Scatterday I - 9 Feb 2008

Something Australian was easy, one of my grandsons who is a real IMP was born & lives in Melbourne, obviously the photo is not by me but taken with my camera when I was there a few years ago (we don't talk about the hair, whatever was I thinking!). I also managed to get a not too bad photo of Australia the ISLAND on my TV screen one night during the weather forecast. The something yellow is an INDIAN sari I found in the window of a shop, there was an iron grill inside the window so I took it up as close as I could so the grill wouldn't show. Lastly, I found this horrible INSECT at the park today - okay so it's not actually in the air but have you ever tried to photograph a fly on the wing?
BTW there is a very easy comment box on the right if you scroll up/down a bit, easier to use than the other one - please use it, why isn't anyone using it?

Credits: Australian Opals 2 by Elisabeth Weaver, http://tinyurl.com/39y2r4
Australian Opals Addon by Elisabeth Weaver, http://tinyurl.com/34dr3s
Funky Fresh Alpha by Amber Gray
Glitter Alpha by Elisabeth Weaver, http://tinyurl.com/2dwl6s
Special Place QC by Elisabeth Weaver, http://tinyurl.com/2ctzzs

Hot Dry Summer

While I was waiting for the washing to be done today I walked to our local Manawa Wetlands Reserve and was shocked to see how dried up it was. I've been visiting it for 8 years now and I've never seen it like this before. Hope it rains soon, the poor ducks are looking very lost!
This is what it usually looks like.

Click on this one to get a better view.

And this is what it looks like today.



Actually I hope it doesn't rain soon, I'm loving the weather and could go without rain forever if I had to!

Blog365 - Day 35

Posting before I go to bed today because I have a busy day coming up. Off to the Laundrette to do the washing, price some washing machines and look for photos to take in one of the Scatterday categories - something you find in the air starting with I! Is that hard or what? All I can think of is 'insect' but to get a photo of one actually in the air might be next to impossible! I also need to find something yellow starting with I - I'm going to the Indian Sari shop to see if they have a yellow one, then I have to talk them into letting me photograph it! It's either that or find some yellow Incense - which hopefully will be in the same shop. The something Australian starting with I was real easy, but I'm not telling yet.....
Today's layout is Becky contemplating something - probably up to no good!

Blog365 - Day 34

Well it seems the fault doesn't lie with my ISP, still getting very slow Internet all around. The council are laying new drains in our street so maybe someone has dug into the telephone lines!
Today I have a layout of Lauren & Becky trying to drown themselves while on holiday a few weeks ago, it sure looks like fun.
The weather is a little cooler today, didn't have to have the fan going flat stick which is nice. Bought another external hard-drive yesterday so I now have plenty of room for my photos, sorry there's been such a long lull in my photowalking, starting up again soon.
We need to go washing machine shopping on Saturday, I found the original receipt which says it was made in May 1992 and purchased new on 7 Feb 1994 for $92.40! It's hardly worth getting fixed after all these years, up until now we've never had a moment's problem with it so it's done a good job. Except for that one time I tried to wash an old floor mat that disintegrated into a million pieces and clogged the machine up so bad it took DH days to get it all out! Anyone want to bet I won't get another one for $92.40?

Blog365 - Day 33

Have been having computer problems today, my downloading rate has dropped to below 5kb/sec instead of the up around 250kb/sec I usually get. Waited ages and ages to download files and then all of a sudden they drop out and there's either nothing or a corrupted file left behind! I've been tearing my hair out doing all sorts of scans for spybots and viruses and you name it, defragging, rebooting, resetting the router, blah blah blah - with no success at all! Going to son's place to do my downloading tomorrow and if it's successful you'll hear me yelling down the phone to my ISP when I get home!
So then I thought mmmm I'll catch up on printing my album pages, did six and the black ink ran out, of course I only had about 3 coloured cartridges & no black in the house!
So in the end I was forced to do housework - how bad is that? Started on the washing and would you believe it leaked water all over the floor which gradually got worse so it looks like we might need a new washing machine, it's over 10 years old so it's not worth paying out heaps of money to get it fixed when a new one will probably cost less!
Another public holiday in NZ tomorrow (well today actually it's 1.41am!) - Waitangi Day - and it looks like I'll be spending it at the laundrette!

Blog365 - Day 32

Went to the dentist, this time took my camera but forgot to take any photos! I've been going to this same dentist for 57 years although the current dentist took over from the original one about 20 years or so ago. So the other day I asked if I could get some copies of my first dental cards all those years ago and he gave me the first four - first treatment 22 Jan 1951, I would have been 10 years 2 mths old. An xray and examination cost 10/6d, 2 fillings and a prophysomethingorother each cost 10/6d also, total £2.2s.0d paid for by the Health Department on 4 Apr 1951. And so it goes on - on 13 Jun 1963 free treatment and clean as a wedding present, I was married on the 15th. And an interesting little note on the 19 Nov 1965 'baby overdue' no fee - my son was born on the 25th Nov. Nothing much else of interest really, just lots & lots & lots of amalgam fillings that I still have some of today! No fluoride in those days.

Blog365 - Day 31

Posting early today because I have to go to the dentist again tomorrow. Still hot although we had a heavy downpour of rain this morning, cleared up in the afternoon so we had a stroll to the supermarket for our weekly shopping - dead exciting huh? Today's layout is another for my heritage album, photos taken about 1956/57 with an old friend, we met each at school when we were about 13 and when our mother's finally met they realised they knew each other, they had flatted together in their young pre-marriage days - how spooky is that!
She just sent me the photo on the top left yesterday which prompted me to do this layout with the photos of us I posted a few weeks ago. I thought they were all taken at Cornwallis beach but those landmarks in the back don't look similar at all so maybe not.

