A Poem for Thursday....

I was asked by @neviepiecakes aka Natasha Collins...lovely daughter..if I would post some pics for seven days from the different series that I've taken on camera. Thankyou Natasha.
This photo is one of three from a travel series. It now belongs to a great friend. I'm sure that there are references in this pic from wonderful international photographers...and so I give them thanks for their blogs and hope that I may have learnt from them and their skills.

I often think poetry when I take pics...and this little poem is very apt for the feelings often there when on a long journey...and you are really nowhere!

To Travel

To travel is to be nowhere.

You’re not here

And you’re not there.

So,

If you get the wrong train to somewhere,

Or you get off at

The wrong station for somewhere,

Does that mean

That you have completely disappeared?

And when the train gets to somewhere

Will they find that you are nowhere.

And how will you get back from there?

I'll post the other two in the series for you. 

 The start of the journey

All change at Euston

Blogging, followers and friends!!

I've been posting blogs since March 2010...I can hardly believe that!

 But in all that time I've not personally met a single blogger friend. Well all that has changed! 

The timing was exact...the place was right ...the conversation started...and lo and behold...someone who actually had read my posts...finding them on the sidebar list of the wonderful Pen Wilcox. Stunned ..we both were.

I was standing by the Pithoi pots at The Beetham Garden Centre near Milnthorpe in Lancashire when as I was ringing the rims to make sure that the pot was whole..as.any little crack or flaw will not give a bell-like sound. (This I know from the potter himself!...he had rung one or two before going off to buy a pot for our Christmas present to one another.)

It's big!...some in the Tuesday evening ceramic group that he teaches wondered why he didn't make it himself...well...it's bigger than the kiln for a start! And pithoi from Crete are famous for their shapes and traditional decoration.

So now I'm a follower on "woolywanderer" on Instagram...I'm G Snape there.."Documenting the Mundane" by the way. And also a follower on multicolouredmadness.blogspot.com .

We hugged with laughter and tears and hugged again...two grown women who had never met but had so much in common! 

Well that's blogging for you. You wait five years and along comes a follower and then a friend. We shall plan to meet up again I'm sure of that as we both have homes around that glorious Bay I talk about so much.

Thankyou Blogspot...thankyou daughter amelieshouse.blogspot.co.uk for getting me started...thankyou senior grandgirl troase.blogspot.co.uk for encouraging and quietly showing me techie things!!

Any excuse for a Party!

Well this weekend gave us the best reason for a looooong time.

All eleven of us were together!

Hooray!

Ha! You thought it was something else?

Well that's sort of right,

 it was after all a bank holiday

and that made the weekend go on for two extra days.

Plus the sun shone and the flowers bloomed and the summer house beckoned.

So the following are just a few of the mad moments from our "Royal Wedding Party".

 .....suggested by Tina, my lovely daughter-in-law 

and organised by us all.

Moi...checking that the colours are flying.

All faces turned one way.

Nini

the delightful daughter

and founder of

Amelie's House

Is this also a knobbly knee contest?

Potter.

Kate...eldest granddaughter...

and blogger on

The

Confusionosity of Life

Concentrate.

No point in coming to a do

without getting on your best goodies!

Ahhhh....the bride!

Cake baked by Tina and topped by Nini

...joint efforts.

So we had

coronation chicken

german potato salad ( after all there's a lot of that in

"The Family". )

Pasta...for the kids...any Italians at the do?

Welsh cheese..... for the "Wales" couple.

And royal icing on the cake!

(spot the flags!)

...son enjoys the sun...

Tina enjoys the wine,

Kids enjoy the freedom!

no school.

But that's not the end...oh no

not by a long chalk!

Afternoon tea was imbibed up at the summer house.

Joined by some lovely friends,

we continued to eat to the health of the newly married couple.

Well I believe that their parties went on all night!

they might just be shortbread biccies...

...but they sure look royal to me!

Made and painted by Nini.

Hats were essential

as were flags of all sorts may I say.

If you look back you might see the flag of Cornwall, Eire and Spain

just so as not to offend any!

A quiet spot to relax and enjoy the feast.

and back up to the table

 for seconds.

Son and son-in-law kept up the serious business of dish-washing and fresh pots of tea.

A good old English tradition!

I mean the dish-washing of course!

Nearly at the end of a weekend

and a girl must make sure that her face is still radiant!

....a lot of slumping in the sun

and gentle snoozing....

what a good end to the bank holiday.

I do hope and pray that this young couple are somehow able to work it out,

in spite of all of the shenanigans surrounding them.