Vickie, I always love the honest way you approach things! I will answer ‘yes’ to all your questions about the reason of the separate entries. I believe that some have a single purpose and others multiple functions and viewpoints. And of course, it is a definite challenge trying to figure it all out ...

Thank you anny, sounds good to me

EDIT: anny, you are a magician - it's raining and cooler!!

Keep safe Bev !!! Thank you anny! I'm OK - the fires are north, west and south of me - it's just the heat and smoke here. As I live on the east coast I can always jump into the sea if they come my way :) Now there's a cyclone out to sea that may hopefully not cross our coast but bring much needed r...

Thanks Vickie, for your most thoughtful words 8) The fires have now burned through an area bigger than Belgium and the Netherlands! Ha, Bev, the power, or is it: "the beauty of the word"… Sometimes words can modify the material world. Sometimes there is a bit more to words than meets the eye, or the...

Thank you Jarkko and Eija, for that most welcome and cooling of images! Oh, what I would give for that to B4real and have it travel to my different side of the world at this the hottest of times! But never mind the weather, I am reminded how fortunate I am to still be living in this world. So no mat...

Hi Vickie, first things first ;-) Happy Birthday to you..... ♪♫♫♪♫♪ Happy Birthday to you..... ♪♫♫♪♫♪ Happy Birthday dear Vickie... Happy Birthday to you!! ♪♫♫♪♫♪ Hope you are having/will have a wonderful day :D *´¨) ¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨) (¸.•´ (¸.•` Happy Birthday ♥♥ And speaking of the first, I remem...

Ah, Vickie and Curt, unfortunately it’s not just my fear of flying, a major obstacle in itself, that is preventing me from going to Hydra. These days I simply don’t have the confidence, including health reasons, to travel long distances here or overseas alone anymore. No one locally can make the jou...

My pleasure Geoffrey, and to quote Leonard -
"or to make some woman smile" ....

You have most certainly done that with this image and also lightened up my day

Geoffrey, Thanks for that info about the prison – nice to know you were just visiting ;-) About Rollo – personally, it will make no difference to me where he was born because my DNA covers both contingencies of Norway and Denmark, but I still would like to know which one it is! And btw – I don’t alw...

ah Geoffrey, it gives me a warm feeling and makes me smile, and that's all that matters

Ah Geoffrey, in all things I have one rule and one rule only - it’s easy to remember that way, ha! I try to treat other people the way I’d like to be treated - sometimes it doesn’t always work but I do try :) I do have a good sense of humour – laughter is most important! Besides, it gives one a more...

vlcoats wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:37 am

"Spat the dummy" eh? I had to Google that one!

ha, ha! Glad you liked it! And I've got more where that one came from

btw - I'm buying The Flame very soon

Geoffrey wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:59 am

"english journalists were very cruel to me.
they said i only knew three chords when i knew five!"

hehe, I remember that!

And there's that wonderful smile again

Ah Geoffrey, now you’ve mentioned that famous year of 1066 which is most significant in my ancestry I can’t help but spill the beans further ;-) starting with the main man, William The Conqueror. Yes, he is one of my ancestors - actually I’ve heard that 25% of the English population can also make th...

Thanks Geoffrey, glad you liked it! And you are right; I really should post in this section more often. I’ve been 3 score and ten years in the art profession in some form or another and love it. But researching family history has been commandeering a lot of my time for a while now. It’s absolutely f...