you forgot about it the same as i did! LOL!
Okay. It’s 10 to midnight now, but tomorrow i will post the name of the person who won the cards….which i will be making this coming week ahead :-)
July 4, 2008
No More News.
I know i have a rather sensitive nature, and I know that there are good people in the world but I am so distraught to read daily news stories like this that I am seriously thinking about not reading them anymore. A part of me feels i have a moral responsibility to be aware of [...]
