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Spanisheyes please tell your friend that is wonderful it gave me a lovely warm feeling reading it.

WelshBird201

So glad that you liked this, I think it is beautiful, I have even thought of asking my daughter if she has the time to copy this into one of her cross stitch presents for me. I wonder if you would put one or two of traditional or modern pieces of Welsh literature on here. My twins went to Uni in wales and then never came back to England to live! One is in the Army so currently based in England but his private house is shared with his brother in Wales.

Hoping we shall have some more postings soon..

2 quotes for today, I will try to add some more poetry later today. I do not know anything about Charles F Kettering, anyone Know more about him?


Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

by Charles F. Kettering

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. Ecclesiastes

St Patrick's Day

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow
And may troubles avoid you
Wherever you go

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St Patrick's Day 2
May the leprechauns be near you
To spread luck along the way

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St Patrick's Day 3
Have a shamrocking day

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St Patrick's Day 4
Top o' the morning to you
From the bottom o' me heart

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St Patrick's Day 5
T' is a great day t' be green


St Patrick's Day 6
We're all Irish on St. Patrick's Day

Getting ready to celebrate St Patricks" day Tomorrow

poem from me today. I know it isn't April yet but the weather today reminds me of April with spring flowers and showers.

Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England -now!

And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossomed peartree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops-at the bent spray's edge -
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
- Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!

Spanish Eyes... hope the sun is shining where you are, its really dull here on the only bright notes are the daffodils and the forysthia in bloom

Some Lewis Carol quotes

Everything is funny if you can laugh at it

I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I think I must have changed several times since then (from Alice through the Looking Glass)

One of the deep secrets of lief is that all that is really worth woing is what we do for others.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a great deal faster than it does.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay to be once more a little child, for one bright summers day.

Its no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then

Always speak the truth, think before you speak and write it down afterwards

nice to hear from you Greenfingers and I like your quotes. Sometimes I feel rather like Alice!
The sun is shining here at last as we have had bad weather for the last 4 weeks and rain almost everyday last week and this I think we had some of the most torrential storms we have had for sometime.

Have to go and finish my french polishing now which I do each t=year since we moved to Spain because the heat dries out the oak wood. I thoroughly enjoy doing it and stepping back to admire my own work, now how sad is that!

Forgot to say loved take my hand it was lovely. I am sure we all feel like Alice sometimes ....Off to 18th birthday do in an hour, oldies first, young uns later.

Just had a thought everyone!

I wonder if we could have a vote on the most popular or most liked Poem and Saying/ Quote?
Let me know what you think. If it is thought to be fun we could make the deadline 31st March.

B
20.10hrs Spain

how do you plan to do it ? would be glad to join in

Poem from Lewis Carroll

Jaberwocky

Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre abd gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe

Beware the Jaberwock,my son!
The jaws that bite the claws that catch
Beware the jubjub bird and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch

He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long time the manxome foe he sought
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood a while in thought

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock with eyes of flame
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came !

One,two ! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumping baack

"And has thou slain the Jabberwock ?
Come to my arm, my beamish boy !
Oh frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay !"
He chortled in his joy.

Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe

Why is it I understand every word, its like a nightmare, but so right somehow, or am I peculiar !!!!!!!!!! And we say galumping now so a new word invented by Lewis ?

With all the recent interest in the Super moon, I was reminded of a poem we had to learn in junior school.....

Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

- Walter de la Mare

Gwyn

Gwyn
why did I not recall this delightful Poem by one of my favourite poets Walter de la Mare. Thank you for posting it. Any more from Walter?

Green fingers, I first read this years ago and again when my children were at school, youngest now 30! I did not understand it then and I still don't however it is good to seei t on here as I can keep trying.!!!

I haven't thought of a special poem or saying to day so have to look in my poetry nooks and see what rings a bell.

Bridget

16.20hrs Spain

When I finished my last message I wondered what I could add next. It took me only a couple of minutes to find this poem for what I call my Cyber Friends!

On The Wings of A Butterfly
by Christine McClimans.

Your friendship is special
Like the flowers that bloom,
Or when a butterfly emerges
From within its cocoon...

You remind me of that butterfly,
Loving and free,
Bright and colorful,
For the world to see...

We will share sunshine and rainbows;
Sometimes, the rain and the snow;
We'll stand together through it,
While the cold winds blow...

When the time is right,
We won't stop to ask "Why?"
Our friendship will take flight
On the wings of a butterfly

Bridget 16.35hrs Spain.

House moving is proving VERY wearing, so I thought this poem rather appropriate!!

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and debts are high,
You want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit,
Life is queer with it's twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a felllow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out,
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow,
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victory's cup;
And he learned to late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown,
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, -
It's when things seem worst that you musn't quit.

NiggleNellie
House moving is always exhausting unless someone else can do all the packing and unpacking, especially if you have lived somewhere for a long time, so just keep going but have a regular break even if it is only for 10 or 15 minutes and I found that keeping a book where you write down everything you have packed or disposed of to be essential. Also number the boxes and Write in VERY BIG LETTERS what is in each box, Saves hours of frustration, believe me,! I also put which room each box is destined for.

I have moved 11 times and have also had five different holiday homes as well. Now I know that there will be a lot of people who have moved far more often than that but simply wanted to show that I understand what hard work it can be!

Green fingers

1. We could PM all those who have posted on here to see if they will join in,
2. set a date for all entries to be in.
3. All entries to be posted on here, within a specified time scale.
4. Could have two votes one for poems and one for quotes,
5. Would need three people to help with one being an adjudicator for any "difficulties".
6. Announcement of winner within 5 days of final entry.
7. Contact all people who have posted on here and ask if the will participate.

8. Have some fun and maybe someone could write a poem just for the winner as their prize,

Other ideas welcome.

Well I am now going to make a second cup of coffee but will look in later and and a poem or saying,
Bye for now everyone.

06,36hrs Spain

This caught my arrention this morning when I was browsing on the web.

“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”

I like the idea of fun.

Like the quote about optimism and pessimism very good, your rules look great look forward to taking part

OK I think I will wait until Friday and then if no one else has made a decision I will just go with it . we can only try.
Greenfingers I have just decided that you can be one of the people working with me, anyone else willing or you may just be chosen!!!
Have to go have some cooking which needs may attention
Bye

Todays' poem from me


Friends

A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift.
A friend is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace.
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.

- Jean Kyler McManus

Looking forward to some more entries......I hope


Spain 08.05hrs