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An advent calendar with a difference..... The final countdown: Days 17-25 It's time for the final post for My 25 Day Countdown to a Happy Christmas. Thanks to Sue at Sizzling Towards 60 and Beyond, who hosted the advent calendar with a difference challenge. I joined Sue in her quest for a more relaxing and stress …
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Welcome to Wordless Wednesday! Debbie 🙂
It's Day 3 of the 3 quotes, 3 day challenge which Miriam at Out an' About nominated me to join. I did tell her that I would put my own twist on the challenge and she was fine with that. It's been fun! So as you may know already I decided that instead of actual quotes I would use …
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As I posted yesterday, Miriam at Out an' About nominated me to join the 3 quotes, 3 day challenge and I thank her for thinking of me. I did tell her that I would put my own twist on the challenge and she was fine with that. I sometimes think differently to other people and …
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OK - are you ready for this? Miriam at Out an' About nominated me to join the 3 quotes, 3 day challenge, I thank her for thinking of me. I enjoyed her posts and her selection of quotes especially her Day 3 post. I decided, while out at a Christmas party last night, that as …
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Welcome to Wordless Wednesday! Debbie 🙂
Before I start with my yellow photos for this week's challenge, I have to say that yellow is my fave colour (at the moment) just don't tell orange (who was my recent fave) or I'll be in trouble 😛 I was up early sitting in my delightful sunroom and I checked in on this week's …
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Do you know long we have to wait for it to get dark enough to have twinkling lights down here in the land of Oz at this time of year? It takes ages and I still had to edit this picture so that it looks darker than it actually was!! I like the effect of …
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Here's a bit of silly season fun I thought I'd share with you all. My (grown-up) daughters didn't know what to think! I was worried after my previous silly season post that I might have been thought to be turning into a grumpy old woman but I think this proves I'm definitely not there yet...unless …
It's now officially the silly season! The person who coined this phrase was spot on (apparently it was first noted in 1861). Ay my first event for the season, I looked around at all these normal, sensible people suddenly transformed by wearing silly hats, telling silly jokes from their bonbons and playing with silly plastic …
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