tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425643438687525412024-02-21T01:55:41.987-08:00 The Spotted Teapotliving, loving, laughing, learningUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-60752411685937491322017-04-24T14:58:00.001-07:002017-04-24T14:58:18.913-07:00Looking for gifts<div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"><table class="tr-caption-container" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIsZ0jeec_dEvJeFl891UWhpHaRFPyFASKKX65ViiqWAwM1OB7JUWbcYe2V5qfDZYqXkc1pHaWxlDf3SgmX6uVp55vlOo3BdRHREwSEhm9aIXEpM4nwfpNvSx0VPzzQISwHQZCVeFl-g/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIsZ0jeec_dEvJeFl891UWhpHaRFPyFASKKX65ViiqWAwM1OB7JUWbcYe2V5qfDZYqXkc1pHaWxlDf3SgmX6uVp55vlOo3BdRHREwSEhm9aIXEpM4nwfpNvSx0VPzzQISwHQZCVeFl-g/ cursor: pointer;" width="320px" style="border: 1px solid; border-radius: 2px;padding: 5px; max-width: 320px " /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bob and Cookie</b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"><table class="tr-caption-container" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGurJK-uh6Dtidz-blfBiCZFCTJpAh5K8oTzz-z4YTYxbKtKlTJGm2knvM1BhZle7XBmSo3y33TQj6ojogUiozl6fNUpnx89L5B3xP3q7hbudcDPLsBkug9d8WV5njgcbe4G2LOmmR7zg/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGurJK-uh6Dtidz-blfBiCZFCTJpAh5K8oTzz-z4YTYxbKtKlTJGm2knvM1BhZle7XBmSo3y33TQj6ojogUiozl6fNUpnx89L5B3xP3q7hbudcDPLsBkug9d8WV5njgcbe4G2LOmmR7zg/ cursor: pointer;" width="320px" style="border: 1px solid; border-radius: 2px;padding: 5px; max-width: 320px " /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bob and Cookie</b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="blogaway-section"><p>A friend recently told me she was intentionally looking out for gifts in life. I liked​ that idea. I've been trying to do the same. Today was significant. I didn't look for a gift one landed on my doorstep from a friend. Such a surprise. I was asked to sign for this brown box.. thinking i can't remember ordering anything.<br/>
<br/>I tugged at the tape and impatiently tugged at the cardboard flaps to open it and inside was an amazingly life-like ginger cat. My friend called him Bob. I love it end of.</p></div><br/>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-39255240123869478892017-04-23T12:15:00.001-07:002017-04-23T12:33:26.608-07:00Happy Pic!<div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvrc2BbtzQQqLHLEHjakqUvty1jFGi6dXK1coCXMqLhltTAEaglNlmXi7VG4pGdEuZv_KJiAG6MfDCb_SbU7URsObBSc4uYib1ROCW2Kegf4zRrOdgGWTiup3xgF-vZKzVOxxCxqeJvAE/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvrc2BbtzQQqLHLEHjakqUvty1jFGi6dXK1coCXMqLhltTAEaglNlmXi7VG4pGdEuZv_KJiAG6MfDCb_SbU7URsObBSc4uYib1ROCW2Kegf4zRrOdgGWTiup3xgF-vZKzVOxxCxqeJvAE/ cursor: pointer;" width="320px" style="border: 1px solid; border-radius: 2px;padding: 5px; max-width: 320px " /></a></div><div class="blogaway-section"><p><u>Whilst</u> on holiday my iPad got stolen. Not nice. I did get some money back from my travel insurance. I chose to widen my experience and try Android. I enjoy learned new things.<br/>
<br/>We went on the dodgems last Friday as part of my Dad's birthday celebrations. It was fun. My youngest nephew wanted to come with me (and drive!) He was very excited about. We were all in cars so an infocus photo was near impossible but my sister did a great job and I've been playing around with the effects on my tablet.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p></div><br/>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-69517561786149249312015-03-22T15:53:00.001-07:002015-03-22T15:54:55.766-07:00Comparison and CriticismI watched an episode of "the Big Painting challenge" this evening on BBC2. A quest to find Britain's best amater artist. This week it was set in Liverpool with various scenes to paint using different mediums.<div><br></div><div>I got quite distressed though as the one of the judged didn't seem to have anything,encouraging to say about anything. It made me sad that she didn't see any of the beauty, which in my untrained eyes was clearly evident in most of the paintings.</div><div><br></div><div>It then got me thinking about many of the reality competition programmes on TV, The Great British Bake off, the Voice, Xfactor, Strictly- we cannot watch them without hearing the harsh and very public criticisms of the judges,</div><div><br></div><div>Do I/we take these judging voices into our minds when we create something just for our own pleasure or for friends and family?</div><div><br></div><div>I believe we were all born to enjoy creating something as we are made in the image of a God who creates. Whether we enjoy baking, painting, writing, speaking, there is something beautiful and unique in all our efforts and maybe if we ignore these made up critical voices our pens, paintbrushes, hands, voices or feet will begin to dance.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Q2c2q0BZvFD4tcmkON8s-gC43OloTHDZVYzqArM9vGOFTA6Af8UAkZJTcL9i8IknmoyONYlmSPHxuOe5gbzH0AbNesWXwL2WtSP9JG6vC32RBKCk34vyBt3hHD1iKOWCsvmFfFTXV5E/s640/blogger-image--2105670297.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Q2c2q0BZvFD4tcmkON8s-gC43OloTHDZVYzqArM9vGOFTA6Af8UAkZJTcL9i8IknmoyONYlmSPHxuOe5gbzH0AbNesWXwL2WtSP9JG6vC32RBKCk34vyBt3hHD1iKOWCsvmFfFTXV5E/s640/blogger-image--2105670297.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-71984952809619855082014-03-01T14:28:00.001-08:002014-03-01T14:28:56.492-08:00March 1st<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5f8f8P1LdsGtopux8WSy128TclRc9Wvl9sJ17382TLjnPVCPplWP71kHKBIKcc3vwsiKsMALty70ui8xj-ZjbWWtcq-6KD8GOkfQbrWH6_yM8gUJkvDUvmzcDjvdWk9709GXi5DxJ81Y/s640/blogger-image--1842881223.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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But there are some gifts people need that don't cost money, but they still come at a price - oneself.
