I loved my whole teaching career and when I retired I never dreamed that I would be so lucky to have this job of conducting special and unique Ceremonies for happy people! Today saw the Wedding Ceremony of a young Swedish couple and it was just lovely. They have promised to send me some photos that I can put on here but I did just manage to snatch one as they walked up the aisle together afterwards. It was a new experience for me to have the vows repeated in Swedish. All fifty guests had come over from Sweden for the event.
After the Ceremony
2 As we were waiting for the Ceremony to begin, I noticed a biker on the cliffs, balancing his bike on a boulder and making an intriguing silhouette.
Biker on the Headland, Newquay
3 I saw a board outside a hotel in Falmouth the other day saying – “Did you know that stressed backwards is desserts?” I decided that a dessert was on the cards today as the lovely Mr S has been battling a nasty virus for a week and I am struggling to beat it off so I decided that we both needed some quality comfort food. Rhubarb Butterscotch certainly fits that bill! If the photos tempt you, the recipe can be found here. Click on any photo for the caption.
Fresh eggs, from our friends’ chickens, one with double yolk
3 cups chopped rhubarb
1 cup soft brown sugar with 2 dstspns flour mixed with the 2 eggs
Batter poured over the rhubarb
Cooked and ready to eat!
My heart goes out to all the people affected by the terrible earthquake in Nepal, such a beautiful country with beautiful and generous people. We bought a Shelterbox recently and I would be pleased to discover that our box is going out to help the people of Kathmandu.
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India and Nepal are the most colourful places I’ve ever visited. The women in their beautiful saris, the houses, the buses, the shops and stalls – everything! I took my most colourful clothes with me but I felt quite drab – until I was dressed in a sari!
On the lake at Pokhara
Beautiful shop
Flowers for the festival
Festival shrine in Sarnath
‘ Nice’ bus in Napal
Bookshop in Varanasi
Proud and beautiful Mum in Sarnath
Fruit stall
Colourful house and washing in Nepal
Leaving the Taj Mahal
Colour in Sarnath
Pea stall in Varanasi
Me in a sari
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Lovely challenge this one. My favourite colours are greens and blues but, looking through my collections, I decided that shades of pink and purple would be interesting! I hope you enjoy this selection taken over the last year at home and away. Click on any one for an enlargement.
Beautiful saris in India
Pink flower with dewdrops
Dancing at a Senagalese wedding
At Chitwan, Nepal
Confetti in the street in Barcelona
Winter dawn
In the market, Kathmandu
Bougainvillia in Kathmandu
In the gardens at Khajahuro
Anemones
Grand-baby and Lavatera
Earrings
Rhododendron in Trelissick gardens February 2013
Fuschia in the back garden
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I enjoyed collecting these. Click on any one for an enlargement to see the detail.
Sign at Agra Fort. I love the way it is so positive rather than starting with, Don’t
Do read No 9!
These really were serious speed breakers, as deep as they look
At the Khajahuro Temples
Item no 8 is the one that caught my eye, “provided, of course, that a baby is travelling”
Just liked this one near the ghats
May all sentient beings attain Nibbana
Outside every temple
Please don’t eat inside our temple
Read all the way through this – it’s lovely
The elegance of the sign at Jhansi Station echoes the elegance of the beautiful women here
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The people we met in India and Nepal were all so friendly and many asked if they could take our photos and were happy for me to reciprocate.
At Qtub Minaret
Girls over the suspension bridge who painted my Tika
At the Festival in Orchha
Our rickshaw driver in Kathmandu
Beautiful girl who sold me my Tika paints
Mr Singh in the bookshop
‘Please buy from me!’ We did.
Rowing over Lake Phewa by the Annapurna Mountains
Young mother with her 4 week old baby boy
I had just bought a present for someone at home from this lovely family
Researchers at Qtub Minaret
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1 My favourite birds are back – the Long Tailed Tits who arrived this morning. I love the way they live in families of several generations and they are just such beautiful little birds. They didn’t stay long so this is a photo I found online. Thanks to the photographer.
2 I have made a new Christmas decoration. It’s a clear ball filed with all the bits of wool cut off from all my knitting for the Grand-babies this year. I read about the idea ages ago and have forgotten where it came from but have been saving the trimmed off bits of wool since I started knitting for the Grandchildren some 4 and a1/2 years ago, each year in a different bag so there are now four wooly-bits baubles.
Wooly-bits bauble
3 I fell in love with this tiny tea-pot when in Nepal. I think the colours and the inlay are very beautiful.
Tiny Nepalese tea-pot
PS I sewed some sequins onto T’s hat but they didn’t enhance it one bit so they are all off again and I will post the hat as soon as I can. I can hardly wait to see T’s reaction!
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All these were seen in two cafe gardens where we stopped off for a drink on the long coach journey between Chitwan National Park and Pokhara. If anyone can help me to identify them I would be absolutely delighted!
Dragonfly, Nepal
Spider
Found in Nepal
Butterfly in Nepal, look carefully to the left of the photograph
Papilio demoleus, Nepal, I think
Butterfly the same colour as the marigold it has alighted on
This one wouldn’t keep still
Another butterfly in the garden in Nepal
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1 A very heavy mist dropped diamonds on these furry sage leaves.
Diamond drops on sage
2 Beautiful Rhubarb with Ginger Fool as tonight’s dessert.
Rhubarb with Ginger Fools
3 Thought today’s Daily Prompt to be an interesting challenge so I have re-written much of this post so that it contains no three letter words. I have also chosen to change my third item today. I recognise that it is much easier to follow this challenge when one’s post is short! It still makes writers think hard about their choice of words. In Pokhara, Nepal, I bought a beautiful back-pack, embroidered in some of my favourite colours which I plan on using to carry stuff to do with my music lessons, choirs as well as piano then I shall be reminded of my holiday three times every week.
Back-pack from Nepal
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1 Leaving Kathmandu for Delhi very early in the morning, as people are going to work and the sun is coming up through the trees.
Sun coming up in Kathmandu
People off to work very early
2 This beautiful young mother was waiting to fly with her tiny three week old son.
Another lovely person willing to talk to me and happy to have her photo taken
3 As we flew West for eight and a half hours we were flying into the sunset for such a long time. The colours were so intense and so beautiful.
Above the clouds
Sunset over Northern Europe, the colour being caught in our vapour trail
And a 4th today – being met by our beautiful daughter.
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