tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020460222532380482024-03-06T01:27:01.649+00:00PennyblossomsPennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.comBlogger613125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-18785604596537796022023-05-30T17:51:00.002+01:002023-05-30T18:04:54.486+01:00Vintage Birthday Party <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPm6-hSbkqNcb4U3O_zK2RjfYrGG8BHFTz0nT4fRrM7hmSPDEzQMIS6oTUAdK6fMCsH1bjvbC76WiVRk86qfe2o7y2EQpyeTsRuPsYj6yCKrP8qj6CtHSDEYUNM30yL29IlqpCMEFUmzcBdwB547wSlZDmeprulPTIOJUnE3HT-K5z6IpQZYCck6uErA/s625/IMG_20230530_173421_397.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="625" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPm6-hSbkqNcb4U3O_zK2RjfYrGG8BHFTz0nT4fRrM7hmSPDEzQMIS6oTUAdK6fMCsH1bjvbC76WiVRk86qfe2o7y2EQpyeTsRuPsYj6yCKrP8qj6CtHSDEYUNM30yL29IlqpCMEFUmzcBdwB547wSlZDmeprulPTIOJUnE3HT-K5z6IpQZYCck6uErA/w640-h640/IMG_20230530_173421_397.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This picture is over 50 years old!! It must've been taken by my dad, late 60s or possibly 1970.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">My mum has her hair up in a French pleat, her usual style and is wearing a very fetching silver party hat!</p><p style="text-align: center;">I'm fascinated that the silver tea service is out, and going by the shape, the very, very early Susie Cooper cups and saucers. Oh yes, my parents were into "vintage" before the word "vintage" was even a thing. And yes, it has rubbed off on me!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Zxx </p>Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-68664439171315026522023-05-28T00:55:00.003+01:002023-05-29T01:05:54.683+01:002009 to now<p style="text-align: center;">I started my blog on 28 May 2009. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbv6etCLNVqJ9zxQqfmd5yWsTPEznf4rSjoOfTYC5z7ItyNHU-CCuSFv8gqBBEV5xC8syXqryHyG76RwWTkLdnZkcrBa4u_ZlQb2DCqCaLo3zzXkpalmEkKY4RMcg59EwwgWHxZCoUVoVIFckRF8cKOwNI-4FNpDsc0zqlYfzF3ZFGGE1D6LpFJaCiWg/s4000/IMG_20230528_170936186.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbv6etCLNVqJ9zxQqfmd5yWsTPEznf4rSjoOfTYC5z7ItyNHU-CCuSFv8gqBBEV5xC8syXqryHyG76RwWTkLdnZkcrBa4u_ZlQb2DCqCaLo3zzXkpalmEkKY4RMcg59EwwgWHxZCoUVoVIFckRF8cKOwNI-4FNpDsc0zqlYfzF3ZFGGE1D6LpFJaCiWg/s320/IMG_20230528_170936186.jpg" width="144" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">I'm just checking in, 2023. That's 14 years I've been writing about my life. </p><p style="text-align: center;">I think I need to get back into it!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Zxx</p>Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-52015242341081641632015-05-21T21:11:00.000+01:002015-05-21T21:11:19.147+01:00BEDM - Day 21 "Collaboration"<div style="text-align: center;">
Today I am collaborating with Kezzie over at <a href="http://kerenzaallin-garner.blogspot.co.uk/">Kezzie AG</a>. She suggested that we ask each other questions. <em>My</em> idea, from Mr B, was that we did some sort of Skype-y video thingy of her teaching me Chopsticks! Not enough time for us to figure it out for today; but the future? Hey, you never know!<br />
I called my questions to her " KezzieQuest". Any questions, from anybody, directed to me are called "Interrogation"!<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">1.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;">What was the finest or your favourite hat you ever made and why?</span></em><br />
<span style="color: black;">I rather liked one I made for a ladies' second wedding. She was a 'mature lady' and my friend was doing her suit, in scarlet silk with a sort of lime green piping. It sorta sounds garish, but it was very smart. The hat she wanted was, so I was told, like the one that Jamie Curtis wore in "A Fish Called Wanda", which I hadn't seen. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">We didn't have access in those days like we all take for granted nowadays, so I sussed she meant a Jackie O-type pillbox with a big bow on the back.</span><br />
All in the red silk and piped in green. Even the big, puffy bow. I think it looked fab. Sadly, no photo but I know she also wore it to Glorious Goodwood, so she must've liked it too!<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">2.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;">Who was your favourite teacher or lecturer through life and what difference did they make or how did they inspire you?</span></em><br />
<span style="color: black;">This was tough. I narrowed it down to 3. In reverse order, Gordon, who I worked with at Festival Ballet. Generous to many of us with his knowledge and spirit. He went on to work lecturing costume in Hong Kong and it broke my heart to find out that he had been stabbed to death in his own flat with his cutting out scissors. Second, Mr Hathaway from Junior School. Just brilliant in all respects. Our big Summer Term project with him was building a Saxon Hut and a Charcoal Burners Hut in a corner of the school playing fields.</span><br />
But in first place, the wonderful Mr Little. Also in Junior School, the year before Mr Hathaway and the designer of LOBNIC - Little's Own Binary Numbers Instant Calculator, or words to that effect. He also helped teach us French by playing Bingo in French...'Maison!'. Well, we were only about 9 years old at the time!<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">3.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;">If you could design a new crisp flavour, what would yours be? </span></em><br />
