Sorting Saturday – Twitter – April 2011

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Julie Goucher

March swam into April at fairly rapid speed. My anaemia has made me quite tired, so on those evenings when I am home alone and usually catching up in the blog sphere, I have simply been too exhausted. Instead, I have been mooching in front of the telly, watching repeats of Pie in the Sky, reading and perhaps a little snoozing! – OK more than a little snoozing.

Here is the favourite Tweets for April, I still love that word!
  1. First spotted via a post on Ancestor Search Blog – Google Recipe View
  2. Sixth annual blogging event for Blogging against Disablism on 1st May 2011 & via Twitter #badd2011  Here are the entries for previous years – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
  3. The Official Royal Wedding Site with a link to the photos of the Wedding cake – beautiful craftsmanship!
  4. GeniMates, a great site in the making. I was profiled back in March
  5. An interesting posting about using a traditional notebook with Evernote
  6. Get involved in the Quilt for London project
  7. Alerted to this movie, Home by Christmas by  
  8. For those who took part in the A-Z April Blogging challenge – a set of buttons where you can meet some interesting participants.
  9. A Good Pharmacy Experience submitted to DearThyroid
  10. Participate with the Department of Health Listening Experience – submit contributions by 31st May 2011.
  11. April Organisational Tools, courtesy of DearMyrtle
  12. Edinburgh Historic Graveyard Project
  13. Thread of interesting posts to mark The Civil War Blog Challenge
  14. Several posts on using Evernote – Using Evernote with Etsy, Using Evernote to the fullest & Five reasons to Evernote your life
  15. Jamboree Application for Smartphones 
  16. Brant County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society
  17. Hogs Back Brewery
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    Versatile Blogger Award

    Posted on May 1, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    I came home from work on Monday 18 April to a lovely surprise; to see that Fi of Fi’s Magical Writing Haven had nominated Anglers Rest for The Versatile Blogger Award. Thank you. I am always amazed at the positivity of others in response to my rambling & obsessive blog posts!


    To comply with the rules of this award, I have to mention, thank and link to the award giver.  I also have to tell you seven things about myself:

    1. Instead of being born in September I was two weeks late and arrived in October. I am always in a rush or running late!
    2. I have a career in pharmacy management and a history degree.
    3. I seriously need to declutter and have despite culling many books I still have more books than bookcases.
    4. I believe that learning and books are medicines for the mind.
    5. I can play backgammon and not chess.
    6. I would rather drink tea than an alcoholic beverage.
    7. After several months I am still debating whether to buy an ipad or an android version. (Any hints and tips appreciated!).

    The final rule to this award is to pass it on to other bloggers. I follow a tremendous number of blogs but of them all, I felt that those listed below were amongst the most versatile.

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    Blogging A-Z – April Challenge – Survival of the Challenge!

    Posted on May 1, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    Thanks to Elizabeth Mueller for this award. I really enjoyed undertaking this challenge, My biggest challenge was making sure I posted on the correct day, and towards the end, I failed miserably! My focus was on issues and thoughts that meant something to me, rather than random words.

    I still have not visited the blogs of all those who took part, but am making a little headway. HERE is the list of participants on Elizabeth’s blog & HERE is the original thread.

    As I have looked at some of the blogs there are some really interesting posts and I have a few ideas for next year!

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    Blogging A-Z – April Challenge – T is for …..

    Posted on April 30, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    T is for …..Thyroid

    A – Z of Thyroid Symptoms (not exhaustive), Diagnostics, Treatments and emotions.

    A ~ Achy Joints, Anaemia
    B ~ Blood Pressure, Blood Tests, Biopsy
    C ~ Coldness
    D ~ Diabetes
    E ~ Exhaustion, Endocrine System
    F ~ Fatigue, Frustration
    G ~ Goitre
    H ~ Hair Loss
    I ~ Ignorance, Iodine
    J ~ Jubilation
    K ~ Knowledge
    L ~ Libido, Liothyroline
    M ~ Motivation Loss
    N ~ Numbness (back, fingers & toes)
    O ~ Over sensitive to noise
    P ~ Pain, Palpitations
    Q ~ Quinine (for Cramps)
    R ~ Reflux
    S ~ Skin Problems, Sleeping Problems
    T ~ Tiredness, Temperature, Thyroxine, Thyroid-UK
    U ~ Uncontrolled, Ultrasound
    V ~ Victory
    W ~ Weight Loss & Weight Gain
    X ~ X-Ray
    Y ~ Yellowing of the Whites of Eyes
    Z ~ Zealousness

    File:Thyroid system.png
    Graphic from Wikipedia
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    Blogging A-Z – April Challenge – W is for …..

