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Depression: My story

As a child there was a little handheld game I played. The aim of the game was to put out fires in a tower block as Mickey Mouse. You’d be putting out one fire and whilst you weren’t looking, another would appear in a different window, and that’s what I can best equate my mental health to. I spent over a year of my life trying to put out something that I thought was the most important fire and whilst I devoted all of my time, and energy to that, a bigger fire was spreading elsewhere, and that fire was depression.

Hyde Park Book Club – five reasons you should go!

View out of Hyde Park Book ClubHyde Park Book Club has always intrigued me, whether I’m zipping by in a taxi or crawling past on the bus. Even though I’ve been a student in Leeds, and worked at two of the three Universities, I’m sad and a little ashamed to say that I’ve never visited. A dreary Saturday provided the perfect excuse to try it out and here are the reasons you should go too…

Hyde Park Book Club Vegan Butcher Brunch
1: The Food

In the ideal spot, just off Hyde Park Corner, the Book Club offers an amazing menu. Using plant based products from the Vegetarian Butcher, chef Helen has crafted ideal choices for either a pit stop or longer, lazier, stay which are bound to appeal to everyone, vegetarian or otherwise.

Heralding from the Netherlands the Vegetarian Butcher aims to satisfy the hunger for meat, without the need to eat animals. Jaap, the Vegetarian Butcher himself, hopes that even the most devout meat eater can give up meat a few days a week and not miss out on taste or the nutritional benefits thanks to his range of meat free sausages, burgers and more.

As well as brunch, HPBC offers food throughout the day up until 10pm including burgers, sandwiches and sharing platters. If you’re visiting for lunch try the Classic Burger, or if you fancy something to go with a glass of wine the halloumi plate sounds incredible too.

Books at Hyde Park Book Club
2: Book club

The clue is in the name really, but Hyde Park Book Club is also… a book club! Next to the fancy dress shop, there is a haven for book lovers, filled with titles for all ages and tastes. Astonishingly, I found several books, with which I could chart my reading from a young age to the last book I read. The library has new books as well as those ones that come free with the scent of nostalgia.

Anyone can donate books they no longer want to the Book Club and it’s a fantastic way of picking up new titles to read cheaply. If, like me, you dine alone from time to time, you have the added bonus option of books for company.

Hyde Park Book Club Bottle Shop
3: Bottle shop

As well as having a large selection of books to buy, Hyde Park Book Club also runs a bottle shop. I’m not big into beer, (it’s one of my many character flaws), but even I know they have quite the formidable selection, from near and far including IPAs and… other beers too, as well as a couple of wines. If you’re stuck for choice remember you can always ask for a recommendation too – Helen selects the beers for the shop herself!

Disco Ball at Hyde Park Book Club
4: Events

Within the venue are also several events spaces, including a basement gig area, with the biggest disco ball I’ve seen this side of the year 2000 and separate rooms upstairs. Coming up in March they have a pretty impressive calendar of events including Lelo, Jaggedy Ants and Hayley McKay as well as regular jazz nights.

Hyde Park Book Club also host regular Board Games events with Cards or Die where you can even request games to play – just make sure you try Exploding Kittens at least once. Separate to the events, there are also have a range of games to hand so if you fancy a lazy Sunday or a break from studying here is the place!

Bottle Selection at H
5: The Staff

Everyone that I met whilst at HPBC was so warm and welcoming. Both Jack, the owner, Helen, the chef, and the other staff who were present on my visit made me feel like a regular, even though it was my first time. They’ve really succeeded at creating such a friendly and relaxed vibe, which is perfect for either a lazy weekend or weeknight blow-out.

…So what are you waiting for? Get yourself there!

Hyde Park Book Club can be found at 27-29 Headingley Lane in Leeds and opens 10-11pm each day.

I was invited to attend a bloggers’ event in return for writing a post, as ever all the words and opinions are my own.


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My Conversion Story

I was raised as a  Catholic – my father had been raised Catholic and my mother was a convert.   We never missed church on Sunday.   They sent me to Catholic Grade and High School.  I was also an altar boy, which meant I helped the priest at Mass.  Actually I have some great memories of growing up as a Catholic, but as I grew older, I questioned things.   My mom and I had many discussions about religion, but despite her strong testimony of the truthfulness of the Catholic Church, I could never resolve my doubts.

Jumping ahead a few years  – my college career at Virginia Tech was a turning point in my life in many ways.  It was my first experience of being on my own, it's where I had my first date, where I met the first woman I fell in love with – followed by my first rejection.  It's also where I had my first real exposure to religious beliefs outside the Catholic Church.  In particular I remember attending meetings of Campus Crusade for Christ and making some friends who were quite active in the group.  I wasn't easily swayed, however, and could never quite embrace their beliefs or life-style either.

After college, the next step was to get a good job, get married, and settle down – at least that's what I thought.  Instead I returned home to Ohio in the Summer of 1975 without any marriage prospects and for a while felt like my life was over.  I had a decent job as a mechanical engineer at the Timken Co. – I worked for them all through college as part of a co-op program.  Upon graduation, Timken made a good job offer although I really didn't like working there very much.  But I only received one other offer – from an General Dynamics, an aerospace company in Texas – a lower offer and even less appealing than Timken.  So I chose the lesser of two evils and went back to Timken.

But the job I had disliked during college turned into a job I hated as a graduate.  In retrospect it wasn't really a bad job, but the rest of my life was just not going as I had hoped.  I didn't like the idea of living alone in an apartment, so I went back to the family farm to live.  Unfortunately things had changed while I was gone and I didn't really fit in very well anymore.  There was no bedroom for me anymore so my mother let me use the front porch.  It was small and cold, but most of all, I remember feeling alone and almost in a hopeless situation, despite the fact that I had a good job and plenty of potential.  My failure to find a wife in college was now seeming like a major problem.  I didn't feel there was a way of meeting anyone now.  While my brothers and sisters were enjoying their lives and friends, I was often alone, and feeling humiliated and depressed.

What I really wanted to do was leave everything and start a new life.  Summer was my favorite time of year, but the Summer of 1975 was not a happy one for me.  One August night when I was feeling particularly low, the thought came to me that I should quit my job and travel.  Initially the thought seemed like too much to bear.  Where would I go?  How would I survive?  What would I do at the end?  But the more I thought about it, the better I felt about it.  It was like a light had come on and I suddenly felt good and excited about my life.

I spent the Fall and Winter planning my trip.  I made of list of things I would need to take.  I made some modifications to my car so it would hold everything, including removal of the passenger seat and placement of a sheet of plywood which I could sleep on.  There was also room under the plywood for my bicycle.  I also bought an atlas of the U.S. and took books out of the library about national parks, and other places I could visit.  I had a purpose now, and felt good about things.

I quit my job in early May of 1976, having saved up over $10,000 (a lot of money in those days).  I had a number of college friends as well as family members that were scattered in various states.  They become my main focus, and gave me a kind of framework for my travels.   The first leg of the trip included Tennessee (visited Ed Seifert and his wife there), Virginia (visited Kevin (Rock Man – can't remember his last name) and Steve Krawczel there), and Maryland (visited John Kysztofiak and his wife there).  Then I headed north along the coast, reaching Maine.  Then headed west into Michigan to visit Uncle Don (my mother's half brother) and Aunt Isabelle.

That took about a month.  Although I didn't originally plan to return to Ohio, I decided to return home for a few days and make some changes to my car so I could store things a little better.  Then I was off again – fist to Illinois to visit my Cousin Don and his family (son of Uncle Don).

I can't remember exactly where I was, but one night it began to pour while I was trying to sleep in my car.  At one point, I discovered that the hatch window in the back wasn't fully closed so I found a pair of plyers and tried to pull the window shut from inside the car.  The glass suddenly shattered into a million pieces and I had glass and water all over the inside of the car.  I wasn't funny at the time, but seems that way now.

I also lost my wallet at some point so had to deal with that.

I'm not mentioning all the places I visited.  I spent a fair amount of time visiting national parks and other places of interest.

