tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65858018911256059632024-03-05T19:28:39.998-08:00Happily ever after.nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.comBlogger424125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-39910332737341729532020-07-04T06:35:00.002-07:002020-07-04T06:35:33.336-07:00Happy 4th of July!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spread the love. Share far and wide. x</span>nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-26352580855376922772020-04-14T17:47:00.001-07:002020-04-14T17:49:03.956-07:00Hello from the inside!<br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>It has been a while,
hasn't it, m'dears?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>How are you all doing?
Staying safe, I hope?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>The boundaries of home
have defined my world for the past few weeks. (I have a long-term chest
condition so I daren't even pop to the corner shop. Hubby does all the shopping
now, bless him.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Our world has become a scarier place and a sadder one. Even so,
it seems a far kinder world than the one we left behind.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>People look out for one another now, and it's lovely to see so
many people taking care of their vulnerable neighbours.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>My Nannan always used to say that 'we're a war short'. Was she
right?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Could it be that all this 'Social Distancing' has actually
brought us closer together? Kind of ironic, don't you think?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>But this horrible virus has taken a terrible toll. It's
difficult to see a bright side when so many loved ones have paid the ultimate
price.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>I've had some pretty bleak days; myself, days when my spirits
have been lower than an earthworm's bellybutton. (Haven't we all?) The problem
is, we can't use jazz-hands and glitter to find a way through this. Not all the
time.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>It's natural to feel ... overloaded, I guess. Yes, and a wee bit
guilty, too.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>I'd like to be out there doing something more meaningful than
staying home/clapping for key-workers on a Thursday evening/baking cookies for
our neighbours and the binmen.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>But I can't.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>All I can do is keep on keeping on. That's all any of us can do
right now.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Hopefully, it won't be too long before we're able to see our
loved ones again--not on Zoom or Messenger but in REAL LIFE! Won't that be
something? One thing's for darn sure; I'll be hugging them a little harder and
holding them a little longer when - or if - I do.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Stay safe, my lovelies. </b></span></span></div>
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<br />nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-2628971807408849362020-01-18T15:12:00.000-08:002020-01-18T15:12:19.359-08:00Back in the saddle again. . . Hey guys.<br />
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It's been months but I've finally finished/released the last two books in the<br />
'Tales of a Traveler' series.<br />
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<i><a href="https://books2read.com/u/bzvEAz">A Scruple of Saffron</a> </i>(A Novella) released in December and explores the joys(!) of childbirth in a medieval world.<br />
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<i><a href="https://books2read.com/u/bpOWVz">King's Errand</a></i> released just today. This hefty beast of a book is the final installment in the Traveler series. And an epic adventure, at that.<br />
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Now, I wait and hope that people like them as much as I do!<br />
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<br />nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-25642242135198329662019-07-04T12:33:00.002-07:002019-07-04T12:33:26.810-07:00Happy 4th of July!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-73553701139281366112019-03-13T15:50:00.002-07:002019-03-13T15:50:43.207-07:00The Past in our Present. . . <span style="font-size: large;">It won't come as any huge surprise when I say that words have always held a great deal of fascination and amusement for me. I particularly enjoy how our common language varies so much from region to region - or, indeed, from country to country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, today I happened across <a href="https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/21-extinct-lancashire-dialect-words-15602600">this little guide</a>, and it makes for some rather interesting reading. The article claims that these so-called 'extinct' words are Lancastrian in origin; </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, as a Sheffield lass, born and raised, I recognize - and still use - quite a few of these odd little words, in particular, '<i>mizzling/mizzle' </i>which we experience quite a lot of in this part of the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What about you? Do you recognize any of these words? If so, how far away from Lancashire/Yorkshire do you live? I'd love to know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thrutch</strong> - To physically strain of stretch oneself - especially when you're really giving it some.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Baggin time</strong> - The time of the day when work stops and you can finally clock off to go home.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Longerted or cottered</strong> - When something is particularly and irritatingly tangled.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Larrup</strong> - The action of giving someone a hard smack or a bit of a wallop.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Skit</strong> - To mock someone or make fun of them.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Braggarting</strong> - When someone is going on and on about something, they are braggarting.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thronged</strong> - A word to be used when you are very busy indeed. Probably related to the word 'throng', used to describe a tightly packed area or crowd.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe print";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Back in the 1300s, Joan of Leeds, a nun, faked her own death and then fashioned a dummy in her image which was later buried in the churchyard.</span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: "segoe print";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">... a cunning, nefarious manner … having turned her back on decency and the good of religion, seduced by indecency, she involved herself irreverently and perverted her path of life arrogantly to the way of carnal lust ..."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe print";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sadly, we don't find out what became of the wayward Joan, but according to the archbishop, the last he heard of her she;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe print";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"... now wanders at large to the notorious peril to her soul and to the scandal of all of her order.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe print";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What a woman, eh?</span></span></div>
nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-16779992830193015912018-12-23T15:26:00.002-08:002018-12-23T15:26:50.411-08:00Merry Christmas...<i><span style="font-size: large;">'Deck the walls and floors with frosting...'</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, now take a nice long look at pics 3 through to 5, (or 'Kitchen Armageddon' as I've privately labeled this selection of images.) Observe the alarming wreckage of flour, icing sugar, silver balls, sticky goop, and miscellaneous baking detritus adorning each and every surface of our 'heart of the home'...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">('Ooh, it'll all end in tears!' Yes. It did. Mine! But that's another story.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note how there are no pics of me or the kids. They were tearing about the house on a sugar-fuelled rampage, terrifying the cats with their euphoric ear-splitting shrieks of merriment. Mummy, meanwhile, was wide-eyed and trembling, muttering to herself as she scraped down the walls and doors, occasionally pausing to take a crafty swig of her cold, whiskey-laced tea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, #MakingMemories can be a really mucky, messy business but I wouldn't have it any other way. Honest! :D</span><br />
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<br />nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-82454617537974469552018-11-22T06:01:00.002-08:002018-11-22T06:01:27.251-08:00Thanksgiving 2018...... With love and best wishes to all my friends over at the other side of the pond.<br />
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nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-51788093650485778472018-11-10T17:31:00.000-08:002018-11-10T17:31:15.759-08:00Aftermath...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-47007574295354228172018-10-05T15:22:00.000-07:002018-10-05T15:22:51.748-07:00Top Tips...<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mostly true... especially number 4! </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a rather breezy(!) autumnal day, in between writing sprints, there's always time for a cuddle or ten...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No, I <b>REALLY </b>do love you, Mama!</td></tr>
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<br />nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-2076699218422780262018-08-08T14:10:00.001-07:002018-08-08T14:10:32.222-07:00Guess what?<span style="font-size: large;">Today, I found ANOTHER A5 pad full of book five scribblings. Nope, I'm not kidding. I only wish I was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Headache? Sore wrists? No. Not at all! I'm doing grand, really. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will book five be worth all the pain? Oh, YES!!! Just you wait and see. :)</span>nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-18001158613047109032018-08-07T13:56:00.002-07:002018-08-07T13:56:26.491-07:00Book five update...<span style="font-size: large;">That moment when you believe you've almost got the book five edits all nailed down, but then you realize that 'The End' hasn't actually been transcribed to the computer yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was hiding itself away in an A5 notepad...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very FULL A5 notepad full of lots of scribbly writing. *sob* That's all my plans for tomorrow out of the window, then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Another hundred pages down, just another hundred - or so - to go. My eyes are burning and my head is p-p-pounding, but I don't care. I'm having a lovely time with 'ma boys'. Book five is cleaning up beautifully.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is because I'm trying to wrap up the 'Traveler' series before the end of summer. Book four - which is STILL nameless - has just been sent to its first beta reader, leaving me free to commence beating and pruning the 120k words of book five - which DOES have a name - into some kind of decent order. </span></b></div>
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Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate it!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">For all our mums (female, male, biological or otherwise) from all of your kids (be they human or fur-babies). <3 </span></b></div>
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<br />nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-18569709700479433512018-04-05T15:24:00.000-07:002018-04-05T15:24:09.058-07:00Of Smugglers, Fossils, and Chocolate Eggs...<b><span style="font-size: large;">Hello, lovelies. Who wants to hear a bit about our Easter getaway? You do? Marvellous!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Situated on Yorkshire's east coast, the little town of Robin Hood’s Bay was once the busiest smuggling community on the whole of the Yorkshire coast. Nowadays, it's a haven for day-trippers, all keen to wander the warren of narrow - almost vertical at times! - cobbled streets, and to peer in at the windows of the quaint higgledy-piggledy houses.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As you wander around town, it's easy to imagine the furtive comings and goings of shadowy figures of men, women, and children hurrying back from the shore, their arms laden with contraband. You can almost hear the rumbling carts piled high with the finest lace and silks; casks of brandy; gin; tea; tobacco. Items destined to be sold on the flourishing black market.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Back in mists of time, Baytown (as RHB was once known) was an inaccessible, inhospitable sort of place and pretty much the entire town - rich and poor alike - were involved in the smuggling trade.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Thankfully, we didn't spot any smugglers during our stay, but because Robin Hood's Bay sits on Yorkshire's Jurassic coast, we did find lots of fossils as we wandered the beach at low tide. Sure, it was bitterly cold, and the walk to Boggle Hole was extremely muddy, but we had a wonderful time, culminating with an indoor chocolate egg hunt on Easter Sunday. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I came across these little beauties earlier on while I was cruising through </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">ebay land. Aren't they precious?</span></b></div>
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<br />nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-2464652760262243572018-03-17T03:08:00.001-07:002018-03-17T03:08:47.648-07:00Happy St Patricks Day!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hlWTASnnft4" width="459"></iframe>nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-38925350250681012822018-03-14T16:00:00.001-07:002018-03-14T16:00:32.139-07:00The Loss of a Giant...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">“The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.”</span></b></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Well, you can go anywhere you want now, Professor. Go on. Fly free. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy all those lovely stars! 💫💫💫</span></b>nj layounihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00542995704390593106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6585801891125605963.post-44863947807274892782018-03-08T14:56:00.001-08:002018-03-08T14:56:38.384-08:00From cradle to the grave...<span style="font-size: large;">... Live it. Own it! </span><br />
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