Good day Bloggets. Today Hub
and I made cheese scones. Wow, they were delicious. Baking isn’t my thing, but
they were light and scrumptious.
I’m waiting for my Son to
come home from work. Poor lad is working 12 days in a row.
Our dogs have been on their
weekly walk with our lovely Jean. She is a kind lady and they love her. Every
week she comes and gives them a free run on the field for an hour. unfortunately,
they have discovered crab apples from the tree next door so in our back garden,
they fall and our dogs collect and in our front garden, our apple tree has
dropped some and Waggatail has found those too, so, munched her way through
those this morning. It was so funny the other night, the Little Fella came in
from the back garden. He knows he is being naughty but still he comes to tell
me he has something in his mouth. I felt his face. It was normal but for his
mouth was tightly closed. As he is always laughing, mouth open, I was aware
that he was hiding something. Like a prisoner trying to smuggle something into
the jail. I told him to leave it drop it…. After a little protest, he dropped
his goodies into my hand. It was three, perfectly formed tiny crab apples. Not
even a tooth mark in any of them. Stalks included. He knows I will take them
off him, an yet still he has to show me what he has managed to hunt.
I got some bad news
yesterday. A really close friend who I regard as family has been taken to
hospital. She couldn’t breathe. She has Pneumonia. That word I hate as that is
what my Mum died of. But my Mum smoked so her lungs were damaged. Oh, I really
hope she will be OK?
Have you heard of the saying
caught between the devil and the deep blue sea? Have you ever wondered what it
meant? Or it’s origin?
It means someone has had to
find themselves stuck between two similar situations and they have to pick one
of them. Most times both situations are equally as unpleasant.
In nautical circles, the
devil is a seam in the planking on a ship or below the waterline.
When sailors fell from a
footrope, they would either land on deck which was known as the devil’s plank
or of course the deep blue sea. So, I guess if sailors fell, and they did so on
the devil’s plank, they would have been seriously hurt if not dead but if they
fell in the water, that would have been very deep and would they have
survived? Well, from limited research
that is what I have learned today. The phrase
has been used since the early 16 hundreds.
In our home city a quadruple
rainbow was briefly seen then became a triple then double bow. It’s a once in
ten year phenomenon
It’s dark at 8 pm now. I hate
that. Though I can’t see I feel the blackness and it’s too early to be without
blue skies. Normally we get till the start of October before it’s dark by 8. And
we are still in August. Just.
Can you believe it’s
September tomorrow? Oh, wow where has this year gone? Is time speeding up or is
it just me? Why is it when we get older, we slow down but time speeds up.
Wasn’t it Einstein who
calculated that the faster we go, the slower time goes, and conversely the
slower we go, the faster time goes?
When we are young, we do
things for the first time and it seems like a big milestone like waiting for
Christmas takes ages but now it comes around so fast. There must be a good
reason for this? I also read today about a test that was done with a 20 year
old and a 70-year-old. They both had no way to tell the time but were both
asked to say when they thought a minute was up. The young person guessed almost
correctly. The person who was 70 suggested a minute was up after just forty
seconds.
I’m not really sure why both
people just didn’t count to 60 in their head? Maybe they were asked not to, how
difficult must that have been not to count in your head?
Well on that note, soon time
to count sheep. Haha. We say that in England, to help to get to sleep, we are
to count sheep. But before I go,
It’s my baby nieces 10th
birthday today. She is my great Niece. If it’s your birthday, I hope you have a
good one. Or if you are celebrating anything, enjoy and congratulations.
No comments:
Post a Comment