Oooh this seems a good challenge today 🙂
Dear Awesome Reader,
Day 5 is simply to tell us your achievements and goals for you blog. I wrote about mine here!
You could also link some of your favourite posts you wrote if you want to!
Also I’d like you to write a question for bloggers to answer. Don’t answer or do anything with it! (It is in preparation for tomorrow’s challenge!)
Now I’m off to a sleepover! Adios!
Well what a beautiful day we had today. The weather was surprisingly mild for April and following on from yesterday’s spring clean, I ‘persuaded’ Mr Grump to venture into the airing cupboard (with step-ladder) and get out my summer curtains. Yes, that is how optimistic I was feeling!
Mr Grump had also been bitten by the Spring Fever bug as he decided that it would be great to have a family BBQ tomorrow, so we sent out invites (via text of course), and set about the job of tidying up the garden.
A bit of scrubbing and maneuvering later and everything looked shipshape and ready for tomorrow, It was glorious to feel the sun on my back as I was outside in just a little vest top.It certainly makes me feel better when I see a bit of sunshine.
Around lunchtime we decided to hit the coast which is only a few miles away. It was so warm down there (even with the sea breeze) that we still didn’t need a coat. There were even 2 very brave little girls in the sea in swimming cossies. The dog and Miss Hap both wimped out of going in, although Miss Hap did stick her toe in!
Of course, being at the seaside you have got to have an ice cream (well if you are a child certainly), and Miss Hap had a double 99! I was going to get some chips but did not see any, so had a pancake instead! I had cheese garlic and it nearly blew my head off. God knows how much he put in there but it was at least 2 raw cloves. I must have stunk the car out on the way home, as I was the only one to have it. I felt a bit queasy myself as I kept getting a whiff of it!
We came home then called in on my younger sister (Mrs Masterchef) and her husband (Mr Musician) plus my niece was there (Ms Beauty).They were burning some garden rubbish so we sat outside around the fire until way after dark, before going indoors for a sing-song.
What a gorgeous day. It really does seem like spring is on its way!
We are about a third of the way in now on the Blogging From A-Z Challenge and I am having a lot of fun with some of the words I have chosen. Today we have the Innocuous letter ‘I.’ Yes, it looks innocent enough, but my word can be a bit on the naughty side.
Innuendo. This word is insinuated, saying one thing but implying another. It is quite often an allusion to improper or immoral behaviour, or a veiled reference to smutty shenanigans!
Sexual innuendo is very often hard to grasp, but the more you keep at it, the easier it comes!
It is the ‘Carry On’ kind of humour, making something out of nothing type of comment; It works even better if the person you are talking to has a dirty mind as well!
I love this kind of word, as I have a filthy mind and a cackling laugh to match. Who says humour has to be always ‘good, clean fun?!’
Caitlin has set us quite a tricky challenge for today in the Daydreamer’s Challenge.We are to give any blogging tips that we have learned that has either made us want to follow another blogger, or has helped us to gain followers. I am still reasonably new to blogging, and am really rubbish at the technical side of things but here are my thoughts based on my personal experience and opinions.
I hope some of these tips are helpful. Of course I am by no means an authority on blogging, but have told you what I have learned from my experience.
Now this is going to get me thinking!
Dear Awesome Reader,
Welcome, welcome to Day 4 of the Daydreamer Challenge! (Can you believe how quickly it’s going?!)
Don’t worry if you’re a few days behind, you can always click to see the day you missed and catch up:
Okay so what I thought we’d do today is share some tips about blogging. Now, I know that some of you may be thinking “Gosh, I haven’t been blogging long enough!” or “I don’t feel like I understand blogging enough to be giving out tips!”
But I can guarantee that you learnt many things! It might be that before, you never used to bother finding other blogs but when you did, it helped you gain not just followers, but friends too!
Simple little things like that! I’m not going to say much else as I want YOU to come up with…
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Yesterday, we had a man come round to carry out the annual boiler inspection. He was originally booked for next week but due to a cancellation he came yesterday instead.
Now, I am not keen on workmen or servicemen coming around when Mr Grump is not here as I have mentioned before, but he was in the area and it would have been churlish to have insisted he stick to the scheduled appointment.
Anyway, he turned up and bounced into the kitchen after stepping on the dog! He did make a fuss of her though and all was forgiven, I left him to get on with it as he knew what he was doing. I had forgotten to move some of the crap stuff that was by the boiler and also the oil lamp sitting on top of it (Mr Grump thought it was as good a place as any to store it)!
