as it's the award season....

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If it's good enough for Colin...it's good enough for me! Gratuitous Colin shot coming right up...no need for a thank you...it was absolutely no trouble :)</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-d4RjM2TOU_QwqNAoN5CaNMJjKhSyBoYrE6e99MlPrruVadfv_K9N0OjlzosaoeNeqUm0gvv7OLK0jzJ_VjEKEuCmHkECXpwahL98YUA50dTjwuK7UV-r-njLh-OFSP7tW7WIJENR0Xjt/s1600/colin+firth+golden+globes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-d4RjM2TOU_QwqNAoN5CaNMJjKhSyBoYrE6e99MlPrruVadfv_K9N0OjlzosaoeNeqUm0gvv7OLK0jzJ_VjEKEuCmHkECXpwahL98YUA50dTjwuK7UV-r-njLh-OFSP7tW7WIJENR0Xjt/s640/colin+firth+golden+globes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boy that was a good movie. You might want to stop reading now...Colin is probably as good as it gets :)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if you're brave, or just have nothing better to do...a little while ago now I was given this award...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kRmD2MdHCfuKcDgkib0UjVZteBr3b6o_hDRdVA69h1VV4X6-grlzFw60aMiU2gEnIaq_NVXvsmIZfJ1oPrlFGuYOKPyv8ljHefVe-Yxr_At46ei25d_d2_efRzbG0-ZCrW7iZM9HDDBe/s1600/Stylish-Blogger-Award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kRmD2MdHCfuKcDgkib0UjVZteBr3b6o_hDRdVA69h1VV4X6-grlzFw60aMiU2gEnIaq_NVXvsmIZfJ1oPrlFGuYOKPyv8ljHefVe-Yxr_At46ei25d_d2_efRzbG0-ZCrW7iZM9HDDBe/s1600/Stylish-Blogger-Award.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by two very lovely bloggy people and their very stylish blogs...<a href="http://jollyoldengland.blogspot.com/">'Cross the Pond</a> and <a href="http://iusedtobesnowwhitebutidrifted.blogspot.com/">I used to be snow white but I drifted</a>...thank you possums. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had this once before from <a href="http://sarainlepetitvillage.blogspot.com/">Sara Louise</a>...and once again, I'm chuffed! As you would be. That time I told you about my most embarrassing moment...<a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/2010/10/passing-on-blog-loveand-my-most.html">relive it here</a> if you must..or better still go and visit those lovely grantees :)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, as you do, I got to thinking about the definition of stylish...dictionaries mostly refer to stylish being about conforming to the modern fashion...which I most definitely do not :)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I went looking for quotes...and this one grabbed me right down to my ever so stylish Haviana thongs (flip flops for the northern hemisphere)...well it's really hot here and I'm on holidays so don't judge me ok :)</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e316cb; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 16px;">''Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.'' Gore Vidal</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">and this one too...</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e316cb; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” Orson Welles</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Oh Orson...you are so right. And, apart from the "not giving a damn" bit (because I do believe that you need to take others into consideration, most of the time) I'm with Gore as well. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">You know how it goes...I'm meant to tell you 7 things about me but what more is there to tell that is publishable I wonder!!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'll give it a crack...</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">1.    My first love was a boy called Kenneth Brown. He sang like an angel to me over the back fence when we were only five...mostly the song was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i> "take me back to the black hills, the black hills of Dakota, to the beautiful Indian country that I love"</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> (why that song I'll never now seeing we lived in a city in Australia!) Very sadly he died one Christmas Eve when he was 19, electrocuted putting up the Christmas lights. I still think about that.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">2.   I am an excellent speller. Even before spell check.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">3.   