The Hitchhikers Guide To Blogging

Every so often bloggers are inclined to declare " I'm giving up packing up my blogging toys "and disappearing into a puff of social media smoke.

Blogging has pretty much changed since I arrived on the scene some 5 years ago (well nearly 5 years ) . Blogging has got slicker, meaner, nicer, more niche , compartmentalised , more diverse and so many other adjectives ,I'll have to get my thesaurus out. I'm more than likely to drop said thesaurus on my feet those causing a injury , I kid you not I'm likely to do this.

The Off Day Catalyst 

I pretty attributed the catalyst of this situation to the toast I had yesterday , how I hear you cry can the humble piece of toast cause a cataclysm of events , well the shade of toast can do this .

When you place your toast in the toast in the toaster you have expectation and high expectation of  that :

 1 Your toaster will do the job .

2 Your toast will be the appropriate shade of ermmm toastyness to launch you upon your day whatever that may entail ( yesterday I was chief men pants buyer )

3. If I had , had happy toast like I did a few weeks ago , this indeed could be a very different blog post , I could be clutching an Oscar instead.

I think it's just a blogging stumble and tomorrow the toaster Gods will favour my blogging fortune , I think historians need to look back and see if toast has caused any wars.

Blog Me Like You Do

I do , I do love blogging .

It's very hard not to compare yourself to others at time , I have never succumbed to the green eyed blogging monster , I'm not that type of person . Blogging isn't a distraction technique of the Emperors new clothes with me what you see is what you get . I'm not one either for blogging praise in fact if I'm praised in any shape or form it has me running for the hills .

Blogging has provided me many wonderful opportunities of which I'm  .... grateful , I think I hope I'm a refreshing blogger ?! everytime I write a blogging grammar fairy dies , apologies if my grammar makes you twitchy .

I have been blogging as mentioned nearly 5 years , I'm one month short of this anniversary , I've never huff puffed ( unpaid journalism ) or caused a stir on mumsnet, though be still my beating hard I had a post on Gnome knickers re tweeted. This was a post about Gnome knickers ( people who steal Gnomes )

Perhaps if I had written the blog post with the title Game Of Gnomes that will have pulled the punters in  ? who knows ?

Not Giving Up 

I will conquer and blog on , at times I feel blogging is to commercial and I want my fluidity to show and not have review after review . I want my naivety back I feel as if I have opened the blogging Pandora 's box / reviewed it and pimped it within an inch of its life !

I'm currently topping up my tea levels.

Infact I've turned some offers of late including someone asking me to pay into their crowdfunding business of their item. In return I'd get the item and something tongue away > yet I have to pay ?!! how cheeky and rude ! . 

Breathe.

Breathing allows the yearning to blog to come back and it's own my terms it's not like I'm going to go extent like the dinosaurs for example the poor T -.rex couldn't even type no wonder he roared all the time he couldn't clap his hands at the dinosaur tea party !

" If you're happy and you know it , clap your hands "

Blogging has got so clogged it's certainly not as simple as it was and I just want the simplicity to come back just tad, I feel as if I need a Hitchhikers Guide to Blogging with the words :

"Don't panic "

Emblazoned on the front .

I'm not going any where but if I don't shake it up and say how I feel,once in a while I'll implode.

So I'm staying blogging and so is the cat .

Where The Brave Will Tip Toe

Where the only the brave will tip toe :

1.Helping the teenager through a crisis .

2.Readying the teen to visit Aushwitz . 

3. Ringing up a dentist and actually booking an appointment for June ( not for  a person a person but in June ) it will be the first time I've been in years . I half suspected that one day my gnashers would be staring at me through a glass but there's a glimmer of hope that I can keep my own gnashers a little while longer. I come from a long long line of glass containing gnasher owners ,I'm hoping I do break that tradition .

4. I went to choir again , I was hiding in a corner with a cup of tea as I find the idle chit a chatter thronging to my head , I simply can focus . I really wish upon my heart of hearts I could have ear muffs inclosed public places which the throng of noise reverbs through my lug holes. Ironic yes I am in  a choir and there's singing noise but that chit a chatter noise buzz sets me on a social fight or flightb( more flight )

5. Tea my tea levels are just right at this very nano second .

Tea is where the home is ...

Just a Simple Hello

Hello from the other side , I must have meowed a thousand times .

Ninja Cat ( Rollie ) update :

This week red carpet isn't in as Jack( the stupid one)? went nuts after a flea treatment .

Also the 40 pouch selection of posh cat food , we no longer like after 2 pouches.

I will no longer sleep in the bottom half of the cat bunk bed , out the bunk bed on top of the bunk bed but no in it.

I will bite toes .

I will stop on the stairs and swipe as you walk by ..

You'll know the weather is warmer when "I " decide I'll stop out .

The sink "is " my other choice of where I sleep .

Don't even think you can trim my claws ...

I do like the bee dangly cat toy ~ I will demand you entertain me.

Isn't it a miracle cats can type ....

 

Being In The Moment

Being in the moment of cycling down the lane to the old Manor House when the sun shining upon me , seeing the tree blossom next to the cottage . Oh how I love that moment in time , cycling down the lane where once a chauffeured motor car tootled down the lane to the old Manor House . 

Past the artists cottage I go , past the Georgian farmhouse, past the secret gate in the wall , pausing for a forever minute by the old cottage .

I want forever to return to that moment in time ....

A Review Of Appleyard Flowers

I do love flowers but I am not very good at treating myself but recently I decided that has to change and to bring flowers more into my life. I love nature and the countryside of which I live on the edge of and I appreciate the outside when well I am out there so why not bring the outside in. Flowers are the the ideal colour pop to brighten your mood and your surroundings , I feel a spring in my step when I gaze upon them.

I love to gaze upon flowers.

So when Appleyard Flowers got in touch to offer me a bouquet to review , I was delighted . I have used Appleyard Flowers to sent flowers to friends and family before , and they have been delighted at the results. After much pleasant procrastination I chose the beautifully stunning Harmony bouquet ( standard size ) which features white freesia,memory lane lilac roses , purple trachelium with ornithogalum and avalanche roses . The colours appealed to me and reminded fondly of my Nan's garden full of flowers  of which  I spend many a happy moment .

The flowers were delivered Sunday the 21st
 of February , the roses are still doing well.

The flowers arrived promptly and via the very happy delivery man ( so not frustrated neighbours looking after a delivery )

The flowers were packaged very well to protect the delicate blooms, I was impressed greatly as they were upright within a clever sleeve in a full length robust cardboard box. The bottom of the stems were within a little plastic box which held moist sponge so the blooms were delivered in optimum condition.


A care sheet was supplied so you have the longest out the flowers , usually I am a plonk in the vase and go type of the person which is probably why my previous flowers from other places don't last.

The bouquet has flowers which are yet to open like the freesias and since the bouquet was delivered on Sunday the freesia are just starting to bloom now . the fragrance of the freesia is a symphony upon my senses every time I enter the dining room.

The Harmony bouquet from Appleyard Flowers.

If you are planning to to send flowers to someone I can highly recommend Appleyard Flowers ideal for any occasion or just because , you never need a reason to send your friend and me flowers!













I will be by the door awaiting by bouquet from you  :D


Disclosure ~ I was sent the Harmony bouquet for a honest review . All thoughts and opinions are mine.


PS. I f my family are reading this Mother's Day is SOOOOOON * big hint , just remember I do the online shopping for FOOOD .