tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68578051526998892262024-03-19T02:47:34.101+00:00Nest of MistClairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-59971462383420782302017-12-31T12:53:00.000+00:002017-12-31T12:53:11.892+00:0031 December - My Word for 2018<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been quite a mini-saga, this finding a Word for 2018! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was <b>so </b>sure my Word was 'story' - I had a whole post written about it two weeks ago...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then, I've felt scattered (partly caused by succumbing to yet another cold on Boxing Day), and my head is still congested, and my sleep is still interrupted with coughing and sneezing 😩</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've struggled to string thoughts together, to form sentences, and finding a <a href="http://nestofmist.blogspot.co.uk/p/word.html">Word </a>to guide me through the New Year has felt beyond me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I am one who perseveres (my natural 'bloody-mindedness', according to my dad), and so here it is...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such a dull, ordinary, prosaic Word, but as I sat with it between naps, it expanded, shifted, showed its many facets, until it fairly sparkled...</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to make ROOM for more of what I want to do/feel/experience in 2018</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to explore my own deep, inner ROOM of safety, of sanctuary, of silence</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to truly have a ROOM of one's own</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm still exploring what it all means, but I sense it's a much more interesting Word than it appears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This exploration has confirmed to me what I've known for a while - my time here, in this Nest of Mist in Blogland, is over. It always felt temporary, even when I created it in June 2016. It served a beautiful <a href="http://nestofmist.blogspot.co.uk/p/why.html">purpose </a>- to get me through the Summer of Change, and to help me navigate the dreaded Empty Nest - and now it is no longer needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, in its stead, is a new blog, a new <a href="https://thereisaroom.blogspot.co.uk/">dwelling</a>...</span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-1508436638859444382017-12-29T06:54:00.001+00:002017-12-29T06:54:18.282+00:0029 December - My eyes...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... are reflected in the beauty of our daughter, born today two whole decades ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy birthday, sweetheart!</span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-8766542609401554422017-12-25T07:01:00.000+00:002017-12-25T07:01:16.857+00:0025 December - Today is...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... the time for family and friends, love and joy, warmth and shelter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And for remembering <a href="https://www.crisis.org.uk/">those </a>who have none...</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-34746143757592574392017-12-22T07:36:00.002+00:002017-12-22T07:36:49.945+00:0022 December - Skyline<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THE most beautiful skyline of them all... Forget San Francisco - I left my heart in Oxford </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">💓</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNaS0mEGuNPsVCUY5HF0sc6yRHUtx1ytFbWdnmXetfVBwTJtWBpSHogM9unMCpt71EsS0qSMVoGH2rF6oVjeEkjsTF5e_5yEAJU22J9I617y1PLK1Ykwu3lZrBZ31Qt85xSsGLE6WnxKc/s1600/winter-skyline-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNaS0mEGuNPsVCUY5HF0sc6yRHUtx1ytFbWdnmXetfVBwTJtWBpSHogM9unMCpt71EsS0qSMVoGH2rF6oVjeEkjsTF5e_5yEAJU22J9I617y1PLK1Ykwu3lZrBZ31Qt85xSsGLE6WnxKc/s1600/winter-skyline-001.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1669620336415802/">here</a>.</span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-61230462692328969702017-12-21T08:15:00.000+00:002017-12-21T08:15:26.835+00:0021 December - Happy Solstice!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My favourite song to celebrate the returning sun, and for surviving the darkest days of the year. Enjoy!</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-65175260292938032342017-12-20T10:07:00.000+00:002017-12-20T10:07:29.333+00:0020 December - Sweetness<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our beautiful kids (taken quite a few years ago now!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">E is coming home today for Christmas, and S tomorrow, yay!</span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-25078998135968447762017-12-18T09:38:00.001+00:002017-12-18T09:38:56.153+00:0018 December - Favourite photo of me<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As someone who has never liked being photographed, there haven't been many favourites down the years... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I do love this one of E and me, taken a couple of years ago by the multi-talented <a href="http://www.katerobertsonstudios.com/">Kate </a>who was visiting from the US - you can feel the love! <span style="color: red;">💕</span></span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-11296158924401341262017-12-16T09:39:00.000+00:002017-12-16T09:39:09.126+00:0016 December - Sparkle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not much sparkle today, I'm afraid... I'm sick 😓<span style="color: red;">👃</span>🙎😭</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deciding to be relicensed as a Reader (lay minister) in October in Lincoln Cathedral</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(although I wish they hadn't wheeled me right into the middle 😓) Thankfully, I didn't have to 'robe up' - an accident waiting to happen in a wheelchair...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...I stumbled into our 11-year-old son's bedroom, I tried to say, 'Darling, could you get up?' Instead, I heard deep, nonsense noises coming from my mouth...