Anyway, from Illinois I headed straight to Texas to visit Dave Myers.  For a time, I considered settling down there even got a job as a draftsman  – there was a strike going on at the time so I had to cross picket lines to get to work – a new experience for me.

But after 3 weeks, I had tired of the place and decided to move on.  I headed toward the Northwest, stopping in Denver and Salt Lake City.  It was early August when I reached Salt Lake.  There I was introduced to the Mormons, which left a lasting impression upon me.  I still remember getting off the freeway (I-80) at State Street and heading north.  You can see the capitol building from several miles south and State Street is lined up exactly with it.  It was an impressive sight for me.  I toured Temple Square, met a man there who spoke with me at some length and gave me copy of the Book of Mormon.  He even offered to give me a tour of the area the following day.  I politely turned him down, but kept his name and address.  I spent the night in Salt Lake and continued on the next day, but had a special feeling about the place.

Next stop was Yellowstone Park where I got a job as a dishwasher and lived in a dormitory with other workers.   Then I had a car accident one day while doing some sight-seeing in the park – I rear-ended someone who had stopped to pick up someone.  No one was hurt, but the car (a AMC Gremlin) wasn't driveable after that, and I couldn't figure out how to get it fixed without spending more than it was worth.  I ended up calling a towing company who offered to tow it out of the park for free in exchange for parts.

I had always wanted to have the experience of hitchhiking so I now had an opportunity.  My next destination was Seattle, Washington where my mother was from and had family there.  I sent many of my things on ahead by bus, packed up what I could carry in a backpack, then found a spot along a fairly busy road out of the park, and waited for a ride with my thumb up.  I was there for quite some time, and might have been there for many hours, except a co-worker from the park stopped after recognizing me.  He gave me a ride to a major freeway and from there I easily got rides with truckers for the rest of the trip.

I stayed in Seattle with my Uncle Gene for about 3 weeks, purchased a truck and outfitted it.  Then I headed south to visit two uncles in California.  Shortly after purchasing the truck I discovered that the engine had a major problem – something about the pistons being loose.  It was driveable, but needed to be fixed.  While visiting Uncle Tony's family in Carmel, I took it to a shop where they took the engine apart, but then had trouble getting new parts because of a strike going on at Ford.  After waiting over a week for parts, I finally told them to put the engine back together, and I traveled on.  I didn't want to wear out my welcome more than I already had.

The next stop was Los Angeles to visit my Uncle Gary and his wife.  I was with them about a week I think, and then came the moment of decision.  It was now November and I had run out of places to go.  I didn't want to return to Ohio.  The only place that had really made an impression upon me was Salt Lake City.  I also remember reading a story about the Salt Lake in a newspaper while in LA, which shed a positive light on the city.  So, after some thought, I made the fateful decision to return to Salt Lake and see if I could start a life there.

I arrived in late November, and without going into all the details, I found an apartment, a job, and was soon immersed in the Mormon culture.  I met the missionaries and they began teaching me.  I also attended church on Sunday occasionally, and even took part in young single adult activities.  In fact, after a while, many people began to think I was a member of the church.  You would think that baptism was sure to follow shortly, but I was stubborn.

Although I liked the Mormons, and even had a desire to become one of them, my lack of spiritual skills (that's one way to describe it) kept me from accepting baptism.  I just wasn't sure enough about the church to make that kind of commitment.  Things went on this way for some time.  I continued meeting with the missionaries and attending church, but also felt obligated to attend Catholic mass and meet with the local priest there in Salt Lake.

Time passed – nearly two years as a matter of fact.  In the meantime, I had purchased a house.  I was continuing to meet with the missionaries and in fact had gone through several sets of them and still couldn't make a commitment.  I tried fasting a number of times – two days in a row one time and three another time (although I did cheat a little by drinking water).  The sign or revelation I was seeking didn't happen.  In September of 1978 (approx.), the missionaries were teaching me a complete set of lessons for the second or third time.  After the final lesson, and with no real progress having been made, they weren't sure what to do next.  We had set an appointment, nevertheless.  At our meeting, I was surprised when they announced that they were going to have to stop meeting with me.  They had prayed about it and felt that's what they needed to do.  This was more than a surprise – it was a shock – and I found it quite upsetting.

After they left, I decided to go for a long evening walk to work off the depression I was feeling.  I didn't live far from downtown Salt Lake and I made my way to the Temple and the adjacent Visitors Center.  Inside I met one of the workers and we started talking.  I'm not sure why, but I decided to tell him all about my experiences with the church and the missionaries.  I didn't hide the fact that I was feeling low about what seemed like a rejection by the missionaries.  He then counseled me to pray – but not a normal prayer.  He felt impressed to advise me to pray until I received an answer – up to 4 hours, as I recall!  I returned rather late that evening to my house, but pondered his words, and then decided to try it without further delay.  I knelt beside my bed and started to pray.  I prayed and prayed and prayed.  I got sleepy and did fall asleep for a little while, but after 4 hours I still hadn't received an answer and decided that was enough.  I got into bed and went to sleep.

The next day (I'm pretty sure it was the next day anyway), I went to work as usual, but was called into the boss's office.  He informed me that they needed to lay me off.  What a shock!  That was totally unexpected.  I was told to leave as soon as I packed up my things.  I spent the next few days in a state of depression, but knew I needed to find something else.  One of the employment ads I answered led me to a recruiting agency where I was very surprised to meet the very same man I had met less than 2 weeks earlier at the Temple Square Visitors Center.  He was an employment recruiter.

To make a long story short, he found me a job within a week or so in Springville, UT.  I commuted from Salt Lake for a while and moved there in December 1978.  My next door neighbor was Bob Hatch.  He was a very spiritual man and a Latter Day Saint.  Over the coming months we developed a close friendship, although he was more like a father to me.  He invite me to church, and taught me more about the gospel.  He also helped me see that I already had a testimony, although I still was reluctant to get baptized.  The job in Springville didn't last too long.  I grew bored and found a job back in Salt Lake City July of 1979.

In Salt Lake, I once again began meeting with the missionaries and also attended church there.  I should also mention that I had met a girl – Becky Smith – in Springville who also influenced me.  I fact I was quite in love with her, but she had made it clear that she couldn't get serious with a non-member.

I knew I couldn't continue on in the same way forever.  I had been investigating the church for 3 years now.  It was time for a decision.  I prayed fervently for an answer.  I also did quite a bit of fasting, but always felt disappointed that I wasn't getting an answer.  I even began paying tithing at the suggestion of the Bishop.

I don't remember all the details now, but after having a particularly good meeting with the missionaries, and praying some more, I realized that I had a tremendous desire to join the church.  Not only that, but I realized that I didn't need the sign that I had been seeking all that time.  The sign (or rather whispering of the spirit) had actually been given to me 3 years earlier when I first toured Temple Square.  And the voice had grown louder and louder all the time.  When I finally made the decision to be baptized, it was like a tremendous load had been lifted off me and was just a wonderful feeling.

Bob Hatch baptized me in the Grant 8th Ward on October 13, 1979. I still remember exiting the baptismal font with Bob and feeling an overwhelming sense of joy.  I hugged him and exclaimed "I did it!", although felt later it would have more appropriate to have said "WE did it!" because of all his efforts.

For weeks after my baptism, I remember how great it felt to finally be able to say "I'm a Mormon!".  I had no regrets.  My first calling was as the Young Single Adult representative for the ward.

Now that I had taken the major step to join the church, I assumed I was finally ready to get married.  I was now 27 years old and had been wanting to get married for many years, but this goal continued to elude me.  Frankly, I was hoping that Becky Smith would marry me, but it was not to be. Shortly after my baptism, I lost contact with her forever.

As time progressed, I once again began to be eager for a change in my life.  I considered another job change.  I also considered joining the Peace Corp., but those options didn't seem right.  The idea of serving a mission was not on my mind at all in the first few months following baptism – after all, I was well past the normal missionary age –  but the idea gradually occupied more and more of my thoughts.  About a year went by and after speaking with my Bishop, I finally had a firm feeling that serving a mission was the right thing to do.  At age 28, I needed special permission, but church leaders reluctantly agreed to let me go.

