a meme for Monday - update

look what the wonderful and talented shot made for me, from the scant information provided earlier on in the week! thank you shot!

Give a little bit. . .
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Give a little bit of your love to me
Give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my love to you There's so much that we need to share
So send a smile and show you care
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I'll give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my life for you
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So give a little bit
Give a little bit of your time to me
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See the man with the lonely eyes
Take his hand, you'll be surprised

Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
I'll give a little bit of my life for you
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Now's the time that we need to share
So find yourself, we're on our way back home
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Going home
Don't you need to feel at home?.Oh yeah, we gotta sing. . .
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SUPERTRAMP

an echo from the other day

this is an echo of this

the internet is a wonderful thing. . .

so I can't show you the image,

but I can take you to its source. . .

this is for mel and this is for shot and this is for the witchy one and this is for anyone whose slipped on ice recently and this is for anyone whose been skiing and this is for anyone who'd like a bit of winter sun and this is for anyone with a sense of humour failure and this is for anyone who likes pizza. . .

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and this is the one I wanted to show you originally

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(-:

I thought this was just beautiful

I found it when I was looking for something else

sometimes it's the best things that you come across by accident, isn't it

playing tag around the world

so I dished out the letters for noel. . .

. . .seemed appropriate, and all the letters are in!!

N

O

E

L

a big thank you to Vicus, Mel, Shot and Dinahmow. . . and thank you Z, I really enjoyed this!

kind of a Tag

but not really

I begged to be included in the fun at Z's razorblade of life. . .

I quote: "You write about ten things you love that begin with your assigned letter, and post it on your blog.Then people leave comments on your post and you assign them letters and the cycle begins once more." (you know I didn't write that - too much punctuation!)

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the lovely Z gave me the letter T. . .
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let me think, ten things. . . (see, I've done three already) (four!) (I'm kidding); ok, in no particular order. . .
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1. tea
as in a cup of

it's how I start my day
(first thing, every morning, before the coffee)

2. Twinings. . .
. . .English Breakfast with three sugars, please

3. toast

I like white bread toast or brown malted seeded bread toast hot and crispy straight out of the toaster and dripping with butter (sorry for the reminder, Mel)

. . .and toast art is kind of fun too!

4. toast (a different kind)

my favourite EVER clothing catalogue

AND the clothes in it. . .

AND the catalogue is a treat in itself. . .

AND they even make their own jam and marmalade. . .
(not difficult, if I can do it, but kinda cute that they go that far)

5. tangerines

like satsumas, they remind me of a crisp and cold Christmas morning, waking up as a child all excited and finding my stocking at the end of the bed - lumpy with chestnuts and a satsuma; of course tangerines are slightly more tricky to peel than satsumas - but I like them anyhow; and the word is kind of cool, TAN-GER-INE, and it's a great colour. . .

6. totem poles

I find totem poles fascinating,
and they also remind me of
one of my favourite places in the world -
the Vigeland Sculpture Park
in Oslo, Norway

















7. trees

I find trees fascinating too - spring, summer, autumn and winter - they have really cool bark and things like acorns. . .

8. truly
as in Truly, Madly, Deeply

not as in Truly Scrumptious Sally Ann Howes *shudder* should really have not been cast for that role - it ought to have been Julie Andrews IMHO. . .

which bring us nicely to
the von Trapp children:
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I was brought up in a house with a book written by Maria vT herveryself about life with the children and the Captain. . . I own that book now (scary, huh)
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9. tunes
I don't need to add to that, do I?

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10. universal translators

I love the idea of a Babel Fish and just wish I had one that I could stick in my ear when I needed to. . .

and, while we're on science fiction. . .

The Tardis
(explanation here for the uninitiated!)

Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space. . .
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. . .and Time Lords,
my favourite of whom has to be the current one. . .
David Tennant
*swoon*
(and oh! yet another T)

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and I'll finish with

11. the things written in between the lines. . .

. . .cos there are lots
and they appear often,
but they are almost invisible
so you probably don't notice them. . .

bringing a whole new meaning to

The Tower. . .

(courtesy of shot!)
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and apart from the rather lovely wings,
this is not how I imagine Ms Mel at all. . .

(mig - can you remember your card's image?)
(!)

rid yourself of your needs?

I needed a smile this afternoon. . .

I needed something. . .

. . .to bring a smile to my face

desperately, I needed to smile

to reassure myself that all was not wrong with the world (well, my world anyhow) - and by sitting here, doing this, thinking of what I wanted to say to you lovely people (yes vicus, I include your good self in that haphazard grouping of somewhat random individuals) (that's not very well written - I mean my grouping is random and haphazard, not you lovely lot) and this brought it to me. . .

altogether now:
"oh yes he is!"

another day. . .

. . .but a very special one

the most lovely necklace turned up in the post
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a golden orb, with a spiral on each side that meets in the middle
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suspended on a long thin piece of leather, to just the perfect length for holding onto, when you need something to hold onto
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to reassure you that the world is still there, despite the fact it seems to be blowing away with the clouds from the sky overhead and the dust from the ground beneath you
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sorrow made it for me, as part of a project called "Passing It Forward" (the details of which I will explain, soon enough)
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I am clutching it now, tightly, in the palm of my hand - it is a perfect fit
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thank you sorrow

the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the

truth (will follow shortly, I'm going to have some breakfast first and a sneaky fag, methinks - but in the meantime: Happy Saturday to you!) (yes. . .YOU!!)