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Introduction : Emer, the wife of the great warrior Cú Chulainn (The Hound of Ulster) tells the story of their marriage.
My world is broken. Grey skies cloak my agony. The grey lake is a mirror. I do not want that small light prying through. I do not want to hear birds brazening out their song. Birds do not fit this scene.
Though they are less than before. Four are up on that high branch, chatting, not fighting, not saying one is a better branch than the other. They know because they can see there are enough trees for everyone. It's bird logic. Sometimes they bathe in the font in my apple garden. They splash and flutter and sing. I have envied their intactness; grouping together so well. I wonder if that four up there are telling each other of their grief. Did some of their breed die when all the world was fighting. Nature is hard on birds but I think they are spared the riot that is screaming in my head.
Maybe if I remember it all like a chain, give it form. He couldn't be told, neither could I, if I'm honest. We were making names for ourselves. Names to live out past our lives. He, the greatest warrior ever to have lived. I, Emer, the love of his short magnificent life.
He came looking for me: Cú Chualinn whose mother was Deichtre sister to King Conchobar Mac Nessa, whose father was Sualdamh, her husband or was it Lugh, god of all the light that shines. Which one was his father depends on whether Deichtre was asleep or awake when he was made. It's good enough to say, the start of his life is a pretty tangle, beginning with a flock of birds enticing the King and his warriors to scatter them. Birds can be the bane of men with fields.
A woman birthed a baby boy, a mare dropped two foals. The woman gave her baby to Deichtre. The baby died at the same time as a seed made its way into her belly in a drink or maybe it was in a dream. Enough to say it wasn't a normal start for any man but the gods can make like that.
So when he came to find me, he came in secret because he knew the likes of my father Forgall would say, Good fields make a thoroughbred, not good stories. And he'd say, That isn't even a good story.
Cú Chualinn was looking for a wife, beautiful, smart like himself so he came to my father's proud expansion at the centre of Ireland but without his permission. I liked his boldness. I liked his eyes. The colours of a summer sky were in them. Fifty of my maidens tittered around me waiting to see him overlook my needlework, appraise my beauty. Would he be the envy of all other men if I was his bride? Would his clothes be threaded in silver or in gold? He discarded all that. Other women were like butterflies to a yellow flower, pollinating his fame. Not I. I could speak with him like no other. We spoke in riddles, stories and places with hidden mysteries lying under them. Slants of understanding were between us when we spoke and not one person there, not even his chariot driver understood a word we had said.
But I knew it wouldn't fit right if I was easily had. So I said, If I am to be the bride of the hound of Ulster, I must know that you will kill for me. I must see the feats I have heard about so I know they are not rumours. I said, To touch this breast I want you to fight twenty seven men with three sword strokes while sparing three. I want to see your famed salmon leap clear the ramparts of my father's house. I want to know that you can go without sleep from November to August. I want to know you can stay in this world that I am in and I want to know that you will never doubt that your love will be for me, only me.
He said he would do all that and more to win just one kiss from the pink lips in front of him in this world. He said a kiss from me is where he would find all the heaven he would ever need and he promised he would not be looking into any other worlds for more. I looked at him. I saw in his face the expression of a man that thinks he has amazed a woman with his words. So I said, A first love is always too good to be true and so I didn't kiss him then. I knew he would love me more if I spent more time in his day dreams.
It was my own maidens told my father of his visit. Instead of fuming over it, Forgall went to Emain Macha* armed with the intelligence I had inherited and enough gifts to plámas* a king.
There was a great welcome for him there. King Conchobar was able to do all the showing off he wanted and parade out all the talents of his famed warriors. And so my father had the king's ear for his great idea. He told the king, that Ulster would be better served if Cú Chualinn was sent to Alban* to be trained by Scathach the teacher of all the arts of war and gentlemanliness. Conchobar loved the idea. Of course my father was hoping Cú Chualinn would be killed in between Scathach and her enemy Aife. But Forgall's idea was foiled because he returned with me still on his mind. I didn't find out for a long time after all that had gone on in Alban.
When my father heard about Cú Chualinn's return he fortified our settlement by re-enforcing the ramparts three deep. I was a prisoner inside and so we were apart for another year.
But time is nothing when something is to be and so on a sunny day when the apples were falling heavy and red I saw a salmon the size of a man leap over the widest part of the ramparts of my father's house and the feelings inside me were like the morning sun coming up into blazing. I heard the sound of swords after that and three strikes and out of twenty seven men, three lived. The three that were my brothers. Cú Chualinn took me then in his chariot along with the gold and silver I was due and we went. My father followed us like a man gone wild. He made a leap that was beyond him and died impaled on his own ramparts. And though I was very sorry, I was glad he had died by his own fault.
We were married at Emain Macha and we were like the first ever couple of the whole kingdom even beyond the king if joy and merriment were measured and the sun shone as if it would shine forever.
