day 342

Day 342
Prompt 342
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
-Marian Wright Edelman

DD caught me like this last night, I guess that was me putting myself first being in bed by 9 to combat the tiredness from a wonderful but very busy weekend. Putting ourselves first above the family or work is very difficult at any time of year but even more so in the current season.

day 341

Day 341
Prompt 341

These are the magic years…and therefore magic days…and therefore magic moments.
-Anonymous

I waited for last night ot do this prompt as I knew it would be totally magical and I was so right. Our friend Sandie has to be the most perfect hostess, the house is divine the table straight out of a glassy magazine and the food superb. Ad that to a wonderful group of friends and what more could a girl ask for. A truely magical evening for all.

day 340

Day 340
Prompt 340
"Let us pause to warm both our hands before the fire of life"
-Walter Landor

Oh I'm so happy to oblige with this one, it's certainly cold enough to need to light the fire today. It makes everything so cosy too I love the open fire even if it is a fake one.

day 337

Day 339
Prompt 339
"If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on you hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate'er you do."
Anon

It was certainly cold and I actually made it into town in the light, so I was thrilled to catch one of our shops all lit up in it's blue glory as they were shooting Midsummer Murders in there today!

days 337 and 338

Day 358
Prompt 358
“How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"
-William Shakespeare

I don't get to get any nice piccy's in the light on work days so plumped instead for the neccesary accessories for this time of year!

Day 357
Prompt 357

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
- Dr. Seuss
The end of the year is nigh, our 365 journey is coming to an end, what has changed since June till now?

Oh this is easy for me here's me in june and me now!

LO 48

Here's my love LO

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Day 336
Prompt 336

Embarrassment
Embarrassment is an emotional state experienced upon having a socially or professionally unacceptable act or condition witnessed by or revealed to others

Oh this is something I used to feel so often and deeply, not so badly anymore due chiefly to increasing age I should think.
Day 335
Prompt 335

Love, loving
Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong effection

Oh how I love these too, we have so little time together really and one of us is often distracted, just like DH to be on the phone or one of us to be on the laptop.