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Karon Grieve
Scotland
A country gal with her heart on her sleeve
Interests: Writing, photography, gardening, running, crafting, cooking, sewing, swimming, brocante and junk, music (wide range from country to jazz, Will Young to Amy winehouse), riding (english and western), romcom movies, Dick Francis novels, country style home decor, nice wine, olives , and of course France......
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Hate to say it girls, but so did I. K x
Cheerful Cherries
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor......... Did you count your cherry pips? Did you marry a sailor? A tailor? Did you enjoy eating the cherries? I did. Karon x
So right Carole, I think they taste and look so much better.
K
Asparagus with dips
French asparagus, lined up and ready for action. I love asparagus, white, green whatever, to me it is the taste of early summer, a promise of gorgeous foody goodies to come. There are lots of ways to cook and serve asparagus, from the simple to the complex. As ever I go for the so eas...
Hi Sue, how lovely, cherries and a sailor, hmm the least you could
do is try to like the damn things!
K
Cheerful Cherries
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor......... Did you count your cherry pips? Did you marry a sailor? A tailor? Did you enjoy eating the cherries? I did. Karon x
Oh yes a swoon over Johnny, nothing better!
K
Exploding monkeys and Birthday wishes
Twas the night before Christmas, oops, sorry wrong date! Twas Idgy's birthday. My girl enjoyed her day and even started it in our traditional style. Yes it was prezzie opening on the bottom of my bed. Oh how I will miss this ritual when she grows out of it and thinks unwrapping boxes on a ...
Thanks for the birthday wishes. A great day had by all, all news
tomorrow. Hank gets his special birthday treat this week, he was
born almost same time but he likes to have own special day, dont we
all!
K x
Dear Idgy,
Tomorrow morning you will wake up and be a teenager, I can't beleive it, thirteen already, no longer my little girl. There are so many things I should say, so many things I should have said. I just don't know where to start. Let me say first and foremost that you are wonderful, truly f...
Beleive me I cherish the moemnts
K
Dear Idgy,
Tomorrow morning you will wake up and be a teenager, I can't beleive it, thirteen already, no longer my little girl. There are so many things I should say, so many things I should have said. I just don't know where to start. Let me say first and foremost that you are wonderful, truly f...
Idgy says thanks so much for all these lovely birthday wishes.
K
Dear Idgy,
Tomorrow morning you will wake up and be a teenager, I can't beleive it, thirteen already, no longer my little girl. There are so many things I should say, so many things I should have said. I just don't know where to start. Let me say first and foremost that you are wonderful, truly f...
Thanks Sarah,
We have cinema and birthday tea planned for tomorrow. Tell all on
Monday
K
Dear Idgy,
Tomorrow morning you will wake up and be a teenager, I can't beleive it, thirteen already, no longer my little girl. There are so many things I should say, so many things I should have said. I just don't know where to start. Let me say first and foremost that you are wonderful, truly f...
Hi Patti
Good luck with the sleeping. Lavender is wonderful stuff. Glad you
like new look blog, hopefully moving to new location very soon!
K
Sleeping Beauty
Do you climb the hill to Bedfordshire, enter the Land of Nod with ease and stay there all night long? Do you dose off the moment your head hits the pillow instantly entering a calm dreamland and awake as the alarm cheerfully buzzes you back to reality at 7am? If you do then you are very lucky an...
Hmmmmm line dancing, dont get me on to that one. Always thought id
be a whizz at that and then joined a class and discovered that my
reel dance limitations extended to line dancing too, what a loss to
the dance floor I am!
K
Ceilidh Capers
Ah the village Ceilidh, a little like childbirth, one of those things that when the girls come round selling tickets you actually think it will be a good idea to attend. Then when you get there you remember why you moaned about it the last time and vowed never to return. Yes, rather like chi...
Thanks Patti,
youll love the dips.
K x
French Market Food
You are getting two posts today, what joy I hear you cry! I have lots of Frenchy pix and I also wanted to share my asparagus recipe as there is so much of the lovely stuff about right now and it just tastes so damn good. so here is a food market in a village in France. Gorgeous goodies...
Thanks, it was a bit rough this morning, the bad bit of the day is
now over. The sun is now shing, the wedding looks amazing on tv and
packing going fine.
K x
All in a day
Go on, guess where I'm off to tomorrow. Long standing readers will know the significance of the French cup. Yes ladies, I'm off to France tomorrow morning for 10 days. Can't wait, very excited. In fact just a tad Tiggerish! I'm not taking the laptop this time but I will of course be armed wi...
My pleasure completely, glad you all like the cow pix.
K x
Beauty of the beast
Cows are everywhere round these parts. Black cows, brown cows, black and white, brown and white, all sorts of cows. They are all pretty boring really. Here is a boring black one, nothing much to report there. Some cows are cuter, look at this little guy. Nice colour, bit fuzzy, yes it ...
Hi Nan,
Only you could write a line like that, I so love your comments. Oh
please dont say your hubby is like George, no, no, no....
K x
One True Thing
I was going to whitter on about how I cleared HQ and weeded the garden this weekend and how lovely the weather was. But last night I watched a dvd that was so totally amazing I just want to share it with you today. ONE TRUE THING was made in 1998 and stars Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and Wil...