I had saved enough money to completely finance my own mission.  I won't go into all the details, but suffice it to say that preparing for my mission – especially the last minute preparations – were quite an experience, largely because I had no family support.  I had to dispose of a truck, motorcycle, and airplane, along with everything I else owned before I got to the MTC.  Those last few days were exciting times!

I entered the missionary training center on Feb.12th, 1981.  Going there was a real shock to my system, however.   I was used to living alone, and suddenly being forced to live in close quarters with young men much younger than myself was stressful.  Added to that was the tremendous pressure to learn Japanese, memorize lesson plans and scriptures.  I was there for 2 months and steadily fell further and further behind schedule the whole time.  To top it off, I was made a District Leader, which meant additional responsibilities and time commitment.  Actually, the thing that really topped it off, was the fact that I felt I had an inadequate testimony.  It was a constant worry that I didn't have a real testimony – kind of a continuation of the feelings I'd had the previous 4 years.

I will fast forward now several months into my mission.  I decided to hold a special fast one day in an effort to resolve my feelings of inadequacy as a missionary.  I selected a special spot to pray outdoors late in the evening for the purpose of gaining the sure knowledge that I felt I needed.  This is not unlike things I had done during the years that I investigated the church.  I'm not sure how long I prayed that evening – 1 or 2 hours I believe, and still didn't get the special witness I wanted, but I did receive an impression – almost a voice telling me that I already had everything I needed.  I had enough knowledge to keep me going and remain fully active in the church.  Anything more than that was unnecessary, and in fact would have been a burden.

To this day, I feel that my testimony is inadequate and yet I do believe in the gospel with all my heart and have not had one day of inactivity.  I don't think I am alone in this.  We all must live by faith.  Even the Prophet of the Church does not know all things.  I know that I have been given sufficient faith, and sufficient determination, to remain faithful.  I have met others who have received stronger witnesses than I.  Yet many of them have been unable to remain active in the church.  This only proves that spiritual signs and witnesses are not necessarily enough.

We have to resolve on our own to live by faith, doing what we know is right.  I know that the teachings of our church leaders are true, and that Jesus Christ is the head of this church.  I have felt Heavenly Father's love and know he has a special mission for me, as he does for all of us.  I know that Heavenly Father deeply cares about all of his children – even those that the world considers unimportant.  As I write this, I feel the spirit touching me, and because of this, I know these things are true.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

One thought on “My Conversion Story

  1. In the final judgment we will not be judged by how our testimony compares with others or with some measuring stick. We will be judged by what we did with the testimony we had. Look to the Parable of the Talents. Whether we are the servant with 10, 5 or 1, the reward is the same if we magnify what we have.

    You have the marvelous Catholic gift: guilt, we have given the Jews a serious run on who has the most developed sense of guilt. We all need to get past it. Feel guilty for the unrepented wrongs you have done, repent of the wrongs you are responsible for and don’t worry about what you should have done, either do it or forget it.

    Analytical loners are the best. Social skills are not difficult: be kind, listen carefully and show love without shame to man and woman alike. It’s OK to say “I don’t know what to say”. It is part of honesty. But be advised, honest, open conversation will scare most people. I’ve made the change from loner to wanderer to social fish several times with success. You can too, if that is what you want.

    Cheer up, you’ve done most things right, if somewhat in unusual order. What you want most will be yours when you let it go. (this last is something heard from Baba Ram Das 40 years ago, it’s all mystic but its really about performance anxiety, “all the world’s a stage and we but players on it”)

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Joline's Journey PT 1

Princess and the pea

No rest for the wicked

I have officially been up for 46 hours anxiously glancing at my clock and wondering why the hell I am not sleeping?

Fair enough that i feel like the title – Princess and the pea

The car accident that happened last year is really starting to take a hit on this 34 year old body, having said that I live in Pennant hills, NSW  so if you know of a good doctor, please drop me a line as faith needs to be restored when it comes to your local GP

‘Sorry, back pain?… Can’t help (what you meant to say was that you WON’T) that in itself is enough to keep me up

Clock reads 1:07 am and I know I kind of quit smoking (always have a pack on hand) but that lighter is burning a hole in my pocket and as much as I am telling myself to stay away the thought of that first drag is really playing mind tricks on me

Oh what the heck, I just totally talked myself into it… Let’s take this computer outside (in the dark on the balcony) gosh I am a closet smoker ha ha (you can only laugh at yourself)

I decided tonight that it is a good time to download a game app, remember when CandyCrush Saga and Pet Rescue Saga first came out and you send people lives and AngryBirds was a massive hit?

‘Words with friends’ was one of my favourite, I actually think I will download it again and see if anyone is up for a little midnight 101 word sesh (doesn’t that sound romantic?)

Which brings me to the subject everyone seems to fear….. SINGLE!

Yes I am still rocking the ‘single lifestyle’ and loving it!

Having said that…. I miss having  someone there to kill the spiders for me, vacuuming them up doesn’t actually kill them (I came to this conclusion last nigh)

1:20 am and wide awake, still!

This is the most dangerous time for those shopping apps, where everything is super cheap and when it arrives you wonder what the hell do you need a sushi maker for? (I am not confirming if this happened to me ha ha)

1:22 am,  I need to looksleep into a good meditation app (the tone of voices bother me)

A friend of mine suggested an app called: Calm

This is the app below which lets you download it for free

I usually fall asleep to the noise of old comedies that I have watched before, something feels settling about the familiar laughter

I am in desperate need of some well needed beauty sleep, I am starting to look old

Camille tea, that would of been good, if I actually thought of it while being at the shops today

Desperately searching under the mattress for what I was hoping to be a pea that’s causing discomfort, but no

2:01 am, let’s call it a night,

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As always

Keep Safe

Signing Off,

With Love

Joline Lootsma

Joline's Journey PT 1, The Journey

All you sexy mama’s out there, Hola, hello

Its is my single sexy free moment, I have officially been single for just over a year now!

Say whaaaa…. Yes no it’s 100% true

Let’s not go with cliche MRX let’s call my ex MR J (clever right?, for the ones that know me) People as if I miss the cuddling and the closeness… sad truth is, if it’s anything like my last exes’s then I am good!

My question to all the readers out there s ( I am sorry but especially  single ladies) to try these app’s where you wink or slide or … double click (is that even a thing?) should I be trying that too now?

Now I haven’t checked this out or downloaded it, but as an experiment, and because i can because i am single I am going to download this link:

Happn, it is called, i have seen adds on Facebook and really still am trying to grasp the concept of cyber dating

‘Still have to get my head around dating, Honestly the way men are (there are a few exceptions) oh wait no i just texted one something that was important to me and is response was:HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

am sorry how rude, I am actually offended,  not even a thank you for the shirt design… Whatever.. yeh whatever

Yes, thats’s what i want to hear after telling you something important to me… NEXT, not putting up with that… Forever whatever… (Top Blokes i am meeting)

And some guys online, the minute you turn them down they become worse then us girls when we missed our fave show because the footy is on!

See slim pickings for the prince on a white horse, oh lucky me

Or the ones that just send you message quoting #sendnudes ? Yes, Rhys I am talking about you

So, I am downloading the app “Happn” tomorrow morning, and i shall share my journey with you… I am a little nervous as I haven’t even read what it is about or what I have to do?? Coming in hot.. and blind in this case

What is a date again??

What does one wear??

Oh I will be talking about that but I need all the help… Sisters lets get together

I will report back tomorrow

I will go to the gym with “Happn” all sweaty and gross I doubt anything will happen”

I have followed this brand on facebook that makes gym clothes, I have officially become obsessed

I think I am their facebook stalker! I watch from afar…. i can’t afford it

I think something will defintly happen with happn wearing that

Here is the link:

As Always,

Keep Safe

Signing Off


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Occurrence and chemical composition of essential oil from Lippia multiflora M. (Verbenaceae) leaves as affected by soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus contents in the centre Côte d’Ivoire.

