A BANK HOLIDAY is a public holiday. It's just the British Government's way of reminding its subjects that the banks will be closed even longer than they are in a usual week. (Though I remember vividly in the 1980s my Dad having to rush to get into the bank by 3:30 (pm!) because after that hour the staff took to playing with rubber bands and filing their nails.
The weather is awful. It is clammy, cold, wet, grey, intermittently rainy and thoroughly miserable. I lost my cards last night which isn't a tragedy (no money in any of 'em) but an inconvenience (how the hell do I get them back??) I don't know why I should feel like I've got a black hole inside me, pulling me into the psychic void but I kind of do. Also I've been sleeping every minute I can. Not in the mood to be awake.
I did go hopping across the internet yesterday and found some wonderful stuff. Some of which I put in my links. I keep stumbling across baby blogs. They're awfully cute but they somehow make me feel sad. I don't know why. I remember coming home one Christmas feeling suicidally depressed. Looked through my own baby photos, saw this stupid, smiling innocent. Look at me now, I thought.
I don't know.
On a lighter note I did make quite a good beef stew on Saturday.
Right I'm off!
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I randomly stumbled on this last night. A golden retriever with a litter of golden pups!
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Continuing the nursery rhyme theme, here's another that Blue (beautiful blog btw) reminded me of.
I didn't include it yesterday as it didn't seem as inkeeping with the "London" theme.
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music wherever she goes
The "fine lady" is often taken to be Elizabeth I who did indeed ride to Banbury to see a new stone cross that had been erected there. (Oh! The days before television!) Though I somehow doubt she rode all the way on horseback. Do correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most boy horses geldings? (I.e. castrated because it makes them less temperamental and easier to ride?)
Yeah, banks...I always wonder why, despite there being 4 tellers behind the desks, three are "closed" and there's always a lineup? And the tellers at my bank have taken to airing their dirty laundry while we're in line...they chat back and forth as if we're invisible customers. I had to hear of one's dissatisfaction with her boyfriend's *ahem* "skills" (or lack of). "Excuse me, I just came here for twenty bucks, NOT to hear you moan to Dr. Ruth".
ReplyDeleteYou can tell I'm less than enthused with my banking experience lately.
I used to feel a bit sad looking at babies too, they just don't know what's coming, then I'd feel a bit angry because the world is overpopulated and people just keep popping them out, now I just look at them and think that somebody will have to pay for my retirement.
ReplyDeleteThis relentless rain doesn't help much! Will it ever stop? I think the Nurery Rhyme for today should be
ReplyDeleteIt's raining, it's pouring;
The old man is snoring.
Bumped his head
And he went to bed
And he couldn't get up in the morning.
Rx
haha LoL ;->
ReplyDeleteHi there
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog & the mention/link on yours.
The lady on a white horse is more likely too relate to Lady Godiva's ride & the the rhyme also has pagan fertility overtones ie ride a cock horse! Looked it up for my Beltane 1st May blog post.
Best wishes
Blue
oohhhh..love the golden retrievers blog. They are such gorgeous animals. I've been debating getting myself a golden retriever. If I were'nt so irresponsible, I'd probably get one.
ReplyDeletehey.. i love to read ur bloggy..
ReplyDeleteRe Google Analytics:
ReplyDeleteI trust you have a gmail / google account as you are on google blogger. You sign up for google analytics and there's a spot for where you key in the address of the site you want to monitor. You are then given code. You just go into the code for your blog template and then past the code from analytics into the template. Then you get analytics on all your pages.
I'm reasonably clueless when it comes to techie stuff, but analytics talked me through it pretty well. I think it has a good FAQ but it's been ages since I put analytics on.
Hope that helps :-)
thanks for visiting -
... but where on the blog template?
ReplyDeletehang on i'm going to look when i got time later then i'll get back to you if i still don't get it...
... & somehow i still doubt i will ... !! ...
but thanx for trying to help. i'll see what i can do ...
you left a message on my blog and i thought i might come and visit yours...very cool! very entertaining! Just wanted to share that with you...
ReplyDelete"On a lighter note I did make quite a good beef stew on Saturday"
ReplyDeleteAHHH! So cool! Ya know, its soooo hot here, i simply CANT think abt food.
Baby blogs? SOmetimes they r stange. Nothing written just pics. Whats the point of it? Burn a DVD with all those pics & have urself a thing with memories that u can grab if u r going to visit ur relatives to show off ur cutie. Becoz, if its on the blogopshere, then it shall be gone, sooner or later. Eh.
& myself? i was a weird kid. Not to mention, i'm weird now. hehe.
So, it's rainy there. Strangely, i like rain. Yup, yup. I do :)
oops - sorry must not have understood your question!
ReplyDeleteat the end, just before the google stuff.
here you go :-)
http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55604&topic=11126
hope google starts taking over your life too...