FLOWER POWER AND BOOKS

Deciduous Azalea  "Golden Embers"

Weigela

 

Hello everyone.... I hope you are all having a lovely day. What started out here as another awful day weather wise, has turned into a sunny, warm but very windy one.  Perfect for drying all my washing outside.  I had to take a couple of photos of my flowers. The azalea has now flowered (see above) and has the prettiest flowers. It really lives up to it`s name!  The other is a photo of the weigela that I have edited with Kodak Easyshare.  Jim is much better today after being quite unwell yesterday. His `cold` seemed more like `flu yesterday as he was feverish and achy all day, and even called work and told them he just wasn`t fit.  He does however, have a really bad cold, but as he says he can live with that, now that the aches and fever have gone, and he intends to go back to work tomorrow. He is grateful to everyone who hopes he will be better soon..:-)

I have started reading a new book. It`s called `The Last Family in England` by Matt Haig.  It came recommended to me and it is most unusual.  It is a story of a family who are going through the motions of being happy and it is all told through the eyes of the family`s black labrador Prince.  Without giving away the story, I will say that it a story of betrayal, humour, deep sadness without being sentimental. I find it compelling reading and it is hard to separate Prince from Jake.  This morning when I got up I went straight to Jake and gave him a big cuddle, while thinking all the time of a passage I read last night.  I just know this story will not have a happy ending....sob!  I do say though, if you like reading, and if you know anything about Shakespeare eg. Henry IV part 1, then give this book a try. Falstaff and Hotspur are both there.

I`ve just had to mess around to get the photo of the book.  Thank goodness for digital cameras though.  What did I do without them ?

The sunny day I was talking about just a while ago is now looking decidedly black...my fault for being so smug over a little show of sun!  Kerry is due home tomorrow evening, and so far everything has gone well for her.  It won`t be easy for her however, leaving Slava behind for a month.  I hope she will be ok on the flight home, as she won`t be able to get into business class this time.  She will be happy as long as she gets an aisle seat and can stand up from time to time.   Yesterday afternoon, my friend B called me and we now have plans to go for a chinese meal on friday night. I`ll ask Kerry if she wants to come, as there will be a friend of B`s that I don`t know ,and I`m sure we`ll have a good night.  I haven`t been out for a while and I`m looking forward to it.

Thats about it for today, but enjoy your day and take care of yourselves.......and now some trivia.......:-)

 

~  A citizen of the UK is most likely to be shot in November. Why this is so is unclear.  You are most likely to drown, for obvious reasons, in July, though no-one knows why fatal-fall deaths peak in December. perhaps it is as a result of putting up the Christmas decorations?  ~

~  One ounce of cress contains enough cyanide to kill two mice.  ~

~  Alaska is the only US state which can be typed on a single line of a typewriter keyboard.  ~

~  Only one bachelor has been elected US President.  James Buchanan, in 1857.  His niece, Harriet lane, served as his first lady.  ~

~  The banana is not a true fruit; it is a berry.  ~

~  Giraffes cannot cough or swim.  ~

~  Even before his head was cut off, King Charles 1 was only 4ft 7in.  ~

~  There is enough energy in the daily flatulent output of a single sheep to power a small truck for 25 miles.  ~