<span style="color: black;">I'm wondering about cheese and pineapple? </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">When I was younger, before the choice there is now, someone taught me about putting Worcestershire Sauce into a bag of ready salted and giving it a good shake.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">4.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;">What was your most embarrassing work experience ever?</span></em><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">Calling Chantal, Princess von Ernst of Hanover</span><em> '</em></span><span style="color: black;">Mrs Hanover' when filling in an order form for her at Catherine's! </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I only found out when I came to do the banking and logged her cheque in for items she had bought from the women's wear boutique. ( I had been working in the children's shop.) In my defence, the form was one of those pre-printed ones with Mr/Mrs/Miss on, so at least I didn't put Mr! For another good boobie, again at Catherine's, <a href="http://penny-blossoms.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/pantone-shade-for-2015.html">read this</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">5.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;"> What led you to follow the career you followed?</span></em><br />
<span style="color: black;">I went to design college not knowing what I wanted to do. I had tried really hard to get an apprenticeship as a farrier, whilst still at school, with no joy. I did the Foundation Course and didn't want to do a degree so it was a toss up to either do Theatre Design & TV Crafts or Product Design, purely on the basis of wanting to be able to use the amazing workshops that were available. I plumped for theatre because I could sew. One of my tutors was Head of Millinery at The Royal Opera house; we hit it off and I had a flair for hat making.</span><br />
I pushed myself out there in what was due to be my last year at college, and was offered a job with Freddie Fox, with college agreeing to me doing one day a week with FF in my final term and then go into a full time job.<br />
Then I got glandular fever big time. My mum thought I had luekemia I was that unwell. So everything went a bit tits up! When I finally finished my course and moved to London I was lucky enough to get work as Wardrobe Mistress for visiting companies to Sadler's Wells, for Dance Umbrella. The theatre was also home for Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, (aka BRB now), and eventually moved permanently to the Making Wardrobe, as opposed to Touring Wardrobe, for them.<br />
Was head-hunted by Gordie at LFB.<br />
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Then I moved to work with a friends' mother, who made bridal wear in Chelsea which was hellish and then went to Catherine's.</div>
Fast forward to us living in Southsea, where I set up as freelance maker and then eventually re-training in Business Administration and then working as a technical librarian for an engineering company that carried out work for British Aerospace amongst others.<br />
I loved it. <br />
Sadly, my clinical depression started and I was ultimately made redundant, which didn't help.<br />
I now am termed 'a homemaker' or what I call Mr B's PA!!<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">6.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;"> If you were offered some sort of blog opportunity, what would your ideal one be?</span></em><br />
<span style="color: black;">No idea. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Maybe something for large ladies or something for mental health or something for large ladies <em>with </em>mental health issues!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: magenta;">7.</span><em> Where was your most exciting holiday ever?</em></span><br />
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</span>I'm tempted to say I don't do 'exciting' but I <u>am</u> doing something exciting at the end of June.<br />
If I can get out of the house, which nearly tripping myself up just going to the bakers this lunchtime, I wonder if I'll manage it! It's just the stress I think that makes me lose balance; I must look drunk if you are walking behind me!<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">8.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;">What is your most favourite item in your wardrobe?</span></em><br />
<span style="color: black;">Depends what for. Generally trousers and if at home all day, then comfy.</span><br />
Can't think of one extra special item though.<br />
Will have a think on that one!<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">9.</span> <em><span style="color: purple;">Share your most shocking deed as a child (if you dare!??!!)</span></em><br />
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When I was away at school, aged 12, a whole load of us went into the field next to the tennis courts and 'fought' with the local boys. <br />
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We got sent to bed early, (I mean about 6 o'clock early), with no supper, just bread and water. I can't remember her exact words, but Mardi, the headmistress, was really, <em>really</em> not pleased with me!<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Brent Cottage, where I grew up. It was idyllic. And a lack of fear. I was always wary, but it's the fact you don't take in the huge enormity of stuff when you're a kid, do you?</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">11</span>. <span style="color: purple;"><em>Tell me your favourite word and why?</em></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Tabby. Yes, I know, my cats' name. But we would, and still do, sing what we call The Tabby Cat Song aka the SATC theme tune with Tab Tab Tab as the words. Or The Big Bang Theory with Tab, Tab Tab, it all started with a tabby cat! CAT!! Try it, it's catchy!</span><br />
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Phew! If you're still reading, I take my hat off to you! (ha ha).<br />
Thank you, Kezzie, it's been a blast! <br />
Now, about Chopsticks...........<br />
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-50755035212616102602015-05-18T23:04:00.001+01:002015-05-18T23:04:46.834+01:00BEDM - Day 18 "Newsflash!"<div align="center">