Marriage to the hound of Ulster was a different rampart around me. I was the one who knew how to calm him if he was upset but what if I didn't? What if I goaded him into a riastradh*? Would there be a person left in the whole kingdom? I liked that. It meant I had respect wherever I walked. It meant that I surpassed all the wives of his comrades. Even when Bricriu* with his poison tongue tried to pit us against each other telling each woman she the was the most beautiful. I won every time. I liked that and I had it in my mind that it would continue that way. And it might have if that glutton from Connaught: the arousing Meadhbh hadn't marched on Ulster with all the men of Ireland at her rear, cross as a wet hen because she couldn't have our bull to make her the equal of her husband Ailill in all possessions. Meadhbh, Queen of everything and everyone commanding the men of Ireland by intoxicating them with her scent and her witchery, inflaming them with promises. Her own beautiful daughter Findabhair and then with their tongues hanging out at the idea of such a reward she sent them to their death.
Meadhbh went to war and the men of Ireland marched behind her and as they marched the strength of the men of ulster weakened because there was a power that was bigger than any order a king could make and that was Macha's curse.
To the men from the land that bears my name. From this day on you will witness the world opening inside you, alongside the agony of bone tiredness. Everything you hold dear and beyond will be out of the reach of your shielding. Life will ebb and death will taunt and war will march all over you and while you watch your helplessness, you will be a living testimony to my outrage, for when you need her most this horse will bolt.
Macha's curse. A whole province cursed by their own goddess Never upset a goddess I could have told them. If a goddess wants to be a normal woman for a while, even if she wants to forget she is a goddess, you let her. And they didn't and so Cú Chualinn was the only man left standing for Ulster. Oh I could have told them there's a craft tangled into being a woman that men don't understand and if that is not bad enough they don't want to know what it is they don't understand.
And so, Cú Chualinn, the hound of Ulster was the only man free from the curse and able to fight because he was infused by Lugh of the very light. And he fought them with his skill and his cleverness, tested by warrior after warrior while I, at home tried to remember the thin veil I wore over my naked body to charm him into our bed and the brilliance of the sun shining on his skin through our window in the morning. I tried to make my sweet memories cloud the thoughts coming to the front of my mind dressed in red: blood falling over blood and everything and everyone going against him. Even the war crow* came to annoy him in the shape of a woman pressing her breasts into his face, in the shape of an eel crawling up his leg, in the shape of a snarling wolf with eyes white as teeth.
Cú Chualinn's unbending mind wounded every one of her shapes and continued to kill each and every man who had the gall to fight him. Until it was simple for Meadhbh and Ailill to see that they needed to find a warrior as great as my husband if she was to win her bull. And so she sold her daughter again and tricked Ferdia with her guile, taunting and goading him with lies saying Cú Chualinn had laughed at him. Cú Chualinn and Ferdia were friends who had suffered trial upon trial together in Alban under the women warriors, great for their cuteness and their weapons. Ferdia who he loved like no other man on this earth.
For four days they fought. At the end of each day a messenger came to tell me about the two that had shared so much together, fighting and lamenting what had come to pass because it was either that or be ruled by a woman and Cú Chualinn could never give in to that. Women were for loving not for ruling over him. That is how my husband's thinking went. I thought the heart of me would burst with the news of that day that had ended with the warriors kissing each other as if it would heal best friends throwing casting spears into each other's flesh. And I was told their healers worked together for them both on common ground that night as if that was news that would soothe me.
An account of the second day spilled more blood than the first as they had fought with broad spears and still they ended with kisses and tears after opening wounds the size of sliotars* in each other. All the healers could do was clot the flowing blood so they could find sleep and still they slept on common ground and I thought I would fall into pieces so scattered that there would be no part of Emer big enough to bury.
On the third day they fought with swords and ended with kisses full of mourning. Their healers held them upright that night to sleep on their feet for if they lay down they would never stand again. I walked from window to window knowing that I would never find a peaceful sleep again as I cried red tears.
On the last day they fought with curved swords knowing well it was close to an end. And as they did their last showing off to each other Cú Chualinn knew he had enough of hurting his friend. He asked his chariot driver to fire jibes and insults at him telling him he was at the butt of this fight so he would find his riastradh and come out of his tiredness and when he did he took up his most feared weapon: the Gáe Bolga*, the weapon that Ferdia did not have. He thrust it into his friend and it opened inside him. As Ferdia lay dying, the two friends said goodbye there at the ford over the river where my husband fought for Ulster until their warriors could awaken from Macha's curse. And from my womb I bled away everything that was ever to be good again.
Oh he was so tired and quiet and sullen and though I gave him my love over and again, sorrow was swallowing him and there was nothing for me to do but to bathe him and feed him and wait for the apples to redden again.
