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17feb7:00 pmTawas Bay Players: Weekend Comedy7:00 pm 401 Newman St East Tawas, MI 48730Tawas Bay Players Playhouse, East Tawas
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Weekend Comedy (Rated PG)
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Weekend Comedy
(Rated PG)
by Jeanne & Sam Bobrick
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
February 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 – 7 p.m.
February 11, 18 – 2 p.m.
An older couple rents a cabin for the weekend. It's a remote cabin with no phone, no newspapers, no television and no kids! Peggy has romance on her mind, while stick-in-the-mud Frank is wondering what they're going to do all weekend. Next thing they know a younger couple arrives thinking they have rented the cabin. Frank insists that the younger couple stay for dinner. Ultimately, the two couples agree to share the one-bedroom, one-bathroom cabin for the weekend and the fun begins. The clash between generations and ideas will have you laughing!
(Saturday) 7:00 pm
Tawas Bay Players Playhouse, East Tawas
401 Newman St East Tawas, MI 48730
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Continuing the Group Volunteer Program's Legacy of Outreach and Service
By Jean Bach
A new era has begun for the Glenmary Group Volunteer Program. But the goals of the program remain: helping youth to connect more deeply with God, to find Christ in others, and to find joy in putting themselves and their needs second to those they serve.
On a chilly, damp late November afternoon, more than 120 people gathered at the Glenmary Farm in Vanceburg, Ky., to say farewell. The site that served as one of two locations for Glenmary's Group Volunteer Program hosted its last volunteer groups in December 2014.
The event brought together former volunteers, Farm managers, Glenmarians and coworkers—as well as local folks whose lives have been impacted by the more than 20,000 volunteers who have passed through Vanceburg over the years.
Those in attendance enjoyed swapping stories, listening to a variety of speakers, joining in a Mass celebrated by Glenmary president Father Chet Artysiewicz, and sharing a light supper.
The decision to close the Glenmary Farm site was made by Glenmary's leadership after Holy Redeemer mission, also located in Vanceburg, was returned to the pastoral care of the Diocese of Covington in 2013.
"It's important that our volunteer program be integrated with a Glenmary mission community and be part of the missionary outreach in a county," Father Chet explains.
Leadership also made the decision in 2013 to start a new volunteer site in one of Glenmary's newest mission areas in East Tennessee. Nicknamed "Toppa Joppa," the nine-acre site is located in Grainger County outside of Rutledge, on Joppa Mountain. Rutledge is home to St. John Paul II mission.
The service-centered mission experience in Tennessee is patterned after the Farm experience. Volunteers are immersed in local culture by attending Mass at the Glenmary missions, visiting other churches and enjoying community events in the evenings.
Volunteers also take part in outreach ministries each day that include helping staff four community food pantries and a summer camp for the children of migrant workers, helping with home renovation and repair, spending time with children living at a residential group home, and taking part in short-term projects as needed.
"We hope that those who serve with our volunteer program, no matter its location, are able to put their faith into practice and leave the program as better Christian people because of their experience," Father Chet says.
Glenmary's volunteer program has gone through several incarnations in its years of existence. It began as a vocation discernment program for individual high school and college-aged men in 1971. Eventually, groups from colleges and high schools began taking part in the program, helping it expand and grow into the Glenmary Group Volunteer Program.
According to Joe Grosek, who served as a long-term Farm manager for two years and has served as director of the volunteer program since 2003, the program strives to "connect young people with God, help them find Christ in others, and teach them to serve others first and put themselves second.
"It's important to expose young people to mission needs right here in our own country and to invite them to join Glenmary in responding to those needs."
While it's difficult to move on from the legacy that the Farm has left, Joe is confident volunteers who come to Tennessee will have transformative experiences.
"Many volunteers find their service with Glenmary leads them to spend a week or month or more of service elsewhere," Joe says. "And their experience may also lead them to long-term commitments of service in the Church and community or to professions that allow them to serve the least among us."
One of the hallmarks of the volunteer program is the opportunity for volunteers to leave behind the complexity of their lives and focus on simple living. For many youth, their volunteer time with Glenmary is the first time in their lives when technology isn't readily available.
"This gives them time to simplify their lives and concentrate on relating to other people," Joe explains. Through helping and learning about others, the volunteers often find they've learned more about themselves and how they want to live their lives.
The Glenmarians that the volunteers meet during their time of service (in the past at the Farm and today at Toppa Joppa) are key to this learning.
"Having a Glenmary mission—in Tennessee we have two—accessible to the volunteers is very important," Joe says. "The volunteers see members of the mission team—Father Steve Pawelk, Brother Craig Digmann and Brother Joe Steen—in their ministry settings and see them relate to the folks. That makes a huge impact on the volunteers."
Since Glenmary began inviting young people to leave behind all they know and spend time in the home missions, thousands of young men and women have answered the call to serve. The majority of those volunteers traveled to the Farm, and as a result, can share a laundry list of common experiences that elicit both tears and laughter.
Today, the program's core elements of service, prayer and cultural immersion in an environment of simple living remain the same. Only the location has changed. The Tennessee site will allow volunteers to leave behind the trappings of home to find—and share—peace through their service to the residents of Grainger and Union counties.
Just like their predecessors in Lewis County, Ky., these volunteers are living signs of the Catholic Church's presence in Union and Grainger counties, where—until Glenmary arrived in 2011—the Church was not known. Through their service, the Church is becoming more widely known and, in some cases, more widely accepted.
Joe feels a responsibility to create and build up a program that has the same life-changing impact on volunteers as the Kentucky program.
His efforts are bearing fruit. High school and college groups are booked at Toppa Joppa through September.
"God is the center of our program," Joe says. "And with God's help, it will continue for many, many years to come."
For More Information: See photos from the Glenmary Farm and the Nov. 22 celebration at theglenmaryfarm.shutterfly.com.
Glenmary Volunteer Experience
Left an 'Indelible Mark'
By Larry Streigel
My invitation to the Glenmary Farm was a poster on a college bulletin board depicting a poor boy in tattered clothing.
"God made me," it said. "God don't make junk."
The poster invited me to try something different from courses, careers and social life.
It was the late 1970s. I sent in the coupon from the poster, got details in the mail, and the next summer drove from New Jersey to Vanceburg, Ky. It would be the first of nearly half a dozen trips in the next few years.
My memories of the Farm return in glimpses:
• Hearing Brother Bob Hoffman tell college boys from around the country that moving rocks, digging ditches and building was one way to do God's work.
• Seeing the impoverished living conditions of some area residents. Don't judge by appearances, we were told, but learn to see people for themselves and try to imagine walking in their shoes.
• Singing "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," "In Heaven There Is No Beer" and "Make the World Go Away," led by the joyful guitar of Jerry Dorn, then a Glenmary brother (Brother Jim) and later a priest.
• Learning to tie a rope "Swiss seat" around my midsection to rappel out of a tree.
Some memories are fuller. One day more than a dozen volunteers visited a local tobacco farmer to learn about the growing and harvesting of a cash crop that provided a livelihood for a proud family of humble means. The college boys sat in the drying barn to hear the farmer tell his story. When a Glenmarian asked how many of the young men smoked cigarettes, not one raised a hand.
During a winter break, volunteers enjoyed a Christmas play by local children. Popcorn was distributed in brown paper bags. I dug into mine, but a poor boy of 8 or 9 seated next to me saved his to take home.