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It is a beautiful place; if you ever get a chance to visit, grab it with both hands!</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-81466942693000264032015-05-15T19:02:00.000+01:002015-05-15T19:02:46.007+01:00BEDM - Day 14 and Day 15 "Fashion/Style/Photography" Cheating Combo<div align="center">
I am not having a good week, but I know it will improve!</div>
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Can't get any impetus to blog, even with BEDM giving me a topic to write about. I feel really depressed, which is unusual for me. I may have been diagnosed as clinically depressed, but for the most part, I don't go around 'feeling' it! It's all the other cr*p associated with it, that messes me up!</div>
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So, I'm cheating and combining a Polaroid of me taken by Chris Roberts, who took the cover photographs of Sade for her album 'Diamond Life'.</div>
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Sade must be one of the most stylish ladies. Just search for her on the Internet and you'll see what I mean. Classy, timeless. Sings pretty well too!</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-65516779077683161012015-05-13T21:59:00.000+01:002015-05-13T21:59:46.898+01:00BEDM - Day 13 "Top Tips"<div align="center">
My recipe post is on its' way, post written, just need to find the actual recipe! I've made it that often that I just 'throw' stuff in, but for a first timer, it might help to have measurements.</div>
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(It's that old it'll be in ounces tho').</div>
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The first one is if you have sluggish plugholes use old coffee grains. Pour the used grains down the plughole, followed with some liquid soap and then pour down some very hot water. Bingo! I've only recently tried this out in the bath and after a couple of 'doses' the water is draining away so much better.</div>
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The second one will probably make you go "Eurgh!", but it does work; I know as it was used on me.</div>
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Years ago I was having my hair dyed black in a salon in Southampton by a student. She managed to get dye all over the sides of my face(!). They used the salon dye remover but it didn't budge it. They called the boss, as she was on her day off, and she told them to collect cigarette ash.</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-35754810127162034972015-05-12T23:30:00.000+01:002015-05-12T23:30:00.516+01:00BEDM - Day 10 "Wishlist"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Having had smoke and a vile smell coming from my washing machine this morning, I am putting that in very big letters at the top of my list!</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-79016828473653117022015-05-12T15:41:00.000+01:002015-05-12T17:03:54.444+01:00BEDM Day 11 "Walk To Work"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
If I don't add this now, I will <em>never</em> get back on track!</div>
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It isn't a fountain, tho' there is a fountain later on. It is a birdbath.</div>
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It is an anemone de Caen, but my French pronunciation is beyond dodgy!</div>
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But do enjoy Dawnies' ice cream van tune, the fountain burbles, birdsong and the buzzing bee at the end.</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-48554391913211433452015-05-09T21:49:00.000+01:002015-05-09T21:49:35.232+01:00BEDM - Day 9 "Secret Talent"<div style="text-align: center;">
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Made with bits and pieces found around the home, years ago, I thought I'd make a fly screen curtain for the back door. The nylon cord came from a kite that my dad made me when I was about 9. The kite got trashed almost on its' first outing, but its' line was on a wooden kite reel that dad had made as well and that got kept...because one day, 'it would come in handy'. The brown plastic spacers I cut from the outer casing from copper wire that I had stripped out, (and probably had used for something else!). The leaves were stripped off fake rose stems used to make the bouquets that were handed out to Roxy and Velma in the original London production of Chicago.</div>
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Bed with a view - wardrobes, window, make-up drawers and a Rene cat.</div>
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Not the news I had hoped for, for my town. This is the man that OK'd the brand new Bus Station that cannot cope with all the buses which means people have to stand out on the road in all weathers to catch their bus. Also the new Rail Station with lots of nasty, steep, concrete steps at its' entrance and a single lift. Not exactly good disabled access for the 21st century.</div>
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Watched a little bit of this BBC4 programme and can't wait to see it all. Two hours of real-time footage on a canal boat travelling on the Kennet and Avon Canal; so no doubt some stunning scenery and views of Bath to come. Lovely.</div>
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This could also be under the guilty pleasure banner. My daily fix of Jigzone. A different picture every day and a choice of how may pieces, so good for all ages. I tend to go for 184 which takes me a little less than 15 minutes. A nice little break with a cup of coffee.</div>
