British English Word of the Day!

Codswallop


When one is neither convinced nor impressed with something one might exclaim, "What a load of old codswallop!"

British Word of the Day!

Blather

Apparently it is of Scottish origin from Old Norse Blathra.

A lot of my blogging is 'blather' :)

Computer has been fixed

Computer has been fixed - hubster is a clever boy!

Me n' Chatterbox are at home today poorly sick. Just a bad cold. I feel terribly shivery too. I just couldn't get warm yesterday. Hopefully we'll be back on our feet tomorrow.

Boots is in the wars too, she's got a sore foot poor puddy-tat.

Anyway, just thought I'd update you all on the computer status, etc.

xxxx

Computer issues

I may not be online for a bit whilst we sort out our computer, which is causing us a multitude of issues, I'm typing this elsewhere.

Have a wonderful week.

I totally forgot pancake day

Chuh, I forgot Shrove Tuesday. How can I claim to be English and forget Pancake Day?

Lol.

So, back to the kittehs, this has to be the cutest kitty video ever!



Hope you're having a lovely week.

x

Cute video

I'm not a huge fan of Valentine's Day - it's all a bit sickly. Hubster isn't a fan either. I hope I can show hubs I love him every single day and not just through the shallow commercialism of Hallmark! :p Lol

However, this video was really cute and I couldn't resist:

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(1 Cor 13:13 NIV)

And we know this is true, for God IS love - and nothing is greater than God; if we remain in Him we have love everlasting.

xxxxx

Hello peeps

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Hello there. I realise I have been woefully lax in posting recently, but I've neither had the time (been a busy bee) nor the imagination to type anything out (call it 'blogger's block')! :)

Anyway, I just thought I'd stop by and say, 'hello chaps and chapesses!'

I'm really enjoying Casting Crowns' album 'Until the Whole World Hears'. Here is a beautiful song, 'Blessed Redeemer', which has blessed me tremendously, I hope it blesses you too.

Oh how I love Him, Saviour and friend
How can my praises ever find end?
Through years unnumbered on Heaven’s shore
My songs shall praise Him for evermore

Ice skating

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We're going ice skating at a local ice-rink over in W. Yorks tomorrow - yes folks, I'm crossing the border! ;)

The girls are SO excited. I'm a little concerned. I said to my Dad today, "I'll ring you from the hospital to give you the heads-up on the broken bones".

Lol.

I have only ever ice-skated once before. I fell over. I was a teenager and was rather smitten with one of the lads we had gone ice-skating with. I was that busy mooning (no not baring my behind, but in the context of: to spend in idle reverie : dream ) that I crashed into someone and landed on my head. I've had mental problems since....hahahaha well not quite. :) But I was very dizzy afterward.

So, given my history in the world of ice-skating, I'm not sure how I will fare. Hubs, on the other hand, considers himself the next Dean - I however am not the next Torvill.

Squidge has been counting down the hours she is so excited. It should be fun, despite my misgivings! :)



How cute is this picture?:

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Reminds me a bit of the film...about the animals finding their way home...can't remember the name right now.



On a totally different subject, isn't this scripture wonderful?

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the war-horses from Jerusalem, and the battle-bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.

Zechariah 9:9-12

It just reminds me of what Jesus has done. That this was prophesied about our Lord all those hundreds of years before he rode into Jerusalem on the colt. Our Lord, so humble of heart, yet the conqueror of all that binds us. King of kings, Lord of Lords.

Amen. xxx

Chinese Dragons

Chatterbox announced at 6.30 pm the other night, "Oh, by the way Mummy, I have to draw a large Chinese dragon for assembly and it has to be in tomorrow."

"How large!??"

Why do children leave things so late? Lol.

I think it was something to do with Chinese New Year - which may explain Chatterbox's questions about 'good luck'. I don't believe in 'good luck' and I explained why...I didn't realise the questions had probably sprung from the Chinese New Year 'luck' malarky.

Anyway, not wanting to be left out, Squidge decided to draw one too.

Squidge's dragon - reminds me a bit of a red godzilla.

Chatterbox's dragon

I said to her, "Where's his legs?"

"Chinese dragons don't have legs Mummy!"

I think they do, but I wasn't going to argue - lol. She was a bit miffed when the teacher thought she'd drawn a snake. :) Maybe I should have pressed the point about the legs!

Squidge's dragon had a baby.