I WROTE OUT quite a lot of a highly thoughtful and hopefully all perceptive and blah-dy-blah-ey post yesterday afternoon but have yet to finish it and it all got derailed by illness...My friend Pascal, who is French-American phoned me yesterday wanting assistance "carrying something". He was going to pay me £10 for doing this. I was intrigued as to what on earth he might want me to carry. I knew nothing "dodgy" was in the offing but still... turned out it was a great oversized mirror and I was to ride the back of a motorbike holding this.
As the evening transpired I was totally unable to do this, having been violently sick all over the place, hot and cold in the arms and aches all over and a penetrating headache. How on earth could I have ridden the back of a bike with this kind of nausea and the threat of vomiting into the crash helmet? No thanks. Eventually he desisted and found somebody else to impose upon and I lay back in bed unconscious until the late early hours of the morning, when I got up and wandered delicately to the local industrial park in a hunt for stray tobacco.
There I claimed my usual spot under the shelter and watched the herring gulls wheeling and diving in the violet hour of dawn. Beautiful birds. There's also tiny little black and white birds that run exceedingly quickly across the carpark and fly in a highly agile fluttery fashion, gusting up like blown leaves then down among the puddles. They've long tails that flit up and down. I'm not sure that they're not pied wagtails, though they're a bit bigger than I remember those being. At that hour of the night it's very hard to see very much at all... but I love my seagulls, who always seem to be fighting over who gets to sit on the central streetlight. See even birds have cliques and "cool" and "uncool"!
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Sarah Palin: America's Punishment
I always said those Democrats should have picked Hillary. Now now America shall get its just deserts in the form of that moose-eating Republican lady!
This borrowed from Mary's blog:~
Hope it's a better day for you tomorrow and a good weekend. I've had a trying week at work, too busy with all sorts of problems and requests and am desperately awaiting Saturday! (It's Vincent's birthday then too and I hope to drive out somewhere for lunch).
ReplyDeletehave a good one, won't you!
ReplyDeleteA most perceptive post as per usual, Gledwood
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds, hope you are feeling better. Seagulls are pretty smart - they always knew which chimney pot was the warmest to sit around when I was a kid and the weather was too bad at sea for them.*!* Would have been cute to have seen a mrs tubbymouse sitting atop the baby possum ;)
ReplyDeleteI got my husband a book on birds not too long ago.
ReplyDeleteHe's been curious about a few that are in our area.
For as much as I think her being chosen was a very crafty and devious plan, and has nothing to do with the issues or experience people are buying it!!
I love america but look who leads us now. Yikes. Talk about the trickle down effect. People have become complacent, numb, and ignorant.
Popularity for McC went up many points after she spoke at the convention but yet she said really nothing at all in those first days about the middle class, the economy, the war, or any of the other isses.
Still, from a few blogs I read alot of women really love and identify with her. ??? I'm a woman. She doesn't represent me at all. AT ALL.
Scary to think that as bad as things in our country are now, it could actually get worse. They'll win, McCain will 'get so crook he'll cark it' (was that what Lizzy Birdsworth used to say, or was it something about a dicky ticker?) Anyway, you get my point.... if anything happened to him, she's it.
Can I come to London???
If we've got to live with a Queen I'd rather it be yours. LOL
Get well quickly Gledwood!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a rough night Gledwood! Hope you are feeling a little better today. Sara Palin sounds like evil incarnate and looks like Elain from Seinfeld.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you were so sick. And who in their right mind carries a mirror on a moterbike?! That's just asking for trouble. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteI love the name Gwendolina for a fictional Mastiff. I love Mastiffs.
Sorry to hear you've been sick Gleds. I'm glad you didn't help your friend with the mirror on the back of a motorbike - an accident waiting to happen!
ReplyDeleteWhen you talk about history, sentences with "if" have no importance so I don't think it is worth thinking what if H. Clinton is picked.
ReplyDeletePoor Gleds. Hope you feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteMy friend and I were watching the seagulls out the window of our calculus class. I feel horrible still. I hope we both feel better soon. = )
ReplyDeleteI guess the Americans will be picking which seagull that will get to sit on that street lighht for the next 4 years.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are better today.
yes i think birds are very preoccupied with cliques and who's in, who's out...
ReplyDeleteexcept for starlings. i'm not sure they care about anything much, except constant food and rowdiness.
hope you are feeling better soon
MrsTubbymouse: thank you so much. How on earth does a roborovski hamster (even a spherical one) manage to type on a computer? Or do you dictate, chipmunk stylee..??
ReplyDeleteBimbimbie: Mrs Tubbymouse gets everywhere, doesn't she..(!)... yes seagulls are v smart. They also have a deadly aim while pooing..(!!!)
Baino: I always roll the fag ends into rollies first I'm not common enough to smoke them directly from the street...
Crystalchick: Birdsworth! Yeah it goes: gee Mrs Davidson, if I don't get some tucker for my dicky ticker I'm gonna cark it!
Ooo Sarah Palin: don't know WHAT else to say...
MQ: better already, ta!
ReplyDeleteAunt Reeny: Elain from SINEFELD yeah she DOES. OoooooERGHKHHHH!!
Rhea: I know and he's not answering ANY of my calls after I had the cheek to cancel out on that
Akelamalu: I know but that's not the way Pascal the 300000000-bags a day heroin smoker sees it
Ropi: OK point taken; but what if we go through a quark hole in the hadron God-particle smasher?
ReplyDeleteWelshcakes: cheers I do ;->...
Lucinda: iw! pull a sicky and get outta that class, girl!
Walker: yeah but why does it have to be Palin for VICE and not Hillary at all. Talk about 2nd best all round... if blacks are totally "equal" to white it should mean nothing at all having a MIXED RACE ~ yes Obama is just as WHITE as he is black though he knows what "color" his bread's buttered on... anyway what's the racial big deal? But everyone knows women are NOT the same as men. A female President would be well kicking!
Lettuce: they were doing choir practice in a local plain tree this morning. Quite the chirping singalong..!
Obama will win.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure of it.
I'm not so sure any more... anyway I think another dose of Republicans will serve America right!!
ReplyDeleteMcCain will win, never under estimate the voting powers of religious right in the States.
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