Just to Say Hallo

I'm just dropping in to say hallo because it is Blogtober.

Sorry I can't say anything else at the moment - neither Alan nor I are feeling very well tonight. Will be back tomorrow with something much more interesting! I promise!

A picture for you:

Currently my favourite quilt...

Week 1 Post 2

For this 2nd post as homework for the Blogging Your Way ecourse I am doing, I would like to share with you a goal that I have set myself for 2013.

 I would love to have a separate blog, on my own, about my crochet and knitting. Does that sound good?

I have noticed that not many people like to make comments on my current "Crochet and Knitting Page" here, so I thought that perhaps a different blog where viewers could more easily comment, and I could more easily post, might be a good idea. Do you agree with me, or am I being a bit too particular?

Anyhows, I'm going to go about it and try and have it up and running by January 2013.  I say that because I have just so much going on at this moment, that I just don't have time for anything else! But that's life, isn't it? One day your sitting around with nothing to do, and then the year catches up and you have to hit the ground running!! That's where I am now!

So between now and January next year I shall work on that crochet blog, and I'll let you all know when it is finally up.  You can be my first readers!! That would be good too...

One of my Favourite Blogs

Hallo everyone!
A part of my Week 1 homework with Blogging Your Way, is to "blog about one of your favourite blogs" or at least that is the choice I have made tonight.  And of course, this all goes in well with Blogtober!

So I would like to talk to you about my favourite blog, "Patchwork Times" by Judy Laquidara.
Judy is a quilter and a long armer who lives in Texas with her lovely husband and a dog called "Speck".  They have just become grandparents to their first little angel, a girl named Adalina.


I love this blog for so many reasons:

• Judy has a way of blogging that makes me feel that she is sharing her story with me
• She writes as I imagine she speaks
• She is so generous of her work and her patterns
• Judy takes photographs of absolutely everything in her world, and shares them with us as though we are family -
• I love the home stories, like about the chickens and Speck, her dachshund
• She shares her recipes
• Judy hosts lots of blog parties where lots of people link u p to her and share their blogs and their latest works
• There is always just so much going on at Patchwork Times, I wonder sometimes how Judy ever gets any quilting done!!

I make sure every morning that I take a look at Judy's blog first, before anything else.

Do you have favourite blog as well?

Let's take a look at one another's favourite's, in your comment just leave the name of your favourite blog and why you like them so much.

This could be lots of fun!

 

Here's my favourite picture of the fairy house at the bottom of my garden, totally unrelated, I know, but it's so cute!!

 

Blogging Your Way with Holly of Decor8

I've just started this course, and i just know that you will all see a great change in this blog as the next few weeks pass.

I'm quite excited!

Sunday Snippets

 

 

{sunday snippets} A collection of photos from your week. No need for words. Let the pictures tell your story. http://tinniegirl.blogspot.com.au/

Saturdays Slideshows and Snapshots

I have been thinking of having a linky party each week for quite a while now, so here it is!  I'm jumping in with both feet firmly planted together, knowing not where I may land!

Rules of Saturdays Slideshows and Snapshots.

• Truly there aren't many
• Join in by doing a post on your blog and then coming over here and joining by clicking on the Linky Tools button below and fill in your details
• You don't need to make a slideshow, you can put together some of your favourite pictures of things you love, and give us all a glimpse of how you operate and what moves you

That's it!!

So here is the Inaugural Slideshow and Snapshots for this Saturday, don't be shy just jump right in and have fun with it!

I may not always put a slideshow up, you'll just have to watch and see.
Come on now, everyone join in!!

It's The Big Race Weekend!

This weekend is the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 race.

This is the 50th year, and it is shaping up to be an amzing one!  Alan and  I will be watching it on the TV (you see more that way) right through the weekend, so not much work will be done around here....

Alan follows the V8's all year, I just like to watch Bathurst.


There's a great Facebook page all about it HERE



BATHURST 1000”

The Mountain overlooks Bathurst, and is well known in Australia, as it is where the Bathurst 1000, for V8 cars motor race is held on the second weekend each October.

In 1938, the circuit that we see today, was officially opened, and in 1973, the 1st, 1000km race, the Hardie Ferodo 1000 took place. Later events have taken the name of whoever the Sponsor for that year is.

SOME FACTS………..

• The Racing circuit is 6.2 kms long.
• 2003 and GREG MURPHY, became the fastest man to complete a lap of the circuit in the time of 2.06.8594 in the “Top ten shoot out.”
• The current race lap record of 2.08.4651 was set by Jamie Wihincup in 2007.
• The “Mount” is the only major racing circuit that is a public road outside of race time.
• In his lifetime,”Peter Brock” won Bathurst 9 times, a feat that still has not been beaten.
• The highest point is 874mtrs above sea level.

The track is a demanding one and has taken its toll on the visiting racers, with 15 competitors losing their lives since it began in 1938.

Expect to be in amongst a crowd of 200,000 plus.... people when you are a spectator at the track over the weekend.