You Are Smart and Curious |
 You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life. You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip. People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. |
Sunday, 1 February 2009
What Does My Name Mean?
Hmmm, one of those quiz thingamees. Rather interesting - especially if you know me well.
Monday, 19 January 2009
What Number Are You?
Did this for fun- scarily true in many respects. Can't believe the people I share a number with though...should I be depressed? Na!
You Are 5: The Investigator |
 You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker. You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does. Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations. You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it. At Your Best: You are sharp, inventive, and creative. You have the skills to lead the world. At Your Worst: You are reclusive, weird, and a bit paranoid. Your Fixation: Greed Your Primary Fear: Being useless or incompetent Your Primary Desire: Being competent and needed Other Number 5's: Bill Gates, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Bjork, and Stephen Hawking. |
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Devin's Drum Performance
At the end of 2008 Devin performed as part of a band for the end of year concert at his music school. We're all very impressed with how much his drumming has improved over the last 3 years. The video below shows his performance - the tune is the theme from Sponge Bob Square Pants. You can't see too much as I was sitting a bit far away , but the sound is pretty good.
Friday, 8 August 2008
Quick Hi
Hi all, me here. ;)
Just popping in to say that we're still alive and not washed away. House is now growing all kinds of exciting moulds in many different colours and degrees of toxicity. Have had someone over to give an opinion on the need for drainage - looks like we'll be parting with a few grand for that. Need to wait until weather is a bit more stable and David has found a new job. Yes, for those of you who haven't heard yet, my DH has been made redundant (thanks to the general world wide down turn in the economy) and finishes up next week. We knew about this a good couple of weeks before the storm hit, so as you can imagine, having our house flooded was a bit like the proverbial "last straw" as far as I was concerned. My Nana and Mum always said "God never gives you more than you can handle", but really, did I need anything else to handle? Seriously though, at least my house is still standing and we're all here and healthy. The house thing means that at least we get to remodel a bit, repaint downstairs and maybe tweak a few things, and David having to look for a new job means that maybe he can find something with family friendly hours, that's a little closer to home. Yes, I am an eternal optimist, the glass is always half full in my world and Pollyanna's "glad game" is something I play on a regular basis. My argument is that if you didn't stay positive and look on the bright side then you'd just sit down and cry and that just makes you look and feel blah and soggy! ;)
School has seemed REALLY long this week. I think the weather and drama aren't really helping. I'm looking forward to staying up and watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics at 12:08 am. I think my favourite part of any Olympics HAS to be the opening ceremony ( can you tell I far more into the performing arts than I am sport). That said, I do like gymnastics, sprints, swimming, diving, rowing and equestrian - the rest I can pretty much take or leave.
Oh, here's the layout I completed for the Scrapbook Dreams weekly challenge last week. I'm not totally happy with it as I found it quite hard. We had to make and use a tag in a layout and I don't tend to use tags on my layouts very often so found this a bit of a challenge ( which I guess is the whole point if you think about it).
Ok all, I'm off to do some other bits and bobs.
Ciao
Just popping in to say that we're still alive and not washed away. House is now growing all kinds of exciting moulds in many different colours and degrees of toxicity. Have had someone over to give an opinion on the need for drainage - looks like we'll be parting with a few grand for that. Need to wait until weather is a bit more stable and David has found a new job. Yes, for those of you who haven't heard yet, my DH has been made redundant (thanks to the general world wide down turn in the economy) and finishes up next week. We knew about this a good couple of weeks before the storm hit, so as you can imagine, having our house flooded was a bit like the proverbial "last straw" as far as I was concerned. My Nana and Mum always said "God never gives you more than you can handle", but really, did I need anything else to handle? Seriously though, at least my house is still standing and we're all here and healthy. The house thing means that at least we get to remodel a bit, repaint downstairs and maybe tweak a few things, and David having to look for a new job means that maybe he can find something with family friendly hours, that's a little closer to home. Yes, I am an eternal optimist, the glass is always half full in my world and Pollyanna's "glad game" is something I play on a regular basis. My argument is that if you didn't stay positive and look on the bright side then you'd just sit down and cry and that just makes you look and feel blah and soggy! ;)
School has seemed REALLY long this week. I think the weather and drama aren't really helping. I'm looking forward to staying up and watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics at 12:08 am. I think my favourite part of any Olympics HAS to be the opening ceremony ( can you tell I far more into the performing arts than I am sport). That said, I do like gymnastics, sprints, swimming, diving, rowing and equestrian - the rest I can pretty much take or leave.
