The Suddenly Kate Show

Hey guys,

How many of you noticed the topic for today is in the right-hand side bar? I put that there last week and will do each week so you can have a head start on thinking about your selections.

In the film world that I reside, the last five films I have seen in order of most recent going backwards...

1 The First Wives Club - I saw this at the weekend and felt compelled to watch. I remember seeing it when it came out and it is still entertaining now. I am ashamed to admit that my OCD alarm bells went off when they are all wearing various shades of white...off white...cream..ivory..aaaaaagggghhhh!

Here is the trailer for it...


2 I saw Lion on Friday, it stars Dev Patel, and it based on a true story about an Indian boy who gets separated from his brother, eventually he is adopted by an Australian couple, and this is about his journey home. The children in this are brilliant and really made the film as special as it was. I am still shocked that 80,000 children a day go missing in Indi…

Its serious day! Boooooo...just kidding...so what do we have here then?

This is a tough one for me to answer, instantly I thought...

"But of course, the answer is clear it is far worse to never try than to fail..."

about ten seconds after thinking this I also thought about all the things I hadn't done or tried for fear of failure.

Well isn't this a fun one...yes, a little bit kooky but fun all the same :)

He says...


'Hey...i'm really sorry to bawther you gois but have you seen moi hat?...hmmm...I guess nawt...I best keep looking...I just don't know where it moight be...'

For me there are two ways of answering this question,

What am I qualified in and could teach?What do I enjoy doing that I would love to teach? To answer the first interpretation, I have a degree in Physics and have in my distant past taught maths and physics at a secondary school in West Africa (High School) and I did enjoy it to an extent. I would never teach here in the UK, it would be a nightmare, but I imagine if you were teaching students who wanted to learn it may be rewarding. I used to like marking best and timetabling (as I was in charge of that) and as many bad days were met with good.
The second one...hmmm...let me see now...I can be quite patient, and would like to teach crafts but probably would enjoy doing arts and crafts projects with primary school children (age 4-8) a opposed to adults and such. However, if I could teach anything, I think English as a foreign language would appeal to me the most and I have toyed with doing a course in the past, so who knows!
What abou…

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So today is silly question day, I shall be alternating, and what a question! I have a cat so I am obviously expertly placed to answer this, but if you are a dog owner then please feel free to tell me what you think dogs dream about, or any animal you want really.

What do you think cats dream about?

I believe that cats generally don't dream about anything, they aren't really prone to worrying and anxiety (not as much as a dog anyhoo) and I often look at my cat sprawled along the shelf above the radiator and think that her mind must be blank, she is laying there feeling warm and content and blissfully happy, not a care in the world.

Occasionally, but very occasionally she will twitch and its at these times I know she is dreaming about chasing something, and knowing Muse it is most likely a butterfly or a bee.

Here she is...



So what do you think cats dream about?

Hey there,

I have tasked myself with writing more, and I think writing about anything and everything will help inspire me for my stories.

I wasn't sure what to write but then I came across a blog about 365 questions, I am guessing this is one a day for a year starting on January 1st but I am going against the grain and starting it today. This list was done way back in 2011 would you believe, and I am not going to tackle them in numeric order, but hop about a bit. I am also going to include some random fun questions that i have scooped up around the webiverse.

The questions I found are quite varied and hopefully will help me get to know you all a little better, as I would love for you to put your response to the question in the comments.

So today's question (is the first question on the list)...

When was the last time you tried something new? Hmmm, this is a good question. I like to try new things even if its just to learn that I don't like them. My mind instantly goes to le…

Hey there

This week I have decided to pick 'romantic charts' as the theme. I know some people don't 'do' valentines or aren't particularly bothered by romance and for those people please feel free to interpret romance in your own way.

So here goes...

1. February in my Durene Jones calendar and I will stitch on the first of February and quite possibly tweak it a little as I did with January.

2. This is a quote from Jane Austen, it make me laugh because i believe it to be such a hilarious notion...but its still a little romantic and I am using it to represent all book/film quotes about love.


3.Cover Art. I saw this and although I would never stitch it, I would hang it in my house, why? because its super cheesy and would always bring a smile to my face.

4. Wedding designs, generally I am never really convinced and find them a little twee, i know i know, i do realise i just said number 3 above, but when it comes to wedding designs I prefer the more modern and simpl…

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When I came up with this idea I thought it might be quite tricky, but after a lengthy five minutes of mentally going through my WIPs I realised I have five travel themed WIPs!

Then another five minutes spent thinking about my stash and I realised I had about three in my stash and a further five minutes led me to realise I have a lot more on my wishlist, so how best to cover this?

In the end, I have gone for designers/companies etc.....so without waffling on much more...

Chatelaines....oh these are truly things of beauty and one day I will do one, but I definitely would need a scroll frame in order to do so and I would need a really good goal to motivate me, thinking about it though the end result is pretty motivating..here are a few..


Aren't they beautiful? Google them and you will see some close ups of finished stitched versions, they contain cross stitch and specialty stitches and beading.

In true Kate fashion the next choice is the polar opposite of the above, and my choic…

Hi Everyone,

Apologies for the delay and I hope you will still participate...I shall be posting my list later today.

So when I was thinking of a theme for this week it happened to coincide with thinking about my annual holiday and where that would be. I'm in a strange place right now as I've no place calling my name...hmmm...but anyway, the theme is....

Top 5 Travel Charts
This can either be directly related to travel, or linked to a destination, or anything suitably obscure if you can provide a link.

I mistakenly thought that this would be easy, I do watch any and all TV crime and detective shows so I assumed that I would naturally be able to select five.

I have come to the conclusion that I need to be even more specific when having themes because there are sooooooo many good detectives. Maybe if I had said, top 5 TV detectives from the 1980s? Or 90’s or even 00’s? Or TV detectives with the best moustaches? Or best crime related cross stitch patterns? Or….yep…so many alternatives! I shall have to start being more specific. But alas, that is the power of hindsight, and so I shall have to be suitably general.

I am also going to list these in reverse order, with number 1 being the best of this brilliant bunch.

5 DI Vivienne Deering is the main character and lead detective in a relatively new show here in the UK called No Offence. The first series was released in 2015, but series two has only just started airing now (2017). The show is set and filmed in Manchester and the accents for …