I wonder now if the only form on this story is how my husband was so easily put to task. Like the day he was bidden to capture white birds on the grey lake for the woman at the king's court. He didn't want to, until the case was put to him that he would be soothing them with that gesture and did he not he feel sorry for them for being so in love with him. I wasn't there to spot the luring so he went and on his way he met two women dressed in cloaks, red and green like apple trees. They hit him with sticks. Cú Chualinn had no defence for such an assault and so he fell into a weakness and asleep and into all the skulduggery that lives in a dreaming bliss. It was what I always feared and I was right because even in the telling of it I am feeling a daze come over me. But I, have a tight hold on my wits and but Cú Chualinn was caught in his dreams where he met Fann the beautiful daughter of Manannán Mac Lir* who had been loving him all the way from the other world. I always knew sleeping would be bad for him, hadn't I said it. I was angry at the whole of ulster for leaving him there for a whole year. Why had they not scoured the world for healers to bring back the champion who had fought a war alone for all of them.
But sleep didn't get the better of him in the end because in his weakness he sent for me. He knew I would bring him back. I came to him and I said, You are the champion of ulster, you are the husband of the best woman in Ireland, come back to me now and don't worry because I will put a stop to that Fann who is sending you into gormlessness. I told her to give him up and when I did she went away crying her eyes out and I told the men of ulster what I thought of them for leaving him there for so long. They walked backwards away from me so that I could see the fear an angry woman can put into a man.
But Cú Chualinn's greatest wound was yet to come when his past arrived into our present. When his life in Alban came after him. When Scathach's enemy Aife sent her son that was his son too: Connla, a child by him that I knew nothing about.
When he parted from Aife, she was going to have his child. All he gave her was a ring for the child to grow into so he would recognise him when he was a man. When Aife heard about our marriage she collected up her jealousy and kept it, until the boy became as great a warrior as he could be. She sent Connla to Ireland with his comrades and told him. Never turn back, never refuse a fight. Never say your name. She thought her son would kill his father without knowing who he was and she would be avenged. That's the size of the harm a jealous woman can do.
A fighting ship was seen coming to the shores of Ireland and Cú Chualinn was sent and he met his own son in combat and he killed him without knowing who he was killing until he looked down over his young body and saw his own ring on his thumb.
And even after that, cruelty wasn't finished with him when the children of the men he had killed in the war came after him. The three one eyed sisters, daughters of Cailitín, Erc son of Cairbre, and Lugaid son of Curoi and all he wanted to do was to go out and fight them so he could die to be with his son.
But King Conchobar took charge and said there'll be no fighting for you until Conall Cearnach comes back to go with you and now you will go Glean-na-Bodhae the silent valley that blocks out all noise where you wont hear the taunting of the one eyed bitches or the sneers of your enemies.
But I knew he had stopped living, even for me, so I said to Niamh who was a young girl that I knew he loved, Go with him and console him until Conall Cearnach is back. But the hags had magic and one took on the form of Niamh and so he was tricked into fighting alone, again. And they came with their armies and the first to be killed was his beloved chariot driver Laeg who Cú Chualinn had trusted all his life. Next to go was his stallion, the Grey of Macha fell back into the grey lake from where he had been sent by the goddess herself. And the last of the swords then, were cast into my love and he crawled to a rock and he tied himself there with his belt so that it would never be said he had died lying down in front of his enemies.
Cú Chualinn was dying there for three days until the war crow landed on his shoulder. That was when his enemies knew he was dead, when the cowards came to take his head. But just at that moment the grey stallion of Macha came back out of the grey lake with a whinny loud enough to scorch the world so all they managed was to cut off was his hand and ran away without it. His beautiful young scarred hand that I put into mine and I touched the red that was still on his cheek and I washed the blood from his golden hair and kissed his sweet lips gone blue and I told him I loved him from the first day I saw him. I said I was sorry because I would have gone with him if he was a beggar, if he had never killed a soul to have me. And now where are you gone and is the only form on this story that you are dead. Oh I hope you are sleeping softly at last for that is where I want to be with you, far away from this harsh world where I thought we would be happy and far away from where I am now listening to the last few notes of birdsong that I will ever hear.
The retellings on this site (though true to the myths them selves) are my own work and copyrighted to me so please ask before using elsewhere.
Painting by Kathy Tynan
- Emain Macha : Fort is an ancient ceremonial monument near Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was one of the great royal sites of pre-Christian Ireland and the capital of the Ulster at that time.
- Plamás : Empty Flattery
- Alban : Scotland
- Riastradh : A warriors battle frenzy
- Bricriu with the poison tongue : A druid known for his satire
- Meadhbh : See my retelling called Pillow Talk Post War
- Macha : See my retelling called The Curse of Macha
- War Crow : The goddess Morrigan associated with war and doom
- Sliotar : The ball used in the game of hurling. When Cú Chualinn was a child he was known for his great hurling skills.
- Gáe Bolga : A vicious weapon that entered a man with one wound and then opened into thirty barbs when inside him.
- Manannán Mac Lir : Irish God of the Sea


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Cookie's ALT Update
Cookie's belly is as good as new. The fur grew back completely after her ultrasound, even before the bugs start coming out.
Because the results of the ultrasound and biopsy were neither alarming nor really conclusive in explaining the live enzyme elevation, we booked an integrative consultation to see what's happening and what we might do to make the liver happier faster.
