Sunday, July 26, 2009
Dodies_Dream_ World. Dragon Queen of Seligors Castle : Blog
Dodies_Dream_ World. Dragon Queen of Seligors Castle : Blog
Tubal Cain
Tubal-Cain also known as Tôbalkin
the Vulcan.
Mes-kalam-dug. King of Ur. Hero
of the Good Land
the Vulcan.
Mes-kalam-dug. King of Ur. Hero
of the Good Land
- OLD Tubal Cain was a man of might
- In the days when earth was young:
- By the fierce red light of his furnace bright
- The strokes of his hammer rung;
- And he lifted high his brawny hand
- On the iron glowing clear,
- Till the sparks rush'd out in scarlet showers,
- As he fashion'd the sword and spear.
- And he sang - "Hurrah for my handiwork!
- Hurrah for the spear and sword!
- Hurrah for the hand that shall wield them well,
- For he shall be king and lord!'
Friday, July 24, 2009
Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog
TOM THIN AND TOM THUMBHere is a small story I found whilst looking through my many childrens books. It's about the letters TH and the story they can tell
Once upon a time there were two little boys. One was so tall and Thin that the boys called him Tom Thin, and the other little boy was so small that they called him Tom Th
umb.
One day they put on their hats and went out together. As they went along, Tom Thin said, "I think I can hear thunder."
It was thunder, too, and down came the rain.
Just then a kind lady saw them, and she said: Come in, my boys, you will get soaking wet.
They both said "Thank you, and went inside.
The lady said: I think I know you both, it is Tom Thin and Tom Thumb surely.
She was so kind, she phoned their mother to tell them where they where and then she gave them a really nice tea. The bread was cut thin, the butter was rather thick, and the jam was very thick indeed!
Soon after they had fisished their tea the thunder had gone and the boys said thank you very
much to the lady and went off home.
I wonder how many words there are with TH in the story. You may want to count them and get mummy to check if you are right.
There is another sound very like TH which we have to stick our tongues out a litle in order to make the TH sound and that is CH, this word though is more like a sneezing sound.
Mother called the story ;
His mother said she should call him Chilly Charlie.
As they went down the road, they saw a picture of Chin-chin China man.
Then they saw a band with the queen's flag, and the boys in the street sang:
T
hree cheers for the Red, White and Blue; and Cheer, Boys, Cheer!
When they arrived at the toy shop they saw lots of things in the window.
The bought a box of chalks, a toy chicken that ran along on a little wheel and a big wheel which made it go up and down And a toy watch on a chain just like daddies.
Then they went into the tea-shop and that was great fun for Charlie. After he had had some bread and butter, his mother let him have some cheese cakes and some chocolates, and they took a cherry cake home for Daddy.
Gosh look at the time already, it is almost 02.15 in the morning and Diddilydeedot is very tired, so like Charlie and Tom Thin and Tom Thumb, I think it is well past my bed time. I will see you all again tomorrow with a few more rhymes and special words, I know a good one, SH, that's a great sound and quiet one already.
umb.One day they put on their hats and went out together. As they went along, Tom Thin said, "I think I can hear thunder."
It was thunder, too, and down came the rain.
Just then a kind lady saw them, and she said: Come in, my boys, you will get soaking wet.
They both said "Thank you, and went inside.
The lady said: I think I know you both, it is Tom Thin and Tom Thumb surely.
She was so kind, she phoned their mother to tell them where they where and then she gave them a really nice tea. The bread was cut thin, the butter was rather thick, and the jam was very thick indeed!Soon after they had fisished their tea the thunder had gone and the boys said thank you very
much to the lady and went off home.I wonder how many words there are with TH in the story. You may want to count them and get mummy to check if you are right.
There is another sound very like TH which we have to stick our tongues out a litle in order to make the TH sound and that is CH, this word though is more like a sneezing sound.
Mother called the story ;
"What Charlie Saw,"
One day little Charlie and his mother went out for a walk. Charlie had a bit of a cold, so he wore a scarf on his chest.His mother said she should call him Chilly Charlie.
As they went down the road, they saw a picture of Chin-chin China man.
Then they saw a band with the queen's flag, and the boys in the street sang:
T
hree cheers for the Red, White and Blue; and Cheer, Boys, Cheer!When they arrived at the toy shop they saw lots of things in the window.
The bought a box of chalks, a toy chicken that ran along on a little wheel and a big wheel which made it go up and down And a toy watch on a chain just like daddies.