DIOMANDE1 Loua Barthélémy, AKOTTO2*  Odi Faustin, KANKO3 Coffi, TIA4 Vama Etienneand YAO-KOUAME2 Albert

1Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly (Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire), Institut de Gestion Agropastorale, 01 BP 2486 Abidjan 01.
2Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire), UFR des Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minières, Département des Sciences du sol, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22.
3Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire), UFR SSMT, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Structurale, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22.
4Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly (Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire), UFR Sciences Biologiques, Département de la Valorisation des Agroressources, BP 1328 Korhogo.

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For generating a strategy of quantitative and qualitative productions of Lippia multiflora, influence soil contents of organic carbon (C), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) and available phosphorus (AP) were explored via dominant-abundance index (DAI) of the species as well as the leaves extractable essential oil. The experiment was carried out along three toposéquences in three sites of L. multiflora ecosystem in Centre Côte d’Ivoire at four topographic positions: Summit (S), Upper slope (UP), Middle slope (MS) and Foot slope (FS). DAI was recorded coupled with soil and leaves sampling. C, TN, TP and AP were determined as well as the concentrations of essential oils. Occurrence of L. multiflora was highest in the MS and FS positions of the landscapes with significant influence of AP also noticed for essential oils mainly characterized by highest concentrations of Citral (Géranial+Néral) and Linalol. It would be possible to grow L. multiflora, in centre Côte d’Ivoire applying P and TN for high yields of leaves and essential oils mainly composed of terpenoid derivatives.

Key words: Lippia multiflora, volatile substance, centre Côte d'Ivoire, nutrient interaction.

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A Liminal Review: Metal Forest by Ax (January 6th, 2012)

axartworkAnthony diFranco’s place in noise history is assured through his involvement with two of Britain’s most-celebrated noise/rock bands, Skullflower and Ramleh, and his ties, via Ramleh bandmate Gary Mundy, to seminal eighties underground record label Broken Flag. However, this considerable legacy as a bass player, electronics wrangler and occasional guitarist (also recently deployed in Philip Best’s Consumer Electronics project) tends to overshadow his prodigious solo output under a variety of monikers, notably Ethnic Acid and JFK, both of which merit much more ample scrutiny.

You can add Ax to that list as well. I’m ashamed to admit I’d never heard of this particular solo foray until receiving this nicely-packaged compilation taking in diFranco’s previous limited-edition releases under this moniker. Consider that oversight comprehensively put to bed! Ax may just be diFranco’s most melodic and unpredictable project to date, and certainly sets him out as a forward-thinking and radical noise creator. Metal Forest feels in many ways like a noise album in excelsis, with so many of its elements key components of just about every noise album out there, from the individual sounds deployed to the overall mood. Yet, when you consider that the tracks that make up Metal Forest were all made in the mid-to-late nineties, it soon becomes apparent that diFranco was in many ways well ahead of the curve. ‘Kortex’, the album’s opener, for example, is centred on an hypnotically repetitive bass thud that is gradually subsumed into increasingly hazy layers of analogue synth drone and crackling tape hiss, in a style more recently explored by the likes of Helm and Mike Shiflet. Like those guys, diFranco hones in on an atmosphere of intangible dread, but rather than upping the horror levels in a manner akin to, say, the Midwestern noisesters that gravitate around Wolf Eyes, Ax’s music remains refreshingly abstract and, at times, close to the minimal spirit of Eliane Radigue or CC Hennix, minus the spiritual implications of their compositions. The two ‘Nova Feedback’ tracks follow a similar vein, with the subdued guitar hum of the first version countered by more strident feedback play on the second. But rather than go for the cheap pay off of a sudden burst of angry, belligerent squalling, diFranco lingers on each tone, dragging out his sounds until they form a bleak, somewhat abstract, tapestry. It’s easy from there to see the former Ramleh and Skullflower member’s links to the early days of industrial noise, with some moments reminiscent of, and even equalling, the spirit of Throbbing Gristle’s Second Annual Report.

If there is a “spiritual” side to Metal Forest, and the word doesn’t really do proceedings justice, it’s in the way these juxtaposed noises and atmospheres are allowed by diFranco to drift in an almost organic fashion, and we’re never at risk, as can be the case with many noise musicians in this age of perpetual laptops, of mistaking any of the instruments featured for anything else, or of finding the music a bit stale or overly-processed. In fact, the guitar and bass deployed on ‘Heavy Fluid’, a ten-minute post-psychedelic dirge of the most righteous kind, for example, are so upfront in the mix that Ax actually evokes the more monomaniacal doom riffage of those famed hooded icons SUNN O))), all cavernous sub-bass and slow-paced axe-mangling. It’s the kind of intense, slovenly drone that current-day bearded metalheads would lap up, and this extra dimension ties in with the album title’s reference to both nature and machinery. With the title track, this aggressive form of abstract, yet physical, post-everything is driven to its apex: recorded solely using bass guitar, its multi-faceted layers, from dissonant squeals to low rumbles, build up until you’re left marvelling at what amounts to a towering sonic structure, somewhere between rampant noise and beatific psych-drone. It would be easy to imagine Skullflower’s Matt Bower being mightily chuffed with these tracks had he made them, a fact more pertinent when you consider that Bower’s own solo guitar armageddon album, Tribulation, didn’t come out until 2006, over ten years after most of Metal Forest.

But if any noise fans out there are worried that this all sounds a bit too close to the hippy roar of America’s nature-fixated doom/metal troop (Ehnahre, Wolves In The Throne, Earth, SUNN O)))), fear not, for diFranco never leaves his angry power electronics background far behind. The two ‘Ax li’ pieces are obtuse and gnarly combinations of mutated guitars and gristly electronics, while the fantastic ‘Theme One’ can serve as a maxed-out blueprint of the current Harsh Noise Walls sub-genre. In all cases, diFranco’s soundscapes are like all-consuming avalanches, albeit ones that occasionally advance at snail’s pace until the listener is completely surrounded and sucked in by sound. Prophetic indeed.

I once compared Anthony diFranco’s playing on Skullflower’s IIIrd Gatekeeper to that of Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady and, beyond his dextrous talent on the four-string, the comparison holds some weight, given diFranco’s unobtrusive stage presence when in a (rock) band format: back to the audience, eyes fixed on his bass and amps, he consciously leaves the limelight to others (Gary Mundy in Ramleh, Bower in Skullflower, Best and Sarah Froelich in Consumer Electronics). However, the great thing about noise is that it can allow even the most retiring of us space to branch out in a solo context, safe in the manic cocoon of eruptive sound. Over the last thirty-odd years, Anthony diFranco has become an expert and a trailblazer in this field, and Metal Forest is another entry in what is increasingly becoming an essential noise discography.

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“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

-George S. Patton

From his speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston Massachusetts, June 7, 1945, reported by William Blair in The New York Times, June 8, 1945, p. 6.

Memorial Day hurts.

For military families, Memorial Day is personal. We honor the memory of fallen heroes on this day, including many who were much more than heroes to us–they were our friends and family.

This year, like every year, I obsessively read the thoughts, responses, and manifestos posted about the meaning of Memorial Day and the appropriateness (or inappropriateness) of the words we use to express that we’re thinking of each other on this day. I am going  with my gut this year, and I will not be conflicted about what to say to someone who wishes my family a “Happy Memorial Day.” I will thank them for their warm thoughts, assume they are coming from a place of caring, and seize the opportunity to tell them about one of our fallen friends and how important it is to me that we have this day of remembrance for them.

My family and friends do devote time to somber moments of remembrance on Memorial Day, and I am glad to live in a country that dedicates a day to pay tribute to our war dead. I am also glad that in my family we spend most of Memorial Day laughing. We come home from somber and reflective ceremonies during which our eyes and hearts well up and we hold each others’ hands a little tighter, and then we spend the rest of the day telling old tales and building new memories. And we usually laugh our damn heads off, eyes and hearts still welling, sharing those tales and thinking about how fortunate we are to have had such friends as those we have lost. And how fortunate we are to still have each other.