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The whole afternoon was spent pricking out and potting on seedlings. I did it in the kitchen, nipping in and out between showers. This wet weather has brought out loads of slugs, nasty little bu**ers! I thought birds ate the yucky things, but for all our menagerie of birdies, they don't seem to be doing a very good job.</div>
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The robins fledged a couple of days ago. Sadly we found one that didn't make it under the bench. We think it was the 'interloper' cat that we had just chased out of the garden. But 2 out of 3 is good. We also found an adult blue tit the other day, which was sad, but there seems to be much to-ing and fro-ing to the hole in the wall above loo window, so hopefully that family will fly off safely when the time comes. Don't know quite what happened to the blackbirds' nest in the honeysuckle. There was a couple of babies and the next time I looked the nest just seemed to have fallen apart! But, again, they seem to be keeping close to 'home'.</div>
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It's about 7:30, Corrie is about to come on and I'm waiting for Mr B to come home from work. He's bringing in dinner from M&S...fish, chips and peas, so that won't take long to cook. Or eat. We'll plonk ourselves down for the ballet portion of BBC Young Dancer of the Year at 8. We know 2 of the 3 judges, Kenny and Dominic, so that'll be a bit of a giggle. The dancers have been fabulous to watch. Last week was the Asian section and they were fantastic.</div>
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A bit of TV news at 10. We still don't know how our local elections went. Northampton had a power cut just as they had started doing the counting, so they were going to start again at 6:30. Let's hope they do a better job than the last lot, even if it's the same party, as <em>he </em>is now our MP. And they wonder why our town never gets 'City Status'.</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-65700497223685009492015-05-07T23:46:00.000+01:002015-05-07T23:46:17.394+01:00BEDM - Day 7 "Home Sweet Home"<div align="center">
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The family house down the road had two crates worth. </div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-84429159364890322382015-05-06T22:41:00.000+01:002015-05-06T22:41:11.993+01:00BEDM - Day 6 "Share The Blog Love"<div align="center">
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I'd say take your pick. They're all good!</div>
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Or, for something a bit different, check out the same post a year ago, <a href="http://penny-blossoms.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/bedm-day-4-my-5-favourite-blogs.html">here</a>, for the original bloggers that got me started. Narrowboating bloggers have a lot to answer for!<br />
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But if you only ever read one more post, make it this one, <a href="http://menopausaloldbag.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/legs-akimbo-lil-pap-test-queen.html">"Legs Akimbo LIL - the PAP test Queen...."</a> from MOB (menopausal old bag). She hasn't blogged for years but all her posts are brilliantly written, funny, (apart from the one about the passing of her kitty), and in the case of this one, a little bit 'vulgar'.<br />
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They had a most wonderful Floral Tent, our very own 'Southsea Chelsea' so to speak.</div>
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There were all sorts of displays - these cacti, sweet peas, (my fave), professional growers, WI groups, kiddies mini gardens, (I loved doing those at school).</div>
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I wore my red leather trousers home for the first time and a family friend, Lois, was visiting. She was determined to find out how much I had paid for them and, in front of my mum and dad, kept pestering until I gave up and said they were eighty pounds.</div>
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I'd been working for a while at The Wells and had seen these in a store up Chapel Street Market and, once tried on, they had to be mine. They fitted like a dream and they wore and wore and wore. Even when they got ripped on the train down to Plymouth, they got stitched up and worn some more.</div>
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With red leather boots in the cold and my Arnie Zane cut-off T-shirt in the summer.</div>
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The year was 1987 and I loved those jeans like, well, a second skin. </div>
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But that chat at my parents - oh my, my dad, he very nearly went ballistic!</div>
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Guilt? Oh yeah!</div>
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It is quite shattering to see the developmental changes. What was not much more than scrubland and disused docks, is now what it is today. </div>
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To be fair though, most of it was Laura Gellar stuff which is a mineral make-up and therefore not too awful to have left on. </div>
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I'm think crystals are a positive force. How? Not really sure but they've been good for me. Regular heavy-duty massage for my neck/spine because of scoliosis. I quite fancy taking up Pilates, which is a fantastic thing. Working in a dance environment I was introduced to it donkeys years ago and, with hindsight, wish I'd pursued it.</div>
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Having been in a really rather horrible dark place with clinical depression my self care has left a lot to be desired. I don't think anyone has ever sat next to me and thought "She smells", but daily ablutions really didn't figure in my day, (not very much did), and even now it is something I have to consciously think about as opposed to doing it on 'auto-pilot', if that makes sense.</div>