Then they went into the tea-shop and that was great fun for Charlie. After he had had some bread and butter, his mother let him have some cheese cakes and some chocolates, and they took a cherry cake home for Daddy.
Gosh look at the time already, it is almost 02.15 in the morning and Diddilydeedot is very tired, so like Charlie and Tom Thin and Tom Thumb, I think it is well past my bed time. I will see you all again tomorrow with a few more rhymes and special words, I know a good one, SH, that's a great sound and quiet one already.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
From Here to There and Back again with Diddilydeedot : Blog
From Here to There and Back again with Diddilydeedot : Blog
VENEZUALA
The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used
to designate some of the peoples encountered by the Spanish in the West
Indies in 1492 and thereafter. These include the Taíno, who occupied
the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas (Lucayan) and Bimini Florida, the
Nepoya and Suppoyo of Trinidad and the Igneri, who were supposed to
have preceded the Caribs in the Lesser Antilles, together with related
groups (including the Lokono) which lived along the eastern coast of
South America, as far south as what is now Brazil. The group belongs to
the Arawakan language family and they were the natives Christopher
Columbus encountered when he first landed in the Americas. The Spanish
described them as a peaceful people.
VENEZUALA
Land and People
land of vivid contrasts, with four major divisions: the Venezuelan
highlands, the coastal lowlands, the basin of the Orinoco River, and
the Guiana Highlands. An almost inaccessible and largely unexplored
wilderness south of the Orinoco, the Guiana Highlands occupy more than
half of the national territory and are noted for scenic wonders such as
Angel Falls. Iron ore, gold, diamonds, and other minerals are found near Ciudad Bolívar
and Ciudad Guayana. The dense forests of the region yield rubber,
tropical hardwoods, and other forest products. The boundary with Brazil
is mostly mountainous; its rain forests are home to thousands of
indigenous inhabitants. The Orinoco, one of the great rivers of South
America, has its source in this region. The Orinoco basin is a great
pastoral area. North of the Orinoco and about the Apure River and its
tributaries are the llanos, the vast, hot Orinoco plains, where there
is a great cattle industry.
"Arawak woman" painting
The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used
to designate some of the peoples encountered by the Spanish in the West
Indies in 1492 and thereafter. These include the Taíno, who occupied
the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas (Lucayan) and Bimini Florida, the
Nepoya and Suppoyo of Trinidad and the Igneri, who were supposed to
have preceded the Caribs in the Lesser Antilles, together with related
groups (including the Lokono) which lived along the eastern coast of
South America, as far south as what is now Brazil. The group belongs to
the Arawakan language family and they were the natives Christopher
Columbus encountered when he first landed in the Americas. The Spanish
described them as a peaceful people.
Early History and the Colonial Era
The Arawaks
and the Caribs were the earliest inhabitants of Venezuela, along with
certain nomadic hunting and fishing tribes. Columbus discovered the
mouths of the Orinoco in 1498. In 1499 the Venezuelan coast was
explored by Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci.
The latter, coming upon an island off the Paraguaná peninsula (probably
Aruba), nicknamed it Venezuela (little Venice) because of native
villages built above the water on stilts; the name held and was soon
applied to the mainland. Spanish settlements were established on the
coast at Cumaná (1520) and Santa Ana de Coro (1527).
The major task of the conquest was accomplished by
German adventurers—Ambrosio de Alfinger, George de Speyer and
especially Nikolaus Federmann—in
the service of the Welsers, German bankers who had obtained rights in
Venezuela from Emperor Charles V. During part of the colonial period
the area was an adjunct of New Granada.
Cocoa cultivation was the mainstay of the colonial economy. From the
16th to the 18th cent. the coastline was attacked by English
buccaneers, and in the 18th cent. there was a brisk smuggling trade
with the British islands of the West Indies.
Around the year 1500, discoveries by Spanish explorers of sources of
pearls, gold, and spices in the New World were a powerful stimulus for
Spain to expand into the Americas. Samples of these resources, which
Christopher Columbus and later crews brought back to Spain, so aroused
public enthusiasm in Spain that navigators, explorers, and adventurers
began to organize
pearls, gold, and spices in the New World were a powerful stimulus for
Spain to expand into the Americas. Samples of these resources, which
Christopher Columbus and later crews brought back to Spain, so aroused
public enthusiasm in Spain that navigators, explorers, and adventurers
began to organize
Venezuala and Uruguay for your enjoyman at diddilydeedot. here there and everywhere.