Oh, here's the layout I completed for the Scrapbook Dreams weekly challenge last week. I'm not totally happy with it as I found it quite hard. We had to make and use a tag in a layout and I don't tend to use tags on my layouts very often so found this a bit of a challenge ( which I guess is the whole point if you think about it).
Ok all, I'm off to do some other bits and bobs.
Ciao
Monday, 28 July 2008
Water stays outside NOT in the house!!
Those of you who are regular visitors will remember my flooded downstairs rooms in about October last year. Well, this past weekend (for those non New Zealanders) we had a similar weather bomb (read storm) and guess what...it happened again!!
As we'd had prior warning that the storm was on its way we had lifted up any important stuff (just in case) all the while thinking that it couldn't possibly happen again. We were wrong and this time it was worse! It spread much further although probably still a similar depth (about 2cm). So we started moving stuff upstairs and rang the insurance company. Apparently all they cover is getting the carpets dried they don't do anything about investigating the cause and then there's the $500 excess (which had me wondering who I'd annoyed in a past life as money is potentially going to be a bit tight in a month or twos time for reasons I'll depress you all with another day).
We rang Mum (as the other co-owner) and ran it all past her. The final decision was that we'd just rip up the carpet and get rid of it (it was disgusting underneath after last time - black mould and ALL sorts of grossness), see where the water was coming from and what we needed to do about it.
Carpet the following morning - imagine it underneath a 2 cm deep puddle in all the places you can see wet carpet.
So, David and I started lifting carpet and found the whole floor underneath just awash with water - we could float bottle caps on it and make them move! The hall and David's office weren't quite as water logged as the rumpus room and my office. Now here is where it gets interesting - David's office & the hall had nice sealed concrete floors and I was thinking ok it can't be that then (unsealed floors being one of our theories) and then we started to pull up the carpet in the rumpus room...
... we found bare, unsealed, porous concrete!! This same under floor feature was also present in my office - explained A LOT!! We decided that we'd borrow Mum's vax and suck up the water in the morning as there wasn't much we could do about it in the middle of the night. Next morning though most of the water was gone - it had all sucked back into the concrete when the water level went down over night. I can't believe we've been living on top of this and breathing in whatever lurks beneath!
We'd had LIM reports and things like that done before we moved in and have documentation to show that the council signed off on the basement remodelling when it was done (years before we bought the place). It looks as thought they just shoved carpet over it all and did a shoddy job - a DIY effort as far as we can tell.
So what do we do now? Well we'll wait for the next storm to pass (due in the next 24 hours) see if there are any further problems from that or if we can figure exactly when and how it's happening. Once that's done we'll look into what needs to be done to get the floor PROPERLY sealed, then we'll put down lino instead of carpet and maybe use rugs for warmth. We're moving my office upstairs to the spare bedroom, which we seldom use, as I have too many books and papers to get ruined what with teaching and scrapbooking.
As a final indignity for the weekend, we've had no hot water for 2 days - I desperately need a shower and had to wash my hair in cold water this morning uggh!
As we'd had prior warning that the storm was on its way we had lifted up any important stuff (just in case) all the while thinking that it couldn't possibly happen again. We were wrong and this time it was worse! It spread much further although probably still a similar depth (about 2cm). So we started moving stuff upstairs and rang the insurance company. Apparently all they cover is getting the carpets dried they don't do anything about investigating the cause and then there's the $500 excess (which had me wondering who I'd annoyed in a past life as money is potentially going to be a bit tight in a month or twos time for reasons I'll depress you all with another day).
We rang Mum (as the other co-owner) and ran it all past her. The final decision was that we'd just rip up the carpet and get rid of it (it was disgusting underneath after last time - black mould and ALL sorts of grossness), see where the water was coming from and what we needed to do about it.
