Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Weekly Round Up – 15th – 20th May 2023 – New Kitchen, Collaborators, Diana Krall, Personal Power, Podcast, Circulatory System, Book Reviews, Bloggers and Funnies

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

I hope you are doing well and enjoyed the week.  I promised to show you some after photos on our kitchen renovations and here is the reminder of the before photos with the doors removed and before the carcasses were removed…

And here are the after photos

We are slowly putting back the various pieces of equipment and crockery etc.. It will take a few days but we are very happy with the new look.

My thanks to Maureen Twomey for her lovely feature and boost for Life is Like A Bowl of Cherries..  Maureen Twomey – Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries

As always my thanks to my friends who contribute to the blog…

William Price King joined me this week for the Big Band Era with Kate Smith, Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle and Shag Dancing.  On Friday William continued the series featuring Diana Krall.  You can also find William – Blog– IMPROVISATION– William Price King on Tumblr

Debby Gies​ will be here with her series Spiritual Awareness on Monday exploring Soul Mates and Life Partners and the difference between them.. Debby was also here with her great funnies for our laughter spot. On her own blog you will find news of her latest project in the epistolary format, this month’s writing links and her latest book review The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Head over to …D.G. Kaye

Carol Taylor will be here on Wednesday with the final in the current series of A-Z of food and the letters ‘X,Y,Z’. Carol is on a short blogging break but you can catch up with her Monday Musings  where she shares her arrival in Australia to visit her daughter who lives there and some great photos Monday Musing 15th May

Toni Pike was here on Wednesday with her series on Personal Power and this week, Becoming your own best friend… a very important relationship. Head over to check out Toni Pike’s Books

Thank you very much for your visits, comments and shares to social media, as always it is appreciated ♥

On with the show…

The Big Band Era with William Price King and Sally Cronin – 1940s – Kate Smith, Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle, Carolina Shag dancing

William Price King Meets Music Legends – #Jazz – Diana Krall Part Three – The New Millennium

Personal Power – Become Your Own Best Friend by Toni Pike

Podcast #Poetry – The Night Sky and Creatures of the Night by Sally Cronin

Something to think about – The R’s of Life – Relationships Part Three – Romance – Expectations and Observations by Sally Cronin

The Body our Greatest Asset – The Circulatory System – Part One – How does Blood circulate by Sally Cronin

Food Snippets – Pineapple for bruises, prunes as a fat substitute

#Memoir #History – .You Can Take The Girl From The Prairie: Stories about growing up on the Canadian prairies by Darlene Foster

Previous Reviews from 2022 – #Biography #WWI, Queen Victoria, #Adventures, Lucky Jack by S. Bavey

New Book on the Shelves – #Catlovers – Happiness Is A Warm Cat by Emily Gmitter and Zoe the Fabulous Feline

#Reviews Lauren Scott, #Alligators Marcia Meara, #Familytrees Story Reading Ape and Traci Kenworth, #Potato Rolls Dorothy Grover Read, #OnlyChildren Gwen Plano #StoryEmpire

Meet the Authors 2023 – #Contemporary #Romance Stevie Turner, #’Thriller #Mystery Gwen M. Plano, #WWII #Thriller Allan Hudson

#Poetry Harmony Kent, #Poetry M. J. Mallon, #Historical #Family #Romance C.E. Robinson

Hosts Sally Cronin and Debby Gies – Ravens and Blessings

Hosts Sally Cronin and Debby Gies – Sourdough and Facebook chain letter

 

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