It was our first integrative consultation with our new vet up here.
In the meantime, Cookie was getting an adjusted diet, dandelion and milk thistle to help the liver out.
While at the vet, we decided to retest the blood values to see whether there has been an improvement.
We agreed to only run what they call a pre-op panel, because all we really wanted to see was the ALT. And since we were already drawing blood we also got it tested for heartworm and tick-borne diseases as we do every spring. (Cookie is clear of all of those.)
Cookie's ALT has gone down!
It is still at high normal but it's gone down from 225 to 104 (normal range being 10-118). That is a very good news. What we're doing was working and the liver is getting happy.
The TCVM exam also didn't reveal that the liver would be in distress. We can discontinue the milk thistle and stick with the dandelion for the time being. We also discussed licorice, which I still have to look into some more. As far as her diet is concerned, Cookie is getting things that make for a happy liver.
It wouldn't be my luck if I got to leave with good news only.
The pre-op panel includes a few other things, including BUN and creatinine. Those are considered a reflection of kidney function, though the BUN can be out of range for all kinds of other reasons as well.
Both BUN and creatinine were elevated on that draw.
I'm putting freaking out on hold, though, because both the vet and myself feel there were other things at play which could have done that.
Cookie was quite stressed this time. Apparently, they just had a dog in who was attacked by other dogs and was terrified and freaking out. The vet tech who came to draw the blood was comforting and restraining him just before she walked in. As it seems, sensitive as she is, Cookie picked up on all that and it got her quite upset. She didn't want her blood drawn, she didn't want to be there, just wanted to get out the door.
With the trip, the weather and the stress, she was quite dehydrated at the time of the blood draw.
Because she didn't need to fast for the test we were after, she had her lunch as well as a bunch of treats.
Any combination of these things could have caused those levels to elevate.
Cookie isn't showing any signs of a problem. The TCVM exam didn't show any issues. The vet said that she wasn't feeling what the lab work was showing.
I am used to one blood level or another being out of whack every now and then.
As long as it's not the same one repeatedly, as it was with the ALT.
So for now I refuse to panic.
We will, however, get urinalysis done to make sure the kidneys indeed are as happy as they should be.
Serves me right for being too diligent?
Makes me think of full body scans. The more you look, the more likely you are to find things which might not mean anything but will get your blood pressure up and do have to be checked.
Here is hoping that it was just a result of circumstances and not a true reflection of anything.
As for our new vet, I really love that she's happy to discuss things with me. We seem to be very kindred spirits.
Related articles:
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How Far To Take It When The Dog Isn't Sick?
Cookie's Elevated ALT: The Ultrasound and Cytology
Our Journey to TCVM (Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine)
Four Paws, Five Directions: The Theory Behind The Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine
What To Expect During A Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine Exam
What's In The Urine? (Part II: Urinalysis)
What's In The Blood? Blood Testing And Interpretation
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It is once again Friday (did this week fly by or what?) and I have another Fit Friday post! I have really been loving doing these because I've been super motivated with fitness for the past couple of years. I always swam and danced as a kid, so when I got to college I really wanted to make sure that I stayed fit. This meant I would have to learn how to use the gym - I never had to use it before because I always had my sports to keep me in shape. It can be hard to get up every single morning to go and work out, but it's definitely worth it when you feel energized and happy afterwards.
Because it can be hard to stay on track, I love to use my Fitbit Surge to keep me motivated! I am the kind of person who is really self-motivated and goal-oriented, so I love beating my own personal records from my Fitbit. Since my Fitbit keeps track of my daily steps, my first goal is to get to 10,000, and then I like to try and beat my previous day's steps. This keeps me constantly in motion, and really helps to keep my day on track!
I workout everyday but Friday (it's important to have a rest day!) and I use my Fitbit to keep track of my exercise. I run about three miles, and then do workouts for my abs, legs, upper body, etc., depending on what day it is. It's really cool to see how I am progressing with how fast my miles are, if I run a little bit farther, and how many calories I burn. The calories part I tend to focus less on because it isn't the reason why I work out; I like to stay in shape because I like how I feel mentally and physically when my body is at its best. Staying in shape allows me to stay motivated in all aspects of my life, gives me energy, and makes me a whole lot more happy!
There are also a ton of settings that Fitbit's have, so I can choose which activity I'm doing in order for my Fitbit to better track my heart rate, and other stats. This is so helpful for when I'm running, doing general workouts, biking, or doing yoga! I have been doing a lot of different kinds of exercise so it's awesome to have all of the different settings to choose from so I can best track my workouts. It's cool to compare all of my workouts, too, and compare how I feel physically to all of the stats.
During my workouts, my Fitbit tracks my heart rate, which is really important. I can make sure my heart rate isn't too high, and that I'm not pushing myself too hard. It's also great to look back on and compare all of my workouts of the week, and see where I can improve upon. It's also important to know what your maximum heart rate is for your age so you don't exert your heart too much. My Fitbit helps me with this, since it tells you what your peak heart rate during a workout is, and displays your heart rate in charts and graphs, so you can easily track your progress throughout a workout.
