Black and white photos attract the smallest of readers. This is the beginning of reading at 2 weeks old!
“My first book.”
“This is fun!”
“I like this one!”
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Monthly Archives: January 2014
The Golden Rule, Winter Walk and Snail Shell
1 Those of you who are regular readers will know I post about the Golden Rule from time to time. This came to me today. I find it fascinating that so many cultures have the same philosophy abut looking after each other – yet governments seem not to be able to follow this really simple rule.
The Golden Rule
2 We went for a very cold and windy walk today along the cliffs at Sunset Beach near Godrevy. The wind surfers were having great fun. Click on any photo for detail. In the last one you can see that one of the wind-surfers is carried above the waves.
Godrevy Lighthouse
Beautiful cloud, above sea, sand and cliff
Windsurfing
Getting ready to fly
Lift off!
3 There are always pretty snail shells along the cliffs.
Delicate snail shell
Cornish Cream, Storm Drive and A Wish Tree
1 Our lovely neighbour went shopping after our visit last evening and left a very welcome present of Cornish Cream on our door knocker for D&A to take home to Barcelona.
Rodda’s Cornish cream – thank you Sue!
2 As expected, huge storms hit Cornwall overnight and today causing a signal failure that meant no trains were leaving this morning so we drove D&A up to Exeter in the vilest weather – thunder, lightning, hailstones and driving rain – and then a beautiful double rainbow, hard to catch through the windows of a moving car!
Part of the rainbow
The very full River Exe
The wild weir on the Exe
3 While in Exeter, having seen D&A safely on to the train for Bristol Airport, we did a bit of shopping and saw this delightful Wish Tree in John Lewis. The wishes from Amelie and Samantha are very touching.
The Wish Tree
Peace, Next Door’s Cat and Last Night
1 This morning the BBC news programme that we listen to every day, Today, had a very interesting Guest Editor, P J Harvey, and her programme was brilliant! You could listen to clips here if you wish. There were several poems included but this one stopped me in my tracks. What an oxymoronic thing to do – to fight for peace.
THEY FIGHT FOR PEACE
Peace they say.
Peace of mind?
Peace of earth?
Peace of what kind?I see them talking arguing, fighting –
What kind of peace are they looking for?
Why do they kill? What are they planning?Is it just talk? Why do they argue?
Is it so simple to kill? Is this their plan?Yes, of course!
They talk, they argue, they kill –
They fight for peace.Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer, Guantanamo detainee
Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer is on hunger strike in Guantamamo. He has been accused of nothing and we feel very angry that he is there at all.
2 We went next door for mince pies and met their new cats for the first time. What beautiful creatures. I am looking forward to sharing them!
Nooka
3 It’s D&A’s last night with us. They leave on the 10 o’clock train in the morning to fly home to Barcelona, the last of our family to leave. Terrific storms are forecast, just like the day they arrived, so we are half expecting the trains not to be running in which case we will drive them up to Bristol and have a couple of extra hours with them!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy
This Seagull represents JOY to me. You may find that strange so I will explain. When I lived away from Cornwall, the call of a seagull brought home into my head and with it the sea and the sand and the cliffs and everything that Cornwall means to me.
Seagull
My Mum loved Cornwall as much as I do and when we knew she was dying, the whole family came from all over the world to see her. When my brother and I went to register her death, a Seagull walked into the office before we could close the door and we joked that it was Mum, come to make sure we did everything properly. We had a family outing to St Ives a day or two later and a single Seagull came to sit on the car while we getting the parking ticket. We joked that Mum was there with us to enjoy St Ives with us as she had done so often and at the wonderfully moving Humanist Celebration of her life, there in the garden was a solitary Seagull……. Mum is with us still and still brings me joy.
Emotional Rollercoaster, Dessert and 2013 in review
1 As Ajaytao said yesterday Emotions are strength. Today has been a rollercoaster as we went up to Chilla to visit L&T&Grandbaby B for the last time before they move away to Norfolk on Friday. D&A needed to say goodbye too before they return to Barcelona on Friday so we had a wonderful time together and then wept as we all said our Goodbyes – but of course, we only feel the sadness because of the depth of love we all feel for each other.
Our dear twins and our Grandbaby watching the birds together
2 The Chocolate Coffee Torte which I made for lunch was a big hit!
Chocolate Coffee Torte
3 Today I received an email from WordPress re my last year of Blogging. ” The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 49,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 18 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.“
May 2014 be your best year yet – happy days everyone!
