Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up – 19th – 25th December 2022 – Contributors, Carols, Short Stories, Books, Music and Humour

Merry Christmas and if you are dropping by over the holidays, here are the posts from the week you might have missed. I know many have been impacted by the ferocious snow storms across America and I hope you and your families are safe.

Contributor News this week.

William Price King has been sharing some favourite carols this week and the wonderful Andrea Bocelli with a selection from his Christmas Album…and on New Year’s Eve a party  with music from William and some special guests .  You can also find William – Blog– IMPROVISATION– William Price King on Tumblr

Debby Gies​ shared some great funnies this week over here and on her own blog you will discover her latest podcast on grief and influences the way you celebrate the special holidays during the year. There are five book reviews in the Sunday feature this week of books that Debby has read during the year but did not include. Follow the link to Debby’s posts …D.G. Kaye

Carol Taylor will be back after Christmas with the next in her Culinary A-Z and the letter ‘N’ – Carol is also one of the special guests at the New Year’s Eve Party. Over on her own blog you will find her memories of Christmas as a child, some last minute recipes for mincemeat and stem ginger and a wonderful Monday Musings with a video I recommend everyone watches as it will inspire you I am sure to look at our earth in a different way. Carol’s Monday Musings

Christmas Music with William Price King Rewind – Favourite Carols –

– William Price King – Andrea Bocelli – My Christmas Album

Christmas Archives – Short Story – The First Christmas in the New Land by Sally Cronin

The Kindness of Mice

Book Review – #Memoir – Fifteen First Times: Beginnings: A Collection of Indelible Firsts by D. G. Kaye

New Book #Suspense #Thriller Sue Coletta, #History #NorthernIreland Jane Buckley, #Poetry #Prose Sally Cronin

New Book on the Shelves – #Fantasy #Thriller – When Evil Chooses You: Book Three in the Dreamer’s Alliance Series by Dan Antion

#Memoir #Cancer Miriam Hurdle, #Romance Ritu Bhathal, #Crimethriller Carol Balawyder

New Book on the Shelves – #Supernatural Adventure The Last Drive by John W. Howell

#YA #Dystopian Teri Polen, #Psychological #Thriller Audrey Driscoll, #Mentalillness #WomensLit Anne Goodwin

#Shortstories Beem Weeks, #Mystery #Thriller Joy York, #Shortstories Simon Van Der Velde

Christmas Blogger Weekly – December 21st 2022 – Jennie Fitzkee, Traci Kenworth, Cheryl Oreglia, Robbie Cheadle, Hugh Roberts, Richard Dee, Staci Troilo, Judith Barrow

#Music – How To Make Your Own Christmas Song by Annabelle Franklin

Christmas and New Year Special – The Best Gifts Cannot be Bought by Harmony Kent

Best Medicine Christmas Special – Hosts Debby Gies and Sally Cronin – Cookie Thieves and Band Name

Thanks for dropping in and wishing you a wonderful Christmas… I hope you will join me again next week…Sally

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Weekly Round Up -October 3rd – 9th 2022 – Hits 2005, Angels, Waterford, Royal Navy, Weight Loss, Podcast, Reviews, Books, Health and Humour

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

I hope your week has gone well. Nothing much to report here but I have managed to get a few hours in the garden as we experience some random Indian Summer moments. I have also made progress with my Elephant tapestry as my intention is to have it finished and framed ready by Christmas. My next book release, a combined poetry and short story collection is also getting closer to being ready for editing.

I have also been giving some thought to how the blog might evolve in the next year and some new features I would like to introduce. As you will see from this week there has been an emphasis on new releases and book reviews and I do want to carry that forward next year with additional opportunities for authors to promote their work.

Contributor News this week.

William Price King joined me for The Breakfast Show for the first part of chart hits from 2005 and this week sees the second part of that year. From the following we we are going retro and sharing the top hits in the charts from the 1940s and 1950s and we hope you will enjoy those too. Also this week the next post in the series on Andrea Bocelli. You can also find William – Blog– IMPROVISATION– William Price King on Tumblr

Debby Gies​ was here on Monday morning with her first post in her Spiritual Awareness series on Angels….and later in the week sharing her funnies for our laughter posts. Over on her own blog you can enjoy Debby’s book review for the latest poetry collection by Frank Prem…A Specialist at the Recycled Heart – a link to Debby’s podcast – Grief: The Real Talk – Follow the link to Debby’s posts …D.G. Kaye

Carol Taylor will be here on Wednesday with her  A-Z of food with the letter ‘I’… on her own blog a – Head over to enjoy – Monday Musings, a celebration of National Curry Week, Garlic, Fragrant Leaves, Fungi and her Saturday Snippets where the prompt was Firecracker. – CarolCooks2 weekly roundup…2nd- 8th October 2022

Thank you too for all your visits, comments and shares during the week. As always very much appreciated…♥

On with the show

The Breakfast Show with William Price King and Sally Cronin – Chart Hits 2005 Part One – Mariah Carey, Green Day, James Blunt, Westlife

William Price King meets the Music Legends – #Classical – Andrea Bocelli – 2000 to 2010

Fey – Angel Messages Part One – Signs that our Angels are Around by D.G. Kaye

#Ireland #Waterford – The American Connection by Geoff Cronin

#Memoir- Life on the Ocean Wave – Part One -1916-1936 Bakelite and Tweeter speakers by Eric Coleman