National Moment of Remembrance

Our National Moment of Remembrance is a time for Americans everywhere to pause for one minute at 3:00 p.m. (local time) on Memorial Day to remember and reflect on the sacrifices made by so many to provide freedom for all.

The photographs featured in this post were taken by the author at Fort Drum Memorial Park.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Finished UFO!

Yep...right on the very last day of the month!
And that is why deadlines work for me. If I didn't join the Lovely Year of Finishes, and commit to finishing this project in January, it would still be in pieces in the UFO closet.
Here it is being quilted by my trusty old Brother 1500. It has been such a work horse machine for the last 12 years.
I tried a new (to me) quilting design for this flannel quilt - a variation of clam shells.  The shell shapes on the center snowball blocks were easy and things went downhill from there! LOL

I think many (most!) of my shells are quite a bit wonky in places, and as I was quilting, I was thinking of ways to make it a little more organized and even the next time I try it.
But overall it was a fun and quick design to quilt and I am happy with it.

This is the backing, with lots of trees, and moose, and pinecones. The piece I bought wasn't quite wide enough, so I added a green strip on one side.
I realized as I was making up the scrappy binding that there are scraps of four different flannel projects in this quilt!

Hop over to the UFO link up to see the other projects that were finished in January.

Treadling on Thursday

I have been treadling away on my Singer 127, piecing together small bits from my scrap basket. It has been challenging at times, but I think I am getting better at it...practice, practice and more practice is the only way to improve!
I tried piecing the scraps on phone book pages...didn't like the feel of that.
Then I tried piecing the scraps on an old roll of adding machine tape...PERFECT!
Just wide enough (3") to use up all these old bits and pieces. I am cutting the tape in lengths of about 12" as a foundation to piece onto, and usually have two or three strips going at the same time. SO FUN!
Here are the first 8 blocks trimmed up. I have no idea how I will set them together, maybe like chinese coins?
Maybe I should use a setting with sashing like Mary's - click here to see her coin quilts.
I won't be able to sew rows together until I figure out how to treadle a good 1/4" seam, so I have lots of time to make blocks while I practice.
It will be fun to have a quilt made entirely on my Treadle!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

More Dresden Love

Have you seen the Dresdens posted on this amazing Dare to Dresden blog hop? So many creative variations of this block have been shared. It is really worth your time to visit these much inspiration, so little quilting time! LOL
I forgot to mention on yesterday's post that my very first experience with quilting was a Dresden!
My mother-in-law made me one almost 29 years ago, and I still love it. You can read more about it here. It is a totally scrappy quilt with colours that are bright and happy, and hand quilted with beautiful designs.
It was the first and only quilt she ever made and I still enjoy it every day!
Here is the list of blogs to visit today to be inspired by more Dresden quilts:

January 30th, 2013
Charlotte H @ “that Other Blog”

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Dare To Dresden

Welcome to the "Dare to Dresden" blog hop!
The Dresdens on this blog hop have been absolutely stunning and I have enjoyed each day of this hop as much (and maybe even more!) than the others I have been a part of.  A big thanks to our organizer Madame Samm and chief scheduler and cheer leader Christine
I made a Dresden wallhanging last year (click here to see my Joy Spring Dresden)
so for this blog hop
I challenged myself to make a "daring dresden" in a miniature version.
It is made of civil war reproduction fabrics and ended up to be 8" square.

The center circle is hand embroidered and I beaded the tea dyed rickrack around the circle.  I finished off the little quilt with some hand quilted echoed lines around the plates.
"Dare to Dream" will be donated to the upcoming silent auction to raise money for aboriginal services at the college where I work.

My quilt model Molly says that she dares to dream of warmer weather so she can get a spring hair cut and see better!!

What are you daring to dream?!?

Here is the list of Dresden makers today...ENJOY!

Monday, January 28, 2013

Design Wall Monday #4

My January UFO is off the design wall, the backing is sewn, and the batting is cut. Next step is pin basting...only 4 more days in the month to finish this thing and I'm going to pull out all the stops to get it done!
So the design wall was free...what to put up there?
I gathered up all the 6" scrappy crumb blocks that I've been sewing for two years with the Rainbow Scrappers, and put them up on the design wall for a blast of mid-winter energy boost.
I LOVE it!
I think the pink blocks need to be between the red and the purple ones, and there need to be more pink blocks. I think I need to make more blue ones too. But it's coming along just great!
Hop over to Patchwork Times to see more design wall postings today.
And come on back tomorrow to see my Dare to Dresden post. Here's a little teaser photo...I'm adding some beads tonight and can't wait to show you my mini Dresden!

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Slow Sunday Stitching - Binding

I picked up our group quilt from the hand quilters this week. This is our donation quilt for the relief sale in May. You can see a photo of the top (without borders) here.  It has been at the quilters for a while, so I was happy to see it again.
Can you see the quilting design on the back here? It's a crosshatch in the center, and some wavy lines around the borders. The tube has all the binding wound up and ready to go.
It's a large quilt (for me!) and I made 400" of binding for this quilt. I machine stitched the binding to the quilt top yesterday, and today I plan to enjoy hand stitching the binding to the back.
Link up your blog post below and show us what you are hand stitching today.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Pink Crumbs and leaders/enders

I can't believe this is the last pink Saturday link up over at the Rainbow Challenge! I love pink, and haven't even made a dent in the pink scraps! Oh well, pink month will come around again next year!
Where did this month go?!?
made a few more 6" crumb blocks for my collection.
Do you need inspiration to make some crumb blocks (and to NOT throw out your little scraps?!?)... hop over to Jane's blog and see the three quilts she made all from crumb blocks - so beautiful! I dare you to go see her quilts and then try to resist sewing up a block or two right away!

I also worked on my leader/ender project and cut more pink scraps for some tiny Alamo stars. Organization is the key to a leader/ender project. If I have blocks cut, I sew them up, and if I don't have anything cut, I use a scrap to start and stop my lines of stitching, and that just wastes thread and accomplishes nothing.

Well, I guess it does result in a collection of "hairy guys"!
But what good are these things?!?
Why would a sane person even keep them?!?

When I have the 17 pieces cut for a star block, I put a little Clover clip on them so they all stay together. And then I put them in the leader/ender storage box I received from Julie 3 years ago. It keeps everything for this project in the same place...strips to cut, prepared block pieces, and finished blocks.

These are the two pink star blocks I stitched this 'em!

Hop over to SoScrappy and see the other pink scrap projects being sewn.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Friday Night Sew-In's Friday Night Sew-In!

I'm putting on my flannel PJ's, joining Bonnie for Quilt Cam at 9pm, and doing some hand quilting.
But first, I have to hop over to see the Dare to Dresden posts today...have you checked these out?!?
Yesterday's Dresdens were amazing!

Corner of Easy Street

I just had to sew up a corner of my Easy Street mystery to see how it was going to look.
I wish my greys were darker and it looks very green!
Oh well, I am familiar with this uncomfortable stage of making a mystery quilt.
I know I need to "push on" and eventually either it will grow on me, or I will find the perfect person to gift it to! I sure am enjoying sewing up the blocks, so have decided to focus on the journey, not the destination!

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Visit Your Quilt Shop!

Today is "Visit Your Quilt Shop" day!
There is so much to read and enjoy on the website - click here.
I won't have time to visit any quilt shops today, but it is a great reminder to all of us that "if you don't use it, you lose it" so support your local quilt shops!
My closest quilt shop (Lyn Bell Designs) is closing due to retirement of the owner, and I was very sad to hear about that.
At my last visit to the shop, I bought some wonderful flannels to piece for the back of my January UFO, so it will be somewhat of a reversible quilt. This week I finished sewing the quilt top together and made the top and bottom borders wider to give the quilt more length. I am excited to use up all this old flannel. This is a combination of leftovers from three different projects! Now I have one more week to quilt it before the end of the month...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

National Polka Dot Day

Yesterday was National Polka Dot Day and I didn't even learn about it until today. I missed the chance to celebrate one of my favorite things!
I read about it over at Nifty Quilts... what great eye candy! And for more polka dot enjoyment, visit Barbara Brackman's blog and Carol's Polka Dot Chicken blog.