So, David and I started lifting carpet and found the whole floor underneath just awash with water - we could float bottle caps on it and make them move! The hall and David's office weren't quite as water logged as the rumpus room and my office. Now here is where it gets interesting - David's office & the hall had nice sealed concrete floors and I was thinking ok it can't be that then (unsealed floors being one of our theories) and then we started to pull up the carpet in the rumpus room...
... we found bare, unsealed, porous concrete!! This same under floor feature was also present in my office - explained A LOT!! We decided that we'd borrow Mum's vax and suck up the water in the morning as there wasn't much we could do about it in the middle of the night. Next morning though most of the water was gone - it had all sucked back into the concrete when the water level went down over night. I can't believe we've been living on top of this and breathing in whatever lurks beneath!
We'd had LIM reports and things like that done before we moved in and have documentation to show that the council signed off on the basement remodelling when it was done (years before we bought the place). It looks as thought they just shoved carpet over it all and did a shoddy job - a DIY effort as far as we can tell.
So what do we do now? Well we'll wait for the next storm to pass (due in the next 24 hours) see if there are any further problems from that or if we can figure exactly when and how it's happening. Once that's done we'll look into what needs to be done to get the floor PROPERLY sealed, then we'll put down lino instead of carpet and maybe use rugs for warmth. We're moving my office upstairs to the spare bedroom, which we seldom use, as I have too many books and papers to get ruined what with teaching and scrapbooking.
As a final indignity for the weekend, we've had no hot water for 2 days - I desperately need a shower and had to wash my hair in cold water this morning uggh!
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Just Playing
Hi all
I've been having a play with an online tool called Smilebox. It is something I'm exploring as part of my ICT teaching, however, I managed to put a scrapbooking spin on it so thought I had to share it here.
Enjoy.
Ciao
I've been having a play with an online tool called Smilebox. It is something I'm exploring as part of my ICT teaching, however, I managed to put a scrapbooking spin on it so thought I had to share it here.
Enjoy.
Ciao
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Monday, 21 July 2008
Weekend Update
Friday night I stayed up late (well into Saturday morning - 2:30 am to be precise!) to create this layout which is fast becoming one of my favourites.
It was for the weekly sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Dreams. I'd spent all day trying to decide what I was going to do for the challenge and I just couldn't find the right photo to go with the gorgeous new papers that I just HAD to use! Anyway, it's 11:55pm and I've picked up the same photo for about the gazillionth time and thought it just doesn't work, even if I make it black and white it still won't work. Then it occurred to me - sepia! So I played with the sepia colouration on my computer until I got it to a sort of pinkish tone and then I was away and racing!
My husband stumbled out of bed in search of a glass of water just as I'd finished (at 2:30am) and staring at me through bleary eyes demanded, "What on Earth are you doing?" "I just made this, isn't pretty, see..." as I thrust it towards his face. His reply, "Umm yes, it's lovely. Are you coming to bed soon? You're totally mad!"
Needless to say he did have a proper look in the morning and was suitably impressed.
Now the photo's not so great, but I received these lovely parcel full of paper goodness from Niella on Friday - I won it by correctly answering a question for a fun competition she was running over on her blog. You really must go and visit her blog if you haven't already. She is such a creative lady and her blog is full of all sorts of lovely layouts as well as other gorgeous creations.
Saturday Mum came over to help me hem some new ready made drapes and net curtains (I can't sew for peanuts) and hang them up. Or so we thought...Turns out some of them didn't quite measure what they said they did. Thank goodness my Mum can sew REALLY WELL (she used to be a clothing and home economics teacher). She came up with this cunning plan to trim a bit here, add a bit there, etc. So, instead of it taking a couple of hours in the afternoon it took us until we gave up at 11pm (I'd suggested Mum borrow some P.Js and stay over at this point) plus well into the afternoon on the Sunday to get them all reconstructed, ironed and hung up. Not helped by the cats and Mum's little dog deciding to try and sleep on the curtains while we were sewing them. They did look cute, but not at all helpful.
I told my Mum that she was the most amazing Mummy in the world (especially as she gave up most of her weekend to help me).