Yet when my popcorn was gone, he noticed and unselfishly held out his unopened bag. "Do you want mine?" he asked, completely sincere.
The spirit of the Farm inspired me to explore Glenmary further. I spent nearly a year as a parish volunteer in Georgia and then entered the House of Studies in Dayton.
Eventually, I went back to a career in journalism. But the dedicated people I met in and outside of Glenmary, and the lessons of Christian caring I learned at the Farm and beyond, left an indelible mark on my life.
Larry Striegel works as news editor at Newsday, the newspaper covering Long Island, N.Y.
This article first appeared in the Spring 2015 Glenmary Challenge.


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My kids love all things (friendly) monster. Is there a child that doesn't? So when I saw these fun candy eyes the other day at Target, I knew I had to put them to use-Halloween style. My mom has this famous (well not quite, but it should be) gooey caramel popcorn that my siblings and I used to just gobble right up. I hadn't made it for years, so I pulled it out of the archive. Why I waited so long, I don't know, but I do know that it'll be making a much more regular appearance at our house in the future.
dash of salt
Bring to a boil. Pour over popcorn and carefully incorporate so all popcorn is covered.
Unwrap taffy and melt in a buttered saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently. Immediately drizzle over popcorn mixture. Store in an air-tight container.
Other possible add-ins are candy corns, M&M's, chocolate chips, pretzels, marshmallows, etc.
So many possibilities! I just decided to keep it simple to highlight the fun "monster" features.
I love that the melted taffy gives it the "green slime" look...so fitting for a Halloween dessert!
Or, form it into mini balls, drop in cellophane bags and tie with ribbon.
It's sure to be the talk of the party!
so feel free to half the recipe if you'd like.
A BIG thank you to Ginger for having me. I hope you'll drop by I Dig Pinterest soon for more fun Halloween ideas! You can find me on Facebook and Pinterest too.
Oh my gooey-ness that looks amazing! I know my kiddos would LOVE this!
Adding it to our Halloween to do list right now! :)
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Love wax seals, but not making your own? I get that. Fantastical wax seal jewelry is all the rage! Tons of different styles and colors, all over Etsy from different sellers.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Bibliophiles Unite
Love wax seals, but not making your own? I get that. Fantastical wax seal jewelry is all the rage! Tons of different styles and colors, all over Etsy from different sellers.
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- PonderandStitch said...
Yay!! Bibliophile here:)
I love this post! I plan on getting some second-hand old hardcovers and making myself some of these shelves for my new hundred year-old-house!It's a great tutorial I came across:
- February 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM
- Kristina P. said...
I did wax seals on our wedding invitations. They were so fun!
- February 22, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Little Lovables said...
ponder, that shelf is awesome!! thanks so much for linking to it, I bet your house must be lovely :)
kristina... love that you did that! was is snuggie blue colored wax? xo
- February 22, 2010 at 4:57 PM
- Aisha said...
Oh my, this post was screaming my name!! I LOVE everything you wrote about. I also love books for keeps and make my own bookplates...or used to, I should say :P I love going to used bookstores and vintage shops.. I once found an old "Alice in Wonderland" book that had an inscription dated 1947...love it!
- February 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Tali Schiffer said...
What a lovely post and great images! BTW those wax seals are real cool!!
- February 26, 2010 at 9:24 AM
- apricot said...
It would be so cool to make those wax seals too for personal letters. I just have to work on my calligraphy first ;-) I really like the wax seal monogram jewelry pictures too! Do you mind if I use them on my monogram blog?
- June 17, 2010 at 2:51 AM
- Nicola said...
I love the idea of the "bossy r", I'd never been taught that either. :)
Me, I can't say I've ever repaired books by myself but I'm forever hauling my old paperbacks round to my sister. She's got a binding machine, so she's been able to rescue a fair few of them. Though if I catch her on a bad day, she does tend to start shrieking the address of the nearest Waterstones. But new books just aren't the same.
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- Ariana Huffington of Huffington Post apologized to readers but not George Clooney. [AP]
- Pete Doherty is indeed a nut, during an interview he openly took heroin and crack cocaine. [Contact Music]
- Bruce Willis gets diss by alleged supermodel girlfriend Petra Nemcova. In any other case he would be consider a stalker. [Female First]
- Singer Pink and her 12ft stripper pole so she can perform a sexy pre-show for husband Carey Hart. [Entertainment Wise]
- Bruce Lee: The Musical. [BroadwayWorld]
- Colin Farrell relaxed Salma Hayek with a naked ballet dance. [Ananova]
- Paula Abdul blames her craziness on Simon Cowell. [The Scoop]
- Star Jones almost dies after plastic surgery, while husband Al Reynolds falls and cut head in the gym on the same day. [National Enquirer]
- French people are proud to be racist. [BBC]


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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
5 comments:
- RobG said...
Hey Nick, good interview. Love the weed cleaner guys in the background - shifting a ton of weed with a rake, shovel and wheelbarrow can't have been fun.
I want to extend my flap to be wider in the middle section to hopefully handle chop better, I'm sick of serial crashes going downwind in Waterloo Bay chop. Any ideas on how to go about it?
- March 7, 2011 at 11:01 PM
- nick flutter said...
Rob, it's not a bad idea. You would pretty much have to build a new flap, which we can do. You could cut the foil horizontal so the hinge occurs further forward, and maybe introduce some taper in the trailing edge.
However, a bigger flap does this- it increases / decreases the lift more for a given amount of deflection. You could try getting your current flap to deflect more for a particular wand position - ie increase the grearing. So before we cut, could you try that? It means lengthening that bolt at the wand end, or otherwise shortening the one on the top of the bell crank. Try extending the bolt by like 25% and see if that helps.
Also re-doing the sikaflex to help the flap move might be good, we can do that easily- I have the sika and the primer.
When you do increase the flap movement, listen out for signs of it stalling out either before takeoff or at speed with the flap up. If the little flap still isn't producing enough lift with faster gearing and a greater range of movement, and just stalls, then you might want to do a bigger flap
- March 8, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- Karl said...
Looking at film it appears the hotshots are flying low in the big breeze, lowering the ride height and then turning the gearing way DOWN in chop to prevent bobbing up and down over each wave. Which is probably faster than turning the gearing up and riding the bucking bronco over all the speedbumps downwind. Is this true?
- April 8, 2011 at 6:37 AM
- nick flutter said...
Yeah not sure karl! Possibly, I didn't really ask. Sorry I don't know the answer to that.
I shortened the wand in those conditions, which turned on the bronco effect from memory, didnt have gearing as a separate adjustment. The top Mach 2s looked very smooth, no doubt about it.
- April 8, 2011 at 6:59 AM
- Karl said...
When you look at any of those top guys in that chop they are flying pretty low. Maybe they are using the geared wand pushrod mechanism to keep some gearing with the wand running at such a shallow angle, but in general they aren't bouncing around much. The system is only stable within a narrow range of pitch, but aggressive gearing can often be the cause of big changes in pitch, so dialing the gearing down seems like a good thing to try. I was headed that way with my own setup until I changed it all again...another new trunk going in.
- April 14, 2011 at 5:55 AM


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Here is yet another one of the beautiful pictures of my daughter that was taken when she turned one. I just loved this little dress and bonnet, I am so bummed when she grew out of it. We took the pictures in our backyard and I am so glad we took them there because we moved a month later. We worked so hard to make the back yard beautiful, adding in planters, landscaping, it was just perfect for pictures.