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was having a serious stroke - at the aged of 43.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1669620336415802/">here</a>.</span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-38314419612086577912017-12-13T09:10:00.000+00:002017-12-13T09:10:48.641+00:0013 December - 5 things about me...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. I am a wife (of almost 29 years, gulp!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. I am a mama, a daughter, a sister to these lovely people...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(l-r the kids, my dad, my brother)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. I was a Brownie...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... and I'm still in touch with some of these 😊</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. I've made <a href="http://nestofmist.blogspot.co.uk/p/moonboards.html">moonboards </a>for the past 4 years...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. My favourite poet and favourite author...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1669620336415802/">here</a>.</span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-49369442636052104272017-12-11T10:35:00.000+00:002017-12-11T10:35:20.184+00:0011 December - I discovered that...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who knew?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's been a year of such discoveries...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1669620336415802/">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PS Also discovered I LOVE this guy's music - thank you, <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/2017/12/something-for-the-weekend-189/">Susannah</a>!</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-16063267700397133042017-12-10T09:19:00.000+00:002017-12-10T09:19:29.714+00:0010 December - Softness<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Truly, Molly-cat has THE softest, velvety fur...</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-88994621447047457892017-12-08T10:48:00.000+00:002017-12-08T10:48:24.172+00:008 December - Green<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even at this time of the year, there are pockets of green around the village... This 'Triffid' is escaping over a neighbour's garden wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1669620336415802/">here</a>.</span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-24512258478244559242017-12-07T08:28:00.001+00:002017-12-07T08:28:05.020+00:007 December - Favourite photo of 2017<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How to choose just one?? But I do like this one - and it was used as the cover photo for the village <i>Together </i>magazine back in the summer (I was a little proud, </span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-52013632171137489262017-12-06T06:40:00.000+00:002017-12-06T06:40:34.622+00:006 December - I [am] challenged by...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... <a href="http://www.moreloveletters.com/">More Love Letters</a> to spread a little cheer this holiday season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not too late to <a href="http://www.moreloveletters.com/12days">sign up</a> and send a quick note or xmas card to a stranger who will really appreciate it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still sharing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1669620336415802/">here</a>.</span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-41833184957805378492017-12-05T07:39:00.000+00:002017-12-05T07:39:49.190+00:005 December - Best book of 2017<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://blessedaretheweird.com/">This </a>was published last year, but I bought it with this year's birthday pennies. I chose the hardback version, and it is THE perfect fit-in-your-hand size with thick creamy pages **swoon** And Jacob Nordby <a href="http://blessedaretheweird.com/">speaks </a>my language...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Just love it - I dip into it most days 😍</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1669620336415802/">here</a>.</span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-70292882319218381702017-12-04T13:56:00.000+00:002017-12-04T13:56:22.197+00:004 December - Circles<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A favourite <a href="https://sacredjourney.com/">deck</a>... (I choose to ignore the US spelling <b>😉 </b>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So many 'best days' this year, but this was a lovely birthday treat - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a dear friend took me to Sandringham (which I've never visited before). A really special day!</span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-5716023699095143262017-12-02T07:43:00.000+00:002017-12-02T07:43:03.435+00:002 December - Red<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A wee Thanksgiving gift...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love poinsettias <span style="color: red;">💓💖💝💞💟</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's worth the wait though - and how I love our back garden is full of everrgreens! 😍</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I came across this quote online, and added it to a wee sketch...</span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857805152699889226.post-34427988455788551752017-11-28T08:26:00.001+00:002017-11-28T08:26:55.200+00:00Oh my...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... I watched this last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I missed it when it was released 5 years ago 😞</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our local cinema only screens 'blockbusters', so such gentle, thoughtful, mesmerizing films as this never get a look in...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's on BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pzrk5/albert-nobbs">i-player</a> till Sunday, and yes, I'll be watching it again - Glenn Close is captivating! I was totally immersed in Albert's world... And such a fine supporting cast - a definite 5 stars from me!</span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com1