AVON CALLING

  It`s arrived.  My Avon has arrived including this lovely chain I bought myself.  It didn`t cost a lot but I think it`s very pretty. I also bought some liquid soaps, and some hair and skin stuff too.  Smashing!  But I turned down the chance of ordering more and asked the agent to drop the catalogue through my door once a month only as I don`t want to spend too much which is the easiest thing for me to do.

It`s very overcast today but still quite warm and the forecast is for very warm weather at the end of the week so that is something I will look forward to. I can do some gardening too as it all looks rather untidy out there, what with Jake and his big feet trampling roughshod all over the place.  I`ll have to stop that now the plants are growing again.

Kerry is now 20 weeks pregnant and halfway there and she has started to put weight on rapidly and she says that the baby is very active and is kicking all the time........ those were the days!  Thankfully it`s her turn this time to get kicked,  She was a kicker herself , so what goes around comes around, as they say! 

I`m awaiting an order I placed with a mail order catalogue last November.  After many phone calls I was assured over two weeks ago that it had arrived in stock and it was about to be despatched.  Hmmm..... I will give them a ring later. And the item on order ?  An Italian toilet brush... funny I know but it matches my bathroom, at least I think it does because I`ve almost forgotten what it looks like!

Not much to say today but I`m still working on the grahics and have to download tubes, PSP`s etc to get started. It all looks very complicated so I don`t know if I`ll be able to do it but I`ll give it my best shot.

 

LAWS AND CUSTOMS

~   The people of Hamamatsu, Japan, take part in a kite-fighting custom dating from the 1500`s. It is believed that a kite was flown to honour the birth of an ancient prince.  Another legend suggests the sport began when a ruler told his people to fight with kites instead of each other.  The annual custom honours the first-born sons of each family, and some of the enormous kites bear the names of the boys.  Today, the kite-fighting festival draws nearly two million people to Hamamatsu,  ~

~   The Royal Flag of Scotland, the Lion Rampant Flag, should now legally only be used bny the monarch in relation to her capacity as Queen of Scotland. However, it is widely used as a second national flag. Though it is not allowed to be flown without permission, on a flagpole or from a building. The Lord Lyon once threatened the town councillors of Cumbernauld with an Act passed in 1679 which demanded the death penalty for misuse of the royal flag.  ~

~   The State of Nevada first legalised gambling in 1931. At that same time the Hoover Dam was being built and the federal government did not want its workers ( who earned 50 cents an hour) to be involved with such diversions, so they built the town of Boulder City to house the dam workers.  To this day, Boulder City is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base.  Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China. Contrary to old wive`s tales, no workers were buried in the dams concrete.  ~

 

" Money is a guarantee that we have what we want in the future.  Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises."

Aristotle