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My garden has quite seriously been a life-saver and I would say grow something, wherever you live. The garden isn't very big but I cram a lot in and the excitement when, like today, my broad beans began to show...WOW!! </div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-2451837569879185412015-05-02T20:59:00.000+01:002015-05-02T20:59:48.258+01:00BEDM - Day 2 "Adventure"<div align="center">
I have to admit I am not much of an adventurer, in the going-off-and-travelling sense.</div>
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An adventure from way back, when I was at school; I has just started to take driving lessons and school had started a 'pre-driving class'. </div>
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Part of this class involved going to the Race Circuit at Goodwood, for classroom lessons and then a chance to actually drive around the track itself. The car I drove was an Inca yellow mini and we all screeched as I drove it through its' first 100 miles on the clock! As I had my Provisional Licence I was also able to drive around the Goodwood Estate are which was beautiful. </div>
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I think that BEDM has come just at a good time, (yeah, like, um, the beginning of May?).</div>
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I ground to a halt after loosing Tabby and just retreated into my shell. Either that or I was just being a grumpy git!</div>
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For those who don't know me or need a re-cap, I'm Zoe, not actually 'Penny' but called this blog after a storyline in an episode of The Big Bang Theory, a show I love so much that when I watch it on E4 I'll watch it again on E4+1. I am getting scarily word perfect on some of the episodes!</div>
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I have a long-suffering partner, who is known as Mr B on this site, because one blogger commented about 'Mr Blossom'. He isn't, but the name serves a purpose.</div>
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I said out loud to him "Ah, yes...Pennyblossoms; I'm fat and 50, that's my introduction", to which he replied "Not fat, fabulous". That sounds a lot more positive, but I am very overweight, due in part to laziness, mental health issues and medication (probably). </div>
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But a lot better than when I started this blog at the end of May 2009.</div>
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And actually I'm nearly 55!</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-53726711786601540292015-05-01T14:23:00.001+01:002015-05-01T14:39:35.160+01:00Pucker Up<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-36511145669689205302015-03-18T20:34:00.000+00:002015-03-18T20:34:32.943+00:00My Little Tabba Cat<div align="center">
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So, the icon that is Madonna, fell over on stage in spectacular style.<br />
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And for all there would've been a gazillion rehearsals, which the tabloids were forever telling us about, the 'beauty' of 'live' performance shows the pitfalls that can occur.</div>
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Madonna was lucky. A dancer I worked with on my first professional job, several years later died from a brain haemorrhage<strong> </strong>after falling off the stage into the orchestra pit. I know of another friend who fell into the pit, dusted himself off and got back on stage with not even a bruise...but it could have been so much worse.</div>
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But she got back up and carried on. A true 'pro'.</div>
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I had to cancel my opticians appointment last week. But today, after a half-decent night, (as opposed to a night of very little sleep punctuated with numerous trips to the loo!), I caught the bus into Jimmys' End. Not quite as far as the town centre, and only one bus, but still, I am chuffed to bits.</div>
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The last time I left the house; at the Vintage Jumble, on the 10th January!</div>
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Pennyblossomshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388493778279660511noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802046022253238048.post-71147979201523117652015-02-14T00:30:00.000+00:002015-02-14T00:30:00.677+00:00To The Light Of My Life<div align="center">
A little Valentines' vignette or two.<br />
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The 2 pale blue hearts are made by Sharon at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/SHABBY-POLKA-DOTS/103595026348838?ref=br_tf">Shabby Polka Dots</a>; the Union Jack one by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/suzanne.heartsnkisses1?fref=ts">Suzanne Heartsnkisses.</a> The others are from <a href="http://www.homesense.com/">Homesense</a> ages ago.</div>
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The Christmas roses stay out to do a turn on the 14th February. <br />
Note my 'Paris' wallpaper.<br />
How very romantic!<br />
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People like this make me feel lucky I had my youth when I did.</div>
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Steve Strange - 28 May 1959-12 February 2015<br />
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Apparently, my birth day twinnie, but just a year older.<br />
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My favourite Visage song, Night Train.</div>
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Most of this month has been spent in sleepwear, inside looking out.</div>
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