Things that come from the heart, a smile, a hug, forgiveness, saying sorry, hope love...
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I've been giving prayerful thought lately to who really matters in my life, who does God want me to love. I mean 'intentional' love.</div>
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My next thinking is, how can I make sure each one knows they are special to me. </div>
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Different friends respond to different gestures (have you ever read 'the five languages of love'?) it's a challenge but joyful one, not a chore.</div>
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Cookie, it's very cute that you've been following me around lately but also kinda annoying sometimes ... only sometimes though, please don't take offence!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-86960066523985447092013-11-16T05:57:00.001-08:002013-11-16T08:35:07.366-08:00Do not worry<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioahEDrXJ-QoEVuC75dbaaBtogU0WvFezYFF_IMcZxZAyFcS4T_vpRmatUc45eJR_9XL5GS6zCK6enqYAgiupLJ-juureyuATxhDtGCDPt7-cZrR7s5Ab4CAbig1DIvKJdZTvrFtFSnMQ/s1600/SAM_0774.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioahEDrXJ-QoEVuC75dbaaBtogU0WvFezYFF_IMcZxZAyFcS4T_vpRmatUc45eJR_9XL5GS6zCK6enqYAgiupLJ-juureyuATxhDtGCDPt7-cZrR7s5Ab4CAbig1DIvKJdZTvrFtFSnMQ/s160/SAM_0774.JPG" width="400" /></a> </div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-19874826146973079452013-11-15T05:27:00.000-08:002013-11-16T14:25:57.272-08:00Wrapping a Cat for ChristmasA friend posted this on Facebook, it made me chuckle!
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My friend who works in the children's centre occassionally got to know her and a few week's ago we went to visit her in her new home as she moved a few months ago., Since she moved we became friends on Facebook and started to strike up a friendship. Whatever people say about Facebook it is a really powerful tool for connecting with people if used in the right way.<br>
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Anyway this morning she bought her one year old son up to see the cat and we had a really lovely time together. She has a cat too. It's funny how a cat can connect you with people too, get a conversation started.<br>
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Firework night tonight ... poor Cookie was so frightened. I found him under the bed!<br>
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I had a very unsuccessful game of Pooh sticks with my little nephew though, I couldn't see any sticks so I suggested playing 'pooh leaves' instead. We both chose a leaf and after a the wind had died down and stopped blowing our leaves back up they floated down to the water, rushing to the other side we waited and waited for our leaves to appear, but the didn't. Then my mum who had walked on a bit said "Ceri, if you come down here, you'll see why your game isn't working". There were walls under the bridge stopping the water from going through.<br />
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Then time to make a start on packing. Already?!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-67515958804072464532013-10-30T10:43:00.000-07:002013-11-15T11:43:26.672-08:00A Walk, a Scoot and a Rolling Stone!My sister very kindly did some research on Google to find accessible walks. We found one we all fancied walking along the cliffs at St.Brides, some great views. The walk said 'for adventure scooters' - mine isn't an adventure scooter it's a didi little thing but we decided to go for it knowing I could walk any tricky bits and my scooter is light enough to be pulled. Oops .. but I hit a large stone on the floor!<br />
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I like it! Was great to have my brother-in-law's family with us today, Sian made an amazing corned beef pie for lunch then off we all went down to the beaches in the freezing cold again!<br />
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Had a great sighting of little fellas like these. Interesting how they look so free swimming on their backs yet when they are climbing over rocks it all looks quite a struggle for them. Life's a bit like that,m sometimes we need to struggle feeling very undignified and at other times we swim happily and gracefully.<br />
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Then we returned to the lovely warm holiday home and went 'Down the cave' as we all affectionately call the game! Good job we have a good living area!<br />
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Then we went on to Broad Haven and warmed up in a cafe drinking coffee and hot chocolate. Then we tried the next beach along but the winds were so strong, sand was blowing into our faces before we even reached the beach, at one point I had to close my eyes. There are severe weather warnings in the media about a severe storm coming... maybe it's hitting us first.<br />