I used the wonderful sketch and color pallet from the August off the Rails Challenge with Lawn Fawn. So come join along and play in the fun.
Here is also a really fun event to join in on this Saturday!!
I wanted to add texture to all the layers I added into the layout behind the picture. I so punched every corner with Kreaxions punch 907 from Just Imagine. The texture of the stamp matched the edges of the tags I used on the layout perfectly!!
Supplies used
Patterned paper - Pink Paislee
Flowers - Prima
Embellishments - Fancy pants, Pink Pasilee, Recollections, Other
Mists - Ranger, Heidi Swapp, Tattered Angles
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FAWCO Conference
Dear AWG members,
I am delighted to be attending the FAWCO Interim Meeting in The Hague in the Netherlands from 23-26 March 2018.
Development Grants 2018
At the meeting, the recipients for the Development Grants 2018 will be announced. Each club has one overall vote which I will submit online by the 24 March deadline. There are four categories for the awards- Education, Environment, Health and Human Rights. Each club can vote for one project from each of the categories. In order to cast out collective vote I would like you to send me your choices and I will take the majority as our collective vote. Please read the attached document with descriptions of each of the projects. Let me know by email which 4 projects you would like to support, send me simply 4 numbers before the 22 March
Education- 1,2 or 3 (choose one project)
Environment- 4 (choose one project)
Health- 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 (choose one project)
Human Rights- 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 (choose one project)
If you would like to know more about FAWCO Development Grants please visit the FAWCO website at www.FAWCO.org and go to the FAWCO Foundation page.
Foundation Night- Alice in Netherlands
There are a number of fundraising auctions and raffles on FAWCO Foundation Night at the meeting. These include the Friendship Quilt raffle and the Queen of Hearts raffle, the Silent and Live Auctions. If you would like to purchase raffle tickets online go to http://www.fawcofoundation.org
I will be taking a donation from our club for the silent auction and will be donating personally. If you would like to contribute something small for the Cheshire Cat Silent Auction, please let me know.
Also if you would like to bid for any of the prizes in the FAWCO foundation Live auction (The Hatter's Matters) please see the attached link to view the catalogue of wonderful prizes-I think there is one you may recognise! http://www.fawcofoundation.org/images/stories/Conference%2018/Live_Auction_Catalog_2018.pdf
You do not have to attend the meeting in order to bid or win!
Thank you for your support and let me know your choices for the DGs
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Why we love Clek, plus a comparison between the Foonf & Fllo Convertible Car Seats
This blog doesn't mention the small changes made for 2016 on the Clek convertible car seats, but you can hear all about them here in our coverage of the ABC Kids Expo at our Youtube channel! These changes in no way affect any of the features Mike describes here. One of the most difficult conversations we have in our stores regularly ... Read More »
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Nearly a month after criticizing another consultant over the lack of specifics in recreation use plans at newly purchased Vail Lake, Rancho California Water District officials were treated to a far more detailed presentation.
On Thursday, April 16, the district's board heard from Urban Parks Concessionaires, who displayed a colorful map showing how the district could turn Vail Lake into a revenue-generating destination for RV enthusiasts and campers.
The map carved out space for archery ranges, high-end campsites for "glampers," a zip line that would give visitors a scenic overview of the largely-unspoiled acreage, a training area for dogs, a rope course for corporate team-building exercises, trails for mountain bike riders and shoreline campsites for paddleboarders.
The presentation also included a list of potential amenities to keep those campers entertained: a pickle ball court, microbrewery, small concert stage and a venue for astronomy clubs.
The idea is giving visitors enough stuff to do to either extend their stay or come back next time.
Locals, specifically Rancho Water ratepayers, would be afforded discounts to give them "equity" in the 8,000-acre property, which the district purchased last year in a complicated $50 million bankruptcy transaction.
"I think it gives us a good idea of the possibilities that would go out there," said board member Ben Drake, who said the board will be narrowing down the list and finding out how much everything will cost and what sort of returns may be generated.
"We do a great job filling it on the weekend (the RV park at the lake) … but if we can tap into some of the snowbirds who may stay six months, that helps us with our revenues," he said.
Other members suggested items that were not on the initial list – Drake brought up bass fishing tournaments and sprucing up one of the buildings for use as a wedding venue – and asked staff to run the list of choices by the district's insurance providers to make sure the district doesn't pursue something that could end up being a liability risk.
The next step is a survey that board members will fill out and return to Urban Parks Concessionaires, which will crunch the numbers and rank all of the choices. Drake said that information will be used to figure out what to build, where and when.
The district purchased the property primarily for the namesake body of water, which will be used to boost the district's water supply. Whether to open the lake up to the public and allow body contact is still undecided.
The property had been run for years as a private resort and used as the staging ground for extreme races such as Tough Mudder and Spartan events, but the district is in the process of turning the acreage into a public asset that will be home to less intensive activities, which should prove less stressful on the area's habitat and wildlife and protect the lake's water supply.
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Mississippi City, Mississippi, 1895
"Mr. Collander is expecting me."
The primly dressed Negress took his card and nodded, at the same time swinging the door wide. Raeford Stone stepped into a broad entry with polished floors of heart pine and a staircase to his right. The young woman took his hat, then motioned to him. "This way."
They'd not taken two steps when a door several paces up opened on their left, brightening the dim foyer. A short, pleasantly plump woman with dark-hair filled the portal. She didn't look his way, but focused her attention into the room from where she came.
"I want her out of here, Joe. Immediately. She's going to ruin everything, you know it as well as I."
If Joe responded, Rafe didn't know. The woman rolled her head on her shoulders and looked at the ceiling. Then, her back to them, she stepped into the foyer, slammed the door shut, and hurried away from him and the maid.
When the dark-haired shrew disappeared into the room at the end of the hall, the servant led him to the slammed door, knocked, then pushed it open and beckoned him inside.
A tall, middle-aged man, hands clasped behind his back, stood staring out a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows on the far wall of an opulent study.
"Mr. Collander, suh?"
"Yes, Stella?"
"Mr. Stone to see you. You was expectin' him?"
The man, stout himself by anyone's standards, pivoted with surprising grace. "I am indeed. . . . Ah, ha," he said, meeting Rafe's eye before moving around a large desk, "you're already in." He caught up with Rafe in the middle of the room and ex-tended his hand. "Welcome to Mississippi. I trust you had a pleasant trip from Galveston?"
"I did, thank you."
Her hand already on the doorknob, the black woman turned. "Lemonade or ice tea, Mr. Stone?" Collander asked.
"Tea, thank you."
"I will have tea, also," the man said to Stella. "Please sit, Mr. Stone."
And sit he did, in a fine leather wing chair strategically situated in front of that most impressive desk. Collander took his seat behind it.
"Dorian Tatum contacted me yesterday. Says you're interested in that old plantation house on the river, south of Natchez."
"I am, sir."
"It's a beautiful site. The house was once a showcase, I understand, looking down on that bend in the river. River's Bend. Do you know anything of the history?"
"Some. Actually, I'm an architect. I came across the house while studying pre-War homes in the Natchez-Rodney area. I believe it could be a showcase again."
Josephus Collander laughed. "The place has attracted its share of curiosity seekers in the past. For all intents and purposes, no one has lived in it for over fifteen years. I've seen it once, seven years ago. It was in a bad state then. However, Dorian assures me you are legitimate."
