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Impressive Monet shell clip on earrings, for your shell-likes.
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. 'Our underclothes were woollen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I can't imagine.' (Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire) . . I read that folk in Australia are donning ball gowns and tiaras to take out their bins during lockdown. One woman, missing the dating scene, decided to share a glass of wine with her bin: . . "I asked him about himself, he kept bringing up the past, recycling old s**t, said I only spoke to him when I came home trashed at two in the morning. I said I wanted to know what he wanted to be not what he had bin but he kept talking rubbish. Definitely not hus-bin material. Bloody has bin." . 🤷 . . In other news, here at Posh Towers, woollen vest and knickers have been put away for another year, bobble hat resisting. 😳 . . Off to polish my tiara.. 🚮 . . . . . . . Thank you@misfithistory 📸👑👯. 'This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet Again on fresh pastures of promise, Where the air will be kind And blushed with beginning. . (John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings) . . Sound up! . . How are you, my fabulous Iger Warriors? 💪 . . How's the gardening/jigsaw/baking/aerobics/Kondoing/knitting/working from home coming along?! . It's Sunday (just in case you need a reminder), you can take time out, rest.. . take time to be slow... . We don't have to be busy all the time... Less doing today, more being... . You might find this helpful... . I've just listened to @elizabeth_gilbert_writer 's conversation on @ted which I found to be calming, soothing, and a reminder of how we can live through times of stress and anxiety. Link in her bio. . . . You can also listen to the dulcet tones of @fergal.keane.3 reading this wonderful poem 👌 Google 'Fergal Keane comfort and hope' . . . Checking in later! Xxx . . #MorebeingLessdoing. 'I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.' (Pablo Neruda) . . These are challenging times for many, but each chapter in our life serves as a lesson, a launchpad for the 'what's next'. Consider what we might learn from this experience going forward .... for me that will mean I'm not going to expire if I don't go shopping every day, it's ok not to have a full fridge, books are fabulous distractions, and I should dance more in the kitchen - who knows where this might lead ... 🤷 @royaloperahouse on the ☎️ ??!! 💃 . . Bloom where you are planted. . . 'Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.' . . Welcome April xx 🌺💗 . . #RabbitRabbit #PinchPunchFirstofTheMonth #🐇🐇 . . . . . . Holland Park blooming lovely from the gorgeous gallery of @bei.bei.wei 🌸🌺💗🌺🌸📸. 'You become what you think about all day long.' (Ralph Waldo Emerson). . . 🤔 . . All day long I've been thinking about going for a swim. . Which is now off limits. . Having been admonished several days ago by a lady on the beach. For making an inessential journey. * . Looks like I might become a 🧜 (or a 🐋 If I carry on eating chocolate cake and Stilton, not at the same time I might add). . (Is Stilton essential? Or might it be confiscated, like Easter Eggs.. 🤷) . . . (*Before anyone gets overexcited, this was several days ago, before The Rules were clarified...and swimming is what I do.. 😟...on an empty, frigid, remote Scottish beach) . . . I've also been thinking a lot about flowers, and how I miss them 💐 so will share this loveliness from the fabulous @vivietmargot 📸💚💜💚💜💚💜 . . . . Is there anything you've been thinking about all day long... (that won't make me blush! 🤭) or are you all sorted.... 'Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.' (Viktor Frankl, author of 'Man's Search For Meaning', b 26th March, 1905) . . Ripples of applause echoing along the lane. I can hear a 'Woo Woo' in the distance, not sure whether it's someone cheering, or the owl on his perch in the oak near the harbour. . . At 8pm this evening the British public applauded NHS staff in a gesture of thanks. I was at Stranraer Hospital on Tuesday. My consultant is being moved on to 'Care of The Elderly' next week, and Acute Care, ie The Coalface, the week after. My nurse had returned back to work two days previously, following early retirement last year. Meanwhile a staggering 500,000 plus have volunteered to help relieve pressure on the NHS. . . Under the circumstances, the choices being made are quite remarkable... choose your own way: . Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars... . . Hope you're all hanging in there, and keeping well... xxxxxxxx . . Wee fillum taken earlier, Spring is arriving in full glory on the peninsula xx 💗. 