St Donald
Yesterday's weather: Beautiful, hot but with a nice breeze to take the sting of the heat away.
It's my lovely Mum's birthday today. Happy Birthday, Mum.
We were sitting in the garden yesterday evening and the wind chimes were clanging away to themselves in the background. Jon turned to me and said 'She's everywhere isn't she?'. I looked around to see who he was talking about but couldn't see anyone - I assumed that he was talking about Mirabelle Veranda-Flapper again as I could see the distant waving of a tea towel but he said 'I wake up in the morning and the first thing I see is that lovely piece of furniture she gave us. I go downstairs and there is the window I've just put in that she gave us. Even out here; the wind chimes were a present from your mother. It's lovely, she's here all the time, my mother-in-law.'
We love it that our house is full of reminders of different people, some have visited, some haven't yet but we are hoping they will soon. We have shelf which runs the length of the kitchen and on it is a collection of pottery and glassware. We can say where each piece came from, some were wedding presents (33 years this year but I don't think they qualify as antiques just yet), others we have collected over the years or have been gifts. It is our shelf of memories and we love it.
St Donald
Regular readers know that I always head this blog with the saint of the day. In France, the saint's day is very important. Although a constitutionally secular country for many years, religion is still important to many French people, particularly catholicism and only recently the naming of children after a Saint become less common. The festival day of the saint of one's name is almost as big as a birthday.
Not a lot is known about the Scottish St Donald of Ogilvie but apparently he had nine daughters who were all saints. I'm sure that there must be a similarity there somewhere even though my parents only had two daughters and one son.......! Hang on, I'll just straighten my halo.
So, I thought it rather apt that today is the day of St Donald and I know that my Dad would have loved to celebrate today along with Mum's birthday. So, if you are raising a glass to Mum's birthday today, please also have one for Dad. If he's watching from on high, I know he'd appreciate it.
It is, of course, also St Swithin's Day today and the legend says that if it rains today it will rain for 40 days and 40 nights but if it is fine, there will be clear skies for 40 days and 40 nights. I think we've had enough rain this year. Let's hope we are in for a dry spell.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! A lovely beginning to the day. From now on I shall adopt St. Donald as my saint, he sounds my sort of man! Do you know I grew up feeling guilty and apologetic about St. Swithin being 'my' saint, I always automatically accepted that it was my fault if it rained on that day.
We've been promised some rain later today, but I don't care now because IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!
Nine daughters - 'SOD THAT' as our own St Donald would have said!!
Today we will be having a birthday lunch for 'St Jill' Tim is most dissappointed that she won't be cooking it although I believe one of the grand-daughters has persuaded her to provide a lomon meringue pie!
Oh yes. St Jill of Sutton is very well known for her lomon or even lemon meringue pies. Sunshine Apple Flan comes a close second though.
Niecy overseas says Dear Aunty J 11 years older than me, made me a delicious veggie pie when I was in farts poreign (deliberate mistake)one of Delias finest so I was told,it was yummy! ya gotta love them lentils!!even the vino lovin cheese yompers in Pelissie will know there is always a place for legumes(tee hee)Its an ill wind and all that xxxxx
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