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It was the only bear i had to use for my profile in the house besides one of over 60 years old.

Now let us get serious. Where is this? Look carefully into the background and you may just be able to pick out two things that would give you a chance of getting it.

Slightly harder this time – where is this? The photograph was taken at dusk a few months ago.

I put some royal potatoes in 3 weeks ago and covered them with some hard plastic sheeting. They are doing very well and i have taken the covering off now. Got to replace some plants which i lost in the winter. One i bought was a new version of Red Robin, the whole of the bush is reddish so my wife tells me instead of just the tips. The squirrels are back in numbers, while in England saw a grey squirrel and a Green Woodpecker along with a wild deer that had come out of the woods to a tennis court in the back of a house tried to get the camera out back it had seen me and shot off.

I have passed this place thousands of times but never from this view point before.

St. Ouen’s Bay and yes the German’s put them there for defence. Just like the D-Day Landing beaches with mines on the top together with all sorts of metal obstacles planted at roughly half tide. Meaning if the boats come in on high tide or half tide they will get blown up and like on D-Day they came in on low tide to miss the obstacles but had a long way to go to reach the safety of the land. Remember the German’s had everything zeroed in so no place was safe anywhere on the beach.

I thought I would start a little game for a bit of fun. Hopefully a photograph will appear with this post (my first attempt) and others have to guess where it is in Jersey. A nice easy one first. Where is this in Jersey?

Quilting is extremely popular in Jersey and and quilters do not usually make a big splash about anything and just get on with their task of making quilts but THIS year quilters from the Caesarea Quilters Club  have decided to invite an American Quilt Tutor, by the name of Jan Krentz, to Jersey to give two very special workshops on some lovely STAR techniques.

Jan Krentz is a quilt maker, instructor, designer and author who currently displays and teaches on her own website and also contributes to  the  ‘The Quilt Show’ website.   If you share a passion for quilts and beautiful fabrics, you will enjoy these workshops!

If you are a quilter and live on the Island of Jersey UK and would like to attend  one of these workshops please contact me on mopinwil@googlemail.com and visit .

If you don’t live on the island of Jersey UK and would still like to come along it is not too late – so go on!  What are you waiting for contact us for further information.

We have vacancies on the following days:

3 day course – Summer Salsa Lone Star Quilt Class

Friday 16^th, Saturday 17^th and Sunday 18^th April 2010

and

 

2 day course – Rainbow Split Broken Star

Tuesday 20^th and Wednesday 21^st April 2010

I am having trouble uploading photos and i was wondering if the site is being updated or something like that which is making it unable to do that.

Can you let me know if something like that is going on. Thanks.