Welcome to the round up of posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord.
I hope your week has gone well. If you read last week’s post you will know I had to cut short my visit to the UK at the ferry port when I realised I didn’t have any headlights or sidelights. I checked out and the guy on the gate put me down as a know show. We had a flexible ticket and David was able to move the crossing to the Wednesday without charge. However, we managed to get the car into the garage but it was unlikely to be fixed in time.
My next thought was to fly. I usually go into Gatwick airport and get a train, but I saw there was a rail strike from Wednesday to Friday so that was not an option either. I talked to my sisters and we decided we would move my visit to September as they have a few things on anyway. Then my decision not to fly was reinforced on the Wednesday when an IT meltdown took place at all the UK airports resulting in two days mayhem.
I got my car back on Friday and the garage we always use had done a thorough job of checking out the fault and checking the electrical connections. It is fine again but my confidence in the car is not great. It is 15 years old and although it has been serviced and taken car of, it is likely other things will go wrong. The garage had a car sourcing service and so they are now reaching out across Ireland to dealers looking for a much newer model of the Nissan Note… Buying the car through them comes with peace of mind on service history and they will also check the car out before I buy. Something you can’t necessarily do when buying privately.
So there it is. Life throwing up road blocks and whilst I am so sorry not to have seen my family this week and enjoy all the activities they had arranged, I am glad I was not travelling hundreds of miles on UK motorways on a Bank Holiday weekend and break down.
Apart from that we have had some lovely sunny days this week so I have taken full advantage of those. I have been editing one of my WIPs ready for a summer release and have begun a sequel to Tales from the Irish Garden…
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 and joined me this week for some funnies… You can catch up with her Sunday Book Review for the historical novel An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age by Shana Abe D.G. Kaye
Carol Taylor will be here on Wednesday with the next of her A-Z World Cuisines and this week Bulgaria. Head over to check out her own posts including her latest A-Z in the series taking a look at the cuisine of my own home Ireland. CarolCooks2
Thanks again for your support this week… as always appreciated.
On with the show…
Her Covered Bones: An Australian Outback #Crime #Thriller (Opal Fields Book 6) by Fiona Tarr
#Photography #Poetry Square Peg in a Round Hole: Poetry, Art & Creativity by Robbie Cheadle
#Memoir #Humour Live and Let:Tales of a Pembrokeshire Holiday Let by Judith Barrow
Author News and Reviews – Jacquie Biggar, Gwen Plano, Mae Clair
– #Life #MentalHealth – Caleb by Melanie McGauran
Thursday Doors – Cedar Crest Alzheimer’s Special Care Center by Miriam Hurdle
#Potluck #Writing Today We Love Memoirs by Jacqui Murray
Hosts Sally Cronin and Debby Gies – Doormats and Grizzly Bears
Thank you very much for dropping in today and I hope you will join me again next week.. Sally.
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