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And look! They're flying our flag!  ..you don't succeed, have some cake, said Mole.  Does it work? asked the boy.
Every time, said Mole From the wonderful book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy They get too much for Christmas, said Gran. It's really shocking. In my young day you got a few nuts in your stocking, an orange and an apple and a hanky from your aunt and you were grateful for it unlike modern kids who aren't. So we put apples in her stocking as many as we could fit and was she grateful for it? No she wasn't, not a bit. From a little book which makes us chuckle each Christmas - Funny Poems For Christmas compiled by Paul Cookson
Yesteday I got an urgent email from a garden centre telling me it was my last chance for priority booking for Father Christmas.  Sorry. I am only just able to contemplate the end of summer! Having beautiful weather too. Posting this under Simply Chill and Simply Laugh.
..have to laugh at the gongs-on at 10 Downing St. (Sorry I can't credit this.)  You know I like a bargain.    Didn't know whether to laugh or crry!
Managed to say no to this one. . Put it under Simply Laugh. ..in the city. I felt quite disorientated in the city today. So many empty premises, so many shops moved, so many disappeared without trace. Monsoon has even run out of cloothes!   I have just sent this card to my sister. I'm sure she won't mind me sharing it with you! Can yu make it out?   Today was absolutely beautiful and I had lunch outside for the first time in ages. ..that by just changing your coffee for green tea
you can remove an amazing 87% of the remaining joy in your life? :-) In a florist's window - FLOWER SHORTAGE! PANIC BUY HERE. ..in all it's complexity - diversions, road works, scaffolding, high viz jackets and hard hats, road signs, sandbags, queues, petrol stations, ambulance and fire engine sirens, temporary barriers and pedestrian footpaths, new buildings going up so fast, old landmarks disappearing, it strikes me that it is a bit of a miracle that things function as well as they do! A little bit of silly provides light relief...  Isn't it an odd thing that triangles of cloth attached to a bit of string should make us smile? I get a tiny spark of joy every time I look at this.  ..being rolled out....and before I even think of the many 'buts' I am allowing myself a great big ear to ear smile.   If you didn't laugh you know you might cry. Here is a collection of sick jokes - they are all about coronavirus! Some good, some awful. This one from a friend did make me laugh If you want to have a big family dinner at Christmas kill a turkey and invite 20 people to the funeral. And a wry smile at this one I'll tell you a coronavirus joke, but you'll have to wait two weeks to see if you got it. Know any good ones?  Supermarket sunflowers.
I sent this photograph to my sister, commenting that they are British grown. I wondered whereabouts in Britain they grew and was saying Not in Argyll. I was dictating the message and predictive text wrote Naughty Naughty girl. ?!! She wondered why she was being told off by her big sister... Curious, I Googled and found this nice feature. I heard this on a radio programme many years ago. It was a very serious panel discussion about a major corporation that was in crisis. The discussion got pretty heated and intense and towards the end of it one panel member announced in a calm, authoritative voice: The trouble with this institution is (Tiny pause. A whiff of scandal?) that it is riddled, from top to bottom, (you could sense the other panellists sitting forward on their seats) with human beings. Made me laugh then and it makes me laugh now. What made you smile today? While weeding in the garden I found my favourite pair of sunglasses which I lost two summers ago! And lthey are perfectly ok!  The second batch of sweet peas are germinating. (The first one produced two seedlings out of about 18 seeds.) The first thing I do in the morning is look in the propagator and this brought a big smile to my face.  Yesterday's pickings from the garden produced all these little posies and instead of scattering them around the house I put them all in a row down the middle of the table, which meant I had to deal with all the clutter that had accumulated there. It made me smile once it was done! The wonderful weather continues. Sunshine always makes me smile.  A big thank you to Dragonfly Dreaming who posted this on Facebook and to Lynne who sent it to me! I have signed up to The Optimist Daily today and loved the item about the community in West Bengal who imptoved their environment and their lives beynd recognition by planting trees twenty years ago. Officialdom and bureaucracy can do what they like on bits of paper but I live on the continent of Europe and am and will always be, happilly, European! :-) |
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