Learn Something New Everyday 2012 - part 1.

Thank you so much for the lovely comments about the curtains. I loved making them. So today I am going share with you some of the pages from my LSNED 2012 mini-album. I showed you the pages I had premade so it's only fair to show some complete pages too. Now I tend to do some pages from my personal learning and also from Shimelle's prompts but they are not always in order so if you have seen other people's posts, these may be completely off kilter. But there you go.

Here is the full front cover and the inside introductory page.................

 One of Shimelle's prompts was to think about your biggest adventure and I honestly felt I still am having an adventure in my life ................

Another prompt was about feet. Well mine are vile so I thought I would use a quote from a famous religious piece about footsteps instead. The feet are actually a punch.

 I love quotes and so I used this one to highlight what the month and book were about.

 This page is all about September's 10 on the tenth.

The above is a page about teachers. As this is a bit more personal I made a half hidden tag to journal my thoughts on.
Another prompt asked us to think about time. My friend and I had been reading poetry and I love W. H. Auden so chose an excerpt from ''Funeral Blues'' which is both poignant and timely.........

 I found this quote on a site I follow and loved it's ethos.....................''Every artist was once an amateur''. I talked about my learning to crochet a flower cushion.

 This one was a random prompt as it talked about things we use to remember. I immediately though of the one mnemonic I know from physics...............

The photos above and below are a double pager where I talked about my undying love for Dr Who. The little cards are weekly app cards which Starbucks put out........

This page was just a quick comment on Bipolar, just when u think u know your disease it punches you in the face...........

 The pages above and below are again linked. I was clearing out some things one day and found a sticky note my friend had left on some scrapbooking supplies she bought me. I wanted to celebrate what she said and keep it safe.

 This page is a simple comment about how much I love Codeword puzzles. In these puzzles, you are given a blank crossword with 2-3 letters inserted. The game is to fill in the crossword from those few letters and complete it.

The above page talks about the fact I received a small tax rebate when I thought I had no money left..........

Here is my page about my new skills I want to learn................

 The above page is about how I can be taken for a ride sometimes because I'm too soft and nice, but how if I was different I wouldnt be me.

And this page explores my friendship with a new friend who just makes me laugh so hard I could cry....

Hope you enjoy some of my pages. I am recovering from labyrinthitis and feeling sickly at the mo.

26 years ago today........................

Or approximately today, I was getting my A level results. The lovely Abi reminded me when I read her post about getting her fab results today. She has done superbly. Anyway back to 1984, I had left home on the Tuesday of this week, today is Saturday, bare with me all will become clear. My family had moved down to Somerset from Sussex a week ago and now I was leaving home to start my nurse training at the then London Hospital in Whitechapel, it's now gone all Royal!!!! So there we were 36 young ladies awaiting the results in the postroom. Some of the girls had gone home for the weekend but being the first away from home I stayed behind with my friend Naomi. I remember we had had to fill out all these brown envelopes in class before taking our exams so they could send them to the correct places. Anyway I had taken 3 A levels, in English Lit, Social Biology and Sociology. In the end I only got the 2 and with very poor grades, basically cos I hadnt worked as hard as I could have. Anyway, after a few more weeks I looked like this and I have never looked back although I still am a London hospital nurse at heart.

So today, I am making a decadent chocolate cake for my friend Luke who was 21 yesterday. I am off to Sheffield tomorrow lunchtime. Never been before but it sounds and looks lovely. I want to check out their Eye, apparently not as awesome as London's but hey who cares. They have an amazing botanical gardens so if I can drag a group of 20 something men out after a night clubbing tomorrow I will!

Anyway back to the chocolate I know u want details. Well it's the BEST chocolate cake ever, high in calories and so gorgeous u'll never eat another chocolate cake as long as you live. Its from this book by the glamorous Nigella Lawson, page 169. It is called the Sour-cream chocolate cake with sour-cream icing. It is really easy to make and the only extra is the sour-cream which you can easily make from single cream with lemon juice added. It tastes divine and if you know someone who's about about to have ababy and breastfeed it's the perfect milk production food!!!!!!
I have been getting ready for the next Shimelle class starting in a couple of weeks and have made the front cover for Learn Something New Everyday which I have done twice already and love.

This is the front cover which is covered in paper by Sassafras Lass. The next 2 pictures are close ups. The owl is becuase I love them but also I will hopefully learn something and become more wise and the apple for the teacher of course!

I have also been playing with my iphone and have downloaded a few free apps for the camera and some free books and sample chapters for the journey tomorrow. Looking forward to giving it a real trial. I have pre-booked my seat in the quiet carriage with an electric socket, how cool is it to travel by train these days. Just hope the other transport doesnt fail, please see Sian's story!!!!!
So catch up when I get home on Monday, unless I have time to whilst away via my iphone. Now how do I do that?