I really must get a life and stop posting here - well, my mum is ringing her bell for something and the cleaning lady will be here in a few minutes and I must amble up to the square to partake in my breakfast and consider what to do for the rest of the day!
Quite right - I genuinely know I'm not genuine and actually have a t-shirt that has a government health warning 'Do NOT date this guy' on it................. I find illiterate women so much more appealing these days!
One or two on an almost daily basis - half a dozen on a less frequent basis. I think the normal 'span of control' is about six to ten people - we might belong to a bigger 'tribe' of maybe a thousand aquaintances buy most people can only handle half a dozen or so regular contacts without going a little 'loopey'!
I've been in Germany for a week - got back late last night.
It was fun.................. I really enjoyed doing some hard physical labour helping a 'handyman' cut down 30+ trees in my darling's garden; trouble is we did too good a job and will not be able to wallow naked in her pool this summer; unless I put up a fence between a couple of remaining 40/50 foot high conifers!
Good people die. Bad people die. I'm totally ambivalent on whether the young woman was 'good' or 'bad'. I say a prayer for all the 'unknown' thousands of people who die each day.
Should there be any dignity in death?
Should you make your sad little marriage a public occasion or just for family, loved ones and friends?
Should you spend your last few weeks and days and hours alone with those nearest and dearest to you safe in the belief that your kids will have a secure future? (your husband could always sell the £200,000 Bentley and the fancy mansion if the kids education was that important).
Should you revel in publicity even trying to make a deal being interviewed on your death bed and maybe even the moment you die?........ but that wouldn't quite be acceptable to tv audiences in the UK - not quite yet!
Some people have dignity - some don't............ I think death should be a dignified affair, and not yet another publicity stunt.
Loving mother doing the best in the last few weeks of her life for her two little boys?
We have free education in the UK. She had enough money already. Money does not buy you happiness. I'd rather have spent a few quality hours with a parent rather than a parent leave me more money I didn't need.
My opinion - her hunger for publicity did not make her either a good or bad person................ but she was ultimately a sad and empty person whose obsession with making money from the media left her the way she always was - loud and ignorant to the very last, and totally lacking in the values and good taste that British people USED to be known for.
I think it's very sad for anybody to die from such a silent killer, but I have to admit to being one of the minority who didn't warm to her 'in your face' love of her own ignorance - maybe a terrible thing to say but she almost seemed to revel in the fact that she had something that could now cause her genuine sympathy and 'shut up' any of her detractors by then making them seem miserable.
My mother was fascinated by the woman and would tell me everytime she appeared on the WORLD (for God's sake) News.
I wasn't the least bit interested in the woman, but found it of slightly morbid interest that a nobody was made into a so-called 'celebrity' due to appearing on a cheap nasty reality show and manipulating the media to her infinite advantage.
But it goes to show that every human being has the capability of (was it Andy Warhol?) getting their 15 minutes of fame in a lifetime........... to drag it out and on and on for seven years was really quite remarkable. I don't believe she really gave a toss about warning other women (young and old) about cervical cancer, I don't honestly believe she even particularly cared about all the money she made - I DO believe that she really really enjoyed being in the spotlight and that's probably a very very human desire that maybe even many of us on CS share - right?
Krakow is supposed to be particularly beautiful; I met a lovely English teacher from Krakow in Warsaw several years ago - she travelled to meet me by train - I think it was about a six hour journey, but she said it was worth the time and effort to see me!
A miracle happened on Saturday....... Ireland won the six nations AND a Grand Slam for the first time since 1948 when they beat Wales. My eldest son is half Irish, a quarter English and a quarter Welsh. I should imagine he supported Ireland, but he hasn't told me yet!
Oh, I'm NOT Irish.............. I'm half English and half Welsh, but I'm pleased for the Irish team that they won.
A nice post but it still doesn't answer one simple fact - and that is that if God created everything God also created evil (or, at least the capacity for evil and that's not nice) - and if God created mankind in God's image then God also has the capacity for both good and evil and that's not 'nice' either, is it?
Sometimes I think that if God exists 'He' created us just for fun as 'He' was bored............. which also explains the voluntary aspect of the love thing - there is so much more satisfaction gained by experiencing freely given love than an enforced behaviour pattern - it seems that God as portrayed in the bible has all the human characteristics which include nasty ones too (or at least selfish ones) and it does seem to make more and more sense to be that God has been created by mankind rather than vice versa.
I really don't know - I tend to sit on the fence but find 'not knowing' (i.e. being agnostic) to be the most logical stance to take............ atheism seems to make more sense than many religious beliefs, but I guess it all depends on what one defines 'God' as being - and I'm undecided whether life was created or just happened and if it just happened that would rule out all sorts of wonderful alternative explanations I refuse to rule out in my ignorance of any so far undiscovered unified theorem of 'everything'.
I think he's ok..... after all his parents were Hungarian weren't they? I mean he's not a dyed in the wool 'Je n'aime pas le rost boeuff' type of Frenchman is he?
Mind you, he did kinda suck up to the Russians over Georgia - he was far too 'reasonable' and they walked all over him, right?
Hi Jan - I just got back from a week enforced 'no smoking' indoors which made me cut down a lot....... and I helped chop down over 30 trees on Friday and Saturday (ok, a chain saw did the 'chopping' and I just lopped off the bits from 1.5 metre lengths that will be used as firewood in three years time!) - only one large branch fell on the roof and broke half a dozen tiles; oh well, the tiles were soon replaced and I really enjoyed the physical labour!
If she really loved the guy she'd want him to feel secure and put any loan on a formal footing AND take out some life insurance just in case she got run over by a bus while walking along deep in an accountancy book!¬
Jolly good thing too........ if she was spending 110% of her time studying (by the way anything over 100% is impossible so that term freaks me out big time!) then she'd have no tome to clean the place and cook you food and wash your clothes - you'd be paying her to do nothing!
Ok, so above was kidding and of course it would be a pleasure for you to support the woman you love.............. BUT you need some security too..... and once she is a chartered accountant earning big bucks chances are she'll find somebody else who is moving in her new circle of friends and you'd have been left out in the cold anyway - that's life!
I shall remove their dangly bits, stick thermometers up their bum bums and use them as temple greeters when the faithful come and pay homage to the Mercurial One (whose name may not be uttered except by the chosen few whom I shall whisper unto them the Mercurial One's name once revealed unto me).
Let us pray:
"Oh Mercurial One (whose name we know not yet) Let us this day remove dangly bits from as many Tom cats as we can find And may the Tom cats change their evil ways and become unto purring puddy tats to serve You in Thy Temple.
We men are emotionally weaker than women - and it makes genetic sense........... men are really only good for procreating and being the servants of the women who have allowed them to father their children - for a servant to be summarily dismissed is a bitter blow....... while a woman still has to survive as she is normally the one who has to bring up the children and she cannot allow herself the luxury of self-pity.
Even sensible people fall in love......... you can hide but you shall be found! Good luck and remember that 'Where there's a will there's a way' - as long as you don't live on other planets!
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RE: Young Aussies
I really must get a life and stop posting here - well, my mum is ringing her bell for something and the cleaning lady will be here in a few minutes and I must amble up to the square to partake in my breakfast and consider what to do for the rest of the day!Ciao! Ciao!