HeavenlyHandmade: April 2012

27 Apr 2012

Five things Friday number 14

I will share every Friday five things. I will place them in no order of importance, just five things. I will try not to over-explain. In fact, I will attempt to explain nothing at all…..

Five things I love: Books

1. The Bible (except for being the Word of God, the Bible is filled with stories of people, places, experiences, emotions and a roadmap for life in general)

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2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (I try to read this every year, and every year I cry)

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3. The Belgariad (although not one book, but a series, it’s one fascinating story of fantasy)

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4. Anything and everything by Agatha Christie (Much like ABBA, few people will admit to liking something not grand enough, but I’ve loved Agatha Christie {and ABBA} since I was a little girl and I will continue to do so.)

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5. Wuthering Heights (also a book I try to read yearly. I’m forever discovering new nuances in the story I’ve not noticed before – how pretentious is that?!)

Do you have favourite books you like to read over-and-over, or do you never go back?

20 Apr 2012

Five things Friday number 13

I will share every Friday five things. I will place them in no order of importance, just five things. I will try not to over-explain. In fact, I will attempt to explain nothing at all…..

Five things I love: Things

1. Books (very obviously)

2. My sewing machine

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3. The Internet (what did we do before Internet?)

4. A mug of tea after a hard day

5. My notebook (it goes with me wherever I go, and I would basically not be me without it)

What five things can you not live without?

16 Apr 2012

On lost dogs and broken hearts

Ten - maybe eleven, years after the birth of our first child, my husband and I finally gave up hoping that there would be a second and decided to just get a dog.
We heard about some people who were giving puppies away and we went to have a look. There were only two puppies left. Little mongrel doggies - mostly Jack Russell and Fox Terrier, but the owner wasn't quite sure what breed the mother was. We took them both.

We called the girl "Anastacia"

and the boy "Nikolai"

- yes after the prince and princess ( my daughters have Russian names too). Being long names it was shortened to Stacey and Kolya.
For two years they were our babies, and then we were surprised with a real baby.

That was five - very almost six years ago.

Recently we had to make a place for our teenager to park her little car, so we decided to lay down some paving, knock down a portion of the front wall and have a motor-gate installed.

The paving was laid, the wall was knocked down. My husband paid a guy a huge deposit for making the gate. That was four weeks ago. We still have a hole in the wall, no gate and the guy has sold his business and disappeared - with our money.

Meanwhile we had been making all sorts of plans to keep the gap closed so that the dogs stay inside. They found a way out. They ran down the road and disappeared.

My dog babies are gone. It has been almost a week. No word at the vets in the area, none at the SPCA. No response to posters put up.

They are gone.

Our hearts are broken....

13 Apr 2012

Five things Friday number 12

I will share every Friday five things. I will place them in no order of importance, just five things. I will try not to over-explain. In fact, I will attempt to explain nothing at all…..

Five things I love: Places

1. My parents’ house

2. The beach at Ashton

3. In my car playing loud music

4. That place in my head where everything is always all-right

5. Anywhere where my daughters and husband is

Where are your favourite places?

5 Apr 2012

Five things Friday number 11

I will share every Friday five things. I will place them in no order of importance, just five things. I will try not to over-explain. In fact, I will attempt to explain nothing at all…..

Five things I love: People

People who treat others well, even if there’s nothing in it for them