The chap was unconcerned and said it was no problem for him to do it, as I cringed at my forgetfulness. After a while he poked his head into the front room and asked if he could go upstairs and look in the airing cupboard. Shit! I had to tell him to be careful not to get attacked by the step-ladder we have got stored in there.
After he had done all the checks and left, I had to go upstairs to get something. As I walked to my bedroom I noticed Miss Hap’s bedroom door was open, and although not as bad as usual, was a bloody mess! The landing also needed a vacuum……
This morning, Mr Grump went off to work. Myself and Miss Hap decided that we would have a cleaning frenzy. I had decided that I would have a spring clean anyway during the holiday and after reading a post by The Armchair Perfectionist, was even feeling quite inspired to get on with it. However, there is nothing like being shamed into doing it a bit earlier than planned!
Blogging From A-Z Challenge today has us looking at the letter ‘H.’ This seems to be rather a staid and serious letter, being all proud and upright. However, my word for the day is far from it!
Higgledy-piggledy is a wonderful word on so many levels, It rhymes (always a bonus in my book), and it has a silly, wacky quality to it that is s appealing, This word is all of a jumble, mixed up and in a mess.
It is the state of Miss Hap’s bedroom! It is stuff haphazardly chucked about all over the place; cupboards stuffed full of all sorts of junk, balancing precariously on top of each other just waiting to spring out at the poor unsuspecting sod that dares to open the door!
It is where everything is topsy-turvy, upside down, helter-skelter, and in complete disarray.There is no order in the chaos…
Sounds a bit like my posts really!
It is thought that most of us have a ‘doppelganger’ somewhere out in the big wide world. For one man, he actually got to meet his, purely by chance!
A retired clergyman was shocked when he moved to a different county and people kept waving and smiling at him as if they knew him. He realised that it wasn’t just friendliness on their part as they kept referring to him by a different name!
After a couple of months of this, the puzzled man decided to ask the cafe owner (who also addressed him by the wrong name) what as going on! The cafe owner was shocked that the man didn’t seem to know him, and that he wasn’t called ‘John’ either that he had been referring him as. He even had to get out his driving licence to prove it!
It turned out that John also lived in the town and had done for over fifty years. This explained to the Clergyman (called Neil) the case of mistaken identity and he thought no more about it, despite being a little intrigued as to what this John looked like.
Not long later, Neil went on a coach trip to the British Library Museum. He heard someone mention the name ‘John’ and he craned his neck to get a better view. He could actually see the resemblance himself, and they had in fact, got a lot in common!
Not only do they have similar taste in clothes (the pic was taken on the day of the coach trip), but they had actually studied at the same College and followed careers as RE teachers! They also have similar interests in Amateur Dramatics and writing poetry, and have now become firm friends!
How would you feel if you met up with your ‘twin?’ Personally I think I would be a bit freaked out!
Today the challenge is to write something nice about another blog that is participating in the ‘Daydreamer Challenge.’
That is not difficult at all for me to do, in fact, the only difficulty I have is selecting one blog, so I am going to choose two; both of which I am following anyway.
But I Smile Anyway. Ritu is someone I felt an immediate connection to. We have quite a lot in common, our sense of humour, we both like to write things ‘off the cuff’ and we also love to write a poem about anything and everything!
What I also love about Ritu’s blog is that you are never going to know what she is going to write about next! She has a wealth of inspiration which she draws upon to write her posts (I am not at all envious – much)! She is also a lovely person. Friendly and funny, and that is why I love her blog!
A Momma’s View I have been following this blog for quite some time now. This woman is a living dynamo! She is an excellent cook, takes beautiful photos, had two children which she home schools AND if that isn’t enough, is an author of not one, but three books!
I would love to have a bit of her stamina and dedication, that’s for sure! She is another one that helps and supports other bloggers which I admire greatly. She is a very kind and lovely person as well.
As I said, it was extremely easy to be nice about these two wonderful blogs. Go and see for yourself, they are worth a visit for sure,
This will be a fun challenge to do today 🙂
Dear Awesome Reader,
It’s onto Day 3 of the Daydreamer Challenge and I’m super excited for this one! I am going to reblog every single one of the posts responding to this!
If you missed Day 1 or Day 2 just click on the day you missed! 🙂
Today, the challenge is to say something nice about another blog.
The Daydreamer Challenge was about making connections with new bloggers and so I think this is a good way in helping each other out a little! If you write about a blog you have found though the Daydreamer Challenge, extra points!
You can write a short description of the blog and say why you like it or link to one of your favourite posts, you can write whatever you like as long as it’s nice! 🙂
If you are new to blogging and you would like to check out more blogs…
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