"I will tell you that I made a close inspection of the exterior before I ever started to trace ownership. I am aware of the condition of the house."
Collander sighed. "You must consider my lack of attention to it reprehensible."
Rafe looked around the rich room. Obviously the man had some means, but the upkeep of a house like River's Bend would prove costly.
"Not at all. I understand it came to you by way of inheritance?"
Collander nodded with wide-eyed exaggeration. "By way of my wife's grandaunt who herself acquired it by a fluke." The man waved the matter away at the same moment a knock sounded on the door. It opened despite the lack of a reciprocating entrée, and Stella came in, carrying a tray with two crystal glasses filled with chunks of ice and lemon floating in amber brew. Both men rose, and Collander took the glasses, handing one to Rafe, who nodded to his host and thanked the servant.
"Sun-steeped and sweetened with sugar," Collander said and took a big swallow.
Rafe sipped. Sweet was right, but it was also cold and wet, the perfect complement to this hot and humid late-October day.
Joe Collander took another swig, almost finishing his drink, then placed his mostly empty glass on Stella's tray and eyed her warily.
"What?" he said finally.
"Miss Ophelia wanted you to know that Mr. Champion has got here."
Collander's expression soured.
"She say she wants you to—"
"Watch them from the window."
Rafe could have sworn Stella smirked. "Yessuh," she said.
"Thank you, Stella."
The maid turned to Rafe, who put his empty glass on the tray. He smiled, she smiled, and then she left. Collander watched the door close behind her. "Only woman in the whole damn house who isn't a pain in my ass, Mr. Stone. And this is a house full of women."
Surprised, Rafe met the man's eye. Collander winked and, turning his back on him, walked to the bank of windows. Out-side, on the lawn, Rafe had already heard the sound of feminine voices and high-pitched laughter, now interspersed with the boisterous shouts of a man. He walked toward the desk, from where he could see what Collander was looking at.
A blonde woman sat in a swing, suspended from the stout branch of a live oak tree. She was being pushed by a tall, dark-haired man over whom a plump brunette fussed and, apparently, gushed. Rafe was too far away to make out any of their features, but the build and carriage of the man indicated he was around his own age. The two women were probably younger, the brunette not yet over the silliness of girlhood.
"After the War, the house passed to some Merrifield woman up in Ohio. She was from the Vicksburg area, but had married and moved away years before the unfortunate conflict. She and the plantation's last master were half siblings, I do believe. The family had been decimated by the War, so she was about the only one left to inherit.
"She died a number of years later. Her husband remarried, and he and his family were murdered in the house, as I understand it." Collander glanced briefly over his shoulder at Rafe. "A sordid affair."
A double entendre? Patricide, matricide, fratricide . . . incest. Shoot, sordid didn't begin to describe the tangled relationships leading up to those murders. Rafe followed Collander's gaze back to the threesome outside. The blonde jumped gracefully from the swing and started away from the other two. The young man followed, hindered somewhat by the pleasingly endowed brunette.
"My niece has become troublesome, Mr. Stone."
Rafe was sorry, but he really didn't care to know it. The young man, hurrying after the willowy blonde, stopped when the brunette tripped and almost fell trying to keep up. Well, yes, he guessed she had become somewhat of a problem—more for the dark-haired man than her uncle.
"The other young woman is your daughter?"
"The young man her intended?"
Josephus Collander tightened his lips and nodded. "That is our dearest hope."
"And your niece is displaying some affection for him?"
Collander turned on his heel and looked Rafe over.
"Are you married, Mr. Stone?"
"Not yet."
"You've an intended?"
Rafe hesitated before replying, "No."
Collander smiled, then stepped to his desk and sat, motioning for Rafe to do likewise.
"The house was sold again after the murders. Bought by a Missouri banker for his daughter and son-in-law as a wedding gift. They lived there for a few months and had, in fact, begun renovations when they abruptly abandoned the place. Sub-sequently, the Missouri banker tried to rent it out. The renters stayed only a couple of weeks. Shortly thereafter, the banker sold the place, at a loss, to my wife's uncle by marriage. The uncle died before he and my wife's aunt did anything with it, and her aunt withered away. They were childless, and my wife inherited the property nine years ago. I've had neither the time nor the compunction to do anything with it."
"Were repairs that daunting?"
"The property is reputed to be haunted."
Rafe laughed, and Collander cocked his head.
"Don't be too quick to scoff. That unique feature of the place apparently drove out the newlyweds and the renters."
"By whom is the place haunted, Mr. Collander?"
The man shrugged. "I believe the ghost ties into the murders following the War."
"So a more recent ghost?"
"And a dangerous one. Some speculate it is the ghost of the killer."
"That would make the specter quite ominous."
Collander picked up a paper weight, studied it, then placed it back on the polished surface of the desk. "Have you any prospective feminine interests, sir?"
Rafe frowned. "My feminine interest is restricted to women of an easy persuasion."
"Wonderful, Mr. Stone, and in my opinion, only a fool ever loses interest completely in women of easy persuasion." Collander leaned forward. "And now that we understand each other, how old are you?"
Josephus Collander might understand what the hell he was talking about, but Rafe sure the devil didn't. "I'm twenty-nine. I'll be thirty in January."
Collander nodded. "And have you given any thought to settling down?"
"I have not."
Collander leaned back in his chair. He was different now from the friendly man who offered refreshment and showed pride in and consideration for his servants. Collander was assessing him, weighing his options. He had a deal in mind, and that worried Rafe. Collander had turned into a businessman, which, in fact, is what he was.
"You have made a generous offer for the house. Much more than it's worth."
"I have the capital."
"Your offer tells me you want that property very much."
"I think I can do a lot with it."
"Desperately," Collander said, as if he hadn't heard him. "You've shown me your hand, Mr. Stone."
Rafe felt like he'd swallowed a brick. Despite that, he smiled. "I'm a damn lousy poker player, too."
Collander pursed his lips. "Either you know something I don't, or you are a fool, or 'lousy' is a gross understatement regarding your card-playing ability."
Damn. Rafe leaned back, hoping he appeared as nonchalant as Collander. "I didn't want to haggle with you over the price. I'd like to get started on the house before winter sets in. I hoped to make you an offer you could not refuse."
"Winters are mild in this neck of the woods, sir."
"I wouldn't know. I'm not from here."
"You're not from up north, either."
No he wasn't, nor was he about to tell the man where he was from.
Collander rolled himself into the desk's kneehole.
"I don't know why you want that property. I don't believe you're an architect. An adventurer would be my guess. The house is not for sale, Mr. Stone. . . ."
That brick in Rafe's stomach crashed into his lower gut.
". . . but I will give it to you as my niece's dowry."
The mad man continued to talk. Rafe stared at him, though he wondered why he considered the man mad. Proposals such as this were not unusual, historically. Still, he never considered himself a candidate for such an offer.
". . . my stepsister's daughter. She was orphaned when she was twelve and raised by her paternal grandmother. The woman died three months ago. Delilah's been with my family since then. The girl, young woman actually, is quite charming . . .
If fawning over an inattentive man could be considered charming.
". . . and beautiful."
In truth, beauty was a subjective thing. Where he came from, the derričre of choice did have meatier hips, but he preferred a slender bottom, trim waist, and flat belly. Still, the little brunette, from a distance, appeared to have a pretty face, and a man could always find fringe benefits in a plump body.
"She's nineteen and very well educated."