I know it's terribly unfashionable...unstylish even (gasp) but I have lots of buddhas in and around my house...15 at last count...they make me feel tranquil when I remember to look at them. I'll show them all to you one day. Bet you can't wait for that. They must have the right face or they don't make it home with me:) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">My most precious one (not in terms of cost) I bought at Buddha's birthplace in Nepal.</span><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRRG3r6G9Io8bKegEwdH2zqLgMlHARNIft0kKgzfrUv186mHI6EcwObafxb_TrO5gtsjfTJLio2814zNCkxNRrD-qW1xnf5rgmP2RHN11sLuFwWQg5oJcayTlpR1QipqLeFyRuNU3_iU0/s1600/buddha+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRRG3r6G9Io8bKegEwdH2zqLgMlHARNIft0kKgzfrUv186mHI6EcwObafxb_TrO5gtsjfTJLio2814zNCkxNRrD-qW1xnf5rgmP2RHN11sLuFwWQg5oJcayTlpR1QipqLeFyRuNU3_iU0/s640/buddha+collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">4.   On a related note, I have an as yet unrealised plan to meditate every day. I may be on my way to looking like a jolly buddha but that's as far as my buddhist leanings go at the moment I'm afraid.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">5.   I am not, never have been, never will be...a minimalist. You knew that already didn't you? And I have a real love of 'ethnic' things.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIdedzLwyl7cDvVynm-kP3TI9lILj72aEPEDOQgUqhLVfz816-qDpClm4oSgAx3OW5Z-dczgrYtjVC9_KM7KvbZCNXUdj7hE8uTbd22mB01IMGYNysiNfs3fzqMJpC7BjQkbbvqpG_ff87/s1600/things+on+coffee+table.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIdedzLwyl7cDvVynm-kP3TI9lILj72aEPEDOQgUqhLVfz816-qDpClm4oSgAx3OW5Z-dczgrYtjVC9_KM7KvbZCNXUdj7hE8uTbd22mB01IMGYNysiNfs3fzqMJpC7BjQkbbvqpG_ff87/s640/things+on+coffee+table.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and I'm mad for a bit of whimsy...meet Mildred (and ignore the slayer in the corner)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKV9by6Fsc5BmKFYhTjHlTRtLubuCAS5yJo6T5-NCBzjZ99yHN9E3BYpa7wabgp0Hn0WVez-BQypiy1G74z9pS1dAuirqWnOOk3M1nW6cQh2yQa6Fk0zbYjz6PZkJuJhrk7f6JFIY2Nv-/s1600/flying+pig+and+buffy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKV9by6Fsc5BmKFYhTjHlTRtLubuCAS5yJo6T5-NCBzjZ99yHN9E3BYpa7wabgp0Hn0WVez-BQypiy1G74z9pS1dAuirqWnOOk3M1nW6cQh2yQa6Fk0zbYjz6PZkJuJhrk7f6JFIY2Nv-/s640/flying+pig+and+buffy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">6.   I try very hard not to be a hater but I have two pet hates: use of the word 'hero' in the same breath as sporting (these people are not heroes, sorry) and misuse of the word tragedy in the same way. Someone breaking their finger, toe, arm, or having a cold and not being able to play for Australia is not a tragedy. Glad I got that off my chest. Thank goodness yesterday was Australia Day...I'd be deported if I'd said it then :)</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">7.   I like the cold better than I like the heat despite growing up not too far from a beach and harbouring a desire to go and live on the north coast of NSW. I will need air conditioning and a pool thank you very much. </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">8.   And one extra thing (told you I wasn't a minimalist)...I have dubbed 2011 The Year of Living Frugally...in a mad attempt to reduce my mortgage. This of course doesn't apply to books, learning or travel :)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Crumbs you're good if you've got this far. I would like to pass this on to a couple of blogsters who make me laugh...because as the sidebar blurb says...I do love to laugh...either through their posts, their comments or both. Now that's stylish.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://funandvjs.blogspot.com/">Fun and VJs</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://makeminemid-century.blogspot.com/">Make Mine Mid Century</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://myvillalife.blogspot.com/">My Villa Life</a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Play if you feel so inclined, but no probs if you don't :)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">all photos by me...except Colin...oh to get that close!</span><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a></div>

as it's the award season....

