Interaction..365/34

is the word of the day over at Suzie's 365 challenge. I am short of a 'button' image for yesterday yet, but have plans for that.

Just wanted to say that already at 10.40am 'interaction' is my word of the day for sure!  I checked my emails at 8am and there was my first note from Zac, en route to Los Angeles to pick up passengers for their first 2 week cruise to Hawaii.. yeah, Hawaii.. what's that all about!  I had written an email last evening, had kind of not bothered the first few days as so used to speaking on the phone or texting, email seemed so 'last year'!!

Anyhow Zac sounded really chipper and likes the fact that as part of Deck crew he can go anywhere on the ship!  I missed him then!

Couple of hours later and we had a phone call in the office from Ethel, the sister of our elderly inventor friend without who's contact STS would not exist. Sadly Ethel lost Henry and their elder sister last year and herself had a fall and was in hospital for ten weeks.

But she is the best of everything British, 94 years old, back home, housebound but enjoying the fantastic wildlife she can see in her gorgeous garden and sounding ready to face the year ahead. She is well supported by those around her and I can hear the 'spring in her step' as we talk...love her to bits!

Gossip Girls?!

so.. I love 'interaction'.. or is that just plain old 'yapping'... more later and oh here's a pic of me and Sam who works with us, we enjoy lots of interaction three mornings a week when she's in!

365/32 Accessory.

I've been thinking about this one.. should I photograph my miriad of ear rings and necklaces, my collection of scarves or perhaps my more recently growing number of belts (who cares if you don't have much of a waist, this is a below the belly belt I'm talking about!)

But all the time I come back to my faithful plain silver necklet which I love so much. It goes with everything almost and I wear it most days even though I do try to wear the pretty things everyone buys me. So then to find a picture from my tablet images to show it... and then I realise that to be fair my most important accessory is now my reading glasses, I rarely go without having them perched on my nose or head! ..... ahhh, embrace the onset of the fifties!

As the weather improves I do hope to make this challenge a little more .. err.. challenging, as I really will get a camera out and take the pics especially for the subject.. til then I am cheating, just feeling the need to keep nice and warmed up..awhhhhh x

365/31 Wheels.

Not an inspired image I'm afraid but they are alloys! You have to know our family to smile, I have never been that bhothered about cars and whether or not they have alloys doesn't really matter to me... guess it may be a girl thing?
Anyways last night we went to Truro to see Sarah Millican, it was a fun night and a bhonus to eat out first. Ross had washed the car for us so this is the pic I took as everyone was waiting for me 'patiently'-ish!

365/30 Collection!

Well in my life the are many collections, often piles of 'stuff' to be sorted, but I am trying to use pictures which give a taste of my life too.. so this is one of my little corners of the kitchen where a collection of metal signs lives. Jordan gave me the card and it is in the same kind of theme.. and reflects our house.. just when you lose someone from the list of people to feed, someone else arrives or others come home with extra babies or friends in tow!  And I'm loving it!!

And yesterday three of the kids were home and they were all wearing the same bright green.. okay a tenous link to a collection of green tops (!) but here's a shot to mark the day when Jb was sad to say bye to Zac as he wends his way to warmer climes for the next 3 months aboard the Sapphire Princess.  I am sure they were twins, separated at birth, plus 27 months!

Say Cheese said Zac!

365/29 Kitchen Utensil!

Well those who know me will know how hard I find it to give a short single answer and yesterday's photo prompt is just that... pick a utensil, any utensil.. and I have to show you everything, but to be fair, they are my favourites!

The little peeling / chopping /slicing knife has been 'lost' a couple of times, but always seems to turn up, in a cake tin with a half eaten cake or 'in the wrong place' in the drawer.

The pizza cutter has survived almost 20 years of married life, a little extra gift from Col's auntie and it has outlived a few other comedy (Homer Simpson) cutters.. and we like our pizza in the Jones household!

The utensil set on the wall was a Christmas present from Col, he gave me each one separately and was dumb founded when I opened the second soup ladle , he hadn't even realised he had bought two when he was wrapping them!

Last but by no means least my steamer, I use it almost every decent meal and cook all the veg in it, potatoes first, then carrots, broccoli, peas, the lot!

365/28 Fluffy!

So, since 9am or even before that I have had the word 'fluffy' in my head, the picture prompt for today. mmmmm...first thought was the state of my brain at times, (but hard to photograph)...ahhh, there will be a soft toy around this evening when the family convenes for curry night...(too easy and a cop out).. or maybe I'll find some warm socks (more cop out)

So it's almost time to go make the curry and we will all start getting busy for our 'Zac's nearly last night' and I'm playing around with my tablet in front of the TV... and there he is.. fluffy Chandler!

Sorry, will try harder!

365/27 Amazing!

Well I got as far as early evening and apart from lots of telephone calls and emails keeping me busy all day (my pennance for having two days out I suppose, and worth it to be fair), I cannot think of anything especially amazing which happened today...and said so. Our no.4 child put out her arms in a ta-dah fashion and I was going to photograph her and Zac but the moment kind of passed.
 

So I looked through my pics on my tablet and for sure I found a picture to suit.. an amazing layout of an amazing picture of the most amazing place in my life...Treryn Castle, a headland just near Porthcurno where we go in our boat during the summer, just to hang out and charge my spiritual batteries!  My parents raised our family close by and my Dad fished these waters all his life and I love that to be there I can feel that nothing has probably changed in the 50 years since then...like touching back through time.

365/26 Free Choice.

Great day for me, a few quiet hours with minimum crowds and no-one to answer to at Cribbs Causeway, catching the tail end of the sales and a few bargains for my troubles. Then Col finished his service visit to a customer, met up for some lunch and we headed for Ikea where we planned our new wardrobe.

While having a 5 minute break at the 'Mall' I checked on Twitter and picked up Suzie's prompt for today.  Free choice.. aha, not so easy, deciding what to photograph in a shopping mall..everything from a jumbo jacket potato to a performing fountain!......... but then at Ikea I snapped this pic of the storage options ... such 'Free Choice', something to suit everyone's organisational desires! 

365/25 Motionless.

Well I failed yesterday.. didn't take a pic at all but spent a good deal of the day being just that...'MOTIONLESS'.  I travelled up to Bristol on the train, am uneventful 4 hours, listening to my iPod and reading my magazine from cover to cover.  Then when I got to the hotel we didn't do much either, a good few more hours sitting, eating, drinking and generally 'busy doing nothing'

So, a picture from my archive to tell the story...
.. and hey, how good is it that on my list of things to do soon I am actually getting to tick some boxes!

365/24 Motion!

Well I thought this one might get the better of me, unless I decided to go out to our workshops and find someone working on a trolley or go out and stand by the roadside...

But I was rescued by a lovely gesture : my eldest offered to make the tea... a lovely Thai Green Curry.

Trying to tick off one of my 'things to do soon' list I am away for the night tomorrow to meet Colin and enjoy 'doing not much' so it was a golden (and rare) opportunity to go upstairs after work and have a nice long bath. 

I couldn't keep from meddling though, still ended up stirring in the fish and getting the rice pinged in the microwave... oh and I did the dishes too!

Motion.. ahah.. Ross stirring his curry.. challenge sorted !