Things To Make Me Smile (and a few things that annoy me)
I’m really proud of myself – I’ve just put together a chair from Ikea. Himself was going to have a lie down so I decided to give it a go and I’m now sitting on it as I type – I’m soo proud of myself even if I did swear a bit every time I dropped the twisting thing!
I will happily admit that one of my favourite poets is John Betjeman. Last night I was in bed watching Kenneth Williams being interviewed by Michael Parkinson. He was in the company of Maggie Smith & John Betjeman and towards the end of the excerpt they had a piece where Kenneth & Maggie read a Betjeman poem. It was beautiful! As P. says he could listen to Maggie Smith read anything but I have to say I thought Kenneth Williams was fantastic – once he’s voice is controlled it’s very moving.
So here is:
Death in Leamington
Easter Eve, a set on Flickr.
This pair make me smile from ear to ear. I look forward to seeing them and when we go home we chat happily about them for ages.
Here’s a few of the pictures taken yesterday when we went over on Chocolate deliveries.
On ITV3 they are holding a John Thaw weekend so I’m glued to the box. I loved Inspector Morse, both the books and the programme.
I will admit that I cried when Inspector Morse died – I remember it very clearly – sitting up in bed ’til the late, lamp on, no music. I was given the book for Christmas. In saying I cried when he died it might also have been that I was still a bit upset as my Grandad had died just over a month before.
There is one other thing I love about the Inspector Morse series and that was the soundtrack – written by Barrington Pheloung. There are parts of the music when is soars and it almost feels as if you heart wants to fly with it – it’s just so beautiful.
So here is the thing that makes me smile particularly 2min 43sec:
Hi Girl!,
If you’re out there reading this – I hope things are going well with you?
How is the snow out with you? Are the cats & dog enjoying it?
Well, miss reading your updates so if you do read this drop me a line and say hi!
-Deirdre
We’re not getting snow here this year – it’s way too mild. Mind you it’s not very often that we do get snow so I shouldn’t be that surprised (still disappointed though). However, there is a very cold spell happening over in Europe and Russia. I know that snow has it’s draw backs and dangers but it is so beautiful. Below are 2 pages of wonderful snow photos (hopefully the url will remain live as time goes on)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/jan/31/winter-weather-pictures?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
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My enthusiasm was productive and I’ve most of the first section done. However, I have decided to leave the beading ’til the very end – so some of it will be missing ’til the very end.
I have to say I’m really getting a kick out of all of this so I’m going to leave off and get back to my stitching – teehee!
I bought this at lunch time:
I’m hoping to ease myself gently back into Cross-Stitch with this beauty!
Time will tell!
It really does make me simply smile!
Can you watch it without singing/miming along?
Ok I’ve tried to hold off from being Christmassy but I can’t do it any longer – if I do I think I’ll burst!
Today in work we were talking about Christmas Films – I’ll keep that for another post ’cause Christmas really does make me smile so there’s LOADS to say about it. Anyway back to office chat – the Muppets Christmas Carol was mentioned and after that the songs wouldn’t go away – can you hear it? Does it feel like Christmas?
So I’m now at home playing with iTunes and I have my christmas music split into two – carols (church type music) and songs (chart type). What I love about music is that there’s nearly always a story behind why you like songs – whether it’s because of a person, an event or a place – well for me the first christmas song that I want to post about is Jona Lewie – “Stop The Cavalry” I can’t hear that song without thinking of Dad. Specifically we’re in the car down at the traffic lights in Portmarnock village, we’re waiting for the lights to change, the song is after coming on the radio and he turns it up and we’re singing – Daddy has the same kind of singing voice as Jona Lewie and can hit the deeper notes – me? I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket but that has never stopped me trying 🙂
Now press play and sing “duba-duba-dumdum duba-duba-dum wish I was at home…”
I know it’s mad but in my head I’m still singing it with Dad 😀
Hopefully this will be the first of many posts about all of the glorious things I love about Christmas
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