It seems like a perfect day to share my two favorite polka dot quilts.

I made the stars wallhanging for the Dots on Dots blog hop,  and the Disappearing 9 Patch was made for my daughter's bed a few years ago...all pink and purple dot fabrics, with circular quilting designs.
Hope I get to play with some polka dots after work about you? Did you miss the celebration on the 22nd?  Well, now you know...go get out your dots!

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Liberated Piecing - Free Zone

Do you have Victoria's new book
I can't wait to see it!
Last year I made two blocks for her Santa quilt (you can read more about the project and see my blocks on this post). Victoria has finished the Santa quilt top - click here to see it. It's amazing!
I know how difficult it actually is to sew together so many different sized blocks, and if you've done it before, you are nodding your head right now! Victoria makes it sound easy, but it's really not!
I used this technique for making my "Words to Live By" quilt and I think it utilizes a different part of a quilter's brain than traditional piecing does. I find I have to be in the "free zone" - a creative space where nothing fits together, no measuring is allowed, lines are not straight, seams don't line up, and it's ALL GOOD!
Once you know how to get to that zone, and if you like it there, it can be so fun. Making crumbs blocks is one way to access that part of your quilter's brain, and then you can expand and use the same concepts to piece quilts.
I've been making crumb blocks this past week to use up some pink scraps for the RSC, and somehow this photo of the perfect snack (a cracker, a cucumber slice, and some dill cheese) is on my camera! I don't remember taking this photo... I must have been in the "free zone"!?! I do remember piecing the block, and will post more on Saturday's scrappy stay tuned!

Monday, January 21, 2013

Design Wall Monday and Mid Month UFO Report

For 2013, I signed up for the "Lovely Year of Finishes" and it is time for the mid-month report (here and here) ...yikes!
Okay...true confessions time.
I did not even look at this UFO until I knew it was time for the mid-month report, and not wanting to be a UFO deadbeat and report a complete lack of progress to something I just committed myself to do, I stitched on the square borders real quick!
Pathetic, I know!
This is an old photo, so the quilt looks a little different today, but I took away that light flannel strip on the top and bottom (too distracting) and am just adding the dark border, cut as wide as I have enough flannel for. I plan to use up both the green and the blue flannels.
I did also buy some flannel FQ's to stitch together for a backing, so that is also a bit of progress.
Will I have it done by the end of the month?
Of course! (she says hopefully!)
What else is distracting me?!? The Dare to Dresden blog hop starts this week, and I don't have my project finished yet! My day to post isn't until January 29th, so I still have some time. It has been fun playing with some reproduction scraps to make my little far the blades look like tiny little boats!
Hop over to Patchwork Times to see the projects other quilters are working on today (I have no idea why my link is posted twice there?!?)

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Quilty Adventure

Yesterday I was invited to teach a miniature quilt making class for the Hamilton Quilters GuildIt's not too far from my house, and should have been easy to get to, but just because I've been somewhere once, doesn't mean I can get there again, if they stick a new round-about on my path!
Study this diagram and see how helpful it is!

I detest round-abouts!!

So, this is the first sign that confused me.
Okay...I want #8.

Now what does this sign in the middle of the highway mean!?!?
Is highway #8 gone now?
Where is it?!? I need #8 east?!?

There should be a little sign on the bottom that reads..."for those of you who screwed up at the roundabout and are frantically searching for highway #8 east, make a U-turn right now"!
Clearly I need to be on the signage committee!

And this is the sign I missed first time through the round-about when I was trying not to hit anyone, while I figured out my exit.
Oh...if you want to go east, you need to turn right/south as you exit the round-about,
and you don't actually keep driving east until you end up on the 403 east to Toronto, panicking and unable to turn around, when you really want to go to Flamboro, which is supposed to be to the east!
Breathe...breathe...try to access your logical left brain problem solving skills...breathe :)

Needless to say, I was late for the class (OMG) and I'm sure they thought I was not going to show up. I got a few more grey hairs yesterday I'll tell you that!!
And I'm asking Santa for a GPS next Christmas!
But eventually I found them and what a great classroom space they have, with lots of windows, tables to use, and room to spread out.
I was so happy to see a former mini quilt student from about 13 years ago (Hi Jan!) and my former neighbour who lived 2 doors down from me when I was a teenager, and whose niece is now dating my son (Hi Sandra!) ...what a small world it is sometimes!
And what a great day it was!
These quilters were game to tackle anything, and they fearlessly tried out some of the tiny little blocks. They had great scrap bins and fabric collections to make projects from. And there was not one bit of swearing throughout the mini quilt challenges of the day!
Here they are holding various blocks and projects and mini quilts.  Thanks so much to all the students for your patience (especially Barb) and for such a fun quilty day!

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been such a whirlwind week, and I am sooooo looking forward to some relaxing hand stitching time today!  I can't wait to put a few more quilting stitches in my "Journey of a Quilter". (Later today I will write a blog post about the quilting adventure I had yesterday!)

I also hope to finish stitching down the binding on the "Words to Live By" quilt. What a great backing I have on this quilt...needles and thread!
And I had to put on purple nail polish to stitch down a purple binding, right?!?!
I was amazed at how many people who posted links on last week's Slow Stitching Sunday link up were working on bindings...lots of quilts are being finished to start the year off right! Post a link below to your hand stitching post and share what you are hand stitching today.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Strange beginnings

Have you ever been inspired to make a quilt because of a song?

This is the beginning of the "Wonky Donkey" Quilt...
donkeys and boots!

My friend Nicki gave us the Wonky Donkey book for Christmas a few years ago and introduced me to this crazy song.

Then my friend Barb found a quilt pattern of the same name, and just had to buy it, so a new quilt project was born!  I hope to find a couple of "go with" fabrics from the stash and cut up the fabric to sew into a Wonky Donkey quilt at retreat in February.
Hop over to the youtube video and listen to the song and see if you are inspired to start a Wonky Donkey quilt?!?'s a "brain worm" song... you'll be singing it all day long!

Sometimes new things come together in life in such a creative and bizarre way.

Maybe this will be the theme of 2013!?!

Hee Haw!

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

No Place Like Home - Quilt Whispering

This is a wallhanging project that I have been working on for a while but it got stalled and I couldn't figure out what the problem was.
I am well aware that this is the stage where a project can begin the death march to the UFO closet!
I was determined to figure out the problem.
***Is it too hard or technically challenging?
No...this is an easy and fun pattern to sew.
***Don't like the fabric or colour combination?
No...I was loving working with the plaid scraps that were leftover from other quilts I've made.
***Losing interest and working on too many other things?
Well, yes, but I still really wanted to finish this one.
And then I came to me. The problem was that I really love it!  So why did that stall the project then?
Because apparently I didn't want to give it away as a Christmas gift as I had intended, and that is why it just wasn't coming together in December.  I am planning to move this year, and this quilt wants to come with me wherever I move to!