    Posted on April 29, 2011 by Julie Goucher
    W is for ……Wedding!
    This post should have been written on Wednesday, but I delayed it to tie in with the obvious Royal Wedding, the Marriage of Prince William to Catherine Middleton. I watched the events on the television following the reports via Sky News. 
    The pomp and ceremony really did make me proud of my heritage and, like many other former brides turned back the mental clock to my own wedding and chaos, planning and nerves that I experienced. Rather than post a photo of the happy Royal couple or one of us, I thought I would post this gift which we received and still hanging in my lounge.
    A beautiful cross stitch given to us as a wedding present by my
    friend Wendy in July 1994.
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    Blogging A-Z – April Challenge – R is for …..

    Posted on April 29, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    R is for…..Royalty

    I guess there had to be a post about the Royal Family in the A-Z blog challenge. For the last few months there has been much speculation on the Royal Wedding and this last week the newspapers, radio and television were full of it.

    When we purchased our house, a late Victorian villa, sounds grand, and called a villa because it is on three stories! I was keen to put back into the house some of the Victoriana of yesteryear. I spotted in an antique shop a lovely plate of Queen Victoria, made for her Jubilee in 1887. The plate now resides above the archway in our lounge. The plate was swifty followed by other bits and pieces of Royal memorabilia that complimented the collection.

    Jug produced for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887

    A small sample of the collection

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    The Matchmaker by Marita Conlon-McKenna

    Posted on April 29, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    This was the gentle and realistic story of a mother, Maggie and her three unmarried daughters, Grace, Anna and Sarah.

    Set in Dublin, it is the story of widow Maggie, who resides in her marital home alone, with her unmarried daughter Sarah and Grand daughter Evie who live in the basement. Maggie’s a wonderful homely character, who desires to see her daughters married and settled down with men they love. Maggie’s matchmaking skills are displayed in a subtle way and overspill into the lives of fellow neighbours, her cleaner and a lodger, who lives in a converted mews at the end of the garden.

    As you would expect the daughters do eventually meet men they fall in love with, but the journey they each take is what makes this book enjoyable.

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    Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan

    Posted on April 29, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    The cover and the first pages of the book indicates a nice, cozy read focusing on a family and the paths their lives take. I was pleasantly surprised.

    Anna is a lawyer who has ditched her job as a tries to reinvent herself following a divorce. A trip to Ireland with a friend she leaves a stately home and is given a package by a stranger. Upon arriving at home, back in the States, she learns from her mother that her brother has had a serious accident on the way to get his son from police custody.

    Anna heads to the hospital and sees her brother and then seeks to understand the events surrounding his accident. She then leaves to travel to the detention centre to retrieve her nephew. Once home, Anna and her nephew Joseph head off to bed to recover from a tough day or so. During the night, Anna wakes up to find Joseph going through her suitcase, still packed from her trip to Ireland. As Anna challenges Joseph, something happens and upon wakening the two find themselves plunged back into 1844 Ireland……

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    Weekend Cooking – Victory in Europe July 1945

    Posted on April 29, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    Amongst my Grandmother’s belongs was this little cookbook in making cakes and icing. I don’t know if she ever used the recipes or if she had numbers 1-65.

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    Blogging A-Z – April Challenge – X is for …..

    Posted on April 28, 2011 by Julie Goucher

    X is for……oXo

    How I struggled and struggled to think of a suitable candidate for X, but alas it was not to be, so I thought I would think, outside of the box and focus on something that had meaning for me, rather than looking through the dictionary!

    OXO tin circa late 1940s.

    My Grandmother was a great one for putting money by in a series of money boxes. She had a traditional money box divided into sections for gas, electric,rent, water rates and rates. Remember rates, in the dates before Council Tax? She also had a series of Bourneville Chocolate tins and a trusty oXo tin. All stored in the bottom of her wardrobe. I have no idea what she put money aside for in the Bourneville tins, but the oXo tin held the money she put aside for her hair to be done.

    These were the days before debit cards and chip and pin, and the days before banks were institutions that could be challenged and held to account. These were the days when you were paid weekly in a small brown envelope and pensions from the Government paid via attending the post office and having your book stamped!
    How things have changed, in what is a relatively short space of time.
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