Banyan Tree – Oahu, HI
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About This Blog
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Secret Snoskred
Share a secret not shared on your blog before
I am a huge Sons of Anarchy fan.
I found the series late – only last year – but I devoured the 6 seasons that existed in a very short space of time, and have been eagerly awaiting season seven which started in September.
The show is dark, which you would probably expect, being about a motorcycle club.
But it is also, in its purest form, a soap opera about a motorcycle club.
Some of the storylines are so soapy, they would not look out of place on The Bold and The Beautiful. But that is part of what makes the show so brilliant.
My favourite character is Tig, played by Kim Coates.
Though of course Jax, played by Charlie Hunnam, is fascinating eye candy to watch.
Do you have a secret to share?
Do you love a TV show that I should add to my must watch list, or do you have a secret to share? Let me know in the comments!
A Cup Of Tea
Do you like a cup of tea?
Snoskred loves a cup of tea. Bizarrely, her favourite brew was invented by Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister and foreign minister of Australia. Dude can’t delegate work to others or run a country without getting backstabbed by his own political party, but boy can KRudd blend a tea. He won a competition back in 2011 for his tea blend..
Originally meant to be a limited edition for just 12 months, the Australian Afternoon Tea proved so popular that it is now a permanent member of the Twinings range.
I am not a fan of KRudd at all, but I love this tea blend, and I recently picked up 100 bags for an insanely low price which will last me quite some time.
When and why?
I do not drink tea daily. On a day that I drink it, I will usually brew a cup mid to late afternoon. Rainy or cold days are more likely to result in a cup of tea.
What else do you put in it?
I like honey in my tea as the sweetener. Something magical happens when you combine honey and tea.
For some teas like the Australian Afternoon Tea and various forms of black tea I will use a dash of cream if I have some, milk if not.
For teas that are more herbal in nature like the Madame Flavour range, Cinnamon and Orange, Lemon Ginger, green tea or fruit flavoured teas I will only add a touch of honey and no form of milk or cream.
Here are some of the teas in my tea cupboard –
Overseas readers – want to try the Australian Afternoon Tea?
Shoot me an email to snoskred {at} gmail {dot} com or contact me via the Contact Form with a postal address – don’t leave it in the comments for safety reasons – and I will send you a sealed Australian Afternoon Tea Twinings tea packet, from their range where you buy 10 foil sealed teabags in a box! Make sure to include your blog address if I don’t already read your blog, so I can add you to my feedreader.
Do you like a cup of tea?
Leave a comment to let me know -or write a post on your blog and link to this post. :)
Shoe Cleaning Station
If you have been reading my blog for a while, you might remember my very first Shoe Sunday post – I showed you where my shoes live.
I do own a lot of shoes, and every single pair gets a regular clean. What I usually do is wait until a rainy afternoon, when I can’t be doing anything useful outside, and all my other chores are done for a bit, so I do not feel even a tiny bit guilty about spending a good couple of hours with my much loved shoes..
First up, I cover the work space with a floor mat – the kind you might use in a bathroom. It is good to use something with a bit of thickness to protect the work space, as there will be times when I am removing stones from the shoes with a metal nail file. I always make sure to have a pair of nail scissors and a metal nail file handy at my shoe cleaning station, because your shoes may have some surprises for you.. like this –
I recently sat down with a couple of freshly arrived TV episodes – Homeland and Downton Abbey, my anti-bacterial wipes because there is a lot of flotsam and poopsam on the soles of shoes. The outside of the shoe get a decent wipe down, the place where my foot sits also gets a decent clean, plus the soles get a really thorough scrub. Here is a pair mid scrub, you can see the suds. I’m using the Kirkland Antibacterial Wipes from Costco.
Below you can see one clean sole, and one ready to be cleaned sole.
I cleaned 13 pairs in the space of a pleasant couple of hours, while watching teevee. Once the shoes are clean, they are placed on a clean towel so they can dry off. These shoes all went off for a photo shoot right after being cleaned, for future Shoe Sundays here on the blog.
Tell a story about your shoes on your blog, and link up below!