Her youth was a good thing. Education was not necessarily a plus. Well-educated women often proved more trouble than they were worth. At least, that's what he'd been told.
"Mr. Collander?"
Collander stopped the sale's pitch.
"You know nothing about me."
"I know you can support her."
And leave her, or beat her, or even murder her should he be so inclined. "I would think you'd have more requirements on your list."
Collander made a sibilant sound. "I have an uncanny ability to size a man up within minutes." He waved his hand over the room. "A key to my success."
Still, were there no eligible men Collander did know upon whom he could foist his niece? But, of course, "knowing" worked both ways. There was more to this story than the girl's simply being a silly chit. "What's wrong with her?"
Josephus Collander sighed. "There's nothing wrong with her, except that she's penniless and. . . ."
"In need of a husband," Rafe said when Collander hesitated.
"In need of a refuge, most assuredly." The graying merchant laid his arms on his desk and leaned forward. "And you, Mr. Stone, have inadvertently provided me the opportunity to rid myself not only of a worthless piece of tax-draining real estate but also an unwanted guest."
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Halloween: The True HauntingI was in Randall's grocery store yesterday and saw a large display of Halloween merchandise near the front entrance. Misfortune caused my eyes to fall on 'The Bride of Frankenstein, a novelty item which, in spite of its name, features Count Dracula and his new bride. Roughly ten inches high and huggably soft, the eternally damned gaze at each other adoringly--or maybe they're just thirsty.
When you press a button on the front, they will start dancing and singing to "I Got You, Babe." Even more horrifying, it's actually the voices of Sonny and Cher.
I've spent the last two decades of my life with one guiding principle: at all costs, avoid Sonny and Cher. I had somehow come to believe that I would never see or hear them again, a comfortable deception that enabled me to get through the day. Then, in one ill-conceived button push, that stability was shattered. Now I'm having flashbacks to their horrific variety show from the 1960's, only dimly remembered, but I see Sonny at a piano and Cher in some kind of dancing girl costume and I can't get it out of my head.
I ask you plainly to kill me now, sir. Do the deed as you see fit.
This is the only product I've ever encountered where the label should come with the 1-800 number for the Suicide Prevention Hotline, because if you're on the edge, this might push you right over. So if you're feeling at all depressed, I implore you to avoid all Halloween merchandise displays. The life you save may be your own.


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This idea was conceived during a wine and dine event with two of the guys ACTUALLY carrying through with the Mother's Day plan. As word got out on the dock, we soon had five couples with a few kids and pets who wanted to participate on this first annual event.
(I actually believe Tom and Jeff planned this because it was cheaper than the $39.95 per person Mother's Day Brunch at the yacht club.)
In honor of Mother's Day, the men decided to take their wives on a venturous overnight get-away. Not at a five star hotel and not to a spa with mud facials, but instead, mud squishing between our toes and mosquito spray applied on our bodies. Not exactly the same scent of oils one would expect or desire. And the candle lit dinner never happened unless you wanted citronella buckets burning as you dined.
Some of the participants had never ventured very far from the marina and were very concerned about clearing the bridge, avoiding stumps, running over sand bars and any other debris left in the lake. Of course, everything depends on the water depth, the height of your fly bridge, if you have a depth finder and if you trust your captain. Naturally, our boat was the first voyager to go under the bridge, and the one who kept all the others in the river channel and safe from any unforeseen misfortunes. My husband Captain Tom would be the one to blame if anything did go wrong since he was the one leading the parade of vessels.
Upon the journey to our favorite spot in the national forest, we realized we couldn't communicate very well with the other houseboats. It's important to make sure you have cell phone service, or at the very least are on the same radio channel. Most of the time there were no issues, but it is hard to play charades from the upper deck swaying from side-to-side while yelling into the wind.
Luckily, for all the captains who arrived shortly after we dropped anchor, Tom was still in his swimsuit and in the water. I guess they assumed he was the valet houseboat parking attendant. He carefully tied all our "floating boatels" together and planted everyone's anchors safely in the slimy mud. Carefully he considered the wind conditions and accordingly allowed ample space for the buoys to gently rock us and not roll us, but still allowed all the boats to be attached for easy access to one another's boats.
Since this was a treat for us mothers, we anticipated the men to do all the planning, shopping, prepping, cooking, cleaning and waiting on us. After all, we were the queens for the weekend. Well that's what we were promised anyway. Thank goodness when our boat ran out of toilet paper our neighbor had extra. In return when someone didn't have all of their ingredients for their favorite salad, someone else could oblige. The men may have forgotten to check their meal planning and inventory, but they did have propane and plenty of fuel to run all the generators for the night. And mysteriously they never ran out of their favorite beverages!
Another situation one must think ahead is where will your pet go to the restroom? Of course our dog Bailee will go on a small throw rug in the houseboat when she doesn't have permission, but when we beg her to please feel free to use it, she will not. So off to the shore we go.
We all had a memorable weekend for our first annual Mother's Day getaway last year. We even had homemade pancakes and fruit for breakfast Sunday morning. Not exactly the same brunch as the yacht club, but we have high hopes for this year. I think I would rate it at three stars last year, but we will encourage the men to keep their day jobs, learn to multi-task, think like a woman while organizing and continue to make it even more eventful.
This year we will have even more participants and will include others who are not houseboat owners. We already have been asked by other couples to please include them in all our events, even though they don't own houseboats. In the future it will be even bigger and better and we can call it our Dream Escape. And the men will be better trained and in uniforms with serving trays, serve us on fine china plates rather than Chinette, and …and…and…
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Salt Marsh Reflections
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I also was out photographing lakes yesterday. Must be the season. Your lake would be a perfect place for a canoe or kayak, but take a compass as water and grass all looks alike after a while. Great photos.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yikes! That's a good point. I've flown over this lake and its reeds before and the reed beds are vast. The thought of getting lost in those reeds is pretty scary. Had signed up for an orienteering class decades ago but it was cancelled before it started. Still, now that you point out the dangers, it seems reed beds would be a tough test even for someone who had taken such a class.Delete
As a teenager my wife lead Girl Scouts on a canoe trip down a river in northern Wisconsin. They became lost in tall marsh grass for a couple of days. Fortunately they were equipped to camp out, but there were many worried parents waiting at the take out point. For the girls it was mostly high adventure, but a compass would have come in handy even without orienteering skills. The canoes went through the grass without leaving any sign that they had been there. These days one could always take a GPS which would solve the problem as long as the batteries lasted.Delete
I doubt I will ever forget your warning or your wife's story. Thank you for sharing both. You may be saving a life.Delete


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Faktisk mangler jeg også at fotografere hættetrøjerne, men jeg kender slet ikke nogen 10 - 12 - 14-årige drenge, så... lige nu koncentrerer jeg mig bare om lynlåsene. Det andet er for stor en udfordring på en mandag.
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At home with me, there are 2 lovely Vitus hoodies, that two fabulous knitting ladies have knitted for me. I feel so super lucky, that they have - and that they did such a fine job. The third and last Vitus is right behind, and then all I have left is to find the perfect zippers.