Los Gauchos de Roldán
www.walterroldan.com
URUGUAY
Gaucho Uruguay Live the Gaucho life in Uruguay's
wide-open spaces
Story and photos by REMY SCALZA / Special Contributor to
"The Dallas Morning News"
FLORES, Uruguay
Even Charles Darwin was smitten by the gauchos.
Notes from his 1833 expedition to South America excitedly describe a rare breed of cowboys discovered riding the open plains, "long, black hair curling down their backs ... daggers at their waists" and weather-beaten guitars in tow.
For centuries, the itinerant gauchos roamed the South American countryside, toiling on ranches, serenading small-town women and inspiring folk legends about their footloose way of life.
Gaucho fine horsemen
Now, growing numbers of working farms, known in Uruguay as estancias , are offering mo
dern-day explorers the chance to experience the gaucho lifestyle for themselves, with a few co
ntemporary comforts thrown in.
"The gaucho was a wanderer, a free spirit," says Raúl Onetto, silver-haired owner of San Martín del Yi, a 4,500-acre estancia that attracts visitors from as far away as India and Japan.
But San Martín is no mere country inn. While saddling up guests' horses in the stable out back, owner Raúl proudly ticks off the ranch's stats: 1,100 sheep, 850 head of cattle and a crew of a half-dozen gauchos to keep the place running.
Today, as usual, there's work to be done. From his horse, Raúl surveys a flock of fuzzy lambs – a veritable sea of bad perms – that needs to be corralled and sheared before the week is out.
"The gauchos were loners," Raúl explains, opening a fence gate and letting the flock flood past. "They'd ride from estancia to estancia, working when they needed a little money for tobacco."
Raúl slows to round up a straggling lamb, burdened under the weight of its heavy coat. By now, morning clouds have burned off, and the sun sends up a fine mist from the plains. Apart from the soft thud of hooves, the scene is silent.
It was on lonely plains like these where, in the early 1700s, the gaucho was born, the progeny of Spanish colonists and local Indians. The mixed-race gauchos played Spanish guitars but wore ponchos, smoked tobacco but also sipped mate, a tea brewed from a Pampas shrub.
But above all, they were outcasts. Rejected by conquistadors and conquered alike, the gauchos mounted up and took to the plains, living off the land and herding cattle to earn spending money. Gauchos "had no land of their own," Raúl explains, helping a guest off her horse. "They weren't attached to anything
www.walterroldan.com
URUGUAY
Gaucho Uruguay Live the Gaucho life in Uruguay's
wide-open spaces
Story and photos by REMY SCALZA / Special Contributor to
"The Dallas Morning News"
FLORES, Uruguay
Even Charles Darwin was smitten by the gauchos.
Notes from his 1833 expedition to South America excitedly describe a rare breed of cowboys discovered riding the open plains, "long, black hair curling down their backs ... daggers at their waists" and weather-beaten guitars in tow.
For centuries, the itinerant gauchos roamed the South American countryside, toiling on ranches, serenading small-town women and inspiring folk legends about their footloose way of life.
Gaucho fine horsemen
Now, growing numbers of working farms, known in Uruguay as estancias , are offering mo
dern-day explorers the chance to experience the gaucho lifestyle for themselves, with a few co
ntemporary comforts thrown in.
"The gaucho was a wanderer, a free spirit," says Raúl Onetto, silver-haired owner of San Martín del Yi, a 4,500-acre estancia that attracts visitors from as far away as India and Japan.
But San Martín is no mere country inn. While saddling up guests' horses in the stable out back, owner Raúl proudly ticks off the ranch's stats: 1,100 sheep, 850 head of cattle and a crew of a half-dozen gauchos to keep the place running.
Today, as usual, there's work to be done. From his horse, Raúl surveys a flock of fuzzy lambs – a veritable sea of bad perms – that needs to be corralled and sheared before the week is out.
"The gauchos were loners," Raúl explains, opening a fence gate and letting the flock flood past. "They'd ride from estancia to estancia, working when they needed a little money for tobacco."
Raúl slows to round up a straggling lamb, burdened under the weight of its heavy coat. By now, morning clouds have burned off, and the sun sends up a fine mist from the plains. Apart from the soft thud of hooves, the scene is silent.
