Grow Your Blog 2014 - plus a giveaway
Categories: life-in-general, lovely-things, crafting
Tags: Friends, yayness, happy things, Blogging Friends
Date: 25 January 2014 10:45:32
Well, hello, bonjour, bienvenue and welcome!
If you have come over to see me through the lovely Vicki's Grow Your Blog event I am very happy to see you, and I hope that you find something here to catch your eye and make you smile. This site doesn't have the wherewithal to become a Follower, but it would be lovely if you were interested enough to "bookmark" this page and come back to see me from time to time.
I'm often asked Why did you move to France? Well, the answer to that is in the section entitled "Throw Off the Bowlines" which comes from a quotation by Mark Twain
We managed to throw off the bowlines, we were persuaded to explore and dream and discover...So do please read that section if you want to know more about why we ended up here, in our small village in France.
I am an English teacher, and I am lucky to love my work - although getting up at 6.15 to face an hour's drive to my lessons in Clermont Ferrand does sometimes dampen my enthusiasm! I teach a mixture of business people, adults learning for their holidays, children and young adults preparing for their Bac; I teach a mixture of one-to-one, small groups and over the phone. It is varied, interesting and fun. It's not the greatest pay packet at the end of the month, but it's enough and I'm happy - that's worth quite a lot, in my book!
When not working I love blogging...I have two blogs, this one, and Fat Dormouse Getting Thinner. I hope you might trot over there as there will be a giveaway there too. On that blog I write about my efforts to get thinner, my menus for the week and I also post recipes that have been successfully received in the Dormousehold.
We don't have children, there's just me, Mr D and four Very Bad Cats (They used to be known as Very Bad Kittens, but, like us all, they're getting older!)
This is where I would love to show you photos, but, for the millionth time, (or so it seems!) the site is refusing to upload photos from my collection. It is really frustrating! I will put some on my other site, so now you'll have to go over there!! Anyway, Feline-wise, there is Pomme (the Senior Officer, at about 10 years old), George & Millie (Middle Management, born in 2010) and there is Bib (otherwise known as the Office Junior, born and rescued from the Michelin R&D site in 2012)
I also make cards. Again, no luck uploading photos, and when I try to link to previous posts with photos of my work, hey presto! Look! All the photos have disappeared. I am SO sorry about this. I hope it won't make you lovely Grow-Your-Blog people turn away in disgust and despair! I feel I've let you down and I am really sorry!!
As I'm a Lolcats fan, this will have to do as a picture...
So... If you would like to win my Grow-Your-Blog Giveaway, which is 5 handmade cards, then please do leave a comment. I can provide cards for special occassions, or just five general ones. I will also throw in a handmade bookmark, which - dammit! - I can't show you. Plusalso a card with a short quotation (chosen by you, bien sur!), calligraphed by me (Do you know, I don't think that there is such a verb!) It will have to be short, as my hands are becoming artritic and I find it difficult calligraphing for too long!!
Once again, apologies that the Wibsite has not let me upload my photos. But please, do come back and see me another time. It will be more fun then, I promise!! Until then, don't forget: you can visit Fat Dormouse and see photos! (Fingers crossed...!!)