December already

This is the December page of my Tahiti calendar

I’m ashamed that I left my blog for so long without posting. MIL has gone home now after her stay. We get along very well and talk and talk and talk…

I like this quote
“In December keep yourself warm and sleep.” what sensible advice.

To make up for reproducing a page from the calendar without permission here is a link so that you can see the other Tahitian products for sale.

Part II of the calendar story

Yesterday a new calendar arrived from Tahiti! A few years ago, Rob gave English lessons to a high flying banker who was packed off to Tahiti. We hadn’t heard from him for ages and yesterday the calendar arrived. It’s in English, French and Tahitian, so January is Tenuare and today is Mahana Maha. Besides the beautiful pictures of blue seas and white sandy beaches, we have the French holidays and US holidays as well as the Saints days.

Because of the bad weather this morning I had the local news on. While I was listening they had a phone in quiz game where the contestant had to guess whether 10 US calendar days were real or not. I was expecting Martin Luther King Day or Lincoln’s Birthday and things like that, but in fact they must have visited Cassie-B for her calendar. The contestant won… just, more by luck than judgement.

Does anyone know how to get the pictures straight?

Calendar time
(A bit of a play on words in the title I think.)

When we first moved in Rob banged a nail into put a hook on the wall in the kitchen, so that I could hang up my keys and it turned out to be a good placement for a calendar. On New Years day I finally had so many calendars that I’d saved that I couldn’t hang my keys up anymore. This is what I found when I sorted them out :

1993 Memories calendar with lovely old advertisements for Pears Soap and other British goods.

1999 Cynthia Hart’s Victoriana calendar: A special calendar for Cynthia, celebrating 10 years of calendars, I think. Her work was called collage then, not scrapping (her 2006 calendar).

2000 Millennium calendar: Every day had an entry taken from the last thousand years of history. Did you know that Queen Elizabeth I was crowned on 13th January 1559?

2001 Followed by the help of the knights and Damsels calendar: Featuring lovely romantic paintings by artists such as Leighton,Waterhouse, Maclis and Hughes.

2002 The year of the Art of Shakespeare calendar: Again lovely painting and quotes from Shakespeare.

2003 LS Lowry calendar: With his match stalk women and men.

2004 Supermarket freebie calendar: Ideas for nutritious meals made from their products, of course.

2005 Idem, with a little more information on ‘5 a day’.

2006 Worcestershire Federation of Women’s Institutes calendar: Sent by my Mum, theme; gates and gateways photographed by Institute members.

2007 The WI calendar for this year, theme; water.

I don’t know where to put 1993 to 2003, I really don’t want to throw them out.

You’d think I’d have learnt how to spell calendar by the end of writing this… nope.