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Congratulations Greenfingers you have posted number 200. Well done everyone

Greenfingers, I used to sing that verse when I was a very little girl! also another song called 'How would you like to go up in a Swing?' We are in the process of moving house (I hope!) so life is a bit stressful at the moment, We currently live in Somerset and are planning a move to a much smaller house in Gloucestershire. We need to 'downsize' now we are getting older and the family don't come that much anymore. Only slight problem is that our daughter lives Nr Faringdon, and would have liked us to be closer, but we feel that having found what we like, we could look for ever further down the map, I hear what she says, but feel that perhaps a bit of distance would be a good thing! this is certainly the opinion of our Son!!!

nigglynellie

Is this the one you mean.?

HOW do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

Good luck with your move.

Yes, that's the one SpanishEyes. Apparently used to sing it with gusto while swinging, much to the gentle amusement of my parents!! Thanks for your good wishes.

Glad my rhyme invoked childhood memories. Will get back tommorrow with one of my own childhood reflections

A different way to say good night.

simple pieces but delightful.

1. Night-Night (Children)

Night-night moon
Night-night stars
Night-night noisy
trucks and cars.

Night-night sand box
Night-night toys
Night-night other
girls and boys.

Night-night mam
Night-night dad
Night-night Boogie Man
who's not bad.

It's time to go to sleep now,
most all my night nights said.
Night-night blankie
Night-night bed.

C.J. Heck








2.
Night Night Time

It's night night time
It's night night time
It's night night night night time
It's night night time

Now close your eyes, start counting sheep
Make not a single peep
Soon you'll be drifting off to sleep
With many pleasant dreams to reap

It's night night time
It's night night time
It's night night night night time
It's night night time

Goodbye to the day that has past
Come and gone way too fast
Hello stars in heaven's great vast
Tomorrow will be here at last!

It's night night time
It's night night time
It's night night night night time
It's night night time

I found these and hope that you enjoy reading them

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson


B

I could not resist posting this., it is all about food. I love food and cooking but
wish I could be 7 stone again....

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
This made me laugh out loud as it reminds me that I am turning into my mother .!

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.
Mitch Hedberg
Oh yes and it is supposed to help diet!!

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Thomas Tusser

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl Buck
This is defiantly me!

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
Alice May Brock
This is my cooking!!

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twai

No more diets required!!

The comments have all been added by me.

Good comments and quotes Spanish Eyes. I am proud to be 200 and I don't look a day over 50 !!!!!!!!!!!!

One from me about a special toy

I had a little horse on wheels
Who I named Chloe (Who knows why)
And everywhere that I went she was sure to go
But at each crack in the street
She would fall over at my feet.
My Dad who I called John
Would allways be called upon
To pick her up and make her straight
And woebetide if he was late.
One fateful day as he bent down
Across the street could be heard a ripping sound,
As the seam of his trouser rent from North to South.
Not a word or curse came from his mouth.
My Mum many years later recalled this act,
And said it was just as well he was wearing his mac !
It covered his "embarrassment" and so much more
Or else he might have been carted off by the law .
All for the sake of a childhood toy much loved by me,
At the ancient age of only 3 !!

Green fingers what I special piece this must be for you. I thouh=ght it was delightful

many thanks. I have my moments !!! Could not write poetry when I was at school, but if one comes to mind now it has to go down on paper.

I liked these when I found them this morning so thought I would add them on here and o my Culinary Delights as I feel that they fit into both categories rather well!

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
Sefer Hasidim

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
P. J. O'Rourke

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]
Eike von Repkow

Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy

Very Good made me laugh

Thank you Greenfingers, it is good to make someone laugh

Whilst I love to read poetry of all kinds last night I decided there was nothing on the box so I would tidy up my noticeboard. Underneath the reams of paper pinned onto it I found a cut out poem which has probably been stuck there for at least ten years. I found it in a Sunday paper and it reflected how I felt at the time after separating from my other half.

On a Tired Housewife Anon... presumably when she had died
Here lies a poor woman who was always tired.
She lived in a house where help wasn't hired:
Her last words on earth were:Dear friends, I am going
To where there's no cooking, or washing, or sewing,
For everything there is exact to my wishes,
For where they don't eat there's no washing of dishes,
I'll be where loud anthems will always be ringing,
But having no voice I'll be quit of the singing.
Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never,
I am going to do nothing for ever and ever.'
..................jl

Spanisheyes, I love the food thing, especially Miss Piggy.
Green fingers, the favourite toy is lovely, also the Robert Louis Stevenson.
W.B. Yeats is one of my favourite poets, I love this one.

The song of Wandering Aengus

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hookd a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars wher flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
and caught a little silver trout,
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire aflame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
I had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow hads and hilly lands.
I will find out where she has gone
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluch till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats.

Sanskrit Proverb

For yesterdays but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
But today well lived
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow is a vision of hope
Look well therefore to this day

Greenfingers, that is wonderful, as I practice yoga I love these proverbs. Hope you like this;

The first step
is an irrevocable decision,
for it contains within it
the whole journey.

Another one has just popped into my head,

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery,
To day is a gift...
That's why its called the present.

A friend of mine suggested that we would like this and so I have posted it and hope to be able to pass the comments onto her.

Follow Me
by Michelle Newton

Take my hand and follow me
to that place I long to be.
Take my hand and trust my way,
in that place forever stay.
Follow me toward the sand;
we'll run and play, hand in hand.
Take my heart and hold it true;
forever I'll stay close to you.
Seize my words and listen well,
then forever I will tell.
Release your heart and feelings too,
just as I will do for you.
Trust your heart and follow me,
to that place we long to be.

b