Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
As the New Year turned I was reminded of the Elizabeth Gilbert’s Happiness Jar project which I blogged about a couple of years ago:
What is a Happiness Jar? The simplest thing in [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 1st 2017
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When I awoke on Christmas morning I was treated to a beautiful sunrise glowing through one of our bedroom windows. I tried to photograph the sunrise through the bedroom window but the sun was so bright that it caused too many reflections on the glass. I did however manage to capture the sunny glow through [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 25th 2016
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Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
Edwin Louis Cole
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 23rd 2016
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The fitter arrived slightly later than on previous days, he had a small job to attend to first. When he arrived I pointed out the small chip that I had noticed in the tile. With a straight face he said ‘Well you will just have to look the other way!’, followed by ‘It will have [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2016
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The fitter had hoped to complete our project on day six, despite the setback at the beginning of the job. Everything was going well until he came to fix the radiator to the wall; one of the pipes was leaking. This meant he would have to drain the heating system in order to fix it. [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2016
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Day five saw the start of the hall tiling which you may recall was the main reason for our project. Good progress was made but the dwindling light made it impossible to see to make the finer cuts on the tiles around the edge of the hallway.
When I arrived home after a day in the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 16th 2016
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The tiling in the ’smallest room in the house’ progressed to near completion. The electricians arrived to fit the new ceiling light and fan, and apparently they were their usual surly selves so I am glad I was at work. At least they fitted what was asked for this time without grumbling.
When I returned home [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 16th 2016