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Thursday, 27 June 2013
London-based frights and other writing news
When Paul Finch (multi-talented author and editor bloke) asked me to contribute to Terror Tales of London, I got a bit of the fear myself. I actually venture to London fairly regularly, but it's pretty much always to the same bit: Charring Cross Road and Soho, the place with all the book shops and the arty folk. And that's where my knowledge of London pretty much comes screeching to a halt. Take me out of Zone 1 and ask me to go anywhere else and I start to feel the jitters. Wood Green used to be about as exotic as it got for me, London-wise. (That far flung and strange land). And that was only because that was where our distributors of the time were based. Oh, and thanks to various lunches with Christopher Fowler, I now know a bit more about the rapidly changing Kings Cross. But here was Paul asking me to write a story set in a city which I knew only a little bit. So, of course The Horror Writer is set on Charring Cross Road, but a Charring Cross Road from the past, one where Murder One was still in its larger store, and before it went the way of many other book retailers on that stretch. The actual story is inspired by two bookshops in Kent. The Bookmark in Rochester is one. It no longer exits and, sadly, the owner - my chain-smoking, sweary, jazz-loving friend Graham - died a few years ago. The other is still there, Baggins Bookshop, and those familiar with this literary haunt will recognise some of the labyrinthine corridors in my story.
And this anthology is not just brilliant because I'm in it! I find myself in the company of writers I've known and admired for years: Nina Allen, Adam Nevill, Christopher Fowler, Nicholas Royle, Barbara Roden, to name just a few.
Paul Finch is a terrific editor and this anthology, complete with its 'true' stories concerning London's dark history, is a real gem.
Which means you should buy it. And you can do so by ordering directly from the publisher here, Gray Friar Press.
I don't get to write as much as I like, but I'm thrilled to bits that after many years of tinkering I'm actually getting somewhere with my fiction. Today sees yet another story acceptance, and more on that soon.
Happy Reading.
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I will respond to these charges but, first, let me say that I understand scholarship is a matter of bread and butter for some. But, not to the Oromo people. In the name of scholarship, Oromos should not be expected to refrain from raising legitimate questions about those who claim to know what is best for the Oromo people. Their questions should not be construed as intending to cause hostility just because those to whom these questions are directed find them difficult to answer.
Secondly, I would like to remind the reader that whatever was attributed to Berhanu Nega in my blog was taken from his book (Ya Nasaannat Gohi Sii Qaddi) and can be verified for accuracy.
Contrary to Jawar's assertion, it is important to note that many individuals whose political views are in divergence with what Obbo Jawar called "assumed mainstream Oromo opinion" have at different times presented at OSA conferences without any "negative reactions" from the public. Obbo Bulcha Damaksa, Dr. Marera Gudina, Dr. Bayene Petros, Dr. Negasoo Gidaadaa, Ambassador David Shinn, to mention but a few, have all appeared at OSA conferences without so much as a pip from the Oromo public. But their opinions are hardly main stream as far the Oromo, both back home and in the Diaspora, are concerned. This is evident from the negligible level of support political views of these personalities garner from the Oromo public. Obbo Jawar, as an aspiring researcher, should get his facts straight before making statements such as " We often see negative reactions towards the participation of those whose political views differ …"
To my recollection, the only person whose appearance at an OSA conference was canceled because of public outrage was that of Col. Goshu Welde who took part in the decimation and great suffering of our people as a member of the military junta – the DERG. The then OSA president, Asfaw Beyene, had the audacity to invite him to the 20th anniversary of OSA. Mind you, Goshu Welde was neither a scholar nor a researcher by any stretch of the imagination. His qualification for speaking at OSA conference was being Ethiopianist politician – plain and simple. OSA had no business organizing meetings for politicians to assist them in dissemination of their political views.
I would argue that the reason for Berhanu's invitation to OSA conference is no different from that for Goshu Welde. Again, I maintain that OSA has no business assisting dissemination of political views particularly those against Oromo aspirations like that Of Berhanu Nega's.
Berhanu's presentation at OSA 2010 must be opposed on a couple of grounds.
First, contrary to what Jawar would have us believe, Berhanu's, not only opinion but also, political actions have been fundamentally hostile to aspirations of the Oromo people.
Why do I say that?
Let me remind the reader that Berhanu Nega was a leader of Kinijit. Regardless of what it claimed to be, Kinijit was a party of Amhara elites bent on regaining state power they had lost to their northern cousins in 1991. Had they succeeded, and Berhanu and his friends attained power, what they would have done with the state power they so much desired to achieve is a public secret. One passing look at their leadership composition and another passing look at their manifesto, there is no mistaking what they had in store for non-Amharas. In a nutshell, they planned to roll back all achievements made by oppressed nations and nationalities in that empire to take the country back to the Haile Sellasie era. To mention but a few, article 39 of the TPLF constitution, which "allows" (on paper only I might add) nations and nationalities the option of seceding from the empire would have been the first victim of Kinjit. Then, as they promised in their manifesto, they would have re-drawn state boundaries so as to take the empire back to the old "Kifle Hagar" configuration. The name Oromia would have been a thing of the recent past. Re-imposition of Amharic as language of instruction in schools and language of work in other areas would have followed as soon as Kinijit surrounded itself with its own PDO of assimilated Oromos. These assimilated Oromos would have been the ones to spear head Kinijit's effort to do away with Afaan Oromoo as official language in Oromo region. It is this force, Berhanu Nega's former party, that Obbo Bulcha Damaksa – a believer in democratization of Ethiopia - was referring to in his press conference of May 20, 2005 when he said, "While a genuine federal system has not been implemented in Ethiopia, there are forces which want to even abolish the theoretical federalism which remains only in the book." All this would have been executed by an organization in which Berhanu Nega was not only a member but a leader. This is the man Jawar Mehammed Siraj would have us believe "Many have testified to [his] integrity, genuine concern and commitment to the goal of social justice."
As far as the Oromo question and aspirations are concerned, there is no difference of views between Males Zenawi and Berhanu Nega. They only differ in how they go about implementing their solutions – the former by making a promise it does not intend to keep, the later refusing to even acknowledge our rights.
Let me also remind the reader that Kinijit, Berhanu Nega's former party, was made up of many unitarist parties. Membership was open only to those parties that were not affiliated with ethnic groups. Oromo federalist parties like Bulcha Damaksa's WAFIDO and Marara Gudina's ONC were not welcomed by Kinijit.
To my knowledge, Berhanu has never repented for these serious offences against our people's aspirations.
Second, to make a scholarly presentation on a subject, one must have gained mastery of that discipline through years of study and must be able to speak with authority and clarity on the subject. As one can see from the title, Berhanu's presentation has nothing to do with his field of expertise which happens to be Economics. Berhanu will be presenting "Ethnic Identity and Political Developments of the Last Two Decades" which is not his area of scholarship. By his own admission, he got interested in understanding ethnicity in the Ethiopian empire as a result of meeting Oromo detainees in TPLF dungeons. Even then, what struck him was not the suffering they were undergoing but their "hateful feelings" against his immiyyee Ethiopia.
Plain and simple, Berhanu will be speaking at OSA conference as a politician, not as scholar. His appearance at OSA conference at this time is a continuation the dialogue currently underway between Berhanu's Ginbot 7 and the Dawud Ibsaa faction of the OLF in which OSA, a purportedly scholarly organization, should have no part.
It is a public secret that disappointed by the death of Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD), to which Berhanu's former party Kinijit and Dawud Ibsaas faction of the OLF were parties, Eritrea has been working hard on resurrecting it in some form. Many meetings have taken place between these two Ethiopian opposition parties. Here in the USA Shanee representatives and Berhanu Nega have met many times to discuss how to democratize Ethiopia. Andargachedw Tsigie of Ginbot 7 has travelled "multiple times" to Asmara to meet with Obbo Dawud Ibsaa and his faction hosted by the Eritrean government. Reliable sources have informed this blogger that the two Ethiopian opposition groups have agreed on many issues and are very close to forming an alliance.
