That’s Interesting!

I took a child to the local surgery this morning and waited in the car park for him, windows wide open on this sunny day. I wasn’t eavesdropping…the windows were open and they said it right beside me. She’d just had her prick and was asking him how he’d handled it. Apparently, 24 hours later […]

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ALL 4 Nothing

I gave my all. MY ALL gave me back HATE & Bans & people who refuse to face me now. I’m a sensitive flower but….The ZOMBIES win! It’s NOT my choice to exit stage left. I’ve been FORCED out. FACT!

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One of OUR Dinosaurs is Missing (!)

Effoffasaurus I remember watching this film as a kid. ytc has decided that the film is inappropriate noooowadays, No Shit, Sherlock! Ustinov was a jobbing actor. He took what he was given. I’ve been around actors and comedians. With families. They NEEDed to work to earn money to feed their kids. I cleaned nasty, stinking […]

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Crows LOVE Raspberries

Well, ours did :o) We rescued a baby crow in the garden, nurtured him for a year and then let him fly away. He was named after Brooks’ crow in Shawshank! A favourite game of his, when we walked around the garden with Tsardog, was to stop and pull raspberries from our three runs and […]

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THE KING HAS LOST HIS CROWN

Abba Fan in my Room. So. Shoot Me ? I’m loving this video. The F1RST time I’ve come across it. The vid that is. Not the song ;o) P.S. I so miss dancing on my kitchen table to Abba songs with my traveller-in-crime. Sigh.

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Gardening is Spiritual : Double Digging

I’m Exhausted just watching this :o( Grandad George taught me about Double Digging. Thanks, darling man. I STILL HATE doing it. Achy Breaky Back Excuse ? ? ? But……. Like life, one has to dig at least 2 spits deep. If not more to get Good Growth. I’m armchair double digging right now :o)

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TFAYCD

JIM The first #male friend that I let my Mum meet. She was dazzled by him….The silver-tongued, quick-witted, entertainer, manager-in-charge of my local theatre dude. Sheesh. And yes. He was never more than a friend who I went to school with and who used to lighten up my life. Even when we didn’t agree :o) […]

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Astrology : Libra Full Moon

Please excuse my cuss word…ASTROLOGY! For the 33rd (?) time, I am Sagittarius Sun, Libra Moon, Virgo Rising and Venus in Scorpio. Which makes me everyone’s worst nightmare. FACT! By the way. I didn’t begin to learn astrology until a beautiful friend told me my placings when I was in my 20’s. Which means that […]

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Unbelievable

THAT is my biggest problem. I’ve led a life so unbelievable that…NO ONE believes me. Shrug. This insignificant country girl born of Anglo-Scottish peasant parents. RED FLAG. She’s a LIAR. Really? My Dad grew up in poverty. Mince and Tatties every day with Neeps on Sunday. He left school aged 14 and travelled the world. […]

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The Amazing GSD

I Miss Him So Much! There is something about a German Shepherd that takes hold of your heart and your soul and NEVER lets go. I heard a true story today. Told to someone very close to me by …A man with a house and acres of land out in the countryside who had two […]

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Alpha. Bravo. Charlie.

Easy as ABC I worked all three of these checkpoints as a policeperson. Only Alpha once. It’s far outside of Berlin…at the beginning of “The Corridor.” Alpha was in Helmstedt. The beginning of a 100 + mile autobahn into Berlin. With NO SPEED LIMITS. I drove/drived it :o) Hit the city 100 miles later and […]

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Ursula Le Guin

I’m Raging. Quietly. Some third person (!) is being spammed to hell for his latest video. WTF? OK. Sci-Fi is not MY genre but I’ve read Phil K Dick, Ursula le Guin and Mary Gentle. PKD and Ursula were, if not friends, acquaintances. They were both well aware of each others work. Mary Gentle – […]

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