Smoke on the Water

Dawn @ Lake Washington

Such a softie

Windows here we come!

GOBAMA!

Obamania in downtown Seattle

Today's 'Most Annoying Thing In the World'

A colleague chomping away on Kellogg's Fruit and Fibre, straight out of the box, mouth semi-open while fervently masticating, attempting to contribute to the round of morning office chatter, loudly smacking his lips and licking his fingers in celebration of what must be ultimate breakfast satisfaction. Aaaarrrrrgh!

They have got to be having a laugh.

Tue 16-09-2008 18:20



Christmas pudding on the supermarket shelves. On the 16th of September.

Picking wild blackberries along the Thames Path

Quite The Loser

I regularly, routinely 'lose' my stuff around the home; my phone and its charger, my favourite hair clip, my tweezers, my work ID, my bus pass, the padlock to my gym locker, my sunglasses, my keys, documents, an especially sharp pair of scissors; you name it, I've 'lost' it, only for it to surface after much heartache, usually very safe, in the safer-than-safe little corner I put it last. How annoying is that?!

My misplacing stuff is usually a consequence of my manic handbag-changing, and it drives Dot up the wall and around the bend. I can almost hear my father saying "you never put things back where you took them from; it's no wonder you have trouble finding them!"

Pray tell, dear readership, are you the obsessively religiously organised sort, or do you find yourselves running around, hair flying, not being able to find the things you need when you really need them? Is it just me?

I've had a good month

Chakli has honoured me and my blog with this:

I feel all warm and fuzzy and flattered (in a good way). Thank you my lovely! Though, like I said to her, I've got to now at least try to be 'brilliant'. Gosh! No pressure there!

I must say I have had a stellar month overall. First the driving test, then exciting times at work, and now this reminder that I have a loyal, albeit small, band of friends who read my random raving and ranting and are kind enough to say they enjoy it all.

I find, probably like everyone else does, you go through phases where nothing seems to be going anywhere; you drift from day to day without anything significant happening, and then suddenly the clouds clear up, the sun comes out (forgive all the weather analogies; I live in England) and your world is all good and upwardly mobile again. You get bit after bit of good news (for mamma, mummy and daddy: no, not 'that' good news), and though the good phases don't happen as often as they should, when they do, they make up for all lost time.

If only for this moment, my world is beautiful, and I'm loving it.

Coming back to the award, the rules are:

This award is for blogs whose content and/or design are brilliant as well as creative.

The purpose of the prize is to promote as many blogs as possible in the blogosphere.

1. When you receive the prize you must write a post showing it, together with the name of who has given it to you, and link back to them.

2. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs (or more) that you find brilliant in their content or design.

3. Show their names and links and leave them a comment informing they were prized with ‘Brilliant Weblog’

4. Show a picture of those who awarded you and those you give the prize (optional).

5. And then pass it on!

My nominees for blogging brilliance from my blogroll are:

Dot
The Elfin Goddess
Educated Tatya
G
Chinty
Mumbaiwallah
Nodot
Jay
Kabes

I'm sharing the luuurrrvve.