While Mum and I were creating window coverings, David was painting the hallway. In true David fashion he couldn't resist goofing around when I was trying to take photos of him hard at work.
Other than that we really didn't get a lot done. I did some planning for school today while watching the final of the Tudors, baked some biscuits for school lunches and constructed a crockpot of soup ingredients ready to cook away while we were out today.
First day back was fairly uneventful - I'm really tired now though. It was nice to come home to the smell of vegetable soup wafting down the stairs. I also came home to a package of Pink Paislee goodies from Scrappin Patch - Yay! Lot's of loveliness to start playing with, I can't wait! If you haven't checked out these guys yet you really need to pop over and have a look. They have a HUGE range and a lot of their stock isn't available anywhere else in NZ. Their service is fantastic too. Things are delivered quickly and the ladies are really helpful and will contact you straight away if something is out of stock so you can change your order,etc. They also have a blog and run a fortnightly sketch challenge.
Ok all I'm off to do some domestic stuff.
Ciao.
It was for the weekly sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Dreams. I'd spent all day trying to decide what I was going to do for the challenge and I just couldn't find the right photo to go with the gorgeous new papers that I just HAD to use! Anyway, it's 11:55pm and I've picked up the same photo for about the gazillionth time and thought it just doesn't work, even if I make it black and white it still won't work. Then it occurred to me - sepia! So I played with the sepia colouration on my computer until I got it to a sort of pinkish tone and then I was away and racing!
My husband stumbled out of bed in search of a glass of water just as I'd finished (at 2:30am) and staring at me through bleary eyes demanded, "What on Earth are you doing?" "I just made this, isn't pretty, see..." as I thrust it towards his face. His reply, "Umm yes, it's lovely. Are you coming to bed soon? You're totally mad!"
Needless to say he did have a proper look in the morning and was suitably impressed.
Now the photo's not so great, but I received these lovely parcel full of paper goodness from Niella on Friday - I won it by correctly answering a question for a fun competition she was running over on her blog. You really must go and visit her blog if you haven't already. She is such a creative lady and her blog is full of all sorts of lovely layouts as well as other gorgeous creations.
Saturday Mum came over to help me hem some new ready made drapes and net curtains (I can't sew for peanuts) and hang them up. Or so we thought...Turns out some of them didn't quite measure what they said they did. Thank goodness my Mum can sew REALLY WELL (she used to be a clothing and home economics teacher). She came up with this cunning plan to trim a bit here, add a bit there, etc. So, instead of it taking a couple of hours in the afternoon it took us until we gave up at 11pm (I'd suggested Mum borrow some P.Js and stay over at this point) plus well into the afternoon on the Sunday to get them all reconstructed, ironed and hung up. Not helped by the cats and Mum's little dog deciding to try and sleep on the curtains while we were sewing them. They did look cute, but not at all helpful.
I told my Mum that she was the most amazing Mummy in the world (especially as she gave up most of her weekend to help me).
While Mum and I were creating window coverings, David was painting the hallway. In true David fashion he couldn't resist goofing around when I was trying to take photos of him hard at work.
Other than that we really didn't get a lot done. I did some planning for school today while watching the final of the Tudors, baked some biscuits for school lunches and constructed a crockpot of soup ingredients ready to cook away while we were out today.
First day back was fairly uneventful - I'm really tired now though. It was nice to come home to the smell of vegetable soup wafting down the stairs. I also came home to a package of Pink Paislee goodies from Scrappin Patch - Yay! Lot's of loveliness to start playing with, I can't wait! If you haven't checked out these guys yet you really need to pop over and have a look. They have a HUGE range and a lot of their stock isn't available anywhere else in NZ. Their service is fantastic too. Things are delivered quickly and the ladies are really helpful and will contact you straight away if something is out of stock so you can change your order,etc. They also have a blog and run a fortnightly sketch challenge.
Ok all I'm off to do some domestic stuff.
Ciao.