'I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.' (Joan Crawford, the movie star, b. 23rd March, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907? According to whom you'd like to believe) . . Stood (at a considerable distance I hasten to add,) next to a lady in the corner shop last night, who was wearing fluffy slippers and a grey towelling dressing gown, and it's only week one. . . Mantra for the week ahead: . ALWAYS WEAR YOUR PARTY PANTS! 💃 . . Get up, dress up, show up, don't give up... not yet anyway, ask me again in Week 12. 🙄 . Use your best glasses, napkins, cutlery and knickers! What are you waiting for? xx. 'Mother is a verb.' . . I bought a little antique plate yesterday from the Community Shop in the village. It has a wide green gilded rim, and a posy of hand-painted flowers to the centre, not signed or marked. It's trying to be Worcester, but it's not. There's a chip, and a tiny hairline crack, it was a £1. The volunteer ladies wrapped it in paper as we passed the time of day. Which to be precise, was 3.30. Shirley was putting a sign up on the door - 'Closed Until Further Notice'. "See you on the other side", I said, cheerily, but with a heavy heart. The Community Shop is a lifeline for many. I like to pop in and have a chat to the ladies most days, they are retired, elderly, kind, nurturing with their advice, tips on baking and planting, they cared when I was sick, and encouraged when I was getting better. I'll miss them, and what they represent, as will many who drop in. . Mother is a verb. . Happy Mother's Day. Sounds rather odd in the current circumstances. But yes, Happy Mother's Day to the carers and keepers, aunts and grandmas, to those of you with children, to those of you without. Mother as a verb has never seemed more apt. . . . Good morning to @sophieconran who took this wonderful photograph of @butterwakefield 's fabulous dresser. 💚🍽️🌸🍽️🌸🍽️🌸💚📸 my green plate collection is in awe xx . . Ps, a hug to you if you're alone today, as am I. It's going to be ok. I promise xx. 'If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs.... If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!' . . How are you doing today? If you are well, I am well. 🙋 . . 'If', poem by Rudyard Kipling on World Poetry Day. Taken from 'The Poetry Pharmacy', sometimes only a poem will do, this anthology will soothe and comfort in times like these .. . . What's your favourite poem? Do you write poetry? How about a wee haiku? Just three lines, 5-7-5 structure of syllables, perhaps we could give it a go, here is an example: . . 'An old silent pond A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.' . . And then, why not enter it into Scotland's International Poetry Prize? Anyone can enter, I'll put a link in my bio. The prize giving is held in Wigtown, Scotland's Book Town, not a million miles away from the McCottage... 1st prize £1500!! . . . . . The wonderful orangerie of @belgianpearlsblog 📸🍊🧡🔶 I'm sitting with a @drambuie and have just lit a basil and mandarin candle... #GetMe !! 🤦. 'Dolor hic tibi proderit olim.' Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.' (Ovid, b 20th March, 43 BC) . . How are you doing today? All good so far here on the peninsula. I've been having a little sort out. Paperwork and books yesterday... according to Marie Kondo, I'm not going to need anymore than 30 books at one time: "In the end, you are going to read very few of your books again." I'm trying to remember what books I have reread... recipe books, and I like books of quotes and proverbs, and atlases... not sure I've read the same novel twice...? . . My father has given up on Ms Kondo, and has moved on to his memoirs. He's up to the Suez crisis, he was stationed in Egypt as a 19 year old, just after the war, and was telling me in great detail yesterday about the awful smells... 🤔 . . I hope you've found something to pass the time, share here, it might give others some inspiration! I bought pots of herbs yesterday, and picked more wild garlic for pesto. Any other recipes for wild garlic welcome! Day 4 of incarceration - the only way out is through! XXX . . . . Friday flowers for you from the wonderful account of @beckycrowley_ Keeper of the Flowers at @chatsworthofficial 🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷🌹🌺📸. 'Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.' Irish Proverb . . Happy Saint Patrick's Day! . . Just trying to explain twelve weeks self isolation to my 85 year old father - Patrick - who is having none of it. 