Size Matters: The Sequel – #Morbid Obesity – Putting your Healthy Eating Plan together Part Two – Example Menus and exercise by Sally Cronin

Podcast – #Poetry and #Flash – From Cave to the Stars and DNA by Sally Cronin

Previous Reviews 2021 – #Salmon #Scotland – A Speyside Odyssey by Norman Matheson

#Paranormal #Romance – A Voice in the Silence by D.L. Finn

#Fantasy #Magic #Humour – Song of the Sea Goddess by Chris Hall

Previous Reviews 2021 – #Prehistoric #Adventure – Laws of Nature (Dawn of Humanity Book 2) by Jacqui Murray

New Book on the Shelves – Saddled Hearts (The White Rune Series Book 3) by Jan Sikes

#Poetry – Anamnesis by Denise O’Hagan

#Crime Ghost of a Chance: (DI Snow series Book 4) by Jaye Marie

#Sightimpaired #Dailylife – Paws on the Street-by Patty Fletcher Posted on October 5, 2022

Hosts Debby Gies and Sally Cronin – Controlling issues and Hypnotism

Hosts Debby Gies and Sally Cronin – Monkeys and Old Ironsides

 

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

 

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Weekly Round up 9th- 15th May 2022 – Ella Fitzgerald, St. Thomas, Magnesium, Short Stories, Podcast, Health, Travel, Books, Reviews, Health and Humour

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

I hope you are doing well in your neck of the woods. In this one we have had some glorious weather this last week and I have taken advantage of the garden. Decorating is going well with the dining room now pearl grey and white woodwork.. Awaiting the floor to be sanded and I am off to buy new curtains during the week.

The young plants I potted a couple of weeks ago are beginning to flower and it is a bit of mystery as to the colours as I bought variety packs and in a week or two I will share the results.

On the blog front

I am delighted that I Wish I Knew Then series is being enjoyed and there are several more scheduled for the coming weeks and so grateful to those who are participating and sharing their stories. This week Jacquie Biggar, Rebecca Budd, Denise Finn and Jacqui Murray share their thoughts on the prompt.

As always I will be putting on a Summer Book Fair featuring all the authors that I have personally recommended who are on the Smorgasbord Bookshelf. In the first posts beginning in June, I will be sharing books that are the first in a series to encourage readers to start at the beginning and hopefully then read the following books. I will then continue with authors with stand alone novels, non-fiction, memoirs etc.  Look out for that from June 6th through to September.

As always I must thank these three amazing contributors as the blog would not be the same without them.

William Price King joined me on The Breakfast show this week for the second part of the hits from 1994 and for the last part of the series on Friday featuring Ella Fitzgerald. – On Friday William begins a new series about the legendary Aretha Franklin. You can also find William – Blog– IMPROVISATION– William Price King on Tumblr

Debby Gies took us to St. Thomas this week on the Travel Column… and on her own blog shares her thoughts on being back in Toronto after her Mexican winter break and adjusting to the solitude again, weather and how grief plays its role in her perspective on life and the future. How Am I Doing?  Head over to her blog to catch up on her posts including her Sunday Book Review D.G. Writes

Carol Taylor shared some amazing recipes this week to ensure we are getting sufficient Magnesium in our diet… on her own blog she reminds us about animals waking up after hibernation in our gardens and in particular what to and not to feed hedgehogs in her Monday Musings,

In her ‘My Kitchen Post, she shares some store cupboard basics, in her Food Review what constitutes ‘processed food’ and in Saturday Snippets her prompt is Glass.

Head over to catch up on Carol’s posts this week: CarolCooks2 weekly roundup… 8th -14th May 2022-Monday Musings, Health, Food Review “” and Saturday Snippets where “Glass” is my prompt.

Thanks to you for all the support, likes, comments and shares during the week and now on with the show….

The Breakfast Show with William Price King and Sally Cronin – Chart Hits 1994 Part Two – Celine Dion, Prince, Wet Wet Wet, Corona

William Price King meets the Jazz Icons – Ella Fitzgerald Part Five – Live Performances

The Travel Column Rewind with D.G. Kaye – #Caribbean Welcome to St. Thomas #Virgin Islands

Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiencies with Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Magnesium – Coleslaw, Pumpkin Seeds, Tom Yum Soup, Morning Glory

#Olive Oil…keeps your body moving by Sally Cronin

Butterfly #Cinquain – Blossom by Sally Cronin

Chapter Eight – The Steak House by Sally Cronin

Chapter Nine – Pub Landlady and Skinhead invasions

Chapter Seven – The Magic Garden comes to life by Sally Cronin

#Psychologicalthriller – Means to Deceive by Alex Craigie

I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now! by Jan Sikes

I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now! by Harmony Kent

#Western #Paranormal Mateo’s Blood Brother by Sandra Cox

#Romance – Love, Me – A Christmas Wish Novel by Jacquie Biggar

#Romance – Unbranded (Montana Bred Series 1) by Linda Bradley

Hosts Debby Gies and Sally Cronin – Burgers and more Weird Facts

– Hosts Debby Gies and Sally Cronin – Cures and more Weird facts

 

Thanks so much for dropping in today and for your visits and support during the week.. Enjoy the rest of the weekend and stay safe.