WASHOUT WEDNESDAY

Hello everybody, and welcome to a very wet and miserable wednesday.  This morning when I woke up I had hoped to hang all my washing outside........wrong....... not today.  I also had planned to take Jake for a long walk along the country roads.  That I would still have to do bad weather or not.  As it turned out, by the time I got round to walking him the sun had come out and we had a really nice time walking around for an hour,  Jake got all the exercise he needed on and off the lead.  I got the chance to look at the lovely gardens hereabouts and also to see how many different species of birds I could spot or recognise by sound.  By the time we got home the sky was looking threatening and it was only a matter of time before the rain fell again, so I was pleased to get home, have a cup of coffee and a bit of lunch.

Nothing else has really happened today at all.  When the post came, all I got was a letter telling me I`d won another luxury cruise and all I had to do to claim it was call this number etc. etc.  Hmmph..... if all these so-called holidays were genuine I wouldn`t have time in the year to take them all  lol!  But really thats that.  I honestly have nothing of any consequence to say......I do have a very sad existence it seems! I think tomorrow I`ll have to find something of interest to fill my entry.  For now I`ll leave you with some more trivia. Bye for now, and have a great and more fulfilling day than me. :-)

 

~  Pablo Picasso was abandoned by the midwife just after his birth because she thought he was stillborn.  He was saved by an uncle.  ~

~  At the height of his addiction, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge drank about 2 litres of laudanum (tincture of opium) each week.  ~

~  The metre was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole.  ~

~  A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes at least twenty minutes to stop.  ~

~  North American Indians ate watercress to dissolve stones in the bladder. ~

~  In Russia, suppositories cut from fresh potatoes were used for relief of haemorrhiods.  ~

~  Opium was widely used as a painkiller during the American Civil War.  More than a hundred thousand soldiers became addicts.  ~