Never again.............

I hope I never have to say goodbye to all these gorgeous girls at once when I am the only one leaving...

one of the blog girls was missing............woops

.....it's so much easier to leave gradually....there were other friends to say goodbye too also...........

....there were lots of tears.....I am still missing you all.........
Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

more adventures of Peg and Dale..........

hanging out with Maree...........

we got a little dressed up for dinner.........

we found some old friends........

Meeting Sue Daley at the Trunk Show

we helped Nicole and Tanya with supper........

maybe we could make this for a good friend Dale............

Your friends at GDITC...........

another post here.........

The adventures of Peg and Dale....

Since our dear Peg and Dale were unable to join us they have come in another way............Tracey whipped these up last night and after a few jokes the girls have come to GDITC with us for the weekend...............

they laid an egg before they left they were LOLing so much............

In the car ready to leave..........

What do you reckon Dale should we drive through the water hole...........Lise will not cope with this...........

Hey Dale the view is gorgeous..........

Pink or white???

maybe we could steal a trike??? and go to the motor bike meeting the girls would never miss us.......

we made it so far............do you want a cold beer???

thank goodness someone is taking us to the table for lunch...........

hhhmmmm that scotch is good.....

perhaps we should have eaten lunch first...........

yippee Kerry's..........we'll just grab the mail for her............

finally Kerry's house............

woops Kerry you should have opened your eyes.............so glad to see you..........

the adventure continues................

GDITC friends............

PS thanks for the snaps Loz

pincushions on the go............

Busy busy...............we all have to make something to take to swap on the day...........

English Paper Piecing here we come...........

can't wait for the other girls to get here for dinner..........

and yes we have not stopped talking since we got together............

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

where are they..........

OMG they have just arrived............gotta run............off to GDITC tomorrow.............may or may not get back here............. .........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Comments & word verification......

UPDATE have done a new post on this..............you can find it here

Was talking to a friend today about the new comment word verification..............I know it is driving everyone nuts......No idea why they changed it as the old one was working fine.........I hate turning it off as I always get spam comments once i do it.............but for the last week or so i have turn it off and changed the "who can comment" settings and have only got one spam comment so I thought I would share if your interested..........and the spam comment was sitting in the comments TAB spam area so not published so I thought that was great............

I have changed my blog, Stitch-a-long and Snappy Friends and all are fine at this stage. If things change I will turn word verification back on. BUT it is driving me nuts on the few blogs I have commented on............

I am still using the old interface not changed to the new one as I can't control the users in a group blog like I can in the old one............

Sorry it's a bit different in the new interface (just looked)  so you might need to go to the comments and the email and mobile areas.........

If you want to go back to the old interface go to the dash board and click on the cog/wheel top right corner then a menu drops down then click on old blogger interface..............

See on the settings ---> comments tab below I have changed the who can comment to Users with a Google account. Most bloggers have one and if they don't (ie Typepad or Wordpress users) they can set up a profile anyway so they can comment plus include a link to their blog address

in the new interface it is under settings ---->>posts and comments........

Also I have for a long time had comment moderation turned on for comments on posts over XXX days old. I used to have this at 10 but have changed it to 5 days. Most spam was left on older posts anyway. 

But usually people comment on your posts within 5 days and if they haven't they won't mind you publishing their comment once you have read it.

Make sure you have your email address in there so the comments can be emailed to you.

Also move the dot on the Show word verification to NO...........SAVE SETTINGS...............

See how you go.

I know there have been quite a few posts about this so do what works for you.............

I'll add this post to "how to...........blog bits" on the sidebar

Better go hang out the washing...........cloudy and breezy here but no rain and definitely no flooding like down south..........goodluck if you're in the very wet weather area...........

Summer is officially over but we have enjoyed the most mildest summer ever..............

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

sunset and giveaway...............

Sunset.............more here..........

and this little bundle will be off to someone 

Fairy Girl picked the magic random number and I counted down and I do have that address so someone will get a surprise in the mail and I will update this post once it has arrived.............

THANKYOU for all your lovely comments............

Of course it has to include a bundle of blue.............the gorgeous fabrics and notepad are from The Home Patch if you want any..............
Shez is the winner of my giveaway............congrats Shez..........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

5 = 1000...............

 A few weeks ago I had something different much more upbeat planned for this post............especially when I realised that I was going to hit 1000 posts about the time of my 5th blog birthday (which have coincided).......

(photos courtesy Fairy Girl)

5 years ago I would never have thought I would have still been blogging and made the connections and friendships that I have "in real life" and "online".............but life takes unexpected twists and turns.......highs and lows..........some you see coming some you don't so all I want to say is thankyou for everything you have given/inspired/shared with me over the last 5 years..........

lets see whats happening in another 5 years and 1000 posts...............

THANKYOU

I was going to make something but you know my mojo is missing so I got a little parcel organised as a little thankyou for one of my readers...........

and thank you to a couple of girls who have out of the blue emailed me privately....

....thanks you know who you are...........and I am glad you emailed me.........

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........