Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Weekly Round Up – 13th – 19th May 2024 – Cars, Music, Bulgarian Cuisine, Heart Health, Book Reviews, Bloggers

Welcome to the round up of posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord.

I hope you have enjoyed a good week so far and the sun has been shining. We have had two or three glorious days and some more to come in the next few days. Bliss.

With my car fixed it was time to explore newer models and our own garage we have used for the last 8 years was very helpful in scouring the dealers for a good buy within out specifications. Combined with David’s efforts it was narrowed down to three cars all around the 3 to 5 years old. We headed north on Wednesday and I had a test drive in a 2021 Nissan Note which is one of the last petrol ones they made. Slightly different in as much as it is keyless entry and push button start, most of the other controls were very familiar. So after driving around the block we paid a deposit. A couple of bonuses, a three year warranty and delivery to the door which save us making the 100mile round trip to pick it up. All going well it will be here on Wednesday. I will certainly feel more confident in driving in the UK when I visit my family in the rescheduled trip in September.

David is going to have my car and sell his own Note as mine is an automatic and a better spec. So very successful week in that respect.  Time for some new adventures even if mine is not a Suburu….

I have also finished the editing of my WIP. Size Matters was first published first 2001 and I have updated and added a more detailed nutritional component and some recipes. It will be in ebook and print on Amazon, hopefully in a couple of months. Once this is off on its publishing journey… I will be working on another fantasy in the Tales from the Irish Garden due for release in the autumn.

So that is the news on the home front….

As always my thanks also goes to my friends who contribute to the blog

William Price King  William joined me for the Breakfast Show on Tuesday and his series of iconic Duets on Friday. You can also find William – Blog– IMPROVISATION– William Price King on Tumblr

Debby Gies Debby will be here on May 27th with the next in her series Life Lessons 101  You can catch up with her own posts this week including a look at corporate greed impacting the viewing public and her Sunday Book Review for Live and Let by Judith Barrow D.G. Kaye

Carol Taylor was here on Wednesday with the next of her A-Z  World Cuisines and this week Bulgaria. Head over to check out her own blog and archives. CarolCooks2

Danny Kemp entertained us on Tuesday with his usual unique brand of humour.

Thanks again for your support this week… as always appreciated.

On with the show…

The Breakfast Show Rewind with William Price King and Sally Cronin – Chart Hits 1973 Part Two – Dawn and Tony Orlando, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack and Wings

William Price King with The Duet – #1970 – 1971 – Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over the Line ,1971 – Ike and Tina Turner – Proud Mary

– A-Z World Cuisines…Part 10… Bulgaria -Banitsa and boza, Supa topcheta by Carol Taylor

Open Mic Night with Danny Kemp

Life’s Rich Tapestry – #Cats #Family – For the Love of Lily by Sally Cronin

This Year’s Focus – Cardiovascular Disease – The Circulatory System – The components of Blood by Sally Cronin

Smorgasbord Book Reviews – #Memoir #Humour Live and Let:Tales of a Pembrokeshire Holiday Let by Judith Barrow

#Poetry – Shh, Purely Poetry: Sensual, Love and Relationship Poems by M. J. Mallon

#Art: The Simple Life, #Tanka Tuesday, Festival of leaves challenge by Smitha Vishwanath

#BookReview by Stuart Aken for Lady Hartley’s Husbands, by Andrea Emblin

Author News and Reviews – Robbie Cheadle, Jan Sikes, Alex Craigie

#YA #Mystery Joy York, #Timetravel #Fantasy D.Wallace Peach, #Dystopian #Thriller Terry Tyler Posted on May 17, 2024

#Poetry Robbie and Michael Cheadle, #Funnies The Story Reading Ape, #Desert #Arizona D. Wallace Peach, #GoodNews Jill Dennison, #PrehistoricSmarts Jacqui Murray, #CorporateGreed D.G. Kaye

 

Thank you for dropping in today and I hope you will join me again next week… Sally