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Your wise quote is: “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall” by Confucius.
Yes indeed, you see true strength can only be seen when a person has “fallen”. Only then one can tell how they will handle it. Just don’t make others fall so you can know who they really are. You on the other hand may be a very quick recoverer and don’t let people bring you down. You are your own and you’re find with that. Emotional issues is something you handle rather nicely.

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R.’s been continuing with his Egyptian project, the backgarden has been cleared (mostly down to Rik, not me), I bored of knitting a bag and have started a lovely kaftan in a grey-ie blue wool/cotton mix for Ned, which I plan to embroider (finished the back of it). Just general busyness really.

We went over to one of the Sheffield meets which made a nice change. R. really enjoyed himself and afterwards we went back for a cup to tea etc. with one of the Sheffield ‘lot’ before coming home (rather later than initially planned).

I took Ned to be weighed - he’s 12lb 5oz, which isn’t bad for 6weeks old. I was rather surprised and am thinking of renaming him Nibble Munch (after a poem by Brian Patten).

Should hopefully have a fence up at the lottie soon (Rik went to get an idea of how much it would cost). I’m looking forward to that as it means we can start getting it cleared, I’m spending a lot of time dreaming about it.

Erk has decided he wants to be a fashion designer (bit of a change from a builder) and I’ve realised that I’ve just written more of a list than a blog (but I’m still tired after yesterday and want to blog, but feel a bit bleurgh.)

Nin has just asked for some ‘Gruffalo cheese’ - LOL!

Hmmmm, there are some wonderful things on this site!

Jealous? Moi?

Forgot to say that on Wednesday we tried Water Buffalo cheese (with nettles) at the farmer’s market. It was a big hit with the children and the piece I bought has almost gone (Nin ate most of it for lunch today).

We went for a walk in the woods today and got rather muddy I’ve taken a photo of some strange black fungi we found (will post it later/tomorrow). It’s been a bit of an odd week as it’s half term and it’s strange (in a nice way) to have Erk here - unfortunately it has sparked quite a few more arguments between him and R. though.

Oh and we also registered Ned on Wednesday!

So we went and had a look and took some pics:

(including random child I picked up on the way to the allotments)

It’s a good job I’m such an optimistic soul! Guess what’ll be featuring very heavily in our HE plans for a while!

Now *that’s* a film I can watch over and over and over - I’d completely forgotten about it until I saw it listed as on last night (although I wasn’t feeling well, so didn’t stay up to watch it as I’m trying to grab sleep where possible) - but it did mean that I noted it down on my wishlist to buy when I’ve a few spare pounds - although admittedly I have lost count of how often I’ve seen it and can confidently predict what dialogue is coming next throughout the film.

Yes I like vampire films - and no I was never a huge fan of George Clooney - but I do like him with the tattoos he has in this film.

You are a Siamese! You are fun-loving, playful,

energetic, talkative, and exotic. You are

the center of attention and you love every

minute of it.

What breed of cat are you?
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I feel a bit guilty - I’m on a HE blogring and yet very little blogging about HE seems to happen on my blog…….

It’s not that we haven’t been doing anything, it’s that (hang my head in shame) I’ve just been a lazy blogger.

R. is chugging along quite nicely with his Ancient Egypt project - he painted a wonderful map of Egypt using his new Aquarelle crayons (from Lyra - he is very proud of them). He has practised his Norwegian and we’ve been out and mowed the front lawn (eventually) and cleared the front beds a bit, bought flowers (ready to go in tomorrow hopefully), baked bread, cakes, jam tarts, carried on reading the Hobbit and R. various HP books (he finally started reading the series and just finished the 4th book).

Dawn & Co. came to visit us yesterday. It was lovely to finally meet them all and R. and the girls really got on well. An added bonus for R. is that Lana is a fellow stamp collector, so he was really pleased about that - it’s wonderful that he’s met someone who he has something in common with (it’s been a while!)

