Archive for July 2008
Back Home after a Lovely Weekend Away
Posted by: stazjia on: July 29, 2008
It’s been very hot and sunny here over the last few days, such a change from the rain we’ve had. I went to visit my brother and his family on the outskirts of London on Friday, came home yesterday. I love going to stay with them. His partner is Kenyan and they have a son [...]
More Squidoo + a picture of me at 6 years old
Posted by: stazjia on: July 24, 2008
This is the picture on my Lensography, taken when I was 6 years old. The Lensography is a list of all my Squidoo lenses.
I added another one today – Fruit Harvest Recipes. It has recipes for using fruit from your garden like apples, plums, blackberries and peaches. They are all recipes I’ve used often and [...]
New Squidoo Lenses
Posted by: stazjia on: July 23, 2008
Since I last wrote about Squidoo, I’ve done some new lenses. They are:
Torquay, South Devon
Sugar – Friend or Foe?
Chocolate & Butterscotch Brownies
Tea – Black or Green?
Stazjia’s English Travel Lenses
Stazjia’s Lensography
The Chocolate & Butterscotch Brownies is a recipe and is done in aid of charity as part of the Bake Sale Group – all the lenses [...]
Sons and Daughters
Posted by: stazjia on: July 21, 2008
We have a rhyme in the UK:
A son is a son till he takes him a wife
But a daughter’s a daughter for all of her life.
I think that is largely true. Most women don’t distance themselves in quite the same way as some men once they are married. It’s usually the adult daughter who takes [...]
Family Party Next Week
Posted by: stazjia on: July 19, 2008
Next Friday I go to London for a family party on Saturday. This year my youngest brother was 50 and my mother 85 and we’re having a surprise party for the two of them together. I don’t much like going to London anymore but I’m looking forward to seeing everybody. I’ll come home on Monday [...]
More differences between town and country
Posted by: stazjia on: July 18, 2008
When I lived in London, I was always going somewhere – different stores to the ones where I lived, to work – I never had a job that wasn’t at least 30 minutes travel time away, to meet friends – always in Central London, never nearby.
Now I’m semi-retired or at least not well enough to [...]
Brighton and Kipling
Posted by: stazjia on: July 14, 2008
I’ve been very busy over the last few days doing two news lens. The first one is on Rudyard Kipling, author of books like The Jungle Book and Kim and numerous poems. I know a lot of people think he was racist and jingoistic but I really don’t think he was. His language was definitely [...]
Call this summer! Rain and Recession
Posted by: stazjia on: July 9, 2008
It’s raining again today – actually it’s bucketing down and there’s a severe weather warning. We’ve had so much rain over the last couple of weeks that the ground is sodden and can’t absorb any more. I took the dogs for a walk on the common at 7.45am today and it was like paddling because [...]
New Squidoo Lens
Posted by: stazjia on: July 9, 2008
© Copyright Tim and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
I’ve published my latest lens, Ancient Somerset Levels. I’ve got more stuff to put on it but I think there’s enough to be OK but I won’t join any groups just yet.
I’ve had some of my lenses featured on the All Things Travel [...]
Another Angel Blessing – Yippee
Posted by: stazjia on: July 7, 2008
I’ve got another angel blessing for my Blackpool, Lancashire, Squidoo lens. I wonder if it was the recording of the Lion and Albert monologue that tipped the balance. It really is funny.
I’ve updated The Dissolution of the Monasteries lens and expanded both the one on Chester, Bath and the one on Salisbury.
Somebody commented [...]