Well, why didn't you just say so? LOL
Sometimes you have to be a patient "quilt whisperer" to discern the problem!!
Once I figured that out, it has been going great! I have made a few changes to the blocks...different kinds of buildings, made lighter coloured windows (to show that the lights are on and someone is home!) and mixed up the row layouts, etc.  So fun!
What is stalling one of your projects? Just go whisper in it's ear... "what is your problem?" and see what you learn!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Treadling on Tuesday - Bobbins

My non-quilting friend Nancy "found" some shuttle bobbins to fit my 127 Singer Treadle! She won't reveal her source...she said she has "a friend, who has a friend"...likely story! Maybe I don't even want to know?!? These are so bright and shiny compared to the old one that was in the machine (at the bottom of my hand).
So I needed to relearn again how to wind the bobbin!
I re-watched the video that Bonnie Hunter posted last week (click here to see that) and then I started.
Does anyone know if the little spring where my scissors are pointing is a thread guide? It doesn't show that piece in the manual, and if it is a thread guide, I'd have to pry it out a bit because the thread can't fit in there as it is.
I found a blog post from a quilter that has a similar 127 model, and it has a different kind of thread guide around the same area - check it out here. And looking at the photos on the TreadleOn site about winding a vibrating shuttle bobbin, I think it's probably not a thread guide.
So there it goes...
winding the bobbin and all seems fine.
I was just admiring the beautiful gold decals and all of a sudden we developed an issue!  Should've stopped when it was going well and not got all distracted with the pretty machine!! LOL
On the left side of the bobbin, the thread began spilling over the edge for no apparent reason. This hasn't happened before. Is it too full? Doesn't look too full? Any ideas?!?
Well, I just unwound the last part of the thread and am treadling again using this new bobbin. I am so tickled with myself for successfully winding another bobbin and rethreading the shuttle...woohoo! Doesn't take much to thrill me!! LOL
Next Tuesday, I'll show you the scrap project I am sewing on my treadle.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Design Wall Monday #2

Easy Street is growing in my quilting room!
I have 9 blocks made: 5 A blocks and 4 B blocks, and all the parts ready for the remaining 16 blocks.
It's looking very green to me right now, and I'm not loving it, but with the right borders and binding, and maybe quilting it in purple thread, I'm sure I'll like it more!
Hop over to Patchwork Times to check out more design walls.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Slow Stitching Sunday

I love Slow Sunday Stitching!
I get up early before anyone is awake in the house and when it's still dark outside, put on my new coffee maker (which I love), and start my day with some relaxing quilting and meditation.
This is the block I just finished quilting and I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

I was hoping to get the binding on my Words quilt to stitch down today, but that didn't happen yet.

So I'll be putting in a few more quilting stitches in my Journey of a Quilter (pattern by Leanne Beasley). I want to try these discs that are called "under thimbles".

They are supposed to eliminate the injury to your fingers that are under the quilt that start to bleed after continuous needle pricks.
I found two different kinds to try - one with dimples, and one without.
Have you tried them? Any tips?
What are you hand stitching this week? Share a link to your blogpost and show us what project has captured your fancy!


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Horses, Hope and Poems in a (brief) 2014 Review

It’s been a very busy year for me in my ‘other’ poetry life as a publisher, and I do feel I’ve rather neglected my poetry blog in amongst a lot of editing, typesetting and general day-to-day things.

I have however been grateful for a little more time in the last year for my writing – I have joined a superb and very supportive poetry group, and have even found time to send poems out, with several of my poems being published online this year.

I was delighted when Josephine Corcoran’s excellent poetry blog, And Other Poems, chose to feature two of my horse poems. I hadn’t really thought of myself as a nature or animal poet, but I realise there has been an increasing preponderance of these subjects in amongst my usual sort of topics. There’s some kingfishers and herons, the occasional otter, and this returning to horses in several poems. And Other Poems featured two of these poems, ‘Seven Horse Secrets’ and ‘Odds On’ – the latter inspired by the stranger-than-fiction backstories and afterlives of several well-known racehorses and the financial crash in Ireland (where many racehorses, bought as status symbols at the height of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ boom, were later abandoned, left to starve and put down – you can read more about this here and here.) The bit about the letters being written to ‘Himself, Ireland’ refers to the Guinness-drinking racehorse legend Arkle, whose strung-out skeleton you can see here.

Horses hold something of a fascination for me. There is something melancholic and something unexplained about these large, beautiful and fiercely intelligent creatures, who like dogs have been at our side since the earliest of human times. It’s a complex relationship, tangled in with a lot of very mixed shared history – where cruelty and mistreatment as much as intense companionship and loyalty mark out this animal-human relationship, where legends, mythologies and the symbolism of horses continue to be a part of our culture as they were in ancient times. The reality of the eight million horses who died in WW1 could just as easily be placed and belong within Greek or Roman legend, just as those abandoned Irish racehorses seemed to say something greater about the economic crisis and human nature.

I have also been reading and much appreciating The Stare’s Nest. Billed as ‘poetry for a more hopeful world’ it works both as an antidote but also (and more importantly) an essential, thoughtful and humane response to some of the dark and despondent events both internationally and closer to home in recent times. The site has featured a real range of responses from a broad selection of poets, established names alongside many newer talents – all with a unique view and plenty to say. I was really pleased, then, that my poem ‘Border Dispute’ was selected to feature amongst such good company on The Stare’s Nest, with a few more to follow from me in the new year.

We sit here at the foot of a new year, and it’s hard not to feel a little nervous and perturbed about the year that lies ahead in 2015. It brings elections that in themselves may be divisive and bitter – especially after a year in which saw the worrying rise of UKIP and government policies that continued to hit the poor, disabled, and disadvantaged hardest and are, at the very least, degrading and utterly callous. It raises an awful lot of questions about what kind of country we want to be, and where we are heading. I hold out hope that we can choose a better future collectively, and not a nastier, more selfish and myopic one. It feels like a very frail hope at times, and too often this year I’ve turned the radio off when it’s made me feel too angry at the kind of things I am hearing: foodbanks, people struggling and starving on low wages or slashed benefits, the privileged telling the poor that porridge is cheap and it’s all just a matter of manging your budgets better and learning to cook…  I am aware too that there are many poeple out there who cannot simply turn off the radio and make the bad news go away – this is their lived experience and reality.

I don’t expect poetry can change much of this, but certainly it can express some of these things and offer a shared experience or sense of injustice. It can challenge preconceptions or offer empathy and better understanding that improves us or challenges us to think more deeply or more carefully; it can also mobilise and motivate us to make a change, or communicate the unsaid or unsayable to a wider audience. Angela France has a brilliant and very memorable poem based around WH Auden’s much-quoted line ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ in which poetry does, in fact make ‘nothing’ happen (albeit all for the better)  in a series of positive, hopeful and peaceful forms. I wish I could link to it, but can’t see it online anyway, so I will ask Angela if it is linkable as it is well worth sharing. If nothing else, the poem’s potential to proffer hope, to offer in the darkest of times both the critique and the glimmers of daylight shows why its power as a way of voicing identity, protesting injustice or celebrating humane values remains important.  I’m grateful for projects that offer us poems for strange or trying times, like Anthony Wilson’s blog of Lifesaving Poems (soon to be a Bloodaxe anthology in 2015, and very deservedly so) as well as The Stare’s Nest, and continue to remain grateful and indebted to those who wrote important, challenging and outspoken things in 2014 and made me think that little bit harder or make a connection with them over a shared thought or emotion, and who will continue to do so into the next year and beyond.

So here’s to all of you for a great New Year and looking forward for a happy, healthy and very productive 2015. To those that write, may you continue to find plenty of good, creative and startling things to say that keep us in your fine company. Here’s to hope and better things ahead!

Reported Types of Haunting: Fabrikgeist

Sometimes referred to affectionately as Old-Jack-of-Trades.

Has familiars, often taking the form of machinery animated

without explanation, or a singular, lonesome whistling.

The shop floor is purgatory. The spirit can only be exorcised

by the removal of blueprints, the emptying of lockers

and the smelting of several thousand taps, dies and drills.

This spirit has a mischievous sense of humour

which has been broken by three decades of rain, rust,

and under-investment, and is prone to haunting sites

of last employment. It cannot be bottled by priest, policeman

or doctor. Its presence is signified by greasy overalls, missing tea cups,

or footprints from a pair of safety boots, leading nowhere.

This poem was previously published in Anon magazine (issue 8) in Summer 2011.

Spring 2014 update

Just a quick post to say that the blog IS being revived in coming weeks, and with any luck I’ll be using it to post up NaPoWriMo poems again for 2014.

All of last year’s poems have now been taken down, locked in a dark cellar to mature, and are undergoing various fine-tunings and refinements. Maybe you’ll see them popping up in various places soon…

In the meantime, I’ll also post up some previously (long-ago) published poems on here from time to time.

Here’s to spring time and new poems…

Welcome & NaPoWriMo 2013

This is not only my first poetry blog, but also the first year I am going to properly and fully take part in NaPoWriMo and publish my poems online.