🤦 . . His cup is always half full, he looks on the bright side of life, and chooses to be optimistic every day. As Winston Churchill said - "It doesn't seem too much use being anything else." . . Here's to eyes in your heads and none in your spuds! . Sláinte! . . . . Thank you to the wonderful @sharonsantoni for sharing the beauty xx 💐❣️📸 . #TheStarsMakeNoNoise #pleasestopmebeforeiquoteeveryirishproverbiknowPlease take a few minutes to read this: . 'Yes there is fear. Yes there is isolation. Yes there is panic buying. Yes there is sickness. Yes there is even death. But, They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise You can hear the birds again. They say that after just a few weeks of quiet The sky is no longer thick with fumes But blue and grey and clear. They say that in the streets of Assisi People are singing to each other across the empty squares, keeping their windows open so that those who are alone may hear the sounds of family around them. They say that a hotel in the West of Ireland Is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound. Today a young woman I know is busy spreading fliers with her number through the neighbourhood So that the elders may have someone to call on. Today Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples are preparing to welcome and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting All over the world people are looking at their neighbours in a new way All over the world people are waking up to a new reality To how big we really are. To how little control we really have. To what really matters. To Love. So we pray and we remember that Yes there is fear. But there does not have to be hate. Yes there is isolation. But there does not have to be loneliness. Yes there is panic buying. But there does not have to be meanness. Yes there is sickness. But there does not have to be disease of the soul Yes there is even death. But there can always be a rebirth of love. Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now. Today, breathe. Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic The birds are singing again The sky is clearing, Spring is coming, And we are always encompassed by Love. Open the windows of your soul And though you may not be able to touch across the empty square, Sing.' . . . Thank you Brother Richard Hendrick for your poem - 'Lockdown'. . It's time to think about what really matters... to think about our choices, what we need over what we want. Isn't it time to recalibrate, prioritise? . . Please share with your nearest and dearest xx. 'Get my swan costume ready.' (Anna Pavlova) . . There may be trouble ahead folks, but let's face the music together. 💃💃❣️ . . We can get through these challenges with a soupçon of common sense, a sprinkling of patience and an acceptance of what's coming will come... so chin up, chest out, big girl pants on - (apologies gentlemen - big boy boxers doesn't have quite the same ring about it 😳) - Best Foot Forward for the week ahead! xx . And no more barging folk out of the way for loo roll, or arm wrestling in the aisles over a bag of pasta, we're all in this together. . . 'But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.' (Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) . . Mantra for the week ahead: . #BeMoreSwan #SwanCostumesAtTheReady . . And don't forget to breathe.. Inhale Courage - Exhale Fear . . . . . Thank you so much @heckfield_place for this gorgeous capture xx 🦅🧙💪❣️😘'If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.' . . How are we all doing? . Remaining calm here at Posh Towers despite the onslaught of shocking news from every corner of the globe... . . I've just had a postcard through the door - a group of local people setting up a WhatsApp group - reaching out, making sure no one is stuck, preparing the way should groceries or prescriptions need delivering. Another friend lives in a village where red cards will be distributed to the old and vulnerable, to display in the window - just in case... An email from a favourite hotel, obviously anxious about the cancellations to come, reassuring patrons, my daughter's nail salon, suddenly bereft of clients... . . Perhaps we could still commit to the people who provide us with a service, book well ahead... keep an eye out for neighbours, maintain a sense of proportion... please do share here your thoughts and suggestions... . I won't blow you a kiss, 💋⛔but wishing everyone well... stay calm and positive xx . . . . . Magnificent table by the Italian goddess @italian_eye_ 💃📸👄❤️❣️. 'You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.' (Dr Seuss, b March 2nd, 1904) . . The sun is shining, the birds are singing, choose to be happy. 😘 xx . . . Mantra for the days ahead? Every morning this week, on waking.. first words: . TODAY WILL BE A GOOD DAY! . . Say it out loud, and mean it. Xx . . #BestFootForward. 