:: My Place or Yours: Wherever I lay my hat that's my home ... Meet Me at Mikes

The Theme Queen this week is Tania from Myrtle and Eunice ... and she writes :::

By the look in your eye I can tell you’re gonna cry.
Is it over me?
If it is, save your tears
For IIIIIIIIIIIIII’m not worth it, you see.
For I’m the type of boy who is always on the roam,
Wherever I lay my hat, that’s my home.*


(The Paul Young version because I have lived all this time until five minutes ago, without knowing Marvin Gaye was the original commitment-phobe, singing floozy).

The very lovely Pip is letting me play My Place and Yours Theme Queen this week. In true themely queenly style, I would love to know, what object would you take wherever you roam, because it makes your house feel like a ‘home’?



For me :::


Always on the move, always looking for something. It all fell into place fifteen years ago when I found everything I'd been searching for was right here ... right in me, with me, in my heart my soul! 


Previously everywhere I lay my hat my photo's made my surroundings of the time mine, all mine. They made me smile, made me cry. Eventually the faces, the memories enticed me to decide the time was right. It was time to get off the merry-go-round that was life then. 


Here's a glimpse of some of my photo's ... plus a smidge of other treasures including three items that co-incide with where we visited  yesterday.


The story of the three treasures will be told in my post tomorrow. 

Take a peek at where others lay their hats HERE

::: SORRY this weeks GIVEAWAY isn't forgotten  :::


No fancy excuses just  I need more hours in my day. 


I'll post a GIVEAWAY tomorrow ... please pop back!

Writers Island .. "The Moment."

Yikes ... put's it mildly when discovering the prompt ...

The next prompt here on the island will be… “The Moment”.
Maybe its the one to remember, or the one you wish you could forget, or the one your currently living in, or the one that changed your life, or the one you’ve always dreamed of, or the one you’ve always feared — perhaps it is the one of your most profound realization… what ever the moment you choose, please share it with us...

WHICH MOMENT ... ? How can a single moment be "THE MOMENT" ?

How about the sad childhood ... that one ???

Or the even sadder teens ... that moment ???

How about the moment when mother caught me wagging school and had my long hair cut into a boyish style ... that one???

How about the joyous moments of giving birth, the euphoria, the elation, the never before felt rapture ... that one???

The falling in and out of love ... ???

All the special occassions relating to my girls "firsts" ... first smile, first step, first drawing, first day at school, first time they said "I love you Mummy" ... those ones ???

The moment when I took a long hard look at myself ... that one ???

Or when someone beloved died ... that one ... ???

The moment of being first published ... that one ???

See ... there's tooooooooo many moments!!!

None of my singular moments will fit onto a small page or deserve to be compartmentalised. The moments relevant to this life all count.

Whether happy, inherited, hassels, horrid, human, hysterical, humiliating, hazy, hard, haphazard ... they're all part of the big picture, the humongous amount of moments ... that make yours truly ... precisely the same as this very moment!!