Matt Baker and Alliona ( Team Mattonia)

In the meantime I've been watchin STRICTLY COME DANCING on BBC TV and have been following MATT BAKER, presenter for the BBC ,Country file, (ex)Blue Peter, The One Show and many more.
he turned out the most fantastic dancer seen on SCD for a long time.
I think, I might be one of his biggest fans besides all the BAKERETTES (many of them)
(there is a Bakerettes Blog.)
I am too old ofcourse to go all gooye over him, but my Goodness ,I do like him.
we oldies can dream can't we ??
enjoy the video, I hope it works ok, I've never uploaded a video before.

Off to the library now through thick snow.
see you later.

The Year 2010.

Well....here I am , back from a long absence, no specific reason, just not much to tell.
what happerned this year ?
quite a lot really,
I went on a holliday in January for a month to visit my friends in North Carolina, Had a fantastic time, didn't go out a lot because of the atrocious weather ,but their company made up for it,On Jan. 30, (2 weeks before I was due to fly home.) I slipped off the one but last step of the stairs, and broke 3 ribs, Phil phoned the ambulance and I had to stay overnight in the hospital.I 've been in a lot of pain but all is well now. they looked after me so well,
Thank you Susan and Phil. you are just the best friends a person could wish for.!!love you both a lot.
Susans daughter had a babyshower in the time I was there, It was a lovely afternoon, with lots of friends and presents.
that's one thing they don't do in Holland, or maybe some people, because the Dutch copy everything the Americans do !
Jennifer (the daughter ) gave birth In February to a love baby girl called Kaylee.
I would have loved to visit my other friend Kristin , who lives about 30 min. drive from Susan, but the broken ribs spoiled a lot of planned outings .
Then my friend Coby and I booked a holiday to Toscany (Italy) for August, but the travel agent cancelled it because there was not enough interest. During the beautiful summer we've had, I had (according to a MRI scan ) 4 mini strokes, I knew about one of the strokes, because I wanted to write an email but my right hand would not let me do what I wanted to do, and when I got up to make a drink, my right leg wouldn't come to where I wanted to go,
the doctor was rather annoyed with me that I did not phone for an ambulance, but it was all back to normal in 30 min. so.... I didnt think it was urgent.
I've now been put on a very strong medicine wich made me feel very rotten in the beginning, but I got used to that now and feel fine,
Yes, they say that old age comes with problems, and they're right, but as long as I can coop with the problems, I don't mind !
other things which happened are of no interest to anybody, jut to my friends and me, like outings and meals out , and weekends away etc.
I did treat myself to a 52" Led TV for my birthday,
Susan and Phil had one and I fell completely in love with it.
and two weeks ago I bought "as a Christmas present for myself" ,the most fantastic MASSAGE chair with 6 Massage programmes and infrared heating. (See photo on top of page)

if you don't tickle yourself, nobody else will !

see you next time !!

Hello everyone,

I'm just here to tell you all that I'll be off on a lovely holiday from April first,

I'll be back with photos later.

see you !!!!

Paul de Clever boatbuilder from Amsterdam

This are Paul de lange and his lovely wife Tilly,

Paul loves to build models of famous boats/ships

(I don't know the difference to be honest)

This is his last creation, he worked on it for 2 years,

absolutely from scratch, all he had was a flatpack

(and a Picture)

with the first parts to start building with .

but now it's finished and I think it should be shown to
the world, the patience this man has, to get all these
tiny intricate parts glued, placed, painted is absolutely unbelievable.
I have great admiration for him,

and I also admire his Tilly who is as enthusiast as Paul is about the boat

and never complained that he spent so much time in the loft building it.

Paul's words after he at long last finished it ??

NO MORE BOATS FOR ME,

this is the 4th boat he has build .

Well done Paul and Tilly, my compliments !!!

please scroll down to see the slideshow of his progress.

comments are welcome !!

Happy St Patricks day to every one.

Magpies !!

sitting here, looking at the trees in front of my window, I see two magpies, breaking short and long twigs of the branches. they're building a nest a few trees away, and always when I see one magpie, I immediately look for a second one because this poem comes into my mind,

one for sorrow

two for joy

three for a girl

four for a boy

five for silver

six for gold

seven for a secret never to be told.

when next time you see a magpie, always look for others (they have to be near each other)

to see as many as seven, you'll have to wait until the babies are leaving the nest or when the acorns are falling of the trees.

as you can see, I've posted two magpies for you, the joy will be there already !!

My Ken

Today March 1st 2009, is the first anniversary of my dear Husbands passing away.

It has been a difficult year , I miss Him so much but one good thing about it is, I found out how many real friends I have.,they were there for me when Ken was very ill, when he passed and still are here everyday for me.

I want to apologize for the lacksadesical way of my posting on this blog.

when I retired, 12 years ago, I thought what on earth am I going to do

with all this free time ? you know, I had more free time when I worked full time. I'm as busy as can be, and the days just fly by, I would love to visit the Blogsof other people, but it takes hours to visit and write comments, and I don't have hours to spare.

I'm now planning my holiday one month away from today.

I don't know how long I'll be away, I'm going to visit a lot of friends in good old England. so I promise, I will be here when I have time.

I just want to show you the last updat of my 4 season birds stitching project.