Posted October 30th, 2008
by Alfred
Send flowers to Thailand
Send flowers and gifts are something withoutin every relation. Have relatives living in Thailand to whom you may want to send flowers?Look no further than your computer ? welcome to the information age. It?s actually very true that if you want to send gifts such as flowers to distant countries like Thailand and many others. You can send them through several stores on the net. At the click of a button, your loved ones will be greeted by the beautiful flowers of your choice. Such a convenient method of sending gifts is nothing short of revolutionary. Who would have thought that send flowers, to places miles apart on the globe could be such an easy task? These services are extremely convenient and highly usable for one who wants to quickly send flowers to Thailand.
with numerous florists now expanding their offline businesses to online websites, send flowers to thailand is these are getting popular. Though common flowers that mostly sent are roses and lilies, most services provide for many other flowers. Therefore many find it very important. Broadly speaking, all online florists accept payment through credit cards, debit cards, MasterCard, visa and PayPal. Prices mostly range from 40$ - 80$ for a dozen of two dozen roses.Apart from this there are sellers selling 99 roses for 99$. albeit this is expensive, these services cannot be done without. Competition is so fierce even in the flower selling trade that there are judges judging the best.
To increase their client base, many online flower seller who specialise in sending flowers to Thailand offer free services such as taking photos and videos of the recipient ,free of cost. in addition to this, quite a number of florists also offer to click photographs in exclusive location. Free translations is another service generally offered to to ensure that all goes well. In addition to all this, one can find other features that are varied in different services. it easy to to find florists available for transferring money.
Thus, it can be said that sending flowers to any place in Thailand is as easy as as a hot knife in butter.
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Posted August 8th, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
56,000 miles and everything that falls off a Land Rover within weeks of its 50k Warranty expiring has already fallen off, and been put back on again, at great cost to me. Horrible gas mileage, might be ideal for hilly San Francisco, just dont turn the steering wheel while coasting or it'll lock. No guarantee it can build up enough speed to jump the hills like in movies either, not a good getaway vehicle **see footnote.
ProsSuits dirt
'Up Yer Kilt' bumper sticker included
'Do Not Wash, This Vehicle is Undergoing a Scientific Dirt Experiment' bumper sticker included
'Ecosse' bumper sticker included
Large boot space comfortably seats 2 large dogs
Cons1 lady Owner
Gas Mileage
Bumper Sticker removal impossible
Dog nose goo on window removal impossible
Forget about doing U turns unless the road is 6 lanes wide
** Note - Yesterday I did take a wrong turn and drove the wrong direction down a one way lane into a fire station and ended up in front of a firehouse with it's doors open, still facing the totally wrong direction, in front of 3 fire engines, and the Land Rovers drive to reverse to drive to reserve gear changing was very quick and smooth, it's 0-30mph get out of there pronto sport mode was quite impressive too (even in reverse).
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Posted August 6th, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
L.Muck was extremely surprised to learn from the ticket inspector that I wasn't eligible to travel on her children travel free train ticket after all.
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Posted August 5th, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
Great idea?
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Posted August 4th, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
Yes, not only has Lady Muck returned but I am now allowed to call myself Lady of Jura as my husband ( thank you for the applause) is none other than Laird of Jura!!
I apologise for not returning to you, all my loyal subjects, earlier but we have been working on plans for our Jura estate.
Firstly we have had to surround the whole property in electric fencing and put up 'No shootin' huntin' or fishin' signs plus 'No ball games' 'No Parking' and definitely 'No Politicians' Quite a busy time really.
Also we have had to buy the livestock - 2 hamsters, plus their feed,shelter, exercise equipment etc and that has taken some time.
We need to keep the hamsters fit as they are to keep the grass neat and tidy in our estate .... all 1 foot square of it. Oh, yes, I see I forgot to mention that.
Ah weel, it may be small but it is our estate and we love it ...not to mention the legal titles that go with it.
Now I do not want to bore you all by writing thousands of words about our honeymoon trip in the Republic of Ireland but suffice to say that it a very beautiful country and we had a fantastic time. Even the weather was good for us.
I did have what I thought was a great idea but my husband ( no need to applaud EVERY time I say that) pointed out the flaw. I thought we could both wear t-shirts spelling out 'Honeymooner' in the hope that we might be bought free drinks wherever we went, but as he said if he had to go to the loo then all people would see on his t-shirt was the word 'mooner' while I was ok with the word'honey' on mine. I guess he had a point but I still think it is a good idea. ( Patent pending so no stealing my idea)
One of the things we just HAD to do was kiss the Blarney stone!! For those of you who are ignorant of what this is for then I will explain.
Once one queues for an hour and makes ones way up to the top of Blarney
Castle, then an old man steadies and guides the visitor to lie down and lean over backwords to kiss a certain stone which is supposed to give one the gift of eloquence and to put it bluntly 'the gift of the gab'.
I was very proud to have actually managed the difficult yoga position required to kiss the stone and I have a certificate to prove it.