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passing on the blog love...and my most embarrassing moment

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sara Louise from the eponymous <a href="http://sarainlepetitvillage.blogspot.com/">Sara in le petit village</a> (do you have any idea how much I've wanted to use the word eponymous in a sentence?) gave me the Stylish Blogger award a little while ago...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4s9tSkspRSC8VYrkzsJ2VdGN_mxV5mD0HzMDr3jyS1zU9o3a2Rcl9XlJHQxcleo9CTYhY5ErFPun1Vc17Zuh-yYhNJnGa-sMo3ZODghxcT1TiC4W4FOBqahpQ5KeKAAjBNdWdHOVeyWhe/s1600/Stylish-Blogger-Award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4s9tSkspRSC8VYrkzsJ2VdGN_mxV5mD0HzMDr3jyS1zU9o3a2Rcl9XlJHQxcleo9CTYhY5ErFPun1Vc17Zuh-yYhNJnGa-sMo3ZODghxcT1TiC4W4FOBqahpQ5KeKAAjBNdWdHOVeyWhe/s320/Stylish-Blogger-Award.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and then Melli from <a href="http://mellisdesigns.blogspot.com/">Melli's designs</a> (I'll resist using that word again) tagged me.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong, I love these things but there's pressure involved. Who to pass an award on to; what to tell you that's interesting that you don't already know, and, according to the stylish blogger award, what's secret (and I would also add, publishable!)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I turned to this for some inspiration...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpWJOjVMnXf3Cgv0zFN1ucKaeRQs3Ly0Ecr6WhXxgUwBKs2D-347xYHKBVyvs7_wxYvWzgH6NITxCkg5vkgULp2JdCPJB51ltBszEofHs8oo0GIYrW0AW4SnTnIohBbIyvNxGzNMWg6nO/s1600/ice+breakers+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="481" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpWJOjVMnXf3Cgv0zFN1ucKaeRQs3Ly0Ecr6WhXxgUwBKs2D-347xYHKBVyvs7_wxYvWzgH6NITxCkg5vkgULp2JdCPJB51ltBszEofHs8oo0GIYrW0AW4SnTnIohBbIyvNxGzNMWg6nO/s640/ice+breakers+001.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, no, not the Vogue Living (although there's inspiration aplenty in there). See that little yellow box...picked it up at the Post Office...it's quite amazing what you can find there. $4.95 and the pack says for ages 8+, but honestly...how many 8 year olds do you know going to dinner parties...unless it's those kids from Junior Masterchef. But dammit, I'd have them out in the kitchen cooking not sitting around the table amusing me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anywaaaay,  what should be the first card that tumbles out...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0SY1uoPYvx0Y6V-9i4kZe5i69GL3UcROJMdm5F0mTyID42YxKOSrhblkz6gebnmihrvOOPxuespeU-kf5Pn_-_djNs6_6cKUuL6q_01rUhy9bdQFxSZWgxrUEbK7o6orJ8N5S9LbnrYw/s1600/ice+breakers+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="481" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0SY1uoPYvx0Y6V-9i4kZe5i69GL3UcROJMdm5F0mTyID42YxKOSrhblkz6gebnmihrvOOPxuespeU-kf5Pn_-_djNs6_6cKUuL6q_01rUhy9bdQFxSZWgxrUEbK7o6orJ8N5S9LbnrYw/s640/ice+breakers+002.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Embarrassing moment...oh good! But it got me on a bit of a roll to reveal things you don't know about me...so, a little story...