One feature I really love is the "Free Run" selection, because it tracks my location through GPS, and tells me how far I've ran and all that. It also does this on the treadmill, and lets me know my mile splits. All of the sub-sections under "Run" are really great and useful to use, and are designed really well! Under "Exercise" there are a lot of sub-sections as well, and the "Hiking" selection tracks your location through GPS like the running one, so it let's you know how far you've hiked! I really love that feature since I go hiking a lot with my friends.
Fitbits also track your heart rate, calories burned, steps taken, and miles walked throughout the day, so it's fun to see your stats at the end of the day. You can swipe through all of the stats right on the Fitbit screen, so you can track them during the whole day. I track my steps more than I care to admit, because I really like hitting that 10,000 step marker. Your Fitbit vibrates like a mini-celebration once you've hit 10,000 steps, so it makes you feel very accomplished haha.
The regular clock display is also really cool, because it's a visual representation of your heart rate throughout the hour. As you can see in the photo above, my heart was really going at the beginning of the hour because I was walking back from class, and then it slowed down to my resting rate once I got back to my dorm. That feature is really cool to me, because I love seeing how my heart rate has differed throughout the hour without opening the Fitbit app on my phone.
All in all, I am pretty much addicted to my Fitbit, which I'm perfectly fine with. It keeps me motivated, which helps me stay on top of my workouts, and by extension, my fitness and wellbeing. Being in shape is important to me because I feel more energized, and I am able to do so much. Taking care of your body is a great way to love yourself, which you guys know I am all about. With my immune system being so terrible as well, staying in shape helps it out a little bit so it can fight off pesky colds more quickly.
Have you ever used a fitness tracker?
Thank you so much for reading, and have a wonderful weekend! :)


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On the way from Indiana to our destination near Peoria, IL, we took in one more quick National Park site—Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. We parked Rocky at the visitor's center and dashed off in the Mazda to see as much as we could see (and hopefully complete a Junior Ranger program) in a few hours!
The visitor center had an area behind it with beautiful native grasses and plants.
Checking out Lake Michigan…it's a little cooler than the ocean at Myrtle Beach!
When Spunky Monkey was two and we visited Chicago six years ago, he took it upon himself to try to fill in Lake Michigan with sand from the beach.
It's a big job. He's still at it.
We couldn't stay long enough for him to get much done, but at least we can say we saw Lake Michigan. We needed to get to the season's last open tour of the Quaking Bog. None of us had seen a bog before, so we knew we were in for a treat.
Once inside the gates of the bog, we had to stay on floating walkways. We could hear and feel the oozy, slimy ground squishing below our steps as we walked. The sphagnum moss makes a thin cover over portions of the bog, but never thick enough to trust, and the bog is quite deep in places. The rangers told stories of very old bodies (2000+ years) that have been found in bogs around the world, either fully or partially preserved, because of the acidity of the water, the moderate temperatures and the lack of oxygen. Some say this is where the term "boogey man" comes from…derivation of "boggy man" or that perhaps parents of children living near bogs made up the concept of a boogey man living in the bogs to scare children from playing near them and risking falling in.
We saw carnivorous plants! Here is the Pitcher Plant, which traps bugs by attracting them with bright colors and perhaps a bit of nectar. When the insect lands, the surface of the plant is slippery, and the soon-to-be dinner falls into the "pitcher" and is trapped in the liquid at the bottom. Some pitchers have downward-pointing "hairs" inside to ensure the insect can't crawl back up and out.
Sundew gets its meals by using a combination of sticky "flypaper" and extremely fast tentacles that actually grow in response to prey, trapping the insect in a gooey cage.
The third insectivore at the bog is the bladderwort, which the Ranger was kind enough to dredge from the bog for us to take a look at:
This one uses bulbs (bladders) which have trigger hairs on their hinged "doors". When an insect touches these hairs, the bulb creates a vacuum by pumping out ions (the water then follows by osmosis) and the insect is sucked inside and digested.
What amazingly creative ideas God has!!
The sweetest part of the bog was the wild blueberries that were growing there. We enjoyed sampling after the Rangers suggested it.
They were tiny, but oh-so-sweet!
A quick drawing of some trees for the Junior Ranger program, and we were off to the historic farm. The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is an unusual combination of locations to visit. The bog was a 30-minute drive through town from the visitor center. In addition to the NPS managing part of the area, the state and the county also have sections they manage. So there is more to navigate than in most NPS sites we've visited.
Whew!! That was one whirlwind Junior Ranger program completion!
Only a couple more hours to Peoria!
After lots of views like this, and a tour through Chicago's southside, thanks to a wonky GPS, we arrived in Metamora, IL to see Grandma, Aunt Beckie, Uncle Jim, and cousins!! We had a wonderful time there, catching up with family, celebrating my birthday with a date for Chad & I, shopping with Grandma & Aunt Beckie and escaping the heat in the pool.


