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Ten on the Tenth

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It’s the tenth of the month again, where did last month go?
I am linking to Shimelle again with some thoughts about September, ten of course.

I love September. I love the fragrance
and colour of Autumn. It has a ‘a new
start’ feel about it. It is the last quarter
of the year with Christmas at the end.

I always take the first two weeks in
September as annual leave

Smaller children wearing their shiny
new school uniforms start walking
past my window again

Shimelle’s Learn Something New
Everyday class starts

The weather changes, the heating
goes on, I un-pack my winter clothes
from their (short!) summer storage and
start looking for a new winter coat and
hat. (I already bought new gloves!)

Alan’s annual birthday bash to which
all the family went this year. We meet
up with people from last year and of
course some new friends are made.

There are three family birthdays, all
celebrated at the party.

Two family wedding anniversaries,
including ours, celebrated at the party.

September 11 brings quiet and sobering
thoughts.

The world around me changes colour,
trees have their autumn leaves,
hedgerows laden with red berries for
the birds and blackberries for us, if
we’re quick!

Strictly is back on the TV!

There are many and varied Ten on the Tenth posts here this month.

A Plane and Simple Story

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It is the first Sunday in September, that means it’s Sian’s Story Telling Sunday. I am so pleased to be joining in again.
This is a funny little story that came about from an e-mail I sent (to the kind man).

Once there was a man who used to fly model aeroplanes.
He stopped when he became busy with work and family and his resources were needed elsewhere.
The man was always interested in flying but that’s as far as he dared to go.
One day the interested man met a man who still did the flying, they talked about the hobby for a whole evening while the wives ordered more drinks.
The new man said he would take the interested man to his flying club.
After only one afternoon
The interested man thought he would like to take up the hobby where he left off.
The new man became a very kind man and lent the interested man lots of aeroplane stuff so that the interested man could become a learner.
The kind man introduced the interested man to an instructor man.
The learning man had a lesson at flying but the wheels fell off the airplane so the learner man came home and began to repair the plane so that he could have more lessons.
After many rainy days and trips to the model shop the learner man proudly showed the new plane to his wife and she took photos of it.

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The weather man said that Sunday was good for flying so off the learner man went with the instructor man to fly the ‘new’ model.
The men spent a very long and happy day doing the learning and the flying and late in the evening the now sun burnt learner man brought his plane home to show his wife so that she could take more pictures.

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DOH! The radio broke when the instructor man was doing the landing bit!
The learner man was mortified (and sunburnt) and will buy the kind man a new plane. And build himself another one.

And a Layout

Words to Live By Days 3 & 4

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Big Picture Classes are running their Big Idea Festival for 12 days during August. Every day there is a word, a prompt to make a project page or Lo about.

Day three was Less
I really love this quote and as ‘non judgemental’ is my work mantra, as soon as I saw todays word the page was done. I knew straight away I wanted to use this photo.

Day four was Give
I had these orange Gerbras on my windowsill for ages, they seemed to go on and on and then all of a sudden these beautiful seeds appeared in a pile next to the vase! I had never seen them before. My Gerbras always just fall over and then I throw them out.

Papers are Katie Pertiet’s at Designer Digitals

Big Idea Festival, Words to Live By.

Texture Tuesday

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Orange is Kim’s challenge for Texture Tuesday this week, her textures are all so beautiful and playing with photoshop is just such fun!
Here are my pictures for this week.

Wallflowers remind me of my grandmother, they grew all along the wall underneath her sitting room window. They say autumn to me.

I really love the colours in this rose.

I have a glass top table, I wanted to take some pictures from underneath it. Husband & I had such fun, this is one of the less messy pictures.

This is my favourite, this morning has a very autumnal feel about it. We put the heating on for a little while last evening!

I have just realised I used some darker textures this week, is it really the start of autumn here?

There are some fabulous orange textures over here this week if you have a moment, take a look.