LSN Day 4, 5 6

My next three LOs for Learn Something New - I am now only 3 days behind.
Day 4 I went to the cinema to see WALL-E, which I thought was a really good film with lots of 'deep and meaningful' bits in it. WALL-E shows how one person, however small, can make a huge difference and that sometimes its OK to think differently from the crowd.

I have recently started knitting again after not having done any for years, so my first project is to finish the cardi I promised my hubbie many years ago. For Day 5 I put that I am thankful for the ability to knit and to create.

On Day 6 I visited my chiropodist, and its great how wonderful my feet feel again! I always say I will take more care of them but then life gets in the way again.

Learn Something New

I have decided to Learn Something New again this year with Shimelle. I did this class two years ago and really enjoyed it, but couldn't get into it last year. I have decided to do it again this year and to try and do a LO on something to be thankful for each day, to keep the album Positive as that is my word for the year.

Day 1 was to be thankful for the birds and butterflies that come to visit my garden.


Day 2 was to be thankful that the Bible Study and Prayer Group have started up again after the sumer break, it is good to meet together with other Christians.

Day 3 was to be thankful for DVDs of favourite TV shows and to be able to watch them with the kids. Andrew was off school on this day and we watched two episodes of Dr Who together.

August Pages

Following on from yesterdays post I managed to complete my August pages last night. This is the first scrapping I have actually done for ages, so hopefully my mojo is returning and I shall get some more done this month.

I have an assignment due in at the end of this week for my OU course and my End of Course Assignment (5,000 words) is due at the end of the month so I suppose I had better get a move on with them. Then I get a break from studying for a couple of months.

25 of August

Yes I know I am a little late posting these photos - but I did take them on the 25th of August. They are for the Scrap Your Day challenge that I am doing this year. This month I decided to take photos of things in my garden. The first photo is of our apple tree, which has a fair number of apples on it again this year.

This photo is one of the many butterflies that visit our garden.

Since we put out a bird feeder that has lots of hanging bits on it we have been inundated with sparrows and starlings. They are very greedy and can sometimes be rather aggressive with each other. They are getting quite tame now and will let us sit out and watch them and even hang the washing out without them flying away.

Now all I have to do is make the pages for August.

Wordle Fun

I have seen these on other peoples blogs and decided to have a go myself. This is a Wordle of my Blog, you can create these using any words you like. Go try it out at www.wordle.net.

Summer's Over

Yes, it feels like summer is over now - the boys went back to school yesterday. Today I have one off school and one at school because of the strike! And of course the weather has decided to get better since they have gone back. Last week was just dreadful here - it rained almost every day!!!

We did manage one day out - we went to Ken-Dee Marshes to do a spot of bird watching. We managed to see these fellows.

Tomato

Here are my very first home-grown tomatoes and they tasted delicious. This is the first year I have tried to grow tomatoes and these are my very first ones. There are still quite a few left on the plants just waiting to go red.

My Freedom Prompt 21 was: Do you prefer to scrapbook with single photos or a group of photos? - The answer is really both! Sometimes I like to use just one photos on a page and sometimes I like to use lots of photos that are related, it really just depends on the photos themselves and what mood I am in at the time.