Out Of Africa, wow, has to be one of my favourite movies of all
time.
K x
One True Thing
I was going to whitter on about how I cleared HQ and weeded the garden this weekend and how lovely the weather was. But last night I watched a dvd that was so totally amazing I just want to share it with you today. ONE TRUE THING was made in 1998 and stars Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and Wil...
A sexy beast, me, good gracious, well I live in hope!! I am loving
Tigger. Weather blessing us today so top down again. Must look out
for a Tigger keyring to give car as a prezzie. Have to admit there
is a certain type of smile (ok smirk) that plays on my lips as I sit
at the traffic lights in the sunshine. Smirk was quickly wiped off
face when I couldnt find the petrol lock to fill it at the garage.
Completely gave the game away as to my being total novice at this
sports car game. Must try harder.....
Karon x
T-Day
Meet Tigger the Tigra. And yes that's me in there, in the sun and in the driving seat. Yesterday was T~Day, Tigger Day. I collected my new toy and the weather couldn't have been better. There have of course already been comments - "What are you doing with that", "Aren't you a bit old for a s...
fab quilt Nan, left comment on other blog.
I'm Giving Away a Quilt!...
To celebrate my good fortune of being a Guest Blogger once again over at Sew We Quilt/Stash Manicure, I have decided to give away my Picnic Quilt! This vintage quilt was actually pieced from an antique quilt and newer fabrics. I purchased it as a quilt top/flimsy and it was one of m...
So sorry he has the photos, but as you say, nobody can ever take
those memories.
All best
Karon x
Photos
Photos of France. I love photos. The stairway in my house is floor to ceiling photos. All in simple white mounts in thin black frames. Photos of places I've been over many a year. From the Greek islands to Portugal, Spain to Mallorca. They are what I call my postcard shots. Quirky images of ...
Happy Birthday to your Mum, she looks great. Now fried ravioli, never heard of it.
Miss you Nan, get in touch.
K
Happy Birthday Mom!...
Another year older and wiser, too...happy birthday, to you! I flew to Utah just in time for my mom's birthday dinner...the famdamly met up at Gepetto's Pizza (dang good pizza! I'm a sucker for fried ravioli and there's was top notch - as were their salads...if you're in the Holiday area of...
This is a reply to everyone who took the time and made the effort to
comment on my post on Friday. It means so very much to me that this
post touched other people. If you are in the unenviable situation of
having a loved one fading away from you, being snatched by the
horrors of time, I offer this post as hope. Hang in there, a glimmer
of love and happiness is in there, somewhere deep inside. Even if
all this fades tomorrow I know I have got my Mum back in my heart
and in my life. I have etched this image of her this week into my
heart like a tattoo carved into stone, I will never forget it.
So thanks blogging friends, many of you were with me last year when
I was really struggling with the fall out from my Mums situation. I
thank you for being there, for listening when I moaned on and didnt
know what to do. May you never find yourself in the same place, but
know that if you are, there are friends out there to hold your hand
and keep you strong.
love
Karon x
A mothers love
It's always with a certain trepidation that I visit Mum. The memories of the past year of pain and heartache are not easy to dismiss. Put those images aside and move on. Oh it is not so easy to do. Your heart is still filled with an ache that pulls in all the years of the past tangled tog...
Idgy would love that, Hank as an otter, her dream pet, right up
there with the ubiquitous meerkat and of course a lemur. Maybe the
lemur is for me!
K x
Hank's day
It's tough being a very spoiled cat. All that sleeping. All that yawning. All that eating. All that snuggling. Ain't life grand. Okay, not funny, let me IN! Hank x
Wow this is so much fun hearing about everyone elses weather. We
have everything here from hot sun to deep snow, soft rain, amazing.
Isnt Blogland a great place to be!
Karon x
Spring Snow
It's snowing! Would you believe this, snow again and it's blowing a blizzard out there. I have to say I am as thrilled as a child, as happy as the proverbial sand boy (don't know what that is but it's something my Day always used to say). The reason for my happiness? Well, this week I am fin...
thanks, from me and my shadow!
Kx
Me and my shadow
Someone following me on my run. Someone who, wait for it, doesn't look half bad. I mean even given the advantages of the lengthening effect that shadows have, this one looks kinda slim, no major bulges where they shouldn't be. I actually stopped running to look at it, to look at my shadow, t...
Thanks guys for all your lovely comments, it means a lot.
Karon x
Look to the party
Hi guys, I have survived my weekend without my girl. She came home last night tired and happy and convinced that her snow boarding is far better than skiing. I think the bruises have something to do with this. "You can stop easily on a snow board", hmmmmm me thinks she didn't stop at the botto...
Hi Annette
I am so pleased for you re the church incident, no wonder a weight
was lifted off your shoulders, she has the burden, she carries the
weight, not you. Be light be happy. Thanks so much for commenting.
Karon x
Look to the party
Hi guys, I have survived my weekend without my girl. She came home last night tired and happy and convinced that her snow boarding is far better than skiing. I think the bruises have something to do with this. "You can stop easily on a snow board", hmmmmm me thinks she didn't stop at the botto...
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