Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with my December post in the People Photography section on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
Next week’s photography section will feature nature. If you have a photograph to contribute, please email it to me at cheadlerobbie@gmail.com and use the title Photography – Nature. Please also include a short write up about your photograph.
Continue reading here: https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/photography-people/
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle bringing you an interesting reflection by Rebecca Budd on Walking Through Winter with Vincent van Gogh. Rebecca has a keen interest in art and artworks and shares wonderful articles on her blog, Chasing Art. You can find her latest art post here: https://chasingart.ca/2025/11/28/a-gift-of-small-kindnesses/
Landscape with Snow by Vincent van Gogh (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)
Winter comes in quietly. It does not rush in so much as settle, as if the world is taking a long breath after the brilliant months of autumn. When the first snow falls, everything seems to pause. The noisy parts of life drift away, and what stays is the gentle invitation to pay attention.
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Thank you to talented writer, Esther Chilton, for sharing a delightful post about Something Fancy and a wonderful review. Esther has several excellent books, both fiction and non-fiction, which you will find on her site.
Esther is a very generous and supportive blogger and has a Guest Writer Spot on a Friday where she shares stories, poems and promotional articles by various bloggers. In Esther’s words:
“If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive.”
This week’s guest is familiar to many of you. Robbie Cheadle is a prolific writer and so supportive of other bloggers. Please give her a warm welcome as she shares her new book, which I’ve just read. You’ll find my review below. For now, over to Robbie:
Christmas in South Africa is a different experience to Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere. It is summer here and the temperatures on Christmas Day are frequently in the mid 30 C’s. Our Christmas menu is designed for hot weather and tends towards salads, cold meats, and light desserts rather than the hot meal enjoyed in colder climates and the heavy puddings. That being said, my family always have a traditional Christmas Cake to enjoy on and after the day. We also usually have either a chocolate house or a gingerbread house on display which goes down well with the children.
On several occasions, I have used a summer fun theme for my Christmas confectionaries. One of my favourite Christmas cakes features Santa on the Beach.
Continue reading here: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/05/guest-writer-spot-188/
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with the first post in my Photography section on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
The Photography Section will comprise a weekly photography post with a weekly theme as follows:
First week of the month – Animals
Second week of the month – People
Third week of the month – Nature
Fourth week of the month – Buildings and Architecture.
If there is a fifth week, we will have a jackpot photography post.
I would love all the photographers out there to contribute to this section. If you have a photograph to share in one of these categories, please email me at cheadlerobbie@gmail.com and use the title Photography – [specific theme]. Please also include a short write up about your photograph.
Continue reading here: https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/photography-buildings-architecture/
Last month I wrote about warthogs, one of the Ugly Five animals of Southern Africa. This month I have written about another Ugly Five animal, the wildebeest. I have written a poem using the format and rhyming scheme of another very famous poem. Can you guess which poem it is?
Continue reading here: https://writingtoberead.com/2025/11/26/in-touch-with-nature-wildebeeste-the-clown-of-the-veld/
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you and this segment of art posts covers all sorts of different mediums of art, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
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The previous day, Jake’s platoon had boarded a train heading for an unknown US port. The first men of his battalion to be leaving for “somewhere over there.” Many were puffed up with pride and loud with raucous enthusiasm.
“Where we headed, Sarge?” Beau accosted him as he entered the carriage.
“I can’t tell you. Secrecy about troop movements must be maintained because of the threat of the Bosch submarines,” Sarge growled.
Scowling, Beau opened his mouth to argue with Sarge. He snapped it closed when Will laid a hand on his arm and shook his head in warning.
Sarge’s orders must be accepted without comment. It was not the place of the troops to question their superior officers or their orders.
Late in the afternoon, the train drew into the station in New York.
Continue reading here: https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/the-soldier-and-the-radium-girl-part-1-the-bloom-of-youth-chapter-1-enlist-in-haste-repent-at-leisure-cont-6-by-roberta-eaton-cheadle/
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with the first post in my new Photography section on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
The Photography Section will comprise a weekly photography post with a weekly theme as follows:
First week of the month – Animals
Second week of the month – People
Third week of the month – Nature
Fourth week of the month – Buildings and Architecture.
If there is a fifth week, we will have a jackpot photography post.
I would love all the photographers out there to contribute to this section. If you have a photograph to share in one of these categories, please email me at cheadlerobbie@gmail.com and use the title Photography – [specific theme]. Please also include a short write up about your photograph.
My thanks to poet and author, Lauren Scott, for her lovely contribution to this photography segment. This is a link to one of Lauren’s delightful blog posts: https://baydreamerwrites.com/2025/11/11/perspective-of-a-yamaha-guitar/. Do visit and view all her beautiful books and poems.
Continue reading here: https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/photography-nature
Hi everyone, its Robbie Cheadle here with my first post in a new series called Simple Pleasures: Reading & Eating. This series comprises a book review combined with a recipe which could be anything from a cocktail to a dessert.
The book I am reviewing for this first post is Size Always Matters: Don’t be part of a statistic, start losing weight today by Sally Cronin.
This is a fabulous and informative book to help everyone eat better and be more aware of the nutritional value of what we put in our mouths. I am not overweight, and I never have been, in fact, I struggle with losing too much weight through stress and anxiety. The information in this book is just as useful for someone like me who can also use guidance on better eating to help reduce my specific health issues. This book is packed with factual information on the impact of a huge variety of vitamins and minerals on the human body and deals with every aspect of health. The author also points out that part of her eating disorder was anxiety and stress related so it actually does go both ways depending on your personality type.
Continue reading here: https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/simple-pleasures-reading-eating-size-always-matters-by-sally-cronin-and-a-recipe
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Hi everyone, its Robbie Cheadle with you today with my first post in my new Street and Other Public Art section here on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
My first post features a wonderful Tintin and Captain Haddock street art that I saw in Brussels earlier this year.
Let’s start at the bottom and work our way upwards:
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