Summer, you might want to have a look at this link for some ideas.

 

This one seems quite appropriate:

 

Celtic Blessing

May the strength of the wind and the light of the sun,
The softness of the rain and the mystery of the moon
Reach you and fill you.
May beauty delight you and happiness uplift you,
May wonder fulfil you and love surround you.
May your step be steady and your arm be strong,
May your heart be peaceful and your word be true.
May you seek to learn, may you learn to live,
May you live to love, and may you love - always.

Summer, baby Ava is lucky to have you as her godmother.

El and Squiggle, the Celtic Blessing and the prayer you have quoted are lovely and very appropriate for a christening.

Lovely time for the occasion, Summer, Ava is indeed a special gift as is her mum. Oh getting all weepy now!  

squiggle and El, beautiful x 

Off to read, sleep well and catch up tomorrow.

Goodnight squiggle 

Enjoy your book, goodnight Squiggle.

Off to get my tutu ready for the morning, yes the ballet again !

Hope you have a nice weekend Ros x

Goodnight all,  

 Oh, the mental images that conjures up.

Goodnight Skylark.

I resemble that remark    

Goodnight and may the bedbugs bite 

Signing out now.

Hugs for Summer and Ros.

Ros, hope you manage to have a nice, relaxing weekend.

Goodnight Skylark.

night lovely yogi and skylark

night squiggle

Thank you very much for the link & other suggestions you've given me some great ideas & inspiration, I'll put each one to mama bear and see what she likes

Sweet dreams to you all stay warm

Good morning everyone

 

I'm feeling better today but am taking things easy (which makes no change )

 

Very cold night here, according to the news the coldest night of the winter so far. So far is their words, not mine - I'm hoping that as from tonight it will be less cold.

 

I'm going out to do my shopping. Although it's very frosty, as yesterday's snow melted by early yesterday it gave the chance the roads to dry off, and there is no sign whatever of any ice on the roads.

 

Skylark, I hope you have another nice morning watching your granddaughter in her tutu

 

Did you know that the tutu is a type of plant in New Zealand

Good morning El I heard on the radio that your area had been one of the coldest places in the country during the night! I'm glad that you're feeling a bit better, do take it easy though I didn't know tutu was a plant, I like it I hope you all keep warm today, and enjoy your weekend I'm already looking forward to finishing work and wrapping up warm at home lol

Good morning everyone, it's cold here but quite nice and bright.  Since I retired I have striven to make taking it easy my preferred mode   Too many years of struggling out of bed and onto tube trains at silly o'clock.  Ros we want to hear that you are taking a leaf out of book this weekend and just pleasing yourself.

 

What a pretty plant, wonder if it will grow over here, I think the climate is supposed to be similar.

 

Have a great day everyone, be careful in case of ice won't you there were loads of people on yesterday's news going to Casualty with broken ankles etc.

This lovely link was on my Facebook this morning, I thought I would share

 

http://www.godvine.com/Watch-W...the-Clinic-1106.html

Squiggle, I hope tutu plants can't grow in this country as they contain a very nasty poison called tutin. Because bees like the blossom they produce honey and, although not in recent years, there have been cases of people dying from poisoned honey.

That's a great video, squiggle - well done that couple - together for 62 years

Oh dear, maybe not such a good idea then.  How you feeling today?

A lot better than yesterday, thank you

Good afternoon everyone.

Weather is damp and miserable.

I like the look of the tutu plant, what a shame they are poisonous.

El, glad you are feeling better today.

Squiggle, I loved the video clip, what a great couple.

Hugs for everyone.

Glad to hear it, and you still have your brother's visit to look forward to and if the weather is less cold by then it may be more enjoyable.  I have noticed some plants starting to come into bloom in my garden although admittedly there is a long way to go.

With a nod to my earlier post on tutu plants and squiggle's plants staring to come into bloom, here's a nice little photo taken in St Louis:

 

The centre piece of this display is a castor bean plant. There's only one little problem with this plant. If it produces any beans, then eating the whole bean isn't a good idea as it contains ricin which is one of the deadliest poisons around. Although castor oil comes from the beans, the oil doesn't have any ricin in it.

 

 

Maybe not a good idea to grow that plant in a public display then EL? Elf 'N Safety you know

It's possible that the plant has been treated in such a way that it cannot grow any beans. The dark leaves at the bottom of the display are from a different plant called the elephant ears plant. I don't know about now, but for a long time St Louis produced much of the castor oil in the United States so that must be the reason for the display.

So it might be a beanless castor bean plant?

 

And on that note I am off to finish my book, sleep well everyone, speak to you all tomorrow

Goodnight Squiggle, speak to you tomorrow.

Got a book I'm hoping to finish tonight, so I'm signing out now.

Goodnight all.

Night owl hugs.

night lovely yogi and everybody

good morning I'm not actually up yet, I'm just early birding because I got a text about Whitney Houston passing, very sad I've been enjoying a couple of her songs lately! El I enjoyed your plant fact posting y'day, thank you Right I'm off back to snooze-ville/lay-in-land *leaves trays of hot drinks, hot breakfasts and hot pancakes!*

Good morning everyone

 

Less cold today than recently but cloudy, the forecast suggests that for the next few days at least the temperatures will be closer to normal at least where I live.

 

Shocking news about Whitney Houston.

I'm sure most of us have seen Scrooge/A Christmas Carol the 1951 version with Alastair Sim. I saw it again yesterday evening and spotted something in it. There's a scene in the film near the end where Scrooge visits his nephew's house, he knocks on the door and a maid answers. She takes his coat before he goes into the main room. Watch this clip from the film and have a close look at the maid - it's about 30 seconds into this clip. Who is the actress? She is not listed in the credits, the film does not appear in her list of films on the IMDB website, and there is no documentary evidence as to who it is. There is no doubt as to who she looks like, and from a chronological point of view it is certainly possible that it is her. She was working in the UK at the time right at the beginning of her film career and in 1951 appeared in tiny roles in a couple of British films. Needless to say there are others who have wondered about this over the years. It is unlikely that the answer will ever be found out, but it is one of the most fascinating unknowns in the world of films - judge for yourselves.

 

Good morning everyone, slightly misty here this morning.  I watched the clip carefully EL and can't put a name to the face, who do you think it is?  You could put the answer in a spoiler if you don't wish to reveal it openly.

 

Off to church soon, have a good day everyone.

I'm not very good at names to faces but she instantly made me think Audrey Hepburn! Do I win a cookie if I'm correct..?

Hope church has a good service today squiggle I'm off to get porridge, back shortly

Good morning everyone.

Thank you for the pancakes, Summer.

I agree with Summer, the actress in the clip reminds me of Audrey Hepburn.

Sad news about Whitney Houston.

Summer and Yogi, I agree with you - I immediately thought of Audrey Hepburn as well. Some people had though she was Jean Simmons but she doesn't look like that maid and in any case by 1951 she was an established film actress and wouldn't have been playing such a minor role. There is a possibility that if it wasn't Audrey Hepburn it might have been someone called Frances Arden who is an unknown actress and does not appear in the IMDB database.