A-Z Challenge 2025 - M is for Muttering

M is for Muttering - yes this was a hard letter to find anything for nonsense or waffling so we're stuck with muttering.

I do a lot of muttering around my Hubby which is a bit unfair really, especially if he hasn't got his hearing aids in, because he can't hear me.  Of course that's why I'm muttering - I don't want him to hear because I am probably moaning about him.  I love him to bits but he does have a way of implying things are my fault, even when they're not.  Sometimes it's in a quite jokey way, like just now he asked me "what have you done with my keys?" What he should have said was "Do you know where my keys are?" or "Have you seen my keys?"  This sort of thing happens all the time!  It's particularly annoying when he asks about his phone and it's in his shirt pocket.

I get accused of all sorts of things, hence I do a lot of muttering.

Right let's move on.  

Although I don't officially have a theme I wanted something to link my posts so I thought I'd see how many countries in the World I've visited or might visit. 

Here are the M letters:

• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar

I haven't been to any of those but I would like to go to Malta.

That's still 11 out of 197 countries then.

And 13 out of 26 letters done.  Yay!  Halfway!

A-Z Challenge 2025 - L is for Lollygagging

Well it seems there are only so many words for nonsense but there are quite a few for idling of which lollygagging is one.  I think it's quite fair to say I'm probably as good at lollygagging as I am at waffling.  The two combine quite well really.  

I can also be quite good at falling down rabbit holes while on my laptop.  It occurred to me today that I had visited Hong Kong on our trip to Australia yet Hong Kong doesn't feature on the list of countries I'm working on.  Of course that's because it's now reverted to China so that means, technically, I've visited China. In theory I should go back to my C post and amend it.  But that would mean amending all the stats on subsequent post too.  Well, despite my love of lollygagging I'm trying to get ahead on my posts so I'm just going to correct the stats going forward.  Especially as I've already gone back over my posts because the link to the list of countries was incorrect.  Apologies to anyone who discovered that before I did.

Right here are the L countries:

Although I don't officially have a theme I wanted something to link my posts so I thought I'd see how many countries in the World I've visited or might visit.

• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg

I have passed through Luxembourg - we drove through it on our trip to Germany but I'm not sure if we even stopped - it's a very small country! I'm counting it though.

Of the others Liechtenstein, Latvia and Lithuania might be possible destinations but the others are highly doubtful.

That's 11 out of 197 countries then. (Including China - see above!)

And 12 out of 26 letters done.

A-Z Challenge 2025 - K is for Kerfuffle

K is for Kerfuffle.  Another slightly different meaning word - "a commotion or fuss" rather than nonsense or waffle, although I bet a load of nonsense can often end up with a kerfuffle.

The grandchildren can cause quite a few kerfuffles when they get together and often need a referee.  Two of mine will be here when this posts so apologies if I take longer responding to comments.

Now on to the K countries:

• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan

Although I don't officially have a theme  I wanted to have something linking my posts so I thought I'd see how many countries in the World I've visited or might visit.

Once again I haven't been to any of these but I could tell you roughly where they are.  (Well I know that Kiribati is somewhere over in Oceania near Australia ish.  Close enough?  Yep I though so too.

One of my DILs has also spent time in Kenya but probably not one of the saftest places to go to now.  I don't think I'll be visiting any of these in the near or distant future.

Hmm still at 9 out of 197 countries then - the list I'm working from can be found here.

And 11 out of 26 letters done.

Friday's Fave Five - 11/4/25

Friday again and as usual our wonderful host Susanne has reminded us to look back on the week and remember the things we're grateful for.  You can find her blog here.

1)  An outing with Hubby on Monday.  We went to nearby Loughton to browse the shops and have lunch out.  We found a nice cafe for that and also a lot of charity shops.  Of course I really don't need any more books but I couldn't resist:

2)  An unplanned visit to my best friend on Tuesday with the bonus of catching up with her 3 daughters, 2 of their partners and 4 little ones - one only 4 weeks old who I hadn't met before.  Oh and a 12 week old pup.  What's not to love?

3)  A successful trip this week to collect food for the Foodbank.  Grateful that I have the time and energy to support this needed service.

4)  Me time!  I spent quite a few hours this week completing this:

It's been a while since I did a jigsaw and I'm fairly sure I've done this one before but I didn't have a photo of it so maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway I had fun doing it.

5)  Grandsons Noah and Miles arrived yesterday (with my eldest son) and are here until next weekend.  Hopefully our current spell of good weather will last.

Have a good weekend all.