It was on lonely plains like these where, in the early 1700s, the gaucho was born, the progeny of Spanish colonists and local Indians. The mixed-race gauchos played Spanish guitars but wore ponchos, smoked tobacco but also sipped mate, a tea brewed from a Pampas shrub.
But above all, they were outcasts. Rejected by conquistadors and conquered alike, the gauchos mounted up and took to the plains, living off the land and herding cattle to earn spending money. Gauchos "had no land of their own," Raúl explains, helping a guest off her horse. "They weren't attached to anything
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Dodie's Dream World, Classic Everything and a lot of fun. xxx : Blog
Dodie's Dream World, Classic Everything and a lot of fun. xxx : Blog
DODIE'S DREAM WORLD
WITCH'S CHARM
The owl is abroad, the bat and the toad,
And so is the cat-a-mountain;
The ant and the mole sit both in a hole,
And the frogs peep out o' the fountain.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
From here to there and back again, homepage one revamped after being lost again.
HOMEPAGE ONE
HERE TO THERE AND BACK AGAIN
Stats for this year only 832,309
Hello and welcome to Diddily Dee Dot's Journey around the World.
Unfortunately I haven't got Michael Palin's budget, otherwise I would have invited you on the trip! As it is though, it is turning out to be a very exhausting journey.
Crikey there are a good few hundred places to visit and even then I think I shall miss quite a few out but I am trying hard to go to most places.
[HUGS]
*HUGS* TOTAL! give Seligor more *HUGS*
Get hugs of your own
Play-Asia.com - Buy Japanese & Hong Kong Movies, Anime and Video Game Related DVDs!
I am always changing the music so don't be amazed if
new things pop up now and then on the video screens xxx Seli xxx
http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=a08a4be4e1f414e9&type=video%2Fmp4
And to help you on your journey
here are some of the most beautiful pieces of music you will ever hear.
"The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly,
nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye
view of how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of
blades of grass bowing down and popping back up
like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights
in the world."
Malcolm Margolin
Just scroll down to have a quick look to see what is on Homepage one, and then why not click on the "index" on your left, If there is nothing much in your country as yet, have patience or better still go and have a look round anything that we are changing...
Dodie is going to sleep now, grab a few hours before we have to go visit my beautiful mother in law, who at this very moment is making very slow progress. She will get there I hope, because it means I can have a lovely roast on Sunday's again. Gosh I hate being on a permanent diet, but the one huge problem with a wheel chair, it doest allow you much room for exercise.
NOS DA CARIADS ~~~~~ WELTI YN YR FORI
GOODNIGHT MY LOVELIES ~~~~~ SEE YOU TOMORROWWednesday, July 1, 2009
Here is a summer surprise, it is called "How to make Spaghetti and Meatballs Cake", that's right... CAKE. Different, oh yes!
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 Have you ever tasted Spagetti and meatballs cake, I think I have said this before. But this is quite different!
Spaghetti and Meatballs Cake
Banana Cake
3 cups all-purpose flour
1½ tsp. each baking powder, baking soda and salt
¾cup unsalted butter, softened
1 ¾ cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
3 ripe bananas, mashed (1 ¼ cups)
1 ½ cups each buttermilk and very finely chopped walnuts (extra's for chocolate cake)
If you decide on a chocolate cake, just use your favourite chocolate recipe and add extra's.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With spray or butter, coat 13 x 9 x 2 in. baking pan. Flour pan.
In medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In large bowl, beat butter and sugar on high until fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in banana, then buttermilk.
On low, gradually beat in flour mixture just until incorporated; stir in walnuts.
Spread in pan. Bake 50 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center tests clean.
Cool cake in pan 30 minutes on rack; invert onto rack; let cool.
Invert cake onto oval serving platter with flat surface of at least 13 x 9 inches. Cover, refrigerate 3 hours or up to 1 day.
Chocolate Meatballs
4 oz. cream cheese, softened (or butter)
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
pinch of salt
2 cups sifted icing sugar
1 cup (6 oz) semisweet-chocolate chips, melted and cooled
1 cup very finely chopped walnuts
In medium bowl, beat cream cheese until creamy and smooth; beat in vanilla and salt. On low, gradually beat in sugar, then chocolate. Stir in nuts. Roll into balls. Cover and refrigerate. (can be made 2 days ahead)
find the rest in Italy at diddilydeedot.zoomshare.com/ which is were I have put this classic recipe from Ciao Chow Linda
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