Monday, 14 July 2008
Today's Layout
Well, as predicted, sleep was a little tricky last night. I found that if I put my head under the covers the smell would go away, but then I would feel all hot and smothered so poked my head out to breathe and copped another nose full of paint fumes! Needless to say, I was up by 6am today despite being on holiday as it's not quite as bad in the lounge. Oh well, my hallway will look sooo pretty when it's all done. This is the worst bit as it's the enamel for the door frames, etc (old house), at least we are using acrylic for the walls so it won't be so bad. Anyway enough of my complaining, what a moany, old woman you'll think I am. ;)
I'm feeling very virtuous as straight after breakfast I made biscuits. The smell of Hokey Pokey biscuits mingled with paint was an interesting one, but the biscuits were yummy (even Blaise, the big cat, thought so - he stole one off the bench while they were cooling).
Today I completed my circle journal ready to post off as soon as the paint dries. I also created this layout with some of my favourite pictures of Devin.
He told me they're not his favourite because everyone can see that he was being "dorky" (to quote him). I told him that I liked them and he didn't have to look at them if he didn't want to. I think my 11 year old might be sliding rather quickly towards those teenage years - I can't believe he's already half way through his first year at Intermediate!
I'm having a lovely time scrapbooking at the moment. I have totally taken over the dining table (which is naughty of me really as I have a perfectly good office downstairs, but it's too cold down there!). Just check out these photos I took this morning of my creative mess!
Ok peeps I'm off to do some more scrapping, might think about doing some work for school later in the week.
Ciao.
I'm feeling very virtuous as straight after breakfast I made biscuits. The smell of Hokey Pokey biscuits mingled with paint was an interesting one, but the biscuits were yummy (even Blaise, the big cat, thought so - he stole one off the bench while they were cooling).
Today I completed my circle journal ready to post off as soon as the paint dries. I also created this layout with some of my favourite pictures of Devin.
He told me they're not his favourite because everyone can see that he was being "dorky" (to quote him). I told him that I liked them and he didn't have to look at them if he didn't want to. I think my 11 year old might be sliding rather quickly towards those teenage years - I can't believe he's already half way through his first year at Intermediate!
I'm having a lovely time scrapbooking at the moment. I have totally taken over the dining table (which is naughty of me really as I have a perfectly good office downstairs, but it's too cold down there!). Just check out these photos I took this morning of my creative mess!
Ok peeps I'm off to do some more scrapping, might think about doing some work for school later in the week.
Ciao.
Sunday, 13 July 2008
Painting Time
My nose is all screwed up and my sinuses are complaining 'cause we had this clever idea of painting our hallway this weekend. It had to be done, it has been sky blue since we moved in 5.5 years ago, and, while blue might be some people's favourite colour for walls (and I hope I haven't offended anyone), it wasn't mine! I prefer neutrals for my walls and then I have rich, deep colours for my drapes and soft furnishings - but that's just me.
Anyway, this weekend we decided it was time to do it. We spent yesterday sanding and washing the walls down, followed by adding a coat of primer. David brought home paint swatches for me to look through and we settled on a rich, cream colour that he went out and got this morning.
So far all the doors, skirting boards and door frames have been done, now we just have the ceiling, scotia and actual walls to do. Once the hall is done we're thinking we'll move onto our bedroom. Ideally we'd like to work our way through the whole house, but it will depend on funds.
The down side is that I'm very sensitive to smells and chemicals as they tend to set my allegies off and make my sinuses go into over drive!! I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep too well tonight - oh well, I guess I can just stay up and scrap.
On that note I'll share my latest layout with you, I created this for the weekly challenge over at Scrapbook Dreams, it took me a while to sort out, but I'm really pleased with the final result.
Ok everyone, I'm off to watch "The Tudors".
Ciao
Anyway, this weekend we decided it was time to do it. We spent yesterday sanding and washing the walls down, followed by adding a coat of primer. David brought home paint swatches for me to look through and we settled on a rich, cream colour that he went out and got this morning.
So far all the doors, skirting boards and door frames have been done, now we just have the ceiling, scotia and actual walls to do. Once the hall is done we're thinking we'll move onto our bedroom. Ideally we'd like to work our way through the whole house, but it will depend on funds.