Wouldn't it be nice to acquaint the Oromo public with Berhanu Nega and Bayan Asoba sitting side by side and addressing audiences beginning now? That may be, but OSA is hardly the appropriate venue for such political events.
Finally, Obbo Jawar informs us of his "various strategic disagreements" with his protégé, Berhanu Nega, without informing us what these disagreements are. I only know of one: that Jawar advocates for dismantling, and doing away with, the OLF whereas Berhanu Nega is at least talking with a faction of that organization. A "strategic disagreement" indeed!
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Sunday, 9 January 2011
I was inspired!
I had in mind a couple of things I wanted to do and guess what I did both!
First up, I wanted to make a cover for my Kindle which was a Christmas present. I can't believe something that expensive comes without at least a basic cover but that's another story altogether. Anyway obviously I didn't have a pattern or anything so I just made something up, I knew I needed a lining, a stiffener and some nice fabric for the cover. I used a scrap I had from my living room curtains, so I used that rather than use something new, just in case I messed up! Here at the pics of the process!!
First up fabric & lining cut
Next up attaching the stiffener to the barkcloth fabric
AND the finished product with a very cute button on, which looks like it doesn't quite match in the picture, but believe me in real life it does look very nice.
This is the back of the Kindle cover
And just to prove it IS a Kindle cover!!
And lastly, looking very stylish on my bedside cabinet!
Once I'd finished that I decide to embark on a project I've been meaning to for ages. I had a really sturdy nice 50's footstool that I use all the time - I'm short and it's not comfortable for me to sit on the sofa with my feet on the floor, I can't quite reach! Anyway we've had the stool for years and it is very much worse for wear now. I wanted to cover it in the same barkcloth as I've used above as this matches our living room curtains. I've never done anything like this before, so just played it by ear again, eeek!
Here it is you can see how nice it is.
But it's so wrecked!
So I took the legs off and took it apart and this is what I was left with, not what I expected at all!
It actually didn't even take long to end up with this!
It's not perfect, I learnt some lessons as I was going it, but I'm pretty pleased with it.
I'm tempted to go back upstairs and try something else but both those projects required some brain power and I'm not sure I could work anything else out today!!
So there we go I've kickstarted the sewing big style. I will make clothes but I want to kick start my weight loss before I start making clothes again. So the next couple of months will be mostky crafty sewing and then hopefully I'll start the clothes making.
Oh and talking about resolutions I'm pleased to say I've had an alcohol free, food treat free weekend YAY!
24 comments:
- Penny Dreadful said...
What a lovely fabric, the kindle cover and stool both look fabulous - well done you x
- 9 January 2011 at 16:10
- Ivy Black said...
Wow Fiona...you're off! What a fab start to the new year.xxx
- 9 January 2011 at 16:21
- Sara Green said...
I'm loving the stool! I need one as I am short as well, seeing yours gives me inspiration to find a not so good one and recover it.
- 9 January 2011 at 17:04
- Perdita said...
Love them both! Thanks for passing on the inspiration... I'm now itching to get me some old chairs from a car-boot-sale and 'make' them a matching set with a lick of paint and matching covers.
- 9 January 2011 at 17:19
- Dolly Cool Clare said...
I love revamping things...how good does that foot stool look?! Bet you cant wait to get going with lots of other projects...
- 9 January 2011 at 17:23
- Gemma said...
These are fabulous... you're so clever and patient. I've been getting impatient darning armpits, heaven knoews what I'd be like sewing a footstool cover!
Gem x
- 9 January 2011 at 17:29
- Vintage Vixen said...
Impressed! Lovely fabric and genius ideas. I have a very similiar knackered stool (green with a white daisy) I've been dithering about for ages, I should take a leaf out of your book and copy you.
No boozing or naughty nibbles? Well done. xxx
- 9 January 2011 at 17:33
- 1950's_atomic_ranch_house said...
Wow!! The footstool is amazing, and love your moonbeam clock!
- 9 January 2011 at 18:01
- Straight Talking Mama! said...
Thanks all, glad I've been an inspiration to some, felt really good actually, could have done more but I know I have a lot on this week so had some down time too.
The moonbeam clock was a Restoration Hardware repro bought in Pasadena!
- 9 January 2011 at 19:41
- Miss Matilda said...
amazing xx
- 9 January 2011 at 20:14
Fabulous, loved both projects x
- 9 January 2011 at 22:20
- Kitty said...
Well done you! do some weight-losing for me too, will you?
- 10 January 2011 at 08:18
- THE BIG MAMA INTROSPECTION said...
You make beautifull things ! Marvelous and the fabric is just perfect.
- 10 January 2011 at 08:38
- Joanne said...
Fiona these new creative projects are really impressive. Do you make things to order? Also you must have a back catalogue of material to use, as the one used for the footstool and Kindle cover are really stylish and you just can't get material like that any more.
- 10 January 2011 at 09:59
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- 10 January 2011 at 13:43
- delia hornbook said...
Wow i love what you have done with the stool and your use of fabric is gorgeous ;-)) Its so great when you get that creative bug back " YOU GO GIRL" well done ;-)) Dee x
- 10 January 2011 at 16:09
- Lady Betty said...
Wonderful post! Love the fabric! You did an awesome job in the stool! I love the Kindle cover too!
My mom used to be an interior designer as well as a upholsterer. She used to buy charity shop wares and revamp them into showroom-like pieces! Mom still does the odd piece but only for herself now. I need to learn from her! I have an 80s chair that has a great shape but the fabric is hideous! lol!
- 11 January 2011 at 19:23
- VildesVerden said...
Wow, really cool!
- 12 January 2011 at 23:29
- Gabriella said...
That fabric is sooo gorgeous! Love the kindle cover and the stool. Congrats on keeping your resolutions too!
- 13 January 2011 at 16:51
- Tasha said...
First off, we have those same alarm clocks on our bedside tables, in the light green color! (Isn't it the most terrifying noise to wake up to? LOL)
Second, I had to do a double-take because the barkcloth you used looks almost exactly like the one I used to make a pillow and French bulletin board for my cube at work.
Third, that is the craziest inside to your stool! I'm slowly working up the nerve to recover our dinette chairs. They were obviously recovered at some point, and the fabric doesn't really match the table and has some rips to boot. I watched a tutorial online where they were recovering literally the same style of chair, but I'm still a bit scared to find out what will await me on the inside!
- 14 January 2011 at 15:54
- Straight Talking Mama! said...
Thanks all!
How strange Tash, we are obviously girls with very similar brilliant taste! I can imagine the dinette chairs would be a bit daunting!
- 14 January 2011 at 15:59
- Lil Lisa Jane said...
Well done on the sewing - the stool really is impressive and looks even better in real life! Clever girl!
- 15 January 2011 at 10:30
- Straight Talking Mama! said...
Sorry Jo I didn't answer your questions, yes I am starting to make stuff to sell too, just a little side line really!
Why thank you Lisa!
- 15 January 2011 at 10:46
- Temperamental Broad said...
I love how crafty you are! I think I want to teach myself how to knit this year. I drool over all those 40s sweaters and they are impossible to find.
