An Award

Whee!!

I have been nominated for an award from a fellow blogger..
Thank you so much Liz.

I have today put on a link for the very first time so I can only hope this works for me...??
Also for the ladies I have nominated.....keep the fingers crossed

To Give an award.

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.

2. Link to the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs for an award.

4. Put links to those blogs on yours

5. Leave a message on the blog of the person you have nominated.

I would like to nomiate life today quiltingorchardist grammas quilting room

Well done ladies love your blogs.

Pune - India

INDIA ......This is one country I have not visited yet.... one on our list to do before we leave this area of the world.



Yesterday Eric's Agent here in Dubai invited us to his home in Pune- India ...wait for it NEXT WEEK....now flights to this area are as easy to get as "pulling hens teeth" but The Bossman has friends in very high places and after being told by Air India "all full for months" one call from The Bossman and low and behold we are on the flight.

So we are booked business class on a flight next Tuesday, again watch this space as I will have news to spare... I love this type of off the cuff holiday breaks. By the way did I mention he is very rich !!!!

I will not be on it...shame

Now I have never been a great fan of flying in the past ... but over the last 8 yrs planes have got better and better, and I actually look forward to flying.....

Emirates Airline flew there brand new Airbus 380 to America on 1st August visiting 5 states while there.

I would love to fly this aircraft, and it is going to fly all the long haul routes in time. Whee !! I thought I will get to leave here on a 380, as Melbourne and Sidney of course are 2 of their really long haul routes. You need to go via one of these places to get to NZ.....

But in their infinate wisdom Emirates have decided to go to New York first, then London starting on 1st December and then Sidney but not until February 2009.

I bet they don't realise that, this is to late for me as we leave here in Dec/Jan.

So that must be a good reason to come back again for a visit in the not to distant future.

But good news I have just read that Qantas will get their first Airbus 380 next month so there is another option open to me.

Summer here in Dubai

I must have mentioned a few times it is HOT here at present, we have had a fair few sandy days and some sand storms in the past couple of weeks, these are different actually.... sandy days are just cloudy and windy, whipping up the sand ... where as a sand storm is when the wind is coming from a particular direction bringing sand from else where some times Saudi or down from Kuwait and Iraq, you can tell where the wind is from by the colour of the sand it brings with it, but neither is pleasant the visability in a storm can be just a few meters.

Add this to the heat on average 43+ daily it gets very uncomfortable to say the least.

Thus the place gets sand splattered there is sand on the out side of the buildings, on and in the car, it swirls on the pavements and streets, it gets everywhere, in your hair and eyes of course, then pop in some really hot winds and you have a nightmare of weather. Our balcony can have up to a bucket full of sand swept up every other day if we were daft enough to do it often.

So people become hermits and stay in.

This last week or two our weather has been just as discribed, so I will not be sorry to get away on vacation in 4 weeks ...whose counting ?

The wind is also frustrating not least of all here in the apartment, I do the laundry and hang it on a rack, putting it on the balcony I watch it dry in about 30 minutes and have to be ready to bring it in before it dries like a board.

I have to be on my toes during the drying time for as the wind whips up .... over goes the rack and sand/dust clings to the clothes and results in all having to be rinsed again which can be more than annoying to say the least.

I have tried shaking and brushing off the dust but it actually stains the washing if left.

Now I can hear people saying "why don't you use a dryer?"

Well! I actually don't like using a dryer, my experience of dryers is not good, so many shrunk tee shirts and other items spoiled in them.

In NZ, I do actually have a dryer in the garage for those really bad winter days when wet towels and bedlinen are hung about.

The washing machine here in the apartment is a combination washer dryer, but I have never even bothered to worked out how it works why would you with perfect drying weather outside..

So summer in Dubai is not all it is cracked up to be or how you would imagine with all this sun,sea and sand, in fact it can be very unpleasant.

The following photo is a picture of an ensueing sand storm as it rolls in ( obviously not one of mine)

All you need to know on how to get shot of the housework

I was sent this not so long ago; it is just perfect for a busy quilter.


You have always wondered "how can I get rid of the housework and spend my days quilting"

Follow these instruction ;
1. Open a new file in your PC.
2. Name it "Housework."
3. Send it to the RECYCLE BIN.
4. Empty the RECYCLE BIN.
5. Your PC will ask you, "Are you sure you want to delete Housework permanently?"
6. Calmly answer, "Yes" and press mouse button firmly.....
7. Feel better?
8. Housework gone !!!

Now Go and Quilt

No Great Disaster after all

Whee! no great disaster after all, just a clip that had sheared off, thought it was may be a screw loose myself ( that is in the machines... not one of mine)
I took it along to the Quilting Shop where the gentleman was working today and he fixed it in
10 minutes....there's service for you ...set me back about $45 so we are in business again.

UFO'S

No! not the sort that shoot through the sky.

"Unfinished Objects"

I decided to day that I would get out a Hardhanger / Cross Stitch I started at least 4 yrs ago.

It has got to be the most travelled UFO there is in my stack...

It has seen China and Spain and now Dubai

It has gotten stitches from all these places .. .. may be not many...

but today I have vowed to finish it and have it framed before I return to New Zealand in December / January.

I really don't have a lot to finish just the Holly around the edge.

I will try to keep you updated on it's progress, so watch this space.

Hopefully the next picture you see... will be it all framed.

What do you do with your Tim Tam

I have tried to post every day but things get in the way like Quilting and Embroidery or nothing to talk about.

While sewing today I remembered the blog and thought as I dipped my cookie in my coffee, "what can I say today I wonder."

Now it was the above action with the cookie that reminded me of the following.



If you live in New Zealand or Australia you have heard of Tim Tams if not where have you been for the last **!@#* years.



HOW POPULAR ARE TIM TAMS IN AUSTRALIA?
Arnott's reports that "Around 30 million packs are sold each year - that’s nearly 300 million biscuits, or two packs for every Australian." That's a lot of Tim Tams! Yes, they're pretty popular with those Aussies! and also in New Zealand.


Now we have found out what Tim Tams are....on with the article in question.


What do you do with your Tim Tam ?


While at Embroidery Guild one evening I dunked a ginger nut in my coffee, one of the other ladies said " Have you ever dunked a Tim Tam" a negative answer followed of course as I was new to New Zealand and their ways with their Tim Tams.


She went on to explain you make a small pin hole in the Tim Tam at the top on the cream line and also the bottom.
You then dip it in your coffee or tea and you suck through the hole while in the liquid like a straw. Have a napkin at the ready this can get messy.
You then quickly place it in your mouth whole.


WOW!! EEEE! Don't knock it till you try it.


Seems this is a very old method and used by most students at University.

Now obviously not all the world can get Tim Tams so I guess the same end product could be got with a Penguin Biscuit in UK.
Or any sandwich biscuit covered in chocolate.