I was kindly asked to be a featured blogger for March by the lovely Rob of Art By Rob Goldstein blog. If you fancy it, please pop over and have a read!
Featured Blogger On Rob’s Blog!
05 Mar 2018 Comments Off on Featured Blogger On Rob’s Blog!
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Monday’s back #MondayBlogs
05 Mar 2018 33 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Back to work, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Monday
It’s Monday.
Current feeling!
And as with most Mondays, it’s back to school.
But different from others, it’s a Monday after an impromptu week off, not only for me with my arm, but the rest of the staff and pupils too because of the snow.
This shall be sweet chaos I am sure…
No one will have anything planned and ready for a Monday, as is usually the case.
The kids will be wild. They will want to tell us all they got up to, but equally, they won’t want to be back at school. I know the feeling. I’d rather be home too!
Still…
And added to the back to work bit, it is time for my in-laws annual trip back to the Motherland, so that means juggling plenty so that I am able to be there for the kids at the end of the day.
Usually (I am lucky), I drop my son to his grandparents and he walks to his secondary school, then walks home to them. My father in law picks up my daughter, so she isn’t hanging around until I finish at 5-5.30 pm.
But it’ll be a tad different the next 7 weeks!
Eek!
I’ll still be around, (oh you won’t get rid of me that easily!) but possibly more fraught than usual!
Oh, and FYI, the arm… It still hurts… but I will survive!
Happy Monday Peeps! And have a fantastic week!
The Bloggers Bash Blog Post Competition Extended! #SundayBlogShare @bloggersbash – SACHA BLACK
04 Mar 2018 11 Comments
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Just entered a second time, come on folks, get your entries in!
The Bloggers Bash Blog Post Competition – Deadline for Entries Extended We’ve listened, and we’ve acted. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve extended the deadline for entries to this year’s Blogg…
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Royal Ravens – #AnnualBloggersBash
04 Mar 2018 6 Comments
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A second entry into the Annual Bloggers Bash writing competition – a piece used for Charli Mills Writing prompt too!
“It is a worry indeed, Your Majesty, yes. We’ve had to sack three of them this year, and getting decent replacements, well that is an increasingly tough task.”
Beefeater Chambers looked out of the window, whilst speaking to the Queen on the Royal telephone.
The requirement was six ravens to be guarding the Tower of London at any one time, or the Tower and Kingdom would fall, and this new generation, well they were useless.
They didn’t have the spunk of their ancestors, calling in sick all the time, too busy posing for the tourists and Instagram selfies.
Really!
Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 159 #Snowmaggedon2018
04 Mar 2018 30 Comments
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“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” – Khalil Gibran
Well, we had to think about snow this week, didn’t we Spidey!
Having been stuck inside pretty much all week, not only because I was signed off with my arm injury, but because we got a whole lotta snow, courtesy of The Beast from the East at the beginning of the week, and Storm Emma at the tail end, snow just had to figure.
And this was just a perfect quote.
When you look outside and see the blanket of white covering the world, even the ugliest of scenes is transformed into a thing of beauty.
Equally, a drop of kindness into a puddle of unhappiness can make such a difference to a person.
Your simple smile or hello could change the thoughts of a person in the depths of loneliness. An offer to help out with someone’s shopping bags, or popping over to a neighbour in bad weather, to make sure they are okay, it all casts a brighter light on the other person’s day.
Random Acts of Kindness – something that spread like wildfire a couple of years back.
Why should it be simply a hashtag, a phase?
We should try to drop these acts of kindness every day.
They should really be second nature, not a deeply thought out act.
Kindness is in us all.
It is not something that has to cost money. Just a little time and energy. And believe me, you’ll feel richer yourself for helping someone.
Go on – make someone happy today, what kind act will you perform? In fact, not just today, everyday!
Stay positive 🙂
Happy Sunday Peeps!