New Feeds October
New blogs added to the feed reader since 30 September –
Adelaide and Beyond
A is for Abi
A Wheelbarrow Full Of Style
Adventures Of A Riot Grrrl
Australian Subscription Boxes
Big Fat Betty
Call Me Kim
CamiKaos
Domesblissity
eat quaff laugh
Elizabeth Spiers
Feeling flabulous
Fizz and Frosting
Healthy Food For Living
High Riser
kelly exeter
Life in the City
LoriLoo
Memoirs of a Chronic Chick
Mookie’s Life
My Kitchen Stories
Natty Nikki
Nibbles and Noshes
Pamper and Curves
Pinkgemma.com
Plus Size & Proud
Poires au Chocolat
Polished Curves
Positively Stephanie
Pretty Big Butterflies
redhotcentre
Ruby Sapphire
Sarah’s Heart Writes
Seana Smith
Seeking Victory
Sort Life Out; Buy Milk
Stage Your Presence
The Curved Opinion
The I Love You Song
The Left of Perfect
The Life of a Beauty Addict
The Not So Secret Diary of a Wannabe Princess
U Can’t Wear That!
Up Up and Away
Under The Porch Light
Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers! There are 45 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.
Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.
At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!
Please note :
Blogger and Google are doing a weird thing where they change the URL to be .com.au because I am from Australia and I am signed in to my gmail account. I think I caught all the ones that it changed on me, but if your URL is incorrectly listed here, please let me know in the comments and I will correct it. Obviously, you want all links to your blog to be to your actual blog URL and not one in a totally different country you do not live in!
I think this is yet another reason to kiss Blogger goodbye and go looking for a new, more stable, less run by Google and therefore subject to being deaded at any time, like Google Reader, Feedburner, and a long list of other Google projects they bought and then killed off.. :( You simply cannot rely on Google long term. I recommend wordpress.com as a starting point. WordPress are all about blogging, and not about being all things to all people like Google are.
See previous new reads for October – September – August – July – Plus view my Blogroll here!
November New Feeds will be a little different – I am planning to add only blogs participating in NaBloPoMo to one new folder, and blogs not participating in NaBloPoMo will go into a separate folder – so there will be two separate November lists.
Wordless Wednesday – Flower
Flower In The Rain – Oahu, HI
NaBloPoMo Reminder
When I set up my linky thing, I did it wrong. Thanks to Claire from I will eventually do or say something interesting for giving me a heads up – I have fixed it. You can now add a link to your blog instead of a permalink to a post. :)
I am having a super hard time finding people who are going to take part this year, and the official site still has not posted anything for November yet EDIT – It is finally up here. Everyone has till November 5 to add their blog to the blogroll here. One of the best things for me about NaBloPoMo in past years has always been finding new blogs to read.
I will be trying to comment on as many NaBloPoMo blogs as possible. I’ve set up a google alert for NaBloPoMo to help me find participating blogs. Each day I’ll drop by as many NaBloPoMo blogs as I can to leave a comment. I’ll be adding participating blogs to my feed reader.
So if you are going to take part, or you know someone else who is, or you have a blog yourself, can you let people know about this link up? ;)
Unlike a regular link up – Please link to your BLOG URL, not to a post. :)
November is National Blog Posting Month. To participate, you write a blog post each day for the month of November. The home of NaBloPoMo can be found here. Though, it does not seem to be run by the same people it once was, and they are doing monthly NaBloPoMos there, and there is still no November post! :(
Here are some other NaBloPoMo posts I have found thus far –
The NaMos are Coming! The NaMos are Coming!
How about 30 days of blog writing in November?
NaBloPoMo/Nano Poblano: Important Info! – which led me to –
NaBloPoMo 2014
November is National Blog Posting Month. To participate, you write a blog post each day for the month of November. The home of NaBloPoMo can be found here. Though, it does not seem to be run by the same people it once was, and they are doing monthly NaBloPoMos there.
Snoskred will be participating this November – so now is your chance to suggest topics or ask questions you might want answers to, and Snoskred will work them into a blog post in November!
Also, Snoskred will be trying to comment on as many NaBloPoMo blogs as possible. I’ve set up a google alert for NaBloPoMo to help me find bloggers taking part as I am not so sure the “home” site will help me do that. Each day I’ll drop by as many NaBloPoMo blogs as I can to leave a comment..
This is a great way to find awesome new bloggers and new readers, so if you have a blog and you want to take part, get on board the train! ;)
You can link up via this link up tool if you plan to participate, so that other bloggers can easily find your blog – Snoskred will be inviting bloggers participating in NaBloPoMo to join this link up when leaving her comments, and will post the link up at the start of November, midway through, and at the end..
Unlike a regular link up – Please link to your BLOG URL, not to a post. :)
Wordless Wednesday – Mountains
Mountains on Kualoa Ranch, Oahu, HI
Also, thank the deities, Duchess Kate seems ok. I was starting to get very worried, especially after reading this account of someone who suffered hyperemesis gravidarium at the bottom of this post. it sounds awful and a lot worse than regular morning sickness. :(
Wordless Wednesday – Ala Moana
A water feature at Ala Moana Shopping Centre, Oahu, HI