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><ul><li>It was in Papua New Guinea. I was there as the media liaison officer for the Defence Force one Anzac Day in the 90s. We sent a contingent to march. I was wearing a pure white Navy Officer's uniform (quite legitimately as I was in the Navy...well, the Navy Reserve actually). So there you go...'fact/secret' No 1...you didn't know I was in the Navy as well as the Army did you?</li><li>Our then Prime Minister Paul Keating was the main dignitary. I met him and shook his hand. F/S No. 2....much as I admire Mr Keating (non-Labor voters please don't judge), he had a very unimpressive handshake. I found that extremely disappointing.</li><li>Apart from shaking hands with the PM, I thought I should introduce myself to the journos, as I was meant to be their main point of contact and it may have been a bit hard to do the job without saying hi! I rocked on up to the very famous (well in Australia anyway) Peter Harvey...he's tall. Okay, that's a fact not a secret...and it's not about me. Stick with me anyway bloggy peeps.</li></ul></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-AOvMior-wQJQ4j0y0hj3ST17zrRxJb3aVP-XyAnArSfHzlKCB6vHutWcxchAYLrXB78k8jinmMBuDpiDMdmK6H7_CDQMqVCXVbHOk8Y8D6RUo__WOE2T_7i71WcF4OQGjpecJDZaK8B/s1600/peter+harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-AOvMior-wQJQ4j0y0hj3ST17zrRxJb3aVP-XyAnArSfHzlKCB6vHutWcxchAYLrXB78k8jinmMBuDpiDMdmK6H7_CDQMqVCXVbHOk8Y8D6RUo__WOE2T_7i71WcF4OQGjpecJDZaK8B/s400/peter+harvey.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><ul><li>I was a bit nervous...he was famous...almost as famous as the PM in fact. Perhaps more. Are you getting the picture? F/S No 4...sometimes I'm not as brave as I could be.</li><li>But up I 'marched' to Mr Harvey (I didn't actually march...even though I was in uniform that would have been far too nerdy). F/S No 5...despite the <a href="http://collageoflife-henrqs.blogspot.com/">crochet rock</a> and few hundred other bits of 'evidence', I am NOT nerdy. This is nerdy...</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-XEqaFiyWHNPsv8gZYj26e4Bk5JKmLol6syrZBp29TnQh8A6aE9bL6k0ZXRQ7dGCcF0ASOpWx9LmyDatz-GX-dfzOEXZATZIRgwqlFg2mluCBUhAUkfQfkGsAlHLPaZxrPPLHX3M1y8or/s1600/it_crowd_geeko.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-XEqaFiyWHNPsv8gZYj26e4Bk5JKmLol6syrZBp29TnQh8A6aE9bL6k0ZXRQ7dGCcF0ASOpWx9LmyDatz-GX-dfzOEXZATZIRgwqlFg2mluCBUhAUkfQfkGsAlHLPaZxrPPLHX3M1y8or/s640/it_crowd_geeko.png" width="640" /></a></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><ul><li>I put my hand out to shake his...looked Peter in the eye (I'm quite tall too...[F/S No. 6]... so it wasn't too much of a stretch)...and said...wait for it...you'll love this...</li><li><b>"Hello. I'm Peter Harvey"</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. F/S No 7...I'm not Peter Harvey....</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>he</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> was Peter Harvey.</span></li><li>F/S No. 8...a crack in the universe (a la Doctor Who) did not appear and the ground did not swallow me up as it was meant to.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsfLIAPuR29Z32ohY9V9aA3WVFfHAODijP36QrWgTAVFA0jgTaTmwoh4WDOl9efCVWtiw8vSd9-lK6Cb5Ibk6C_slph9z9RI1lfWcF4xBnmGI18UFTnQmy8qL7-JkThrH1JMO1Q3RbdHQe/s1600/crackinuniverse.