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Well, as you may remember dear reader, the last blogpost (some time ago now) mentioned that me and the Wifey were in the process of moving. Well guess what? We've moved!!!! Words can't describe how happy we are, we are now situated in a lovely part of the county in the more rural parts of Mid-Suffolk near a town called Eye. We have a semi-detached property but, unlike our home in Ipswich, we are surround by fields on 3 sides of our new home. No more rumbling trains at the bottom of the garden or unruly neighbours who have disregard for everyone but themselves. The night skies here are lit only by the stars themselves and the Milky Way can be seen quite clearly thanks to there being such little light pollution. Our garden is bigger and has 3 mature apple trees, 1 mature pear and 1 young pear tree. As you can imagine, we are so happy and grateful for our good fortune.
So, as you can imagine, I'm living a naturalists dream at the moment, with the countryside literally on my doorstep. Already, I have recorded a Common pipistrelle bat which was one of the first things I spotted flying past the window. Other creatures include Red Admirals, Commas, Wrens, Chaffinch's, Blue and Great tits, Pied Wagtails, Buzzards, a Buff-tail bumblebee nest in the middle of our strawberry patch, wasps and hoverflies galore. However, the summer is over and the insects are now few and far between, yet I await next spring with such eagerness, I almost shake as I write this.
Unfortunately, the blog will also be a little few and far between for the time being, as I hope you can imagine, there are many jobs that need to be done whilst settling in to the new home. So the naturalist side of me has to sit on the back burner for a while, unless I'm at work of course.
So even though this is just a short post, it's just to let you know that I haven't forgot or abandoned you, perish the thought. No, it's just a post to touch base and let you know that normal service will be resumed in the future, and as soon as we're all settled, I'll let you in on some of my new projects that I'm planning for next year!!! Watch this space!
Till then dear reader, I will give you some idea to the lovely place I'm in, with this morning view from my bedroom window.


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A Recipe For Lady Cream Peas With Chisesi Ham
It's unthinkable that I've lived my life in Texas and the South but have only been eating proper Lady Cream Peas for two years.
I'm always on the lookout for new beans and peas to add to my cooking repertoire, and on a 2014 visit to Zuppardo's Grocery I found just that, Lady Creams. I immediately raced home and put a kettle of stock on to boil so I could see what this mysterious pea might possibly taste like.
Louisiana soul food.
A Recipe For Lady Cream Peas With Chisesi Ham
1 lb Peas, Lady Cream, Camellia brand
1 lb Ham, Chisesi, chopped
3 quarts stock
Salt and pepper to taste
* Bring stock to boil with peas and ham
* Reduce to simmer
* Cook for one hour or til peas are tender
* Season to taste
Cooking notes
If you can't find Chisesi ham substitute any good brand "city" ham
I used chicken stock in this recipe but you may use pork stock or even vegetable stock
This dish is meant to be served over rice pilaf


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PR pros, want more press? Talk to your customer service team
Without involving customer service in your PR efforts, you can't possibly do your job. At least, not very well.
We all know the story because we've all been there. Your agency gets hired by a new client. There's much celebrating, and tons of potential energy. You have the first meeting where you go over expectations, both theirs of you, and yours of them. They want press, you want ammo for stories to tell. It's a fair give and take.
Then you go back to your office and start working. You line up lists of reporters to call, and ideas of stories to tell. Then you call the client and ask that one simple question.
"Can you give us some clients who we can use as case studies, or maybe some happy customers, or even just examples of awesome things your company has done recently?"
There's silence on the line, and you wait. They promise to call you back after "talking to customer service," and hang up. And even though each subsequent call starts with "Have you gotten us those clients or amazing experiences yet?" you never actually get the answer.
Six months later, you're in their office again, but this time you're explaining why they shouldn't kill your contract and fire you for lack of performance.
Sound familiar? Perhaps it's time someone stood up and said:
If your client doesn't have a clear line of communication between their marketing department and customer service department, they'll get, at best, one-fourth the positive press they could get, and at minimum, four times the negative press they could avoid, and you'll wind up unfairly taking the blame.
Unfortunately for you, in corporate America today, marketing and customer service are like Justin Bieber and good music: unrelated and unaware that the other exists. This needs to change.
If marketing doesn't talk to customer service, how can you, as a PR person, possibly do your job? All your best stories, trends, and as important, chances of heading off PR disasters before they occur, are stuck in customer service. Simply put, if a company has marketing in one silo, and customer service in another, they will fail, and you'll fail by default.
Fear not! Here are some ways to help mitigate that, and look like a superhero in the process.
In your initial contract with the client, make it mandatory that one person from customer service be put on the PR team. Make sure this person has his or her ear to the ground, and include this person in all meetings and emails. Make sure the customer service person has all your contact information, and knows that they can reach out to you anytime. It's through this person that you're going to hear about the problem the company seems to have with their new widget, long before your client's marketing person calls you and says "So, there's an article out about how bad our widget is, what are you going to do to fix it?"