I took part in NaPoWriMo tentively (i.e. in my notebook, in an attempt to enforce some writing discipline on myself)  in 2011 and more sporadically ( a more undisciplined manner) in 2012, but this year I am going to take a much more concerted approach. I have missed writing tremendously in recent years as I’ve been very busy doing other things with poetry (namely editing and publishing it in my other poetry life over at Nine Arches Press, which always makes spending any time on my own work feel a little like moonlighting…) and recently several people have very kindly reminded me they’d like to see more of my own writing too, from time to time; hence that this felt timely and like a good opportunity to start publicly doing more with my poetry again.

Please note that my NaPoWriMo poems will be removed from this blog after a little while so they can do and do other things, elsewhere.

So, a little nervously, I’ll declare the new Keep Warm: Make Trouble poetry blog open for business, and get on with posting up today’s poem!


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Saturday, September 20, 2003

Remember China Drum? No? Can't say I blame you, but they really did do a marvelous cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. Rock, and indeed, on!

I've just spent a long evening pencilling the next page of the comic you can find at Spooky's Dungeon. This page almost looks like a real proper comics artist drew it, rather than the epileptic gibbon renderings I usually produce (and which you can see in the first twelve pages at Spooky's Dungeon). Two years of artistic improvement there folks!

Sometimes, I almost convince myself that I could do this professionally.

I've also been plotting the comic, taking it into exciting post-apocalyptic territory. All this to a soundtrack of late-80's/mid-90's MP3s, hence the China Drum reference above.

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LOL Friday! Ole, The Norwegian Wrestler…

Ole, The Norwegian Wrestler

A Russian and Ole the Norwegian wrestler were set to square off for the Olympic Gold Medal.

Before the final match, the Norwegian wrestling coach came to Ole and said, “Now, don’t forget all the research we’ve done on this Russian. He’s never lost a match because of this ‘pretzel’ hold he has”. Whatever you do, do not let him get you in that hold! If he does, you’re finished’. Ole nodded in acknowledgment.

As the match started, Ole and the Russian circled each other several times, looking for an opening. All of a sudden, the Russian lunged forward, grabbing Ole and wrapping him up in the dreaded pretzel hold.

A sigh of disappointment arose from the crowd and the coach buried his face in his hands, for he knew all was lost. He couldn’t watch the inevitable happen.

Suddenly, there was a scream, then a cheer from the crowd and the coach raised his eyes just in time to watch the Russian go flying up in the air. His back hit the mat with a thud and Ole collapsed on top of him making the pin and winning the match.

The crowd went crazy. The coach was astounded.

When he finally got his wrestler alone, he asked, “How did you ever get out of that hold? No one has ever done it before!”

Ole answered, “Vell, I vas ready to give up ven he got me in dat hold, but at da last moment, I opened my eyes and saw dis pair of testicles right in front of my face…I had nuttin’ to lose so wid my last ounce of strength I stretched out my neck and bit dose babies just as hard as I could.”

So the trainer exclaimed, “That’s what finished him off!”

“Vel not really. You’d be amazed how strong you get ven you bite your own nuts!”

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Time to talk- 1st February

‘A problem shared is a problem halved’.

Today is a day in which many people support a campaign which aims to end the stigma attached to mental illness. Personally I believe the subject of mental illness is still not talked about often enough. And I know this firsthand because I have seen the looks when I explain my anxiety, and I have previously been called lazy, particularly when I was perhaps experiencing a very low day. Due to this I know who I can talk to about my mental illness and I know who will judge me, therefore I remain silent around them. If everyone opened up and just spoke about mental illness people would be more informed, as opposed to turning their nose up, leaving a person feeling isolated and lonely.

As my nan always says ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’.. I genuinely believe this, and many times I have called her up with my problems. People can give you a different outlook or perspective, people can give kind words, and best of all people can talk.

Have a chat today, tonight or tomorrow.. Lets get everyone talking and end the stigma. 🤗

Here are the people I can turn to when I have a bad day.. I may not see these people for months, we may not talk every week.. but I know they will always support me 😘😊🤗

‘Do not confuse my bad days as a sign of weakness, those are actually the days when I am fighting my hardest’.

Diary extract from yesterday!

Today on world mental health day, I have laughed, cried and slept. A mixture of emotions has filled me today and to be honest exhausted me. Like lots of other sufferers I am overwelmed by the feel of dread or worry that occurs on a daily basis.

On days like this I hardly want to speak to anyone, I like to be in my own space and keep busy. This evening I have had tea, showered and looked through a magazine. These normal daily tasks help me to keep a little bit of routine, when all I really want is to sleep all day and not move from my bed.

So now I leave you with this final quote ‘you’re not going to master the rest of your life in one day, just relax’. 😊

‘When the world says give up, hope whispers try it one more time’.

Diary entry: 10th October

 Today is world mental health day, ironic when this has turned out to be terrible for me. For the past week I have been feeling anxious when attending placement at the Hospital, I have been feeling like i’m not part of the team, like i’m not supported and drained from the long shifts. I arrived on the car park this morning and burst into tears. I just couldn’t face it today.. but instead of going home to bed I have come into University to address the issues I have which will be resolved. I have decided that I need to be working in another environment, one which inspires my confidence in nursing. Hopefully I will get the decision I wish for and be able to move. If not i’m not entirely sure what my next step is going to be, as I have again reached breaking point even though I am aware that there are always answers.

So on this day of mental health awareness, I leave you with this one thought. ‘Don’t fake being ok, you only hurt yourself, be real with what you are going through and don’t let it consume you’. 😊

‘You can sit around waiting for life to happen, or you can seize this very moment and make things happen’.

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Another tip for a positive life!

I purchased this book a while ago, I love to read the quotes each day for a positive outlook. Katie Piper is an inspiration, and this book will help increase your happiness day by day #Littlethingsinlife

‘From the little spark, may burst a mighty flame’.

I remember a previous counsellor that gave me an activity to carry out. Ive always found counselling hard and could never open up about my anxieties but different counsellors have a variety of methods which they can suggest. My task was to write down my worries or fears, read through them think about them then once you have exhausted the list… Burn it and forget about the list and the worries. This helps me an awful lot during the real dark times. I’m not saying this will solve worries but it mentally and physically erases them. Then who knows what a spark could create when you return to your normal, strong self!

Look at this picture…

So look at this picture… what do you see? A broken leg? Now theres a story that goes with this that meant a lot to me metaphorically. This was actually a picture of my foot in cast after a nurse had to practise on me. Then a thought crossed my mind.. you can see physical illness or injury, but you never notice mental illness.

People close to you may pick up on your mood changes, but aside from those few and I mean very few close people, no one notices. But if you broke your leg/arm for example people would notice and may even question you how did you do that? Then they respond with sympathy.

Now try telling someone that you had a breakdown, you can see sympathy but they cannot respond, thats where the stigma of mental health lies.. Not many people understand and thats ok, those people will stand by us but from a distance. Not many know what to say, thats also ok its probably best they keep quiet.

One family member rang me everyday asking not just how I was, but how I was really feeling. This family member had noticed a change in me way before the wobble. This family member helped me by just calling everyday and checking up on me. I am grateful for this person noticing my downfall after all I didn’t break a bone nor did I have an injury, but actually I was ill and I was suffering. Thank you for noticing, it takes a special person to realise you are ill, even though you look ‘fine’.

Thank you for reading this short metaphorical story. I hope more people begin to understand mental illness.


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LeBron Gives Reports A Glimpse Of His Legendary Photographic Memory

After an embarrassing Game 1 loss to the Celtics in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals one reporter ask King James to try to explain exactly when the team began to unravel and instead of the generic answers the media is accustomed to recovering, James broke it down a little further.

Its often mentioned that Bron has a photographic memory that he relies on to get an advantage over his opponents by remembering every time he has matched up against a specific team/player, but seldom do we get to hear how it works for the 3x NBA champion..until now.

Even the reporters started clapping. 😂

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