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsfLIAPuR29Z32ohY9V9aA3WVFfHAODijP36QrWgTAVFA0jgTaTmwoh4WDOl9efCVWtiw8vSd9-lK6Cb5Ibk6C_slph9z9RI1lfWcF4xBnmGI18UFTnQmy8qL7-JkThrH1JMO1Q3RbdHQe/s640/crackinuniverse.gif" width="640" /></a></div><ul><li>I did however blush a very unattractive shade of bright red. Against a snow white Navy uniform, that's very red indeed, even taking into account the tropical heat. F/S No 9...I blush...still...even at this age.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUyrPuUsOTsMNpQXFsSr1RpsFvc6d-gZIYWh49zMjx0IP9F7THPzaoakerwxbcnBSES53AarYRHf0NrArsnpIZ0Fiqwhz-aWdQRP5FAGUKVulRbS5TVC0IAjkBu_lO6qeoJ4jHfnIOzUth/s1600/the-blushing-scale.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="577" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUyrPuUsOTsMNpQXFsSr1RpsFvc6d-gZIYWh49zMjx0IP9F7THPzaoakerwxbcnBSES53AarYRHf0NrArsnpIZ0Fiqwhz-aWdQRP5FAGUKVulRbS5TVC0IAjkBu_lO6qeoJ4jHfnIOzUth/s640/the-blushing-scale.bmp" width="640" /></a></div><ul><li>F/S No. 10....Peter Harvey had the very good grace to laugh along with me once I stopped blushing and I even managed to tell him my real name somewhere along the way. Fact...yes my name is Kerry....and</li><li>I have indeed told this story at many a dinner party...</li></ul></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, enough about me...for quite a while I should think. I would like to pass this Stylish Blogger award on to Jeanne who blogs at <a href="http://collageoflife-henrqs.blogspot.com/">Collage of Life</a> and three other places too. Everything about Jeanne is stylish; her photos, her words and most importantly I think...her philosophy. And that's what it's all about :)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>

passing on the blog love...and my most embarrassing moment

Sara Louise from the eponymous Sara in le petit village (do you have any idea how much I've wanted to use the word eponymous in a sente...

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top ten pictures from the week ~ 29.9.10

<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to tell you...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgApwCHlcot7hPzHgMd9zL-OjprlEV6ihVw_c5rD54MgP-4vetjWcv4OaqLGj1FgWxb7VYM58nzHsw8eA7YrfSmVhEzQLpWFV6nc3GXc-VzErCpnQRguNCvCyEB0gXq2-3oieUgsrB-e0Ox/s1600/via+brabourne+farm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgApwCHlcot7hPzHgMd9zL-OjprlEV6ihVw_c5rD54MgP-4vetjWcv4OaqLGj1FgWxb7VYM58nzHsw8eA7YrfSmVhEzQLpWFV6nc3GXc-VzErCpnQRguNCvCyEB0gXq2-3oieUgsrB-e0Ox/s640/via+brabourne+farm.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my house looks like the proverbial bomb has gone off in a corner of it</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNuizD-cKDQD9U_dnpnts7bFZZMZ4IFrN0QOGDCi4IAcfuif2Ym5vQdp3Moy4f7GcmOFebCzHg5x4lp6tOnskjsnK4W4brGnC-zmZndhJJbqRmgGnEhXd_2zfOIrhTYNZPMeQUUrMbncPs/s1600/via+cote+de+texas.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNuizD-cKDQD9U_dnpnts7bFZZMZ4IFrN0QOGDCi4IAcfuif2Ym5vQdp3Moy4f7GcmOFebCzHg5x4lp6tOnskjsnK4W4brGnC-zmZndhJJbqRmgGnEhXd_2zfOIrhTYNZPMeQUUrMbncPs/s640/via+cote+de+texas.