Down at the water's edge

One of the things I loved to do as a child as to look at boats seeing the different shapes, colours and functions of things and chatting with the owners. 
Luckily I never had an accident and fell in which is what happened to my brother!
He got a spanking for it.

You may not be so much at the waters edge looking in as much as actually in it paddling your canoe or kayak.

Indeed I went sailing as a teenage boy and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Shugo Chara!

Recently I was able to get the Malaysian DVD's of Shugo Chara! which has yet to be issued in the UK or US. The series centres around Amu Hinamori, a Elementary School pupil clash between her popular cool, spicy exterior loved by fellow students and her internal introverted personality. 

Amu's wish for a character re-birth as would be self leads to the discovery of three colourful eggs that hatch into her guardian characters, Ran, Miki, and Su.

 
The first discs (above) house all 51 episodes of series 1.

This story started off life as a manga following successful serialization in Japan and is currently being aired by TV Tokyo series one having aired from October 2007 and a second series Shugo Chara!! Doki— in October 2008.

The DVD of Series two Part one has the first 15 episodes from that series.

In essence the Guardian Characters aid Amu in discovering who she truly is and help fulfil Amu's dreams. Amu's life becomes much more complex as she struggles to deal with her "would-be" selves and the Seiyo Elementary's Guardians, who recruit Amu as the Joker to search for X Eggs and X Characters, which are the corrupted forms of peoples' dreams.

Amu 'restores the eggs' to their original form neutralizing the harm the X Egg cause to all around them. Meanwhile, the Easter Company is extracting people's eggs in search of a special egg called the Embryo. The Embryo is believed to grant any wish to the one who possesses it.

However, the process they use creates X Eggs and X Characters. What I like about the story is the way in which it shows how peoples self image can be effected by these 'bad' eggs that started off life as pure but have become corrupted in their pursuit of self interest harming others that get in their way. 

Equally the story shows how through positive encouragement people can change becoming more pure in thought - practically spiritual in a away, putting others well being first. The first image is that of the series 1 DVD, second the inner disc carrier with the picture at the footprint being that of Series 2 Part 1. 

Hold on to your hats and save those precious eggs from Easter but at last the last 26 episodes of Season two of this much loved anime has finally come out on DVD this week!

This is Amu as a 'Punk' from the Shugo Chara manga

Skirts for jane girls

 

Skirts for janegirls should really match the type of setting you would be in such as formal or school based settings I think a simple plain grey or green skirt works because it isn't "busy" attracting attention but is sufficiently modest coming just above the knee.

Skirts allow you to show your gait when walking, learning to walk crossing your legs showing an element of softness you like while being more comfortable than close fitting trousers and you'll soon learn to keep knees together while sat.

They deserve to be teamed up with socks which easily go with them such as these from Albert Prendergast 

Although the boys range, for one thing prep school girls did wear them and there's no reason not to wear something smart and practical

Skirts for jane girls

 

Skirts for janegirls should really match the type of setting you would be in such as formal or school based settings I think a simple plain grey or green skirt works because it isn't "busy" attracting attention but is sufficiently modest coming just above the knee.

Skirts allow you to show your gait when walking, learning to walk crossing your legs showing an element of softness you like while being more comfortable than close fitting trousers and you'll soon learn to keep knees together while sat.

They deserve to be teamed up with socks which easily go with them such as these from Albert Prendergast 

Although the boys range, for one thing prep school girls did wear them and there's no reason not to wear something smart and practical

The joys of the Summer

Summer is most definitely upon us although we didn't go away this year with the car being unwell and needing much work doing on it.

Recently I took this picture from my garden as I thought these flowers looked lovely.

Summer when I was younger meant time spent with my grandparents playing and planting things in their garden or going down to the park with it's big lake, gardens and bowling green all towered over by a massive clock.