Welcome to the round up of posts you might have missed on Smorgasbord this week.
I hope you have had a great week. All quiet here although we did indulge on Friday for our wedding anniversary. I have kept every anniversary card we have ever sent each other including our wedding day cards and telegrams. As you can imagine I have a drawer full in the filing cabinet after 44 years and this year we decided to not buy anymore. It is not the cost or even trying to find one that is meaningful, it is simply we don’t really need them to show how much we love each other.
We went out for coffee and cake…. and then lunch was taken care of by the two air fryers which kindly prepared rib eye steak, onion rings and chips without me having to do much except fill and empty them.
It was a special day when we talked about the wedding and the five people, now long gone, who were there, and our adventures over the years. In the top photo my lovely mother-in-law Joan and my best friend Joan and my mother.
It’s official… with the registrar Mr. Evans after he pronounced us man and wife….
Here is the groom and then my father and I sharing a moment together along with the hotel cat trying to get next to the fire…
My father-in-law Geoff who some of you are familiar with over the years on the blog with his stories about Ireland is not in the photos I scanned because he took them…so here he is on is own wedding day. Considering David and I met and married in six weeks and I had only met his parents once on a quick visit to Ireland two weeks before the wedding, they welcomed me with open arms. I couldn’t have wished for lovelier parents-in-law.
As for the cards in the filing cabinet, I do get them out from time to time for us to enjoy all over again and they are a reminder of how wonderful our life has been together. With much more to come we fully intend, provided we don’t eat too many onion rings and chips lol…
As always my thanks also goes to my friends who contribute to the blog
William Price King William joined me for the Breakfast Show on Tuesday and his series of iconic Duets on Friday. You can also find William – Blog– IMPROVISATION– William Price King on Tumblr
Debby Gies was here with the next in her series Life Lessons 101 on Monday and this month she explores forgiveness… On her own blog she shared her November writer links and of course her Sunday Book Review The Answer is No: A Short Story by Fredrik Backman. D.G. Kaye
Carol Taylor This week in the A-Z World Cuisine Carol took us to Estonia where the recipes were both interesting and out of some people’s comfort zone… On Wednesday Carol will join me in the Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiency of the essential vitamin C….head over to enjoy Carol’s posts on her own blog too as she celebrates the release of her new cookbook CarolCooks2
Thank you for dropping in today and for your comments and shares… they are all appreciated.
On with the show
Life Lessons 101 – #Forgiveness – What is Forgiveness and How to Give It by D. G. Kaye
A-Z World Cuisines – Part 23 – Estonia – Black Bread and Verivorst by Carol Taylor
Holding Back the Sands of Time #Laughter is definitely the best medicine by Sally Cronin
Spotlight and Review – #Cookbook – Recipes from Carol’s Kitchen by Carol Ann Taylor
#Contemporary #Romance – Anchored in Embo by Christine Campbell
#Crime #Mystery Cold in the Earth by Thorne Moore
#History #SouthAfrica Sticks in a Bundle: Transitions by Pat Spencer
Thanks for dropping in today and I hope you will join me again next week..
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