ARE YOU A FRIEND, OR A FOE?

 

So, I sit and ponder things... sometimes far too much.

And what I'm pondering right now, after a steady stream of quite nasty comments (most unpublished)...  is, why do you read this blog?

Is it to enjoy, feel a part of my life, like seeing what I'm doing, and to be encouraging and nice?

Or is it to see what you can do to tear me down?

I have had over 100,000 comments over the lifetime of this blog. And I can say that probably 90% of them have been lovely.

The other 10%?  Not so nice.  And in fact, there's a few people who almost always comment with a negative connotation.  It isn't nice people.  If you have nothing nice to say, how about you just keep it to yourself?

It's Thursday.  I am going over to Cambridge this morning to join the girls at Mosaics.   

8.35 am:  I've just been for a nice little walk along the river side.

As expected, I couldn't go far on 'our side' due to work being done.

ABOVE:  I came to 'the fence', and as it said the path was closed 'ahead', I carried on till I came to the closed part.

The sign also said 'Follow the Detour'... there was no detour.

ABOVE: There it was, a BEAUTIFUL BLUE TRACTOR!  That made my day.

The contractors have 9 weeks work ahead of them, building up the river bank with rocks, then building a boardwalk over it.

After it's done, even when the river is super high, we will be able to walk all the way along the riverbank to Pukete Bridge again.

ABOVE: The blue lines indicate where the boardwalk is going to start.  I can't wait to see it finished.  You will, of course, get to see it too.

😊😉

It is now 8.45 am, and it's time to head off to Cambridge.  I won't be doing any more mosaic work, or even knitting.  I might just sit and YAK.  lol

To any keyboard warrior... just remember there can be many 'interpretations' of what you write.  While you might not mean to offend, criticise etc... how someone else reads your words is up in the air!   I have fallen foul of this on many occasions myself, so it's not just you.

BE KIND.  BE CONSIDERATE. BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS.

12 noon, and I'm home after a really lovely morning.

Spent yakking, of course.

AND, I saw what everyone is making, and now I have some MOSAIC inspiration!

ABOVE:  'S' has made this gorgeous wall art, and as I also have a piece of that perspex, I'm going to make one very similar to hers.  It's gorgeous.

ABOVE: 'S' has also been knitting little dolls for the Paediatric Ward at the hospital.  I MIGHT make some too... maybe.  We will see.

I get a local painting of where we have lived, and every time we move, I get a new painting of the new town/city etc.

When we moved from Cambridge to Hamilton, I had to give away my 'Cambridge' painting, as it was too big for the wall I have all my : 'we have lived here' paintings on.  

So, I have been on the look out for a smaller painting for a year or more.

I visited a local gallery in Cambridge this morning.

I told the lady I was looking for a SMALL painting of something very obviously CAMBRIDGE.

I said, like The Church, The Water Tower or one of the Bridges.

She showed me this:

ABOVE:  I was gobsmacked!  How on earth ?  A ceramic 'painting', small and with ALL THREE Cambridge icons on it!!!  Obviously, I bought it on the spot.

Now I have to get it framed... shouldn't be hard for me to do.

I had a quick look at the back of the ceramic pictures... already got hanging bits, so I don't even have to frame it.  Awesome.

4.45 pm:  I'm just home from the supermarket.  

Stew just arrived home from work, and once he's changed I'll be dropping him off at the pub, coming home to put the groceries away, then going over to the kids for a visit.

Then... pub and hot chips for me, before bringing me tipsy man home.

Snores galore tonight for sure!  😂😅😆

8.45 pm:  Surprise, surprise, his nibs is not tipsy!  He seems to have been very restrained this evening.  Maybe I won't have to listen to him snoring like a train all night after all.  

And on that happy note, I'm out of here.

Catch ya tomorrow.