What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 504

Hello and Happy WOYWW,

Another Wednesday and another opportunity to join in with our Head Desker Julia's great weekly desk hop over at the Stamping Ground. And here's what's on my desk today.

Total chaos!

I should confess I almost didn't join in today. It's such a mess. I was participating in a cyber crop this weekend and I haven't cleared away all the scrappy stuff that got pulled out yet - it's shameful. And the mess doesn't stop there.

Sigh. As if there isn't enough space on my, more than generously proportioned, workdesk, I've spread out on to the other chair in the room - this one is normally in front of the sewing machine table.

On the plus side, I did manage to complete a few layouts though nothing like as many as many of the other participants. I'm a slow scrapper but I thoroughly enjoy the process - choosing photos, papers and embellishments are so much part of the fun so I don't think speeding up would add to the pleasure. The next job will be to file them away in the appropriate albums.

And now to the book bit. Just one book today - I didn't seem to have as much time to listen this week.

I have always enjoyed Ian Rankin's Rebus books and I expected Bleeding Hearts to be similar. Not so. Originally published under the pseudonym Jack Harvey, it's totally different. The main protagonist, Michael Weston, is a contract killer who ends up being chased by his nemesis, a private detective called Hoffer, around the UK and across the Atlantic to America. Despite myself, I felt sorry for Weston and Hoffer was a great character but the ending disappointed. Not Rankin's best but different and it did keep me hooked to the end.


Take care everyone, thanks for stopping by, and have a great week.

Friday Smiles

Afternoon Everyone,

Once again I'm joining in with Annie's Friday Smiles but, and this is, yet again, we've been, due to the chilly temperatures, very much home buddies this week so I had to look hard for smiley photos. Happily, life always gives us something to smile about so here goes. 

We had our first, and possibly last, snowfall on Tuesday and this was the windscreen before we set out for our foot care appointment. We're both of an age when we find it so much easier to have someone lavish care in that part of our anatomy! Our travelling companions don't look too upset and I'm sure they always enjoy a trip out.

Afterwards we had tea in Tescos. That sounds like a good title for a book! When we don't feel like cooking the restaurant at our nearest supermarket does the job for us. The EM obviously was in good humour anticipating his sausage and mash. Macaroni cheese for me.

Not only is it Burn's birthday but it's also my auntie Jean's and her son Rick's, making it a very special day indeed. They both live very far away in Australia as you can probably tell from this photo of my auntie.

At 82 Jean is my youngest auntie, just 11 years old when I was born, and together with her older sister, Betty, it was like having two older sisters around.

Rick, at 55, is Jean's youngest son and he's just become a grandfather. He's absolutely delighted, as you can see and I'm so happy to have yet another little cousin to coo over.

Little Grace Lily Ann is simply gorgeous.

Finally, I finished this cowl that I've been crocheting from a kit brought back from Wales last year.

I don't do selfies but had to try for one modeling the cowl.

The EM had me in stitches!!!

So that's another week when I found more to smile about than I expected. Hope you have had as much to smile about too.

Have a wonderful weekend.

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 503

Afternoon Everyone,

Almost evening, actually. I'm here to check into the Stamping Ground to see what's on Julia, our noble leader's and your desks today. Of course, it's only fair I show you mine first before I go desk-hopping.

Looking very familiar I'm sure. The pile at the back is maybe a bit bigger - I've sorted out the pile of patterned paper into full size sheets, stickers and cut-outs and scraps. It's easier to riffle through, well, in theory it is! There's dish of cut-outs beside the guillotine and a just-started-and-nowhere-near-completion layout to the front, next to the sticker sheets. There's some seriously old stash there which I'm determined to use up this month while I'm still concentrating on scrapping our December photos.

There's not much else to report this week. I haven't been particularly busy - it's been too cold, -3 degrees today, making us both sluggish and not at all keen to leave the warmth of the sitting room. In fact, you could say we've been 'coorieing doon' - the Scottish equivalent of hibernating! Given that the weather is set to get even colder it could be we'll be keeping cosy for some time yet.

And finally, the book bit. The good news is that I'm able to put my ear buds in again but I've listened to just the one book so far but it's a start.

Jane Fallon's 'My Sweet Revenge' is an every day story of a marriage going wrong. Paula and Robert have been together 20 years and married for 18 of them. She gave up her dreams of a career in acting to bring up their daughter whilst he climbed the dizzy heights to become a stalwart in a popular soap opera.  He's also cheating on Paula with his screen 'wife'. Discovering this Paula decides to get her 'sweet revenge'. It's a a cracking read - I thoroughly enjoyed it especially as there was more than one surprising twist in the tale.


Take care everyone, thanks for stopping by, and have a great week.