tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62208752504714115102024-02-20T12:56:47.993+00:00Lavender and PearlsSharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1689125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-69943800394462089592016-08-21T05:30:00.000+01:002016-08-21T05:30:12.819+01:00It's been a while....<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">....I know, since I last posted a "proper" post ~ please accept my apologies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've found myself in a weird kind of limbo for a few months now ~ since a little before my birthday, actually, back in June. I've felt quite strange, to be honest, as if my journey through life has changed course all by itself with no conscious input from me! It has sort of crept up on me and presented itself as a fait accompli...as I say, somewhat weird and strange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am feeling the need to change quite a few aspects of my life. Not in huge ways, it's more a case of lots of little changes which I suppose will come together in time and show me the new path I am to travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of those changes is my blog. This will be the last post on Lavender and Pearls, although not a goodbye to the blogging world. I have set up a new blog, <a href="https://tabisbutterflymind.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><i>Tabi's Butterfly Mind</i></a> , which I hope you may like to visit from time-to-time.....hopefully I will see you over there :-) </span></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-77937912930578667692016-08-21T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-21T05:00:12.581+01:00The Sunday Prayer<br />
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<i style="color: #888888; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="text-align: start;">Father, Mother, God,</b></span></i></div>
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Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.</div>
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For then we have you to lean upon.</div>
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Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.</div>
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For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.</div>
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And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.</div>
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For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends</div>
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For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.</div>
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For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.</div>
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For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.</div>
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For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.</div>
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For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.</div>
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Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.</div>
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<i>(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)</i></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-35719903683200287282016-08-19T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-19T05:00:13.703+01:00Feel-good Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-72744799016987183282016-08-18T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-18T05:00:13.293+01:00The Thursday Poem<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #727272; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><i>From <span style="font-size: large;">The Night</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Through that pure Virgin-shrine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sacred veil o'er thy glorious noon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That men might look and live as Glow-worms shine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And face the Moon:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wise Nicodemus saw such light</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As made him know his God by night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Were all my loud, evil days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Calm and unhaunted as is thy dark Tent,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whose peace but by some Angels wing or voice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is seldom rent;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I in Heaven all the long year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Would keep, and never wander here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But living where the sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Doth all things wake, and where all mix and tyre</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Themselves and others, I consent and run</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To ev'ry myre,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And by this world's ill-guiding light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Err more then I can do by night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is in God (some say)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Say it is late and dusky, because they</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See not all clear;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O for that night! where I in him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Might live invisible and dim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(17th April 1622 - 23rd April 1695) </i></span></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-69989934173634219842016-08-17T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-17T05:00:27.436+01:00Words on Wednesday<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Grey hair is hereditary...you get it from your children ;-)</i></b></span></div>
SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-69476973973688784782016-08-14T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-14T05:00:34.234+01:00The Sunday Prayer<br />
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<i style="color: #888888; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="text-align: start;">Father, Mother, God,</b></span></i></div>
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Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.</div>
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For then we have you to lean upon.</div>
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Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.</div>
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For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.</div>
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And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.</div>
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For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends</div>
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For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.</div>
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For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.</div>
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For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.</div>
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For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.</div>
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For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.</div>
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Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.</div>
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<i>Maya Angelou</i></div>
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<i>(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)</i></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-79760238206235035282016-08-12T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-12T05:00:28.841+01:00Feel-good Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-86383471871659640612016-08-11T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-11T05:00:06.532+01:00The Thursday Poem<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #727272; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>I wandered lonely as a cloud</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wandered lonely as a cloud</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That floats on high o'er vales and hills,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When all at once I saw a crowd,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A host of golden daffodils;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beside the lake, beneath the trees,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continuous as the stars that shine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And twinkle on the milky way,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They stretched in never-ending line</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Along the margins of a bay:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ten thousand saw I at a glance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The waves beside them danced; but they</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A poet could not but be gay,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In such a jocund company:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gazed - and gazed - but little thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What wealth the show to me had brought:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For oft, when on my couch I lie</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In vacant or in pensive mood,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They flash upon that inward eye</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Which is the bliss of solitude;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then my heart with pleasure fills</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And dances with the daffodils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>William Wordsworth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(7th April 1770 - 23rd April 1850)</i></span></div>
SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-52632232714302782612016-08-10T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-10T05:00:00.160+01:00Words on Wednesday<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A wise man turns chance into good fortune</i></b></span></div>
SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-81679118277216265452016-08-07T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-07T05:00:09.413+01:00The Sunday Prayer<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><a href="http://www.allposters.co.uk/" style="color: #99d4ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dove of Peace by Pablo Picasso</a></i></td></tr>
