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Bird Table, Knitting and Dalai Lama

1  This morning was such a delight at our bird feeders. The Goldfinches are back for their Nyger seeds, there was a family of Great Tits busily feeding at the fat balls and a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker came  to partake of the peanuts. I didn’t have my camera with me and didn’t want to fetch it for fear I would miss the activity.

2    Last night I finished off a hat and scarf that I have made for our Granddaughter who is to move from Senegal to Spain which she will find very cold this winter. I’ve just started a chunky cardigan for her, also in her favourite colour, red!

Hat and scarf for our oldest Granddaughter

Hat and scarf for our oldest Granddaughter

3   A friend quoted the Dalai Lama today when someone questioned what we each try to do, in our own small ways, to make the world a better place:

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

 

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Dalai Lama, Book Spines and Periwinkle

1   These important words from the Dalai Lama came into my inbox today:

If we are demoralised, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence – and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within, you’ll not succeed. You have to have confidence and keep up your efforts – in other words, never give up.

2   After a busy weekend with the Grandchildren, we have come home and decided to decorate the sitting room!  As I cleared a bookshelf, the beautiful tooling on the spine of these little books caught my eye.

Golden spines

Golden spines

3    I love this very pale Periwinkle flower, flowering in the bitterest of winds today.

Periwinkle

Periwinkle

NaBloPoMo

 

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