T'old man's on the mend, that's a very good sign
So what is the matter as everything's fine?

I'm a useless poet, my creative juices are nil
Why do I blog now i've had my fill?

My flight is booked, i'll be going away
i'll see you around some other day.

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Don't worry (not that you would do) but I won't be around much for the next couple of weeks. I am going to have a short holiday at my friend's house in Andalucia flying out next Monday.
Hopefully I will return rejuvenated

To quote a few proverbs

.."Some say that the truth is a two edged sword. I say that the truth is a blunt instrument".
Some people are razor sharp with their revelations of truth but sometimes it lands with a dull thud.

'til he reached old age t'old man used to think that
"If you're not living on the edge... You're taking up too much room"

and he certainly agreed with this one
"The Sinning is the Best Part of Repentance."
but I reminded him that "The leading cause of Death... is Life"

and that "The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them." BOOM BOOM!

Pity he didn't heed his own warnings though 'cos now he is sporting bruising on his back and a protuding 'funny bone'
I shouldn't laugh, no really I shouldn't as he is hurting.
I will endeavour to carry on answering his beck and call for a bit longer now

I only ask 'cos I have a desire to keep my friend's list low and have reluctantly removed myself from some very old and dear friend's lists whose blogs seem to be dormant again.
For instance WCG, Funkyfarmer, Bloke (aka Deadhead) and others.
I would be very upset if they returned to blogging and I wasn't aware of it, but I think I have found a way around that...i've suscribed via email to their blogs so if they do put in an appearance again then i'll be notified

Last October I wrote a post about an elderly neighbour June.

This morning she was targeted again
We saw two police cars outside her house this morning.
Apparently at approx. 6am two intruders, a man and a woman broke into her house, they disturbed her and gave her some waffle about being from the water board then they hastily departed taking her purse with them.

Normally t'old man is up and about around six in the morning but it was so cold that he stayed in bed for an extra half hour. He didn't hear anything untoward although the intruders had been parked just a few yards from our house.
My daughters think we are silly switching the burglar alarm on before we go to bed each night but June doesn't have an alarm, perhaps that why she is being targetted!

Go to your blog.

2. Click on the first person on your friends list. Then click on the first person on their friends list until you get someone that isn't on your friends list.

3. Leave a comment (if you want) on their latest post and a link to their blog here! Keep going until you find someone you actually like!

My first friend is brand new today
It is RONKEYTONK
He seems like a nice chap who hasn't done a lot of posting yet but the posts he has done are mainly his poetry which I found enjoyable. I've already left him a couple of comments.

The first blogger on his friend's list was me so I moved on to the second who is Mother-earth-on-foot
This blogger boldly states on his one and only post that he is primed and set to go January 30th, 2009 at a few minutes past 12.00 o'clock p.m. but alas the deadline has passed and no post has materialised.

I couldn't follow a link from him as he only has one friend and that is ronkeytonk so it took me back to his blog.
Then I clicked on Ronkey's third listed friend
and got EMSBABEE
who isn't on my friend's list but doesn't need any introduction as she is very popular and seems to have been around for ever she is a girl of good taste and has even changed her profile pic to a peacock pic which is very similar to the first profile pic I ever had(anyone remember?)
I left her a comment

Emsbabee's first friend on her list happens to be GULIZSAHDUR
who is a 24 year old female from Nicosia, she appears to write about literature and Barack Obama.......

This game could go on for a very long time so have a go yourself...and besides it gives you something to blog about when the ideas run dry

Too few of us recognize the power of the spoken word or the power of our minds. The things we think about all day long may come to pass.
Many of these things could turn out to be things we do not want though which is why it is so important to control anger.
Those things we emotionally align ourselves with and speak about are the things we often get back.

Fortunately, for me, the things i'd been thinking about yesterday were just niggly little things that I was trying to resolve.
I had been wishing that i'd never told my friend that i'd visit her this month at her house in Spain. She'd been pressing me for dates but what with t'old man not being well, I didn't want to commit.
Lo and behold just before I was about to ring her to explain (hoping I had not let her down) she phoned me
"Would I mind terribly if I postponed my visit 'til the end of April as the builders were behind with their work and she didn't want bother them 'til they had completed it"?
YES...no excuses needed!
Then this morning I was wishing I had a good reason not to go to my dance class this afternoon(I know I don't really need one but I get annoyed at myself for being lazy) when bizarrely I received a text message saying the class was cancelled as the teacher's son had had an accident and was going to be operated on later today !

Just ordinary day to day instances of 'getting what you wish for'

I've also been wishing for t'old man to improve after his operation and I do believe someone is playing a hand there also 'cos today he seemed much brighter!
Not exactly a 'bounding lamb' yet Menhir, more like a grazing mare...but he's getting there

I haven't been out for a couple of days, busy looking after t'old man as he is still not tickety-boo after his op.
Today though I had to go out to the chemist for him and seeing as the supermarket is reachable on foot I put my togs on and strode out.
It was crisp and sunny, there were quite a few inches of snow but I enjoyed the walk and I snapped these pics along the way.

I walked out the gate

Passed the neighbours garden

The postbox has got its hat on

Alluring signage!

Then I finally reached the supermarket.

I saw my old mates the porters...they were huddling in the doorway, I can't blame them really.
I asked them where the dry trolleys were
"Inside the covered bay"...they said

"Err, can you get me one?" I said sarcastically