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<i style="color: #888888; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="text-align: start;">Father, Mother, God,</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="text-align: start;"><br /></b></span></span></i></div>
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Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.</div>
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For then we have you to lean upon.</div>
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Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.</div>
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For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.</div>
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And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.</div>
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For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends</div>
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For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.</div>
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For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.</div>
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For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.</div>
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For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.</div>
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For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.</div>
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Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.</div>
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<i>Maya Angelou</i></div>
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<i>(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)</i></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-42198964540847181582016-08-05T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-05T05:00:00.236+01:00Feel-good Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-12609941613283551352016-08-04T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-04T05:00:22.361+01:00The Thursday Poem<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #727272; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><i style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: x-small; line-height: 24.64px;"><a href="http://www.allposters.co.uk/" style="color: #6ea1bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Potted Flowers with Books IV</a></i><br /><span style="color: #7f7f7f; line-height: 24.64px;"><a href="http://www.allposters.co.uk/" style="color: #99d4ff; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Eric Barjot</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Dover Beach</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sea is calm tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tide is full, the moon lies fair</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Upon the straits; on the French coast the light</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Only, from the long line of spray</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Listen! you hear the grating roar</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At their return, up the high strand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Begin, and cease, and then again begin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With tremulous cadence slow, and bring</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The eternal note of sadness in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sophocles long ago</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of human misery; we</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Find also in the sound a thought,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hearing it by this distant northern sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Sea of Faith</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But now I only hear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its meloncholy, long, withdrawing roar,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Retreating, to the breath</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And naked shingles of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ah, love, let us be true</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To one another! for the world, which seems</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To lie before us like a land of dreams,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So various, so beautiful, so new,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we are here as on a darkling plain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where ignorant armies clash by night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Matthew Arnold</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(24th December 1822 - 15th April 1888)</i></span></div>
SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-78478715012113710332016-08-03T05:00:00.000+01:002016-08-03T05:00:25.703+01:00Words on Wednesday<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Dieting is when the days seem longer and the meals shorter!</i></b></span></div>
SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-21015081219008134822016-07-31T07:00:00.000+01:002016-07-31T07:00:04.060+01:00The Sunday Prayer<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><a href="http://www.allposters.co.uk/" style="color: #99d4ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dove of Peace by Pablo Picasso</a></i></td></tr>
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<i style="color: #888888; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="text-align: start;">Father, Mother, God,</b></span></i></div>
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Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.</div>
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For then we have you to lean upon.</div>
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Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.</div>
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For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.</div>
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And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.</div>
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For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends</div>
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For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.</div>
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For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.</div>
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For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.</div>
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For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.</div>
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For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.</div>
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Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.</div>
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<i>Maya Angelou</i></div>
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<i>(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)</i></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-55089276306458374372016-07-29T07:00:00.000+01:002016-07-29T07:00:26.713+01:00Feel-good Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-31930850885083002882016-07-28T07:00:00.000+01:002016-07-28T07:00:46.653+01:00The Thursday Poem<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #727272; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><i>From <span style="font-size: large;">Memories of President Lincoln</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">(in Leaves of Grass)</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">O Captain! My Captain!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While follow eyes the steady keel, the vesses grim and daring;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But O heart! heart! heart!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O the bleeding drops of red!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where on the deck my Captain lies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fallen cold and dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths - for you the shores</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a-crowding,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here, Captain! dear father!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This arm beneath your head!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is some dream that on the deck</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You've fallen cold and dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Exult, O shores! and ring, O bells!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I, with mournful tread,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Walk the deck my Captain lies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fallen cold and dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Walt Whitman</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(31st May 1819 - 26th March 1892)</i></span></div>
SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-6218065546240706252016-07-27T07:00:00.000+01:002016-07-27T07:00:02.619+01:00Words on Wednesday<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history!</i></b></span></div>
SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-81726770959917269662016-07-19T14:10:00.001+01:002016-07-19T14:10:13.448+01:00Doggie owners & walkers.....<br />
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-55329028656842988062016-06-26T07:00:00.000+01:002016-06-26T07:00:11.141+01:00The Sunday Prayer<br />
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<i style="color: #888888; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="text-align: start;">Father, Mother, God,</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="text-align: start;"><br /></b></span></span></i></div>
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Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.</div>
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For then we have you to lean upon.</div>
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Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.</div>
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For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.</div>
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And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.</div>
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For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends</div>
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For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.</div>
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For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.</div>