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Was lovely to come home to a home cooked roast, well done mum and Sian! .... (Aunty Ceri tries to stay on children watch when this is all going on!)<br />
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This evening I was introduced to the Percy Jackson - my eldest nephew loves the books, all to do with this kid who's half god and half boy - we watched a film based on a book. Good to be introduced to stuff I wouldn't choose myself. I can understand the attraction of greek mythology fantasy ... pretty harmless, enjoyed all the monsters and seeing the boys enjoying being a bit scared, half hiding behind a pillow!<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-22981774067720293842013-10-26T10:53:00.000-07:002013-11-15T11:38:44.380-08:00Rattling Windows and gamesWell, I didn't get a good night sleep last night, it was so windy, both my windows were rattling! Nevermind, had a nice lie in. There's WIFI in the holiday home so I downloaded the album 'Best of' by the Proclaimers, having recently gone to see the film of the musical <i><a href="http://www.movieweb.com/movie/sunshine-on-leith/trailer" target="_blank">Sunshine On Leith.</a> </i>I'd forgotten how good their songs are - uplifting too!<br />
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I spent much of the morning with my youngest (7 yr old) nephew, teaching him how to play scrabble on my iPad. He loves my iPad and he loves words so it was win win ... well until he started losing, he doesn't like losing! It was funny he asked me when the game would finish. "When there's no more letters in the .... 'bag'" ... I suddenly realised if he'd never played the physical version of the game he wouldn't know the letters were tiles in a bag. Weird thing when you introduce a child to the virtual before the real... It's important to play stuff you can do together though.<br />
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I stayed and had a warm quiet afternoon while the others went walking and picnicking - was feeling very sleepy.<br />
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Played a daft board game tonight ... '<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mysteries-of-Old-Chinatown-Boardgame/dp/B003YFIPQO" target="_blank">Mysteries of Chinatown'</a> or 'Chinese Cludo' the boys call it, daft but fun!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-34834897850992019092013-10-25T15:20:00.000-07:002013-10-25T15:21:14.166-07:00Holiday timeBeen an exhausting busy week so I'm very relieved annual family holiday in a large house in Pembrokeshire.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342564343868752541.post-62899015224299448902013-10-20T09:05:00.001-07:002013-10-20T09:28:53.002-07:00Just tired and loving Adrian PlassI realise my last postS were much focussed on feeling 'under the weather', I am lots better now but I am still a bit tired due to a rather long to-do list before I go on holiday and frustration of having to cancel a few things, like a day in Oxford to catch up with some lovely friends.<br />
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I have a deadline looming as to launching a website for a new charity funded by the local Council, but I can't complain too much it's great to have this work and is going to feel quite an achievement when done.<br />
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Last night I went to see Adrian Plass, he is a Christian speaker who makes people laugh not just at him but at themselves, scraping away at the superficial 'Christian' pretences, jargon and protocols to help us face up to the reality of who we are and feel able and privileged to come as we are to God with our masks taken off.<br />
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Sometimes as Christians we have become so good at beating around the bush and avoiding the sometimes painful realities that plague us as individuals. This hampers our love to go to any depth. Sometimes instead of seeking to understand someone we are quick to judge and that must really break God's heart.<br />
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As the song goes <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puuO6XjTp64" target="_blank">"Everyone is searching for intimacy."</a> .... the trouble is it comes at a cost and at a risk. Perhaps the best place to start is to seek to be a safe, non-judgemental, loving listening ear for someone you care about. Then we might dare to let someone else be a safe place for us.<br />
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Jesus wants us to do our best follow him but he understands we fail and I think he wants us to talk to him honestly about how we feel about our failings and doubts, ask for his forgiveness and help to try again. "Keep it real" as a young student friend of mine recently said to me.<br />
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This is the last day of September - I made it, I did a blog post for everyday. Will I keep it up ... no it's too legalistic. I think it is good to just blog when you want to//have time to. Has it helped my writers block? Yes I'm feeling more free at the keyboard now. It's definitely a good exercise. Give it a go.<br />
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Will write again ... hope you come back.<br />
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