Our Next Challenge....

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,

How are you all my lovely friends? How has your week been??  The weather has been rubbish the past few days and it amazes me how much difference that makes to our daily mood, there is nothing more pleasant than getting up and flinging the bedroom windows open to let in the fresh air and look out at the clear blue sky and hear the birds chattering away in the trees, that just doesn't happen when it's pouring with rain, missing our on that glorious start makes an incredible difference to your day.  I hope that despite the gloomy skies after you are done with your 'swearing' 😜😉 you get to have a lovely day.

 

Despite yesterday's gloomy weather we had a lovely afternoon, Paul had an appointment to get his hair cut (to make sure he looks his best for the funeral next week), usually he would get his hair cut on the way home from work, his hangar is still out of bounds due to having no roof so he is still working from home all week, not that I am complaining although we get through 5 times the amount of tea bags!  Anyway what I am trying to tell you all is that we had an afternoon out, I haven't spent a couple of hours browsing around the town that we used to live in for years. 

So ladies I am wondering how many of you had heard of the word ''Oligarch' before last week??  An Oligarch is a very rich business leader that has a great deal of political influence (usually in Russia), I guess the one we might know is Roman Abramovich (owner of Chelsea football club).  Watching news online a lot of these 'oligarchs' have something to do with Oil, are being sanctioned, France and Germany have seized the most enormous super yachts from their Oligarch owners, I have never seen anything like these yachts, one is valued at £86 million!  they look the size of cruise ships!

Now the thing that got me thinking about funny or odd words that I have no idea of the origin of was Our Sonia's blog comment yesterday, she was responding to my comment about trying clothes on in shops...She said ''if they don't fit you then have the 'Rigmarole' of having to get a different size etc''

this made me smile the hugest smile and I laughed too as it is a word that I use and one that my Mum used loads but I never hear anybody else using, I wasn't sure it was an Essex word, here is an explanation of it's Origin:

For our next challenge I thought it might fun to make some backgrounds with Stripes & Spots,  looking back for inspiration cards I discovered that I hardly every use Stripes.  I have used spots in various ways but not many stripes.  So it will be a challenge for me.  Now you can use spots and stripes in any way you like, you can use spotty or striped paper, you can stamp the spots and stripes or Stencil them. You can also use dies or embossing folders to create the spots and striped.  I can't remember having this as a challenge before so it will be a new one for us all, it can work for any occasion too,  so if any of you want to start your Christmas cards now's your  chance. 
I hope that you enjoy the challenge, I am excited to see what you design. 
Love and huge hugs to all of you,
Sandra                                                                        xxxxxx 

Ragman was also the name of a game where a scroll of parchment had strings hanging from it that pointed to various (likely bawdy) verses in the scroll. Players would choose a string to find their verse, and it would be read out to the entertainment of all.

Over time ragman roll, for a long roll of parchment full of “nonsense,” eventually became rigmarole, a long, unnecessarily time-consuming hassle. No doubt a word that has always been useful.

Do you use any words that are local or make you laugh?

Our Next Challenge

For our next challenge I thought it might fun to make some backgrounds with Stripes & Spots,  looking back for inspiration cards I discovered that I hardly every use Stripes.  I have used spots in various ways but not many stripes.  So it will be a challenge for me.  Now you can use spots and stripes in any way you like, you can use spotty or striped paper, you can stamp the spots and stripes or Stencil them. You can also use dies or embossing folders to create the spots and striped.  I can't remember having this as a challenge before so it will be a new one for us all, it can work for any occasion too,  so if any of you want to start your Christmas cards now's your  chance. 
I hope that you enjoy the challenge, I am excited to see what you design. 

Love and huge hugs to all of you,
Sandra                                                                        xxxxxx