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Chipping Warden
Chipping Warden is a village in Northamptonshire, England about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of the Oxfordshire town of Banbury. The parish is bounded to the east and south by the River Cherwell, to the west by the boundary with Oxfordshire and to the north by field boundaries.
The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 529[1] in 234 households, increasing to 537 in the civil parish of Chipping Warden and Edgcote at the 2011 census.[2]
Just south of Chipping Warden village is Arbury Banks, the remains of an Iron Age hill fort. It is about 200 yards (180 m) in diameter[3] and has been heavily damaged by centuries of ploughing.[4]
At Blackgrounds about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) east of the village are the remains of a Roman villa beside the River Cherwell.[3] An investigation in 1849 found a Roman bathhouse 36 feet (11 m) long by 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, and four human burials have been found that may be related to the settlement.[3] Roman coins found at the site indicate that it was inhabited in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.[3] English Heritage has placed the villa on its Heritage at Risk Register, citing threats from ploughing and a risk of collapse.[5]
2 miles (3 km) east of the village is Upper Cherwell at Trafford House at the confluence of the river Cherwell and Eydon Brook, which is designated as a SSSI due to its importance in the development of the theory of underfit streams.[6]
The Domesday Book records that in 1086 the manor of Chipping Warden was the caput of the estates of Guy de Raimbeaucourt (or Reimbercourt,[7] Reinbuedcurth[8] or Reinbuedcurt), a baron from Raimbeaucourt in northern France. There was also a Hundred of Chipping Warden that administered the southern part of Northamptonshire.
Guy was succeeded by his son Richard de Raimbeaucourt (circa 1093–1120).[9] Richard left no male heir so the barony of Chipping Warden passed via his daughter Margaret (born 1121) to his son-in-law Robert Foliot (circa 1118–1172),[10] to whom Henry II conceded the barony of Chipping Warden in the middle of the 12th century.[11] As Robert had a wife and son, presumably he is not the Robert Foliot who was Archdeacon of Oxford and later Bishop of Hereford.
The toponym "Chipping" is derived from the Old English cēping meaning "market". In 1238 Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln obtained royal letters from Henry III revoking Chipping Warden's right to hold a market.[12] This was because the Bishops of Lincoln controlled the market at Banbury and earned tolls from it, and Grosseteste feared that Chipping Warden was drawing trade away from Banbury.[12]
Parish church[edit]
In the Church of England parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul the north wall of the chancel contains two blocked-up Norman arches that suggest the building may date from about 1200.[13] The chancel contains a window that pre-dates 1300, but is probably not in its original position.[14] Other features from the Decorated Gothic period include the windows of the south aisle[14] and the east window of a room to the north of the chancel.[3] The east window of the chancel and the four-bay arcades between the nave and the north and south aisles are from the early part of the Perpendicular Gothic period.[14] The bell tower is also Perpendicular Gothic.[14] The parish is now part of the Church of England benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney.[15]
Social and economic history[edit]
An open field system of farming prevailed in the parish until an Act of Parliament was passed in May 1733 enabling Chipping Warden's common lands to be enclosed.[16]
In May 1744 a bill was moved in the House of Lords to dissolve the marriage between Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort and Frances Scudamore.[17] Among witnesses who testified under oath before their Lordships was John Pargiter, a farmer of Chipping Warden, who stated:
"That, in the Beginning of June, 1741, he observed a Man (whom he described), and afterwards found it was Lord Talbot, to meet the Dutchess as she was walking alone in the Fields near that Place; and thereupon mentioned adulterous Familiarities which passed between them."[17]
Witnesses William Douglas and Thomas Bonham corroborated Pargiter's evidence.[17] The Journal of the House of Lords delicately omits the details of the "adulterous Familiarities" but records that subsequent witnesses testified "as to the sending for a Midwise to the Dutchess; her being delivered or brought to Bed of a Daughter".[17] After hearing this and evidence of the Duchess's further adultery with Lord Talbot, their Lordships passed the Bill for the Duke and Duchess to be divorced.[17]
RAF Chipping Warden, just northwest of the village, was built during the Second World War and commissioned in either 1941[18] or 1943[19][20] as a Bomber Command Operational Training Unit. It was decommissioned in 1946.[18][19] Its buildings are now an industrial estate.
Chipping Warden has a public house, The Griffin. The village has a primary school.[21]
- ^ a b "Area selected: South Northamptonshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 149
- ^ English Heritage: Arbury Banks, Northamptonshire (NMR 21405/25)
- ^ English Heritage: Heritage at Risk: Roman villa, Chipping Warden, South Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire
- ^ Natural England Citation for Upper Cherwell at Trafford House Archived 27 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Wright & Lewis, 1983, pages 223-224
- ^ Salzman, 1939, pages 373-395
- ^ Ancestors of Bob & Robyn Bray: Richard de Raimbeaucourt Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ancestors of Bob & Robyn Bray: Robert Foliot Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mason, 1988, pages 93-107
- ^ a b Crossley, 1972, pages 49-71
- ^ Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, pages 148-149
- ^ a b c d Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 148
- ^ Archbishops' Council (2011). "Benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney". A Church Near You. Church of England. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ Journal of the House of Lords, 24, pages 267-273
- ^ a b c d e Journal of the House of Lords, 26, pages 286-287
- ^ a b "The Wartime Memories Project - RAF Chipping Warden". Archived from the original on 27 September 2008. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
- ^ a b Control Towers – RAF Chipping Warden
- ^ Old Airfields: The Disused Airfields of Eastern England And other military installations: Northamptonshire. RAF Chipping Warden[permanent dead link]
- ^ Chipping Warden School
Further reading[edit]
- Crossley, Alan (ed.); Colvin, Christina; Cooper, Janet; Cooper, N.H.; Harvey, P.D.A.; Hollings, Marjory; Hook, Judith; Jessup, Mary; Lobel, Mary D.; Mason, J.F.A.; Trinder, B.S.; Turner, Hilary (1972). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 10. Victoria County History. pp. 49–71.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
- Mason, Emma (ed.); Bray, Jennifer (1988). "Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214". London Record Society. 25: 93–107.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
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Hi everyone! I am back with a couple more shares from the Flying Unicorn May kit. Each month the kit comes with a fun Off the Page project and this months is this book box that you can alter. I decided to use Prima's Butterfly Collection on mine.
I painted the box first with Gesso and added the Buttlerfly papers. I did lots of stamping and some masking in the background. I had this old lace around that I used on the binding part and added some of the butterflies from the collection.
I tucked in some Creative Embellishments chippys and the final touch was some Shimmerz Inklingz.
I also have a layout to share. I just adore the gorgeous 13 ARTS papers in this kit!


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We live in a subdivision in the country. I know, it sounds like an oxymoron, right?
But it's true.
Don't ask!
So, to make up for a lack of wide open space, we've maximized what space we have.
I re-stained our porch bench recently, because it was looking kinda shabby. It's actually an all-in-one, with two seats and a center table, all connected.
We won it at a charity auction. :)
Here's how it looked earlier this spring:
|The previous stain is almost completely worn off.
While Scott finished the sides of our new raised garden bed, I put a fresh coat of stain on the bench. Now it looks like this:
|I added some thrift store throw pillows and a few accessories.
|We also brought in these folding directors chairs we found for $5 each at GW last fall.
What a steal at $5 each!
They can easily be moved closer to the chiminea to roast marshmallows.