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For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.</div>
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For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.</div>
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For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.</div>
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Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.</div>
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<i>(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)</i></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-28722247908032740802016-06-24T07:00:00.000+01:002016-06-24T07:00:10.261+01:00Feel-good Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-58762387229394815972016-06-23T07:00:00.000+01:002016-06-23T07:00:03.400+01:00The Thursday Poem<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #727272; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;"><i style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: x-small; line-height: 24.64px;"><a href="http://www.allposters.co.uk/" style="color: #6ea1bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Potted Flowers with Books IV</a></i><br /><span style="color: #7f7f7f; line-height: 24.64px;"><a href="http://www.allposters.co.uk/" style="color: #99d4ff; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Eric Barjot</a></span></td></tr>
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<b><i>From<span style="font-size: large;"> Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i>For Marie Heaney</i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Sunlight</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a sunlit absence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The helmeted pump in the yard</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">heated its iron,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">water honeyed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the slung bucket</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the sun stood</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like a griddle cooling</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">against the wall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of each long afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, her hands scuffled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">over the bakeboard</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the reddening stove</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sent its plaque of heat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">against her where she stood</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in a floury apron</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by the window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now she dusts the board</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with a goose's wing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">now sits, broad-lapped,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with whitened nails</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and measling shins:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">here is a space</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">again, the scone rising</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to the tick of two clocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here is love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like a tinsmith's scoop</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sunk past its gleam</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the meal-bin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Seamus Heaney</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(13th April 1939 - 30th August 2013)</i></span></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-70823502876944442782016-06-22T07:00:00.000+01:002016-06-22T07:00:27.858+01:00Words on Wednesday<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #727272; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Failure is more frequently from want of energy</i></b></span></div>
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SharonLarkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17656369681782524281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6220875250471411510.post-1959429879330530072016-06-21T07:26:00.000+01:002016-06-21T07:26:00.723+01:00A little wander around the garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was my birthday on 6th June and when my sister-in-law and her partner came to visit last week, they brought some pressies with them :-) The first was this group of resin toadstools, which I think look very good peaking out from beneath the ice plant...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and the second was this handsome ceramic frog, now sitting just a hop away from one of the nature pools :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is still plenty of staining to be done. I only got half of my work shed finished last year ~ what a difference between the two halves, eh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gave the bird box a sprucing-up. The woodstain is called Pale Thistle, by Cuprinol. It's a very pretty colour and I will be using it elsewhere in the garden. Adrian had saved an offcut of roofing felt leftover from the chicken houses which I glued to the bird box roof, so it has a bit more protection from the weather now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A man and his tools LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Creeping Jenny is a recurring theme in my garden. I know it can be a wee bit invasive, given half a chance, but I find it very useful for filling in odd or difficult spaces, and keeping the weeds down. It's easy enough to simply pull up plants when they start to stray into areas where I don't want them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really like Jenny's pretty yellow flowers :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the houseleeks are starting to flower...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and all the offshoots are now settled and doing well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I bought this purple sage at the Triangle Garden open day the weekend-before-last. The leaves smell divine and the flowers have already had numerous visits from bees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know what variety this geranium is but I've had it ~ or rather, offshoots of the original plant ~ for a good number of years. It's a very pretty shade of blue and grows well in the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Osteospermum Weetwood. The pretty white flowers close up, like other daisies, at night or when it is a very dull day, which I find very endearing :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finally got the fern, liriope muscari and pulmonaria planted in their new home. I decided to add woodchips as a mulch and I'm very pleased with how it looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you like my new outdoor rug? I wanted something bigger than a standard doormat to put by the patio door, and found this online from Matalan. It's been rained on in this photo so the colours look a tad duller than they really are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the coping stones on the brick raised bed have come adrift, but hopefully <a href="http://www.handyman.cleaning/" target="_blank">Steve</a> will fix them before winter comes this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">View from the patio door. As you can see, the garden is only small but it keeps me occupied and out of mischief!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The weekend before last, we still had a manky old concrete path and miscellaneous paving slabs in the back garden ~ really not a pretty sight! On the Saturday, hubby girded his loins and started attacking said paving with my Dad's iron pry-bar (which we have had custody of for years now LOL)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and this was the end result ~ no more dodgy paving (well, not in the slate chippings area, at any rate!) and weed membrane in place ready for the next stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just look at those chunks of concrete and all the rubble attached to the underside! The path was most likely put down when the house was built, back in 1955. It had lots of cracks across it and was generally in a bad state, so it was a relief to finally get rid of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last Friday we had 50 bags of green slate chippings delivered, which Adrian and Sam then moved from the front garden to the back when they got in from work. Neither of them needed a trip to the gym after moving all those bags!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Saturday, Adrian and I spread out all 50 of those bags of slate. We thought that perhaps we had ordered too much, but we used it all. It looks quite pale and white here but now that it has rained (yet again *sigh*), the dust has been washed off and it looks lovely :-) Oh, and Adrian (with a little bit of assistance from yours-truly) also re-roofed both the chicken houses on Saturday, too!</span></div>
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Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.</div>
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For then we have you to lean upon.</div>
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Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days.</div>
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For then we can share that which we have with those who have less.</div>
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And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days.</div>
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For then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends</div>
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For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak.</div>
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For those who feel unworthy, we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.</div>
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For those who live in pain, we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.</div>
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For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.</div>
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For those who are depressed, we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.</div>
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Dear Creator, You, the borderless sea of substance, we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most.....PEACE.</div>
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<i>Maya Angelou</i></div>
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<i>(4th April 1928 - 28th May 2014)</i></div>
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