If you can work on the problem before it becomes public, or at least before it becomes major, your chances of fixing it and turning the negative into a positive or at least a neutral skyrocket. But remember, you're not going to hear about these problems from marketing until it's too late. The customer service division hears about it from customers the second they start to happen, and that's the best time to start working on a fix.
Ask to have one person on your team be added as a bcc on every fifth inbound and outbound client customer service email. This is a good one that very few companies do—the more you know, the more you can respond—and this goes for both the good and bad. If you can find happy customers, you can use them to create a story, a story of happy customers of a great company that you can pitch to the media. Same thing on the negative side. If you notice the problems and can help fix it, you've got a client hater into a client lover, and as we all know, reformed haters make the best lovers.
Be the bridge. Remember, most marketing executives see customer service reps as call center drones with earrings in their noses. (As a former call center rep, I know that's not accurate, and I apologize on behalf of all marketing executives.) But sadly, that's more often what marketing people think than not.
As such, the lines of communication between marketing and customer service are blurred at best, and non-existent at worst. So you can be that bridge. Be the communications channel, so that when your customer service contact tells you something on which you can take action, you can go to marketing and let them know. That gives you not only something to bring in as a project-in-progress, but also makes you super-valuable to the client. You're not just the PR team, but rather, you have all this great info for them! (While that sounds incredibly simplistic, trust me, this is how a lot of companies work. Sometimes all it takes is one person to become that bridge to become the most valuable consultant in the company.)
Finally, keep your customer hat on at all times: Buy the products. Call the returns center. Bring a product in for repair. Tweet at their support staff with a compliment or complaint. See what they do. The ability to see how things happen as a customer allow you to come up with a ton better ideas that you can implement for the client, that will constantly amaze.
Let's face it, being able to do something is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than just waiting for the damn phone to ring.
Peter Shankman used to run a PR agency. Then he sold it. Then he started HARO, which changed how PR worked. Then he sold it. Throughout all of that, he tried to be awesome at customer service. He's now the Shankman in Shankman|Honig, a customer service strategy firm based in NYC. In his spare time, he writes bestsellers and trains for Ironman Triathlons, yet strangely, never seems to lose enough weight.
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Rosanne Cash On Mountain Stage
Rosanne Cash in Concert on Mountain Stage - 11/24/2008
- "Dreams Are Not My Home"
- "The World Unseen"
- "Sea of Heartbreak"
- "Two Girls"
- "No Memories Hanging Around" *
- * Featuring Rodney Crowell
Recorded at New York City's historic Town Hall, and just down the road from her home, singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash performs an acoustic set for her third appearance on Mountain Stage.
She begins the set with two songs from her critically acclaimed Black Cadillac, accompanied by her husband John Leventhal on guitar and Jeff Allen on bass. She also enlisted a special guest for one song, asking her ex-husband and fellow songwriter Rodney Crowell (also a guest this week on Mountain Stage) to join her on Crowell's song "No Memories Hanging Around." The song was originally included on her 1979 debut CD, Right or Wrong, as a duet with Bobby Bare.
Cash is currently working on a record that will feature a selection chosen from a list of 100 essential songs her father, Johnny Cash, gave to her some time ago. Included here, from that list, is Hal David and Paul Hampton's "Sea of Heartbreak," followed by a song Cash says might be added, Townes Van Zandt's "Two Girls."
Stay tuned this week for sets by Crowell and Billy Bragg, who invited Rosanne Cash to sing a duet with him earlier in the evening.
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Waited nearly a year to see this show with my daughter in memory of my beloved husband who sadly passed away in January 2017.
Bonfire Heart was played at his funeral.
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Satsuki will be back on European tour – with tour organization Too Wild – to promote his new release, and he will start in the Netherlands at the Dutch J-Fashion event OshareCon on March 19!
Als on March 19 Satsuki will release [APOCALYPSE], it is divided in 2 pieces: [ECLIPSE] & [APOCALYPSE]. With [APOCALYPSE], Satsuki will show us a new side of his personality, new approaches on his way of using his technical vocal skills. He worked for the first time with European producers (ENOS IS BACK) in order to give a new vibe to his songs and that particular progressive metal touch. This opus can be considered as a new era for Satsuki, the future. If you unite the two pieces, it will display the full cd cover by a painting of Satsuki.
Next to this Satsuki will launch his brand called Sacred Traditional Kingdom Melody – S.T.K.M. The first press of t-shirts (boys & girls types, limited quantity – S to XL sizes) will be available at the shows. The first chance to get these in your hands is at OshareCon!
Satsuki's paintings will also be available at live venues. All paintings can be purchased directly at the booth, please ask Too Wild staff for further information.
And I am proud to say that AVO together with the tour organization Too Wild, are partners of OshareCon!
