100 ABSTRACTS - NUMBER 85

After going to the Post Office yesterday afternoon, when I walked back I decided to check the outside of our fence where Mr. HCB had sprayed weedkiller a couple of weeks ago.  It was still relatively clear but is something we will need to do periodically to keep the brambles and other large weeds at bay, otherwise we will be inundated with them in our garden.  The Council doesn’t do anything, despite it being on their land, so we have to keep them in check.  

When we were out there doing the work, I had noticed a beautiful pink poppy and asked Mr. HCB to cut off the seedheads, but he didn’t think they were ready - however, yesterday, although they were still green, I decided to pick them.

I brought them home, put them into a jar to let them dry off and this morning decided that they would make a good Blip.  I had already printed off some backgrounds, so laid them on this and snapped away - see my extra.  Of course, to make them look abstract, I had to fartnarkle with my iColorama app, then used the CarbonApp to do the border, and this is the result.

This is Number 85 in my 100 Abstracts Challenge, which I am doing in aid of the Mamie Martin Fund, which provides financial support to impoverished girls in North Malawi so that they may obtain a good secondary school education. Some of the girls who are helped financially go on to university and then, having obtained their degree, go back to their families and communities to make a difference there.

“Although secondary school education remains a basic public service in many countries across the world, for most people in Malawi, the chance to attend secondary school is something very special, and millions of children in Malawi will never get the chance to experience secondary education at all.  Secondary school education in Malawi remains something of great importance to most Malawians, and a goal which most young people strive towards.”

Mr. HCB has gone to Cheltenham to watch cricket again - we had quite a few showers here yesterday, but although it wasn’t that sunny where he was, fortunately, there was no rain.  It’s dull and grey here now but I can see our very long grasses waving in the wind, so perhaps that will keep the rain away today.

"You can do some rather extraordinary things 
     if that's what you really believe."
Toni Morrison

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