DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS!

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome to another grey and miserable January day.  I think there is no point to January and it should banned.  If I were in charge Spring would appear imediately after Christmas with no January or February in between...lol!  I can`t upload any new graphics today because my FTP space is messing about, so I`ve had to make do with some old ones.  Shame, because I had a novel idea today but it can wait for another entry.

I did my weekly shopping in Tesco this morning, how I love to shop in an almost empty store.  All the checkout staff just sit there twiddling their well-manicured thumbs and chatting, well there`s not much else for them to do with hardly any customers!  The first shopping trolley I picked up just wouldn`t go in the direction I wanted it to go, so to prevent myself from pulling a muscle or worse, I changed it over for a deluxe model that did as it was told.  I managed to spend only a little more than last week and I felt quite pleased with my self, my little economy drive seems to be working.  After Tesco, I drove to the doctor`s surgery to collect my prescription.  It took me ages to find anywhere to park and I ended up on a muddy verge ( it was grass before the wet weather!)  Just so as I could pop in and straight out again.  It`s a big surgery with several thousand patients and just over twenty parking spaces, totally mad if you ask me.  I then drove over to Kerry`s to take a nice ripe mango and an avocado that I bought for Roman.  He loves mango and he eats it with Farley`s rusks or rice pudding  OR Petit Filou, there`s not much that he won`t eat, especially if it`s fruit.  He was in a very happy mood but Kerry said that he`d been miserable until I got there.  He just sat there with those huge big blue eyes and his lovely smile like a little angel.  Hmmm...says Kerry, "that`s what he`d like you to think!"  He really does know how to turn on the charm...typical male.  They start so young these days.....lol! 

Jim has nearly finished the varnish stripping. The old varnish was dark oak and looked really nice to start with but it looks so much lighter with the bare wood that it`s made me wonder if a lighter varnish is an option.  Jim wants it painted white...I don`t, the wood is too old to get a good smooth finish and I want a more modern look.  The hallways in these houses are very dark and despite having a window at the bottom of the stairs it doesn`t seem to make any difference, so light walls, doors and carpets are what`s needed, well maybe not the carpet.  In the downstairs hall we are having wood-effect ceramic tiles because they are easy to clean with Jake and his sometimes-muddy feet tramping around.  I know what I want, it`s all about making sure that it`s what Jim wants too, he will though, it just takes a bit of time persauding him what`s best. ;o)

I`m going in to town tomorrow and I`ll be having my first weigh in since I`ve `refined` my eating habits.  I`ll say here in public that I`m certain I`ve lost weight...I will  tell you all about it tomorrow. I will go and finish off my journal reading now, have a lovely peaceful evening and take care.

 

 

 

Some Animal Facts

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

A capon is a castrated rooster.

A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.  

A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.

Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.

At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.

Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.

Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.

By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.

Camel milk does not curdle.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.

Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.

Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.