Anyway, it’s a short blog (again) as I’m still pretty knackered and not feeling fantastic (I think tiredness is catching up with me a bit!)

I’ve been tagged by: Rosie

4 jobs you have had in your life
Cattery/Kennel Maid
Asst. Youth Worker
Childminder
Toy-shop owner

4 movies you could watch over and over
Fight Club (for the anarchist in me)
Dangerous Liaisions - as Jayne reminded me makes my heart thump (sad but true)

Either Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2 (can’t quite choose between them)

I keep thinking there’s something I’ve missed - and then there’s quite a long list of other films that don’t fail to please me/give me a warm cozy glow, but they don’t leap out in my mind. Then I think of made-for-TV stuff, like Pride & Prejudice (with Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie) or Dr. Zchivago (sp? with whatsisface, I know his name, but of course now it escapes me, as Pasha - again sp?) they really grabbed me - and I can always watch Buffy LOL.

4 places you have been on vacation
Crete (I loved the palace at Knossos and would love to go again)
My mum’s farm
The Dordogne (wonderful pre-historic sites)
Brecon Beacons (it rained)

4 websites you visit daily
Ebay (oh dear)
Various blogs
Erm, after Ebay and various blogs you don’t have time to look at other sites……..

4 of your favorite foods
Various Indian foods (not hot - but spicy)
Okra
Carrots
Berries (ok, not strictly one choice)

4 places you would rather be right now
Quite happy where I am in life (although a bit of a windfall wouldn’t go amiss)

4 Cars you have owned
Can’t drive

4 bloggers you are tagging
Ummmmmm, not sure, can’t remember who hasn’t be tagged that I’d feel comfortable tagging!

These will only really mean something to those people that know us, but actually these descriptions are quite scary! This is R.

Your Birthdate: October 10

Independent and dominant, you tend to be the alpha dog in most situations. You’re very confident, and hardly anything ever shakes you. Mundane tasks tend to drain you - you prefer to be making great plans. You are quite original. When people don’t “get” you, it bothers you a lot. Your strength: Your ability to gain respect Your weakness: Caring too much what others think Your power color: Orange-red Your power symbol: Letter X Your power month: October

And this is Erk:

Your Birthdate: July 3

You are more than a big ball of energy - you are a big ball of hyper. You are always on the go, but you don’t have a type a personality. Instead of channeling your energy into work, you instead go for fun and adventure. Witty and verbal, you can have an interesting conversation with anyone. Your strength: Your larger than life imagination Your weakness: You tend to be pretty scattered Your power color: Lime Your power symbol: Lightening bolt Your power month: March

Hmmmmmmm. ‘Scattered’ is an understatement. LOL!

Thanks to Rosie for this one.

Your Birthdate: April 18

You are a cohesive force - able to bring many people together for a common cause. You tend to excel in work situations, but you also facilitate a lot of social gatherings too. Beyond being a good leader, you are good at inspiring others. You also keep your powerful emotions in check - you know when to emote and when to repress. Your strength: Emotional maturity beyond your years Your weakness: Wearing yourself down with too many responsibilities Your power color: Crimson red Your power symbol: Snowflake Your power month: September

This might be a bit *sad* but we caught the end of The Romantics on BBC2 this evening, Erk watched getting really excited at a reading of Shelley’s work (something to do with Atheism - I’m not very *up* on poetry etc.) he then proceeded to tell me that he’d thought about that too, that God is created by people through the energy of their belief and that God needs people to live and believing in God helps people to live. Now, I’m not atheist (and Erk used to see what he describes as angels and clearly believes there is ’something’ there too), but I was impressed by a 9 year old’s capacity to consider such things and the fact that he understood what Shelley was rattling on about. It also reminded me (just a little bit) of Terry Pratchett’s “Small Gods” (which is possibly a little more approachable - I’m ever the one to admit I’m not exactly the academic…..)