MERRY CHRISTMAS

Ho!! Ho!! Ho!!

Merry Christmas.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Have a very Merry Christmas.

I am off for a nice break now so I may not be blogging unless I have a spare moment & a computer close handy.

I hope 2008 has been everything to you that you wished it to be and 2009 to be a happy healthy year for us all.

2008 has been an exciting year for me as I started my blog and discovered all you lovely people in blog land.

A very special thankyou to my lovely followers

daisymum7, The Old Dairy, Remote Treechanger, Melmel, flmom, The Vintage Rose, Carolyn, Lesley, Outback, Cabbage Heart, Maree, Laundrybasket Case, Tracie, Tracey McBride, TillyRose, BevB, The Rustic Cottage.

And of course to anyone else that spends the time to visit me, I hope 2009 will bring some of you lurkers out of the cupboards specially my overseas visitors that enrich my life so much. I enjoy reading of your different cultures. I simply adore your comments and remember everyone is welcome at my blog there are no strangers just friends I haven't met yet!!

CAROLINE XOXOXO

THANKYOU VINTAGE ROSE

Look what came for me today!!

and I've already used it.

The kind people you meet in blog land.

Today when I came home I had a parcel waiting on the front veranda.(Thankyou to the kind postman that safely put it there)

I had won a giveaway hosted by The vintage Rose this is a lovely blog, one of those blogs that you leave feeling warm & happy as if everything in the world is good.

Please stop by The Vintage Rose and you will see what I mean.

This is my first parcel I have ever received from blog land so it will be most treasured.

Thankyou

Caroline xoxox

The fruit cake in the above photo is one from the 4 ingredients cookbook. Easypeasy!!

1kg mixed fruit

2 cups fruit juice or cold tea

1 tbs. Sherry or the like

2 cups S.R. Flour

Soak fruit in the juice/tea & sherry for 2 hrs.

Preheat oven to 125C.

Add flour to fruit & mix well.

Put into large lined baking tin. Bake for 2hrs in the bottom of your oven.

Remove, leave to cool & keep for 2-3 dys before cooking.

You can't get any easier than this & if you didn't make a Christmas cake this year this is a very simple cake you can do very quickly.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Yesterday I got stuck in and braved cleaning my linen cupboard. I really wanted to get this done before Christmas for several reasons.

1. I was having trouble shutting the door. (always a good reason to tidy something)

2. Every time I have visitors they always end up having to get a fresh towel or something out of there. (and if momma can't find it in there no one can)

3.I try to but my new linen etc. at the post Christmas sales. I had to see what I need.
(probably nothing really but have I told you I'm a sucker for linens, sometimes I would rather buy that than clothes. I don't need that much I tend to strip the beds wash it all and have it back on the beds same day. So really I only need two sets of anything. A linen fetish (is that a recognized disease)

4. Probably I should admit to you about now this is only a smidge of it. I have loads of those cheap stripey bags packed downstairs with linen.

5. Whoopee there is always benefits to every deep clean. Today I found material still in the spotlight bag I had bought last year & had forgot about. One brand new tags on table runner that I will use on the Christmas table. A set of curtains that I will hang in the lounge room and clean the ones that are hanging up now.

I know this cupboard will only stay looking like this for a few weeks for some reason it is the one that gets real messy real quick. So enjoy the photo it will give me something to look back and reminisce.

And if your real lucky and I am real brave I will take and post a photo of it after New Year!!

AND THE MEANING IS???

"TEMERITY"

"Temerity"(n) tim-merr-it-tee. -Boldness or Audacity

Thanks everyone for joining in.

daisymum -Oh what a great sentence you explained the meaning in, bet daisydad doesn't agree but of course you did get the meaning correct. Just hope the Temerity man never has to visit my house to kill the termites!!

Linda does that mean when I type I have great temerity cause I sure don't have the dexterity thing a happening.

Personally I thought if I could get a demerit point, well maybe if I was good I might get a temerity point.

Guess not huh!!

Lisha did they hand out temerity's at your sons end of school awards night. I do so hope he received one.

Good one!! & thanks for joining in again this week Lisha.

WEDNESDAY'S WORD

Anyone want to play the word game today????





Wednesday's word is

TEMERITY (tim-merr-it-tee)

If you don't have a clue like I didn't, have a guess & put it in my comments box the suggestions are often much funnier than the real meaning!! (aren't they daisymum)

Be back later to enlighten you all.

AN AWARD

Look at this lovely award I recieved from Tania at Outback. Well to tell you the truth I did kinda get it quite a few moons ago but haven't posted it yet (Sorry Tania) You know what it's like this time of year!!

Being that it's the jolly time of year and everybody is going like crazy & some are finished going crazy and are already on hols, I award this to everybody that reads my blog -yes it's even awarded to you lurkers. The only rule being, Have a fantastic Christmas & leave a link back to my blog.

Thanks Tania for this lovely award.

THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG

I thought I had dug & re dug this patch of ground in my garden over the last 7 years. Obviously not enough. Today I dug up this old bottle it must have been working it's way to the surface over time.



Before our house was built in about '72' there was a very old house in it's place. There was also the old original well in the back yard it was actually quite dangerous as the previous owners had only lain corrugated iron over the top of it. Not quite good enough for my inquisitive children who found this before I did. Actually they found it within the first hour, they came running towards me saying "Mummy all this waters bubbling out of the ground like a volcano" Oh great not only have I bought a house off a drug addict complete with syringes left in the house & drugs buried in the garden. Looks like I have a house on a volcanic site!!



No joke. We laugh about it now but we didn't live in the house for three months till it was completely cleaned & restored.

Anyway back to the bottle, I quite often find old china, old horse shoes, steel thing a majigs (don't know what they are??) etc but they are usually broken this was in such good condition it only needed the worms/soil washed out of it.

The writing on it says-

THIS BOTTLE ALWAYS REMAINS

THE PROPERTY OF

THE SHELDON DRUG CO PTY LTD

SYDNEY

Okay so what I want to know is if anyone can shed some light on it

Age?? Wouldn't it be funny if it was only 10yo

What was in it?? Probably drugs knowing my garden's history

About the company??

And lastly if you think it's a fantastic archaeological find and want to make me a millionaire before the years out. Please leave a comment on the bottom of this post.

AND THE MEANING IS???

"NUMINOUS"

Numinous (adj) is arousing religious or spiritual emotions OR mysterious or awe-inspiring.

As for me I rather like daisymums witty answer. daisymum can we please play this game more often and maybe rewrite the dictionary??

Daisymum I do feel you may have a hidden sense of humour. I can just see it. A bottle of wine, some choccy cake, chicken soup for when you are sick, a shot of coffee and one taxi driver & axe murderer thrown in for good measure all while sitting on the lounge watching childrens videos-which I forgot, while you are making a red & White Polka Dot Tea Cosy for a stalker.

Linda & Lisha you must be the brains of us.

The Old Dairy I'm like you- need my spell check maybe we both should play this more often and then we can have astounding intellectual conversations via our comments page. "Saz"me that's so proud I've put all the links on this page. Hope they work!!

WORD GAME

I used to play this game with my children to try and increase their vocabulary. I don't know if it worked though?? I was reading the other day that most people use a very limited word base, usually the words they were accustom to using in childhood.

I would pick a word out of the dictionary and they would have to tell me the meaning of the word. Later they would look it up in the dictionary hence increasing their skill here too.

So here we go- I thought I would post a word and without looking in a dictionary I thought readers could leave me what they think the meaning is in a comment. Remember no dictionary peeking.

SO THE WORD IS:-

"NUMINOUS"