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Apparently, everything is funnier with fake arms. That's a lesson Jimmy Fallon has learned, and he used it again on Tuesday night's show. It helps when he has guests who go all in, as "Dumb and Dumber To" co-stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels did.
See video: Jim Carrey Is Hot for Jeff Daniels' Daughter in 'Dumb and Dumber To' Trailer
They set up the bit as a Canadian soap opera the three of them starred in together long ago. Back then, neither Carrey nor Daniels would allow their real arms to be used, and so everyone was forced to use fake arms. And so the scene was set for a flashback of absurd portions.
See video: Jennifer Lopez Challenges Jimmy Fallon's 'Tight Pants' Supremacy
The setting was a diner, with Fallon as the customer. Carrey and Daniels were behind the counter when Fallon ordered a cheeseburger and fries. All that was left was for the co-stars to figure out how to put his order together while holding mannequin arms.
Things did not go well. Particularly when Daniels decided it would be easier to just scoop the fries out of the deep fryer with his bare (fake) hand. He got the fries out, but his hand wasn't looking so good by the time he was done.
See photos: 18 Comedians Who Died Too Soon – From John Pinette to Gilda Radner
Meanwhile, Carrey completely pulverized a grill full of hamburgers and cheeseburgers, turning it into a mass of crumbled beef chunks. And yet, the final product was truly a thing of beauty. What would have sent it over the top would have been if Fallon had to figure out how to eat the meal with his own fake arms.


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Today I'm sharing how to make the white pom pom
from last weeks picnic...
1-2 yards of Cotton Fabric
Rotary Cutter and Mat
Fabric Scissors
Styrofoam Ball
Some Lace
Sewing Machine
Optional: Ruffler Foot
Hot Glue and Gun
6" Piece of Ribbon
Cut the fabric into 5" strips on the bias to help prevent fraying.
Now fold the strips the long way like we did in the
burlap pom pom tutorial and gather along the fold.
Or, if you don't have a ruffle foot,
just use your machine to gather/ ruffle using a long, loose stitch.
If you haven't before, you can learn how to ruffle here.
Repeat with all of your strips.
Roll your ruffles in a spiral to make rosettes.
Using hot glue, glue the rosettes onto
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Repeat previous steps with your lace.
If you are using a chunk of lace, first cut it into
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Continue gluing the rosettes onto the ball until you only have a
small space of the ball showing. Fold the ribbon in half and glue
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Continue to glue on the cotton and lace until all surfaces of the
ball and the base of the ribbon are covered. Trim off any fabric that
sticks out too far, to make the ball more round.
You are finished! :)
Make a few, or make some burlap ones to hang with it!
These are cute to hang outside, at your wedding, anywhere in
your home, for a party... Wherever! I think mine will end up in
my pool room. Have fun!


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In the research project MuSiko (the abbreviation MuSiKo stands for "Adaptive Approximation Techniques for the Multiscale Simulation of Nonlinear Composite Behavior") we work on the simulation of fiber reinforced plastics as well. We develop efficient multiscale simulation techniques that only need the characteristics and the local orientation of the fibers as input parameters for predicting the macroscopic deformation and failure behavior.


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To accompany this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, the Serpentine Galleries commissioned four other architects to design Summer Houses. Each 25-square-meter temporary structure was inspired by Queen Caroline's Temple, a neoclassical temple in Kensington Gardens designed in the 18th century. The Serpentine Galleries chose Asif Khan, Barkow Leibinger, Kunlé Adeyemi, and Yona Friedman to contribute designs, each of whom created their own interpretation of the original temple in uniquely fascinating ways.
When Asif Khan discovered Queen Caroline's Temple was originally designed to catch the sun's rays on the queen's birthday, he decided his structure would form a line from the sun as it rises to Queen Caroline's Temple, with 100 wooden posts surrounding two aluminum discs. Khan told Dezeen, "In my pavilion, these two pieces of polished aluminium recall that lost reflection of light into the space and connect the vista with the past and present."
Related: BIG unveils dreamlike 'unzipped' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London
Founders of Barkow Leibinger Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger drew inspiration from a mechanically-rotating structure designed by the same architect who designed Queen Caroline's Temple. Their Summer House, constructed with wood, curves and twists and appears different depending on a viewer's perspective. Barkow told Dezeen they view their Summer House as a prototype for a potential future project. He said, "…it was really about looping as a way of doing something, a way of making something that could have a structural and spatial idea…it's something we could expand upon."
Kunlé Adeyemi, founder of NLÉ, designed an "inversion," offering a modern take on Queen Caroline's Temple by distorting the original design. He said he essentially played with the form of the temple to evoke a "playful, contemporary interpretation."
For his Summer House, Yona Friedman built on a project he's been working on for years. Ville Spatiale is a concept for futuristic housing that allows occupants to design their own homes. Friedman used wire in his temporary exhibit, referencing his project from the 1950's.
The Summer Houses and the 2016 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion will open to the public later this week until October 9, 2016.
Via Dezeen
Images courtesy of Serpentine Galleries, © Iwan Baan