Several days after this event I asked my beloved ' Do you think that kissing the Blarney Stone has made any difference to me?' to which he promptly replied ' Yes, I think you now take shorter breaths between sentences!' What a brave sweet man he is , to be sure.
More to follow but not until you have all had a wee lie down to recover. You are a loyal lot though and 1st lady and I do appreciate you crazy... ooops I mean loyal readers.
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Posted August 3rd, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
Once again I find myself explaining the absence of L.Muck from the Blog. Well, as most regular readers know, she just recently came back from Ireland a married woman, this time around it was actually planned too.
I've been told to tell you all that she will be back as soon as she's finished with her winter socks for husband knitting project. She didn't have time for this hobby before the wedding as looking glamorous all the time was quite time consuming. There's absolutely no need for any of that now.
L.Muck in her Sunday Best.
L.Muck did have a helpful tip to forward to all knitters. She discovered quite by accident recently that one can freely knit. Freely knitting is where one does not have to knit around another object (often a person), but instead can have the wool hanging off 2 needles. Freely knitting keeps other people free. Here we have an example, courtesy of L.Muck and her husband, of how not to knit a jumper and hat.
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Posted August 2nd, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
I feel I can write with the viewpoint of a tourist visiting Edinburgh.
Edinburgh streets are a mess, yes. There are roadworks everywhere one looks, road closures, bus diversions, JCB's, orange cones, cracks (I pointed one out to L.Muck while walking on George Street the other day but by the time she realised what I was talking about the roadworker had stood back up), construction noise, ugly fencing.
However..
Actually travelling around Edinburgh still isn't bad at all. My Lothian bus journeys from one of the worst affected areas, travelling into town from the West (Murrayfield area), to Princes Street, really didn't take too much longer. If you were in a hurry, yes, 10 extra minutes would be annoying, but really, the delays were nothing.. for a tourist.
Lets face it, people dont visit Edinburgh for Princes Street High Street Shopping, well they shouldn't anyway. The main attractions such as the Castle, Royal Mile, Calton Hill, are enough to distract visitors away from what locals despise, construction chaos. Visitors may have to edit their photos, St Andrews square being surrounded by road works, views of the victorian gothic Sir Walter Scott Monument from St David Street spoilt by fencing and construction. But, with the right photo editing programme and skills, one can leave Edinburgh with some very, very, fine views, fine indeed, yes indeedy. As an example here's one I carefully edited. Frame worthy, that's a Levis 501 advert if ever I saw one, although they aren't Levis, I zoomed in just to check.
Where was I? Oh yes, well, this photo, very fine photo... was actually taken while I was on Calton Hill, a wonderful city centre viewpoint located at the East end of Princes Street. Here you'll find monuments and fantastic panoramic views of Edinburgh city centre, the Firth of Forth, and construction workers.
Princes Street from Calton Hill. The 180 foot Balmoral Hotel Clock Tower runs purposely 2 minutes fast to ensure Waverley Train station travellers arrive on time.
Views to the Firth of Forth (or Fifth of Sixth, Fourth of Fifth if you are easily confused, not that L.Muck and I have ever called the Forth these names..)
The Admiral Horatio Nelson Monument built atop Calton Hill just after defeating the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalger, 1805.
Fine photos indeed.
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Posted July 31st, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
Have a flight to catch today. I've had enough of bumping into Big Brother when switching TV channels. Tell me when the shows over and I'll be back.
1st L.
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Posted July 30th, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
There is a replica
Death Mask of Mary Queen of Scots located in one of the few roofed rooms at Linlithgow Palace. Can you guess which one is genuine and which one is a fake created in the image of what I believe a Death Mask should really look like.
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Posted July 28th, 2008
by Amelia Burton Health and Fitness
A few days ago we visited Linlithgow Palace, the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots back in 1542. A magnificent building in a majestic lochside location. 1542 was also the year that Queen Marys father, James V, who died only six days after her birth, was defeated by the English at the battle of Solway Moss. Mary actually only lived at the palace for the first few months of her life as the palace was not thought safe enough and so she was moved to Stirling Castle.
The palace is certainly impressive and a historical site I would highly recommend. With the journey only taking 20 minutes by train from Edinburgh, its an ideal location for escaping the city, or just having a picnic on the palace grounds.
Throughout July and August Wednesday evenings, the Palace is open to the public for courtyard Scottish Dancing. Dances such as the Gay Gordons, The Flying Scotsman, Boston Two-Step and Flowers of Edinburgh are popular and there is instruction if need be. Live pipe bands provide the music and tea with shortbread is provided.
All this for £7.50.
Our visit was during the day, the timing of our arrival was such that a tour had just started. Interesting though it was, L.Muck and I questioned several 'historical' facts, much to the dismay of the rather 'know it all' young guide. When you see a floor running right through what was obviously a large fireplace mantle, one asks questions. The shell of the building remains as it was but the interior was at one time severely damaged by fire.
The recently restored Kings Fountain is truly magnificent and is thought to be the oldest fountain in Britain, dating back to 1537. At certain times of the week water still pours from mythical beasts and the sculptured heads such of that of a Tax man.
Get Ye To Scotland.
1st L.
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