Our brains can create evil thoughts such as adultery, murder, theft, pride, covetousness, deception… they come from inside us and make us horrid… but be transformed by the renewing of your thinking… hate what is evil hold tightly onto what is good.
Mark 7: 20 – 23, Romans 12:2,
Romans 12:9 (Sandy’s understanding/way of reading this . Read it your way and make it your own, if you like.)

Cheese, bread and pears, a meal fit for a Knight.
Tuscan Proverb,
There is only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall in love like a cooked pear.
Italian saying


Now that I am retired there is time to read what is underneath.🤣
They are 1930s Mindin 5334 Royal Doulton.
The flowers so simply drawn and coloured in, in such a way it almost looks like a wax crayon was used. Green fat leaves, yellow small flowers, then bigger red with blue flowers all on a creamy white background .
A delicate red circle then guides the eye round.
Some homophones (sound the same but different meanings).
Pair: two
Pear: fruit
Pare: remove, trim, cut back
Pare the skin from the pair of pears.
Then some puns:

To the re-pear shop.
What do you call a vanishing pear? Dis-a-pear
Pear pressure is the most intimidating thing ever.
You’re pear-fect
Slice a pear and you will find that it’s flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
Yann Martel born 1963 in Spain . He is am author best known for ‘ Life of Pi’


May you have fun pre- pearing for Christmas.
Sandy 🙂
I collect plates, and I love the simple design of these beauties!
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So glad you like them. I need to treat them better now I know how old they are.
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Pears – my favourite fruit! Beautiful plates. Lovely post.
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Thank you Shelly
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Delightful!
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Thank you Bridgette. 🙂
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