The down side is that I'm very sensitive to smells and chemicals as they tend to set my allegies off and make my sinuses go into over drive!! I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep too well tonight - oh well, I guess I can just stay up and scrap.
On that note I'll share my latest layout with you, I created this for the weekly challenge over at Scrapbook Dreams, it took me a while to sort out, but I'm really pleased with the final result.
Ok everyone, I'm off to watch "The Tudors".
Ciao
Friday, 11 July 2008
How Well Read Are You?
Well, I've seen this list on a few of the blogs I have visited now and decided I should join the crowd and show which I have read. This list is put out by The Big Read. I find it interesting in terms of what is and isn't on the list, there are books on it that I wouldn't have considered in the top 100 and others that I think should be there that aren't. Of course any "top" list will be based on opinions and survey results collected by a particular group and so is open to variation. Anyway, read through the list and join in the fun. I've read quite a few, but then again I'll read pretty much anything.
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see. 1)Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them."
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwel
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (was forced upon us in 5th form)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet- William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Love, love, love Roald Dahl.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Actually - I own most of those I've highlighted. As we were calculating the other day, I own somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 books and would love to have a room in my house that was my own, personal library.
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see. 1)Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them."
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwel
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (was forced upon us in 5th form)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet- William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Love, love, love Roald Dahl.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Actually - I own most of those I've highlighted. As we were calculating the other day, I own somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 books and would love to have a room in my house that was my own, personal library.
Fiskars competiton
Hi there
The Oz/NZ Fiskars site is running a little competition at the moment. Just go here and leave a comment that says I am (your name) from (your location) and that Kirstin from AKLD sent you. It's that simple really.
Have fun :)
The Oz/NZ Fiskars site is running a little competition at the moment. Just go here and leave a comment that says I am (your name) from (your location) and that Kirstin from AKLD sent you. It's that simple really.
Have fun :)
First Week of Holidays Nearly Over.
Well I have spent the last 2 days with a very sore shoulder, barely able to move or turn my head. Don't ask me how I did it, 'cause I don't know. I woke up yesterday with a very tight, sore shoulder muscle and no amount of massaging or heat packs seems to be making a difference. I've just swallowed pain killers and moved carefully - it seems to be starting to settle after almost 2 days, hopefully it's sorted by tomorrow. My shoulder has been unstable since the surgery I had following our accident 5 1/2 years ago and tends to go out from time to time.
Mind you, this hasn't stopped me from scrapbooking - LOL! I finished this layout today using Scrapbook Dreams June "Reminiscing" kit. The photo isn't great as I had to angle it to avoid getting the flash on the photo (raining today and awfully gloomy outside), but it gives you an idea - I'll replace it with a better photo when the weather improves.
I'm also mid way through my contribution to the circle journal currently in my possession. I have decided that I really need a heat gun as a toaster really doesn't cut it when you're trying to emboss stuff.
I also completed these 2 layouts earlier in the week. I had fun working with the circle shaped paper.
Other than scrapbooking I have been working my way through the Otherland series by Tad Williams, which I have read before and throughly enjoy. As well as that I have been blog surfing and discovering new blogs which I have added to my blogroll. My computer has also been busy keeping me in touch with my global teacher's network and all the awesome things happening in ICT and education.
Ok,I'm off to do some more creating.
Ciao
Mind you, this hasn't stopped me from scrapbooking - LOL! I finished this layout today using Scrapbook Dreams June "Reminiscing" kit. The photo isn't great as I had to angle it to avoid getting the flash on the photo (raining today and awfully gloomy outside), but it gives you an idea - I'll replace it with a better photo when the weather improves.
I'm also mid way through my contribution to the circle journal currently in my possession. I have decided that I really need a heat gun as a toaster really doesn't cut it when you're trying to emboss stuff.
I also completed these 2 layouts earlier in the week. I had fun working with the circle shaped paper.
Other than scrapbooking I have been working my way through the Otherland series by Tad Williams, which I have read before and throughly enjoy. As well as that I have been blog surfing and discovering new blogs which I have added to my blogroll. My computer has also been busy keeping me in touch with my global teacher's network and all the awesome things happening in ICT and education.
Ok,I'm off to do some more creating.
Ciao
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