Lanose is the prompt that Brian teased us with. Who else but an Aussie would come up with a word like that? But be honest now: who of you knew that word? Since a variation of “wool” is actually our family’s surname I thought to go back to a simpsonized version of us, the core four. The son on the bottom right actually had the nickname “Wet, Wild and Wooly”. Very lanate and full of lanosity.
I used to sew a bit. Clothes for me before I had children, household stuff (curtains, cushions, throws, table coths, etc.) once I had less time and boys who didn’t really share mum’s taste in clothes. But I kept left-over fabric. I also still bought fabric occasionally with ideas of projects but it’s been in boxes ever since.
Until last week, when I faced the facts. My sewing days are over (except for the odd repair). I piled it all up and I offered it to whomever was interested on our neighbourhood social media.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Mushroom
Advertising can be obnoxious at the best of times. Escpecially when it’s too repetitive (on tv, radio, youtube …) or too in-your-face. One of my pet peeves, however, are grammatical or spelling errors – intentional or unintentional. If you spend money and time on an … Continue reading Annoying
If you don’t and you’re not that famous, you need a shield.
This is Sodenia, the patron of Bad Soden am Taunus, with the crest of the town featuring the globus crucifer.
It’s interesting to note that “liber” means book and free in Latin, with a slightly different pronunciation. My books are free and move between shelves all the time. Quite different to my parent’s house where we placed a book approximately the same size on the shelf when we took one out to read because my dad was very disconcerted by the empty space.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: My Bookshelf
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