Friends recommended a walk up one of the local corries (Alt Corrie Gailsh, in case you are interested) – beautiful day for it yesterday too. However, they neglected to warn us of these local beauties, who were more than a little interested in Misty. Not a pleasant sight for a cairn at ground level, especially when one of them took exception to her.
Take time to watch a butterfly
take time to feel the breeze
take time to know the beauty all around
and within you.
And know that you are loved.
Have a go at this……. thanks to NHS Blog Doctor for the conundrum
This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can’t.1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor
and make clockwise circles.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6” in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction.
And there’s nothing you can do about it!
Looking back can prove problematic; you know what I mean……when you go back to a well-remembered place from childhood and discover that the proportions of the street or house or wood have suddenly shrunk….. I had that experience recently watching a DVD. It was a film I remembered from forty odd years ago, one that had (in memory at least) caused me to guffaw with great amusement. It was also, in memory, black and white. Something brought it to mind, so I duly sent off to amazon and awaited said DVD with great expectation. Not only was it in colour, but it was hardly amusing at all.
Ah well……everything changes as one grows up.
Son No 4 and family were here yesterday. So far, I have discovered they have left behind- one baby blanket; one pair of size four trainers; and one Berghaus fleece……to fit a 6ft frame, if I am not mistaken.
I wonder what else is lurking in hidden corners?
The new dishwasher arrived today. I console myself with the recently read article which said that it is more economic in terms of fuel and water to use a dishwasher than to wash dishes by hand. There has been a bit much of the latter over the last few days. Him Behind the Wheel maintains that he has done the chore as often as I have. Harrumph!
Tell that to the three drafts of started novels on my PC……..
Reading the Sunday papers takes me further and further into the week these days. This week I managed to finish them last night but they left me fuming at the injustices towards women in some extremist Islamist countries/states. I read of the caning of a woman in front of a mosque full of baying men, and of schools closed in Afghanistan. And I wondered what answering salvo there could be from the west other than bombs and missiles. Don’t get me wrong. I certainly do not advocate violence; nonetheless my blood boils at the inequality of women over much of the globe. And I worry over attitudes creeping towards our own freedoms.
As I enjoyed watching the England v Pakistan test match, I found myself thinking about the boycott of South Africa in worldwide sport because of apartheid, and wondered when liberated nations would do something similar to protest against nations with outright oppression of women. But then, perahps the plight of women is not worth the general embarrassment of men. As to the application of Sharia Law where a woman raped has to provide four male witnesses before it can be substantiated, otherwise she is liable to be stoned for adultery, if married, or flogged, if unmarried. A recent poll revealed that four out of ten Muslems in Britain were in favour of introducing Sharia Law here. God forbid!
It appears that I can still enjoy the current Test Match in the hope that Pakistan are seeing sense and becoming part of the 21st century. Wikipedia tries to give a slightly less emotive view of the subject than I do. Read it if you want your consciences to be less troubled than mine.
Could this new print on demand be something that authors will consider in the future. With the advent of supermarket bargains, we are in danger of books being reduced in availability…….or are we? Fight back, support the Shop Around the Corner……or Amazon Associates!
Here is Misty sportying her new look haircut. She thoroughly enjoyed the whole beauty parlour process.