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a small one anyway...bomb that is, not corner</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHs1ZLudW-X78SBjJWoJUmklwJYBWRcO9-A-212R6Kq02DMdryr6SdE7v3xbMDJG5tZlQpkxksY4lgYouS-2xCMBq2vKV00grAak21K0lu2MVNvu26YH2yOkHC0tXNABj8jIMxphJ08CH/s1600/via+design+sponge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHs1ZLudW-X78SBjJWoJUmklwJYBWRcO9-A-212R6Kq02DMdryr6SdE7v3xbMDJG5tZlQpkxksY4lgYouS-2xCMBq2vKV00grAak21K0lu2MVNvu26YH2yOkHC0tXNABj8jIMxphJ08CH/s640/via+design+sponge.jpg" width="580" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and that's not even counting the space the 22 year old is inhabiting</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY7YYRE4ZGfyVEm7S5JnWNakTRG_nn-z-aC8RWLhgWpPMwhXvVWJxTd-DdhgaeOoecsmqtSnD77DLj3PzXuHNlMku8dDwf96gt5fi_2AtFSrsB8RLgWZl6U4mQ0s1DuCEVKXAVCOfjKZh9/s1600/via+driftwood+interiors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY7YYRE4ZGfyVEm7S5JnWNakTRG_nn-z-aC8RWLhgWpPMwhXvVWJxTd-DdhgaeOoecsmqtSnD77DLj3PzXuHNlMku8dDwf96gt5fi_2AtFSrsB8RLgWZl6U4mQ0s1DuCEVKXAVCOfjKZh9/s640/via+driftwood+interiors.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that,my friends, you can only begin to imagine!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBv6xfr5WxdRRUf2sI52ghZvALKPIzoGg3voAm8zKMD-jQwCsvwkSv3fNky0njarOLZfdM_EjkVQWstJOMdRmEtyEjrMU_TvCnbe9o-76QWMZ7psATX2IAVlGfqS8FtyXWaSTf6p29pAQu/s1600/via+greige.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBv6xfr5WxdRRUf2sI52ghZvALKPIzoGg3voAm8zKMD-jQwCsvwkSv3fNky0njarOLZfdM_EjkVQWstJOMdRmEtyEjrMU_TvCnbe9o-76QWMZ7psATX2IAVlGfqS8FtyXWaSTf6p29pAQu/s640/via+greige.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but it's where he creates some rather good graphic design...I'll show you some of it one day...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTFPC6xNV61im3GiIUkdJb0bo0a86XYghWoOLoermOZuLKkbUw2VeGt65p81lUD88eDKUFfapa_GtMyglL1RgF022a6baFpED4xIgOrieaqd4cmMVZDCdmVSsyJTuG1As4gT33zSbi0QA/s1600/via+la+maison+boheme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTFPC6xNV61im3GiIUkdJb0bo0a86XYghWoOLoermOZuLKkbUw2VeGt65p81lUD88eDKUFfapa_GtMyglL1RgF022a6baFpED4xIgOrieaqd4cmMVZDCdmVSsyJTuG1As4gT33zSbi0QA/s640/via+la+maison+boheme.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so how wonderful it is to gaze at all this...well, tidyness and order and tranquility...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfN15VPak1L4GumfzVdf6WKkfqltMmoyg9LOg9U8ss9gCTE_JOccMsUq8C-cM6SbUKx2c2awfupTIJ16qX09McsfYOShgWEd5yA7MxdJoAgSgkeZWDO3ICbf5X5ltkMvo4ylKFhSYlJhe/s1600/via+shannon+fricke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfN15VPak1L4GumfzVdf6WKkfqltMmoyg9LOg9U8ss9gCTE_JOccMsUq8C-cM6SbUKx2c2awfupTIJ16qX09McsfYOShgWEd5yA7MxdJoAgSgkeZWDO3ICbf5X5ltkMvo4ylKFhSYlJhe/s400/via+shannon+fricke.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sometimes my house looks styled...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TI0sqB7iEbEg-yuE-bxGL7Gw0x8XyHUD2Ya5RzqAVf0JYr9hksMQOIp_iXNMMsU9y7WSI3Qz26HFCb5haBe5b7dr6GRQRkc6znbMeACD5UGKidxaBlWAJu7tzwEPVjnrr-jVkoQ9B48H/s1600/via+the+diversion+project.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TI0sqB7iEbEg-yuE-bxGL7Gw0x8XyHUD2Ya5RzqAVf0JYr9hksMQOIp_iXNMMsU9y7WSI3Qz26HFCb5haBe5b7dr6GRQRkc6znbMeACD5UGKidxaBlWAJu7tzwEPVjnrr-jVkoQ9B48H/s640/via+the+diversion+project.