Blog365 - Day 30

Mmmm I'm wondering why only Andrea has used my new comments box and everyone else is using the old way - get with it boys & girls, keep up with technology!
Today you get yet another layout of one of my grand-daughters, fans still going flat stick here!

Blog365 - Day 29

How funny is this?

Broken Escalator - Amazing videos are here

ScatterdaZe - 2 Feb 2008

Here we are again, another week gone by. I didn't really feel like going out much thiz week, the weather and my feet conspired against me! So I had to see what I could find around the house starting with Z, I was really zurprized at what popped up. Something a little bit different are my herbal Zinger teabagz - then came the Zoom lenz on my camera - and lastly I grated the rind of a lemon & an orange to get the Zest and then shaped it into a Z, made an awful mezz but the zmell was divine! I put it onto a sheet of white paper, took the photo then imported it into PhotoShop and brushed away the background to leave just the Z!
Then I added a couple of alpha Z letterz, a clip art Zebra zitting down, some Zigzag ztitching, a Zero, word art of my Zodiac zign and another clip art of the word Zoo.
And there I waz thinking Z waz going to be hard!

Credits - All American Alpha by Amber Gray
Alpha Mosaic N-Z QC by Lauren Bavin, http://tinyurl.com/38hdtx
Antique Autumn by Valeria Brumfield, http://tinyurl.com/2b9u85
Chocolate Chip Cookies Alpha by Kim Liddiard, http://tinyurl.com/2hz47m
Golden Allure by Valeri Brumfield, http://tinyurl.com/3xl7tz
Natural Harmony by Valeri Brumfield, http://tinyurl.com/37hlo3
What's Your Sign? Word Art by Tina Chambers, http://tinyurl.com/23rp7b
Clip Art by Wendy Sefcik, Seebee & pcCrafter

Blog365 - Day 28

No photos or layouts today, it's been just too hot to do much lately & my feet swell up if I sit at the computer for too long :(.
I found this new comment box (you might need to scroll down a bit) on another blog so thought I'd try it out - at the moment it's free with just basic features but if it works well I might upgrade to the Premium version.

Blog365 - Day 27

Mmmm seems I've missed two days not just the one I thought I had - I think I must have slept through one of those days! Today's layout is the next month in my 2007 Year in Review album.

Blog365 - Day 26

Today is grand-daughter sitting day so there might be a few photos later on. In the meantime here's a layout of my father, another one for the heritage album.

Blog365 - Day 25

Another day another dollar - gone to my dentist! My front tooth fell out on Friday and as it was a long weekend here my dentist had the day off and so couldn't see me until today - hence me not getting to go somewhere I haven't been before over the weekend like I was promising myself - it was rather hard trying to talk while keeping my mouth shut when out in public! Besides it's too hot to do anything strenuous. Today's layout is another heritage one of my mother as a baby in 1913.

Blog365 - Day 24

I've been delving into my family tree for about 20 years now so I've decided I should try to do more of my heritage album pages - this year is going to be dedicated to getting all my old photos done. This one is my maternal grandparents on their wedding day - they both migrated from different parts of England to meet, marry and live in NZ the rest of their lives.

This one is of the two sisters of the father of my above grandmother. They were both widowed in this photo taken with my grandmother's brother and his wife. Click on the photos to get a larger view if you can't read the journalling.

Blog365 - Day 23

Okay I forgot again! It's a long weekend here so we've been out and about being very busy doing not much really. Sunday morning we had a stroll through the local monthly artists' market day & bought some lovely scenic cards I thought I might frame. Then off to lunch at our old neighbours' new house for a Sri Lankan meal, very nice very hot!

No photos this weekend as I don't have much room left on my hard-drives (two computers!), I need to have a good clean out before I load them up again. Here's my June 2007 Year in Review layout.

Scatterday N - 26 Jan 2008

This week the letter N wasn't quite so hard - I had the perfect photo for the South American part that I had taken a few weeks ago at a fair - The Amazonas singing South American songs & using interesting looking instruments - none of them starting with N I might add! I had a hard job coming up with something starting with N in this photo but I persevered & in the end won through - Noise and Noses - and they could be from Niteroi in Brazil couldn't they? Highly unlikely I suspect.
The orange Nasturtiums are from my garden, we were in the middle of taking up the plastic weedmat and replacing the bark when winter hit us so this is what it looked like before xmas when we restarted it! Totally overgrown and running amuck but it did look so pretty.
Finally, I've never actually tasted NZ Spinach but I know I won't like it!

Designer credits:-
Christmas Remembered QC by Tina Chambers, http://tinyurl.com/2gwhuz
DSP Sunny font by Suzanne Walker http://tinyurl.com/36wvcf
Lanee by Marcee Duggar, http://tinyurl.com/2uvuf7
Must be Magic Alpha by Lauren Bavin, http://tinyurl.com/2sbops
Scribbly Doo Alpha by Irene Alexeeva, http://tinyurl.com/25a6dh
The Doodle Garden by Rene Bross, no link

Blog365 - Day 21

The weather has been just too hot to go walking for awhile now and by the time it gets cooler all my energy has been zapped it was up to 31oC/92oF today - if you're feeling a blast of cold air that's my fan going! We have a long weekend coming up so I fully intend to go somewhere I haven't been before. This is the month of May for the 2007 album.

Blog365 - Day 20

And finally I'm caught up to today - April's page for the album.

Blog365 - Day 19

March - Year in Review 2007 album.