Bachelor number ONE - house-trained, good at DIY and mechanical stuff, occasionally a little gruff but very popular with dogs and cats - I could go on? A nicely balanced list of, shall we say, 10 pros, 3 cons?
The fee will be very manageable, too. The full rave (complete with imported praise singer) is quite expensive, but a balanced credible list is a positive BARGAIN
Imp, now that I think about it, that's possibly what a shrink is - a left-baggage office
Real baggage has the advantage, if they don't come back and don't pay, you get to open the case and sell the contents.
Emotional baggage, ew, already peeked unwillingly into enough trunks and boxes for several lifetimes - and the resale value, except possibly for a romantic novelist, is zero
I WAS going to say if the person ticks all your other boxes the advantage of the transport is that it can go missing between the airport and the mountain. But I'm not entirely sure whether we're talking baggage or, you know, baggage.
Better she goes to babysit than the kiddies get sent to yours for the whole summer, no?
Imp - we talking emotional or literal here, now? I wonder if I could store emotional baggage for people too, the best part is they'd never come back for it
I have one of the little ones, with the brim you can tilt every which way, although they don't spring to life quite so crisply after being crushed a few times. Like a handkerchief on the head, weightwise, and bliss ...
One of my favourite photo jokes is a horse in closeup, peering down at the camera - caption 'I'm sorry, did I forget to tell you I was going to stop?'
One of my favourite sayings - life is best seen from the back of a horse. (can't remember who said it, but oh YES)
I love horses, have been riding longer than I can remember, did my BHSAI at 17, and at one point when I was married and living on a smallholding we had seven horses - bliss. Apart from hacking, my favourite horse activity was polocrosse, I have a vlog on my profile which has a great soundtrack.
No way I could afford to keep a horse in Scotland and I haven't ridden for years, maybe one day I will again.
No human relationship can match that intuitive link with a horse, you've made me very nostalgic now
Molly, this may astonish you but I share info on FB all the time. Honestly. Hard to believe, eh? I'm such a reticent shy type.
But then I'm mainly talking to family and the friends now scattered all over the world and they do want to know important stuff, like where I store my winter tyres.
Keepers, I am already nervously sourcing ways of dealing with extremely hot weather as my first Spanish summer is coming up and I left Durban many many years ago
Aircon? the cheap portable ones are noisy, can't be doing with that overhead fan? bought one for bedroom, just have to get it fitted and hope evaporating units? I'm told repeatedly they don't work Misting fan may be the answer, looking into those
Right now a very pleasant 22 degrees in the shade, according to the street thermometer on the corner (I was just out walking the dog) Nice!
Seriously. Ordered it for a holiday, it didn't arrive in time, but it is strutting its stuff here in Spain, mainly when I am going out on my own because certain people make rude comments about my hats
I love it nearly as much as my tatty black and it is of course much more versatile in a hot climate
Wow, I eat all those things anyway, lucky break. I wear SPF15 and love hats and so far so good, don't burn quickly or frizzle up and disappear. (Always a fear for the ginger, who as all know is half-vampire and shouldn't venture into daylight)
Funny thing though I survived 40 years in Africa, moved to Scotland and got a touch of skin cancer
Now in Spain in a house without windows, sorted. Ok it has windows but none face the sun directly.
Molly, true, and some books I loved were fed to me at school and I might not have persisted if not for the teacher being very firm about it
You mentioned James Joyce, there's a lad I have never been able to read for long
And To Kill A Mockingbird should have been on my list. that was one I did at school but have re-read at least twice since, can anyone tell us what her second book, released not long ago, was like? I was too scared (and actually too hectic at the time) to read it
Molly, the knack is in making the reader hang around despite wanting to bang their silly heads together
And Imp, yup, Harlequin and Silhouette very similar, I think they all (or used to) release a new book every week and the demand was endless, hence the relatively huge prices they paid authors. Really not sure what the current situation is because I can't remember when I last saw a stand with their books holding pride of place next to the till in bookshops - did I stop noticing? Did they stop doing it? So few people read nowadays.
'Why' was one of my first words, bet it was one of yours too. Life and people are constantly bewildering and have been since we were first toddling and driving our parents mad with why, why, why, why, why -
Abnormal.
Crest, that doesn't sound much of an ad for normalI'd also heard the formula 40 hours a week for 40 years to retire on 40% of your income, that sounded a bit more upbeat than the Graham Greene one
But maybe being abnormal isn't the worst option