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but not all that often I must confess</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9vgj44Aq283Yeb3cdVgbgxDCSNXdZR6yw87FzeqspQHjxlxpf5-JDLHppm3M1mEpRo9ePJ5Q2NiJv53tzq3atiD0ekai_v4rzN4VXA3S6vILwD6Ravx7OfD17xU89YWphh2eFDZN3lK8/s1600/via+the+design+files.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9vgj44Aq283Yeb3cdVgbgxDCSNXdZR6yw87FzeqspQHjxlxpf5-JDLHppm3M1mEpRo9ePJ5Q2NiJv53tzq3atiD0ekai_v4rzN4VXA3S6vILwD6Ravx7OfD17xU89YWphh2eFDZN3lK8/s640/via+the+design+files.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">maybe this weekend I'll have a styling blitz</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2GspPq_P9FfIbzR8L6RO5K-OaTLc2sJB1Wnd876n3dtyLvE2xmaIovCW62WtjMZ1VocETeQ_x07itSKK-3J02WX75V4KrLu4-bx9Sdw_zIU767VK03zeLF_bUttMaJtZRQ9szqHd6BNSi/s1600/via+collage+of+life.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2GspPq_P9FfIbzR8L6RO5K-OaTLc2sJB1Wnd876n3dtyLvE2xmaIovCW62WtjMZ1VocETeQ_x07itSKK-3J02WX75V4KrLu4-bx9Sdw_zIU767VK03zeLF_bUttMaJtZRQ9szqHd6BNSi/s640/via+collage+of+life.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or maybe not...I have a wedding to go to...in a paddock near Tumut! Can't wait.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAwR2IPSAzNoqLECYXKhugg0KOB_EtNs3Jb1kNfhgzxIBU4oUPSSVtf_rgRSEX7NzgbhJQLmqvVjiS84My_gNVGrNO7tQxNLLN5e_S6APa9L4XztuWsZObvaa83d7atJ0i4bZlsly4M2kK/s1600/tumut+via+google.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAwR2IPSAzNoqLECYXKhugg0KOB_EtNs3Jb1kNfhgzxIBU4oUPSSVtf_rgRSEX7NzgbhJQLmqvVjiS84My_gNVGrNO7tQxNLLN5e_S6APa9L4XztuWsZObvaa83d7atJ0i4bZlsly4M2kK/s400/tumut+via+google.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where, apart from pondering the joys of wedded bliss (and wondering where on earth I went wrong!!), I will think about who to pass this lovely award on to...and <s>make up</s> reveal 5 secret things about me!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaj5aFlqR8AeV9NMtKg7aCWDDywefMGg4AeIzD3v_GlS4Oy_jAm2j9vyWp8AGhmEzasZVM-VR93aWD2Rv50Hx_TQ5qgwVYca6HdtbLrN_Kd2hrrau0dbUTjTrIRJ6U23fifVpaR2O2vnYv/s1600/Stylish-Blogger-Award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaj5aFlqR8AeV9NMtKg7aCWDDywefMGg4AeIzD3v_GlS4Oy_jAm2j9vyWp8AGhmEzasZVM-VR93aWD2Rv50Hx_TQ5qgwVYca6HdtbLrN_Kd2hrrau0dbUTjTrIRJ6U23fifVpaR2O2vnYv/s1600/Stylish-Blogger-Award.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you Sara Louise, for thinking I'm stylish...you silly possum...have you forgotten the <a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-creative-spacerock-on.html">crochet rock</a> :)  You must check out <a href="http://sarainlepetitvillage.blogspot.com/">Sara in Le Petit Village</a>. Go and meet her, the husband, Fifty, and Honey Jr among others. She is an absolute cracker and an definite must read for moi!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">p.s. I actually love the rock :))</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">images via brabourne farm; collage of life; cote de texas; design sponge; driftwood interiors; greige; la maison boheme; shannon fricke; the design files; the diversion project</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a></div>

top ten pictures from the week ~ 29.9.10

I have to tell you... my house looks like the proverbial bomb has gone off in a corner of it a small one anyway...bomb that is, not corner a...

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