WEDNESDAY WISDOM No 16

I felt there was much wisdom here as well as being a hint of fun.

and that's not always easy to do.

MONDAY MIRTH No 16

I found this the other day and it really made me laugh.  I hope it will bring a smile to your face and help start the week off right for you.  Are you one of those people that just can't resist popping the bubbles?  I must admit I do it sometimes and Phil gives me such a funny look 'cos he is one of those people that never has the urge to pop a bubble.

FRIDAY FAVOURITES No 17

I threatened I would include a lot of Roger Whittaker singing as I can sit and listen to him for hours.  I actually only discovered him a few years back and yet I remember hearing "Wind Beneath my Wings" when it came out (he was the first person to sing it) but didn't take any notice of the name of the singer.

On YouTube this time I have found him singing a song he wrote and I think his rendition first class.  The person who put this on YouTube has added pictures in "tune" with the words and I think he/she has done an excellent job.   The song is "Why" and I feel with the world's climate going rather haywire it is quite appropriate. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.

MY FAVOURITE GARDEN FLOWERS

I found it difficult to choose between gladiolus, gerbera, gardenia and geranium.  In fact I couldn't choose.

I find gladioli so majestic with glorious colours.   A tall vase of gladioli always look magnificent.

 Glads always remind one of Dame Edna Everage.

My mum and I have both grown gerberas over the years and as they have developed them, they have become much larger.  I particularly love the yellow ones.

Gardenias I love for their perfume and their whiteness, although the creamy ones are also beautiful.   (I remember as a teenager going to a tennis club dance with a friend.  During intermission we sat with our boyfriends in a car just outside.  June and I both had gardenias in our hair and with the windows closed the scent of the gardenias was overpowering.  It was a wet night so we went back into the hall as we couldn't, of course, wind the car windows down.)

As for geraniums, I love them and have always had some growing either in my garden or in pots over the years.  They are so easy to grow as pieces that drop off will take root very quickly.  I currently have a beautiful dark pink one in flower as well as a paler pink and some reds.  The dark pink bush is about 3 feet high and has grown from a slip I stole from a bush at the local school several years again when we went to vote in one election or another.  I am sure it was never missed as it was only a tiny slip. (Is my guilt showing there perhaps?)

Which is your favourite "G" flower?  I didn't mention gloxinia which are also beautiful.  My dad used to grow them in his glass house but I don't regard them so much as a 'garden' flower.

WEDNESDAY WISDOM No 15

There are so many words of wisdom out there but this I thought particularly good.  Hope you do too.

I feel that really is a true mark of maturity.

MONDAY MIRTH No 15

First I must apologise as when I've tried to access people's blogs over the past couple of days I had no success.   I will try again soon as I am sure it was only one of those glitches that happen from time to time.

Meanwhile I hope this brings a smile to your face and helps begin the new week in the right mood.

I hope this doesn't offend anyone.  I thought it hilarious.

FRIDAY FAVOURITES No 16

I wonder if anyone remembers Carmen Miranda, the lady with the very elaborate head dresses which sometimes involved feathers or fruit or a myriad of other items.  I was 9 when this film "That Night in Rio" was made but I know I saw it perhaps a few years later when I used to go the pictures (movies) with mum and dad.  I always rather liked this tune "Yi Yi Yi" and I hope you will enjoy it as well.  As usual I found it on YouTube (what would we do with YouTube?)

Incidentally, I wonder if anyone remembers the others stars in the film:  Don Ameche and Alice Faye.