Flower of the Day – White Mum

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day:

FOTD – October 22, 2019 – A Spider Among Flowers

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2019 BS

Last year around December time I had a mini freak out moment when I realized I hadn’t travelled overseas for  two years. I’m a travel blogger who isn’t going to exotic destinations. This made me fall into the deep end of the comparison pool. I was drowning myself by comparing myself to wildly successful travel bloggers and sites such as the culture trip.  In order to reassure myself that I wouldn’t run out of post ideas I wrote a list of blog post ideas. In one sitting I came up with over 400 post ideas.  Calmer and less paranoid that my blog would shrivel up and die I wondered if other bloggers ever struggle with coming up with post ideas. A few minutes later I found buckets loads of Pinterest articles on how to come up with content ideas. I read a few still there was something missing  and that…

Self-love gets such a bad press at times. We often associate terms that have the word self in them with an over-involvement with personal interest. When it comes down to it though, if we cannot love ourselves first and foremost, we cannot create relationships with others that offer us what we need. It is a vital part of our survival to ensure that we have a healthy loving relationship with self. What would it be to offer yourself a little more tenderness and affection?

The Only Love

The only love you’ll ever need

Begins with the most tiny seed

That some neglect to propagate

thus leaving it in perished state

If this love had a voice to speak

It’s timbre would be far from weak

Reminding us that it all starts

With watering our sacred hearts

and nourishing our hungry souls

So we can come to others whole

It is…

A comment from fellow blogger Suzan Khoja saying ‘Home is something everyone wishes to be in forever‘ got me thinking…

Where is ‘home‘ exactly?  Is it your childhood home with your parents where hopefully you might have felt safe and loved, or is it the home you made with your own partner and children?  Is it still home when your partner may have moved out and your children left the nest to forge their own lives?

I go along with the saying that ‘home is where the heart is‘.  In everyone’s head is that picture of home that they all yearn to return to, where they were loved, wanted and needed.  Whether or not the sun always shone was irrelevant, as they were happy whatever the weather.

You can live in a house worth millions, but is it home if it’s a place where…

In which I fall foul – again – of the ‘law of Irish distance and directions’ and indulge my love of horses…

Chatting to the two guys in the shed at the bottom of Kildare tower I asked if it was possible to walk from there to the Irish National Stud. I thought it was but I wanted to be sure and they confirmed that yes, I could walk there, it was only a mile – if I took the road opposite the market square, followed it past the Grey Abbey, over the motorway, turned left at the end, next left and the second right would bring me to it. It sounded simple enough but by now being rather dubious about Irish directions and distances I decided to seek confirmation (or otherwise) from the information centre in the market square and a very nice lady in there gave me the…

Hello SErs. Harmony here. Recently, while checking out a new book release of mine, I navigated from the ebook page to the paperback page, and I recieved a shock. While the ebook page looked great, the paperback page was all garbled. Here’s the difference between the two:

The Kindle Version

The Paperback Version

You can see how bunched togther the paperback version of the book blurb is. Some of the sentences even run into one another. This looks so unprofessional. Appalled, I got right to work and updated the description on my KDP dashboard. I then checked each of my other books and found the same scenario. The ebooks were all fine, but the paperbacks were all jumbled up.

Before the move from Createspace this had never happened.

In due course, the changes were approved, and I waited the requisit 72 hours to check the sales pages. To my dismay…