I cannot believe, it has been one year since my Mum passed away... I have always loved this photo I took, just before Christmas a couple of years ago. She really loved every thing about Christmas. Miss you so much...

Today I said to hell with housework,gardening and cooking. I haven't really sat down at my sewing machine in a while. So today I finished the top of this quilt, I have been working on for a while. Hubby always asks when one is finished too this point. Who's this one for? No one! I just wanted to see what this pattern looked like when made up.

They say that third time's the charm.

GMOH are pleased to announce that the very charming Mr. Garett Maggart will be returning to England for the third time in 2010 to meet with you all in the second city, Birmingham, for one weekend of fun and frivolity.

You are all cordially invited to attend.

At this moment in time we can tell you that the gathering will be sometime in September or October 2010 and that we hope to keep the cost the same as last time at £250.00. To assist us in our forward planning we would like your help with two things:

a) Please email Rae on rae2412@aol.com to let her know if you have serious intentions about attending. Don't send any money, just a 'yes I'll be there' will do for now.

b) If you have any ideas about what you would like to have happen that the gathering - and keep it clean people - then why not let us know and we will see what can be done?

So there we are. They said it couldn't be done. Now they know better! See you all in 2010.

The GMOH Team.

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This was the pub where we stopped for lunch.





These next few photos are for snailbones as she likes clouds.
This is another storm that rolled in across the old homestead. The first photo is as it came in from the south, rolled over my bird shed the last photo shows it over the top of my stables which are on the north side of the house. Beautiful but a little scary wondering what we were in for.
Again they did nothing while here...

This first photo was taken in one of my stables. I have nests in all three of my stables. These are the first babies to show themselves so far, in the stables.





This one was taken in my hay barn. I have about 4 nests in here, so I leave the door open all summer until about end of September early October when they have all flown back to Africa.

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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I have so many friends because of the internet. Quite a few I have met in real life..

with black and white fabric's.

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Former home secretary David Blunkett is returning to work after breaking a rib when he was charged by a cow.
The blind MP will attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party when it is expected Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be grilled about his future.
Mr Blunkett was said to be in pain after the cow charged at his trusted guide dog Sadie while he was out walking in Derbyshire's Peak District on Saturday, which was his 62nd birthday.
He tried to protect Sadie, a black Labrador-cross, but in the melee fell to the ground and was trampled by the cow.
Mr Blunkett told the Sun: "I let go of Sadie and she shot off. But the next thing I knew, I'd stumbled to the ground and the animal fell over, too.
"She hit my side and broke my rib. Had her full weight of around a ton hit me, I'd have been a goner.

(( THIS LINE MADE ME SMILE))
"I know the public are furious with politicians, but I didn't realise the anger has spread to Britain's cow population, too."

Mr Blunkett's fiancee, GP Margaret Williams, took him to a specialist to be checked.
A spokesman for the Sheffield MP said: "He has a broken rib and has painful bruising.
"He is now making his way down to London extremely slowly to attend the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting this evening

A spectacular crop circle shaped like a jellyfish has appeared on farmland in Oxfordshire.






Jellyfish crop circle appears in field .The 250m (600ft) design, which turned up in a field near Ashbury last week, is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.

Crop circle expert Karen Alexander said: "We have seen butterfly and bird patterns in the past, but this is the first jellyfish crop circle in the world.

"It is absolutely huge - roughly three times the size of most crop patterns and extremely interesting. People have been aghast at the size of it. It is a complete monster.

"We are looking into the meaning of it, but at present it just seems to have appeared out of nowhere."

The owners of the land say whoever created the design caused about £600 of damage - but they called the shape "beautiful" and say they have reported the trespassers to the police.