'The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun... Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone!' (William Wordsworth, "Written in March, whilst resting on the Bridge at the foot of the Brother's Water") . . Blue skies prevailing here in Scotland. Sheets billowing on the line, early pink tulips sashaying in the sun. First attempt at soda bread in the oven... Busy day at Posh Towers. . Checked on the bees earlier, they're not a fan of the damp.... February was the wettest on record in the UK ☔🌧️☔🌧️ . Saw the film @honeyland_medena_zemja yesterday, in a tiny seaside village hall on the tip of the peninsula. At one point I thought we might take off, Wizard of Oz style 🌪️ 😲 (see stories!) . Have you seen it? 🎥 Wonderful themes explored, I particularly liked the female heroine singing to her bees, encouraging the swarm to enter a rustic wicker skep. She reminded me of the Pied Piper. My bees might not be quite so entranced. 🐝🙉 . . Thank you so much @cultivatedbychristin for this fabulous arrangement taking us into March and Spring! 📸🐇🐇🌷🌷🌷❣️❣️❣️ . . . . . . Ps. welcome to all my fabulous new followers. Lovely to meet you! You will find bletherings here of my new life in a small Scottish community, where POSHITIVITY is the name of the game. 💪 xxx . .. 'When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.' (Steve Jobs, b February 24th, 1955) . . AND YOU CAN CHANGE IT... . YOU have the power to change your life at any given moment. What is it you'd really like to do? Have you ever given this question serious consideration? . . Don't be afraid of opinion, or tittle tattle, or the naysayers. Life can be broader, richer, deeper, different. You don't have to live that limited life. . . . . . . Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Drink the fizz. Live in a folly. . . Or a chateau, like this one from the fabulous @savoygardens 🏡🦋🌳📸 . . #TempusFugit #⏳. 'Perseverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.' (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) . . Image taken on 24th February, 2019 at @loganbotanicgarden across the bay... . . 💗🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺💗 . . #MondayMotivation💪 #KnockKnock #SubtropicalScotland . . 'With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.' . . #NeverSurrender ! . . Chin up, chest out, let's go. But first tea. And maybe a crumpet. Xxx. 'One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.' (Vincent van Gogh) . . Fire lit at the cottage, just back from Bee Club over in Auchenmalg which is on the other side of the peninsula (see stories). John demonstrated how to steam clean the hive and George had a primus stove on which he was melting beeswax. . . Which reminds me... Are you sorted for Mother's Day? There are a few Posh Candles left (at a very special price!) which would make perfect gifts for Mother's Day, Easter, and a wee fillip for Spring. They are scented candles, handmade in Scotland by men in kilts! . . I've opened the shop, just for a few days, you can find the link above in my bio. ☝️ . . Candles must be sold to make space for my Grandfather Clock! 🙄 . . . . Have a super week ahead! #BestFootForward xx . . . . . 📸❣️❣️❣️ from @cm_studio_paris. 'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.' (Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic Explorer, b 15th February, 1874) . . Ernest was of the notion that 'optimism is true moral courage.' Surviving challenging times and overcoming adversity is just fuel for the journey. To be tested need not be seen as a negative in life - being tested keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking. . . Hold these challenges lightly, it won't always be like this. Persevere, chin up, keep moving forwards, mini steps every day. . . Let's choose to be optimistic. 'Those who wish to sing, always find a song.' . . . . Wonderful image from the fabulous @minh_ngoc 🐔🐔🐔and 💐💐💐 from @floretflower featured in @voguemagazine 📸🐣🥚✨🧙💞👀 . . . #YouCantMakeAnOmeletteWithoutBreakingEggs xxx. 'The voice of love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.' (P G Wodehouse, d 14th February, 1975) . . On the train back from London last night, I watched as a young lady in a brown duffle coat tossed a magnificent bouquet of two dozen tall red roses into the luggage compartment above her seat. Her nonchalant carelessness piqued my curiosity.... 🤨 . . . Happy Valentine's Day everyone, especially to those who keep getting 'a wrong number'! . . #HopeSpringsEternal 🙄 . . . . . . . . . Fabulous Friday Flowers for you 💐 from the wonderful @sallyhambleton . 📸💐💌💘💌👊😘
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