Yes, Rejoice! The Solstice is gone! From here on it gets lighter — though heaven knows it never feels like it until the end of February. But for those of use with SAD, the corner has been turned once more.
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Pretty Blue Pussy
Friday Five: The only nasty thing I like
1. What’s the last movie you saw?
At the cinema: probably Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Pictures at an Exhibition in 1973. On TV probably some Lord of the Rings-ish thing last Christmas. See, I keep telling you I don’t do films.
2. Are you gentle?
Me? Gentle? Oh do be realistic, I’m about as gentle as a clumsy hippo!
3. Do you sleep with your bedroom door shut?
Nope, not at home, not usually even when we have people staying; we both hate shut doors. Tend to shut the door at other peoples’ (except my mother’s) but really only ‘cos most of them do. And when I was a student, although I shut my room door at night it was never locked, and often left ajar when I was in during the day. In this house shut doors are really only for one thing: to keep a cat penned in – and even so most of the doors can’t shut ‘cos there are things (like a pile of books) in the way.
4. What’s your middle name?
Cullingworth — my mother’s maiden name. Not many around and none now in my line of the family as my mother was one of four sisters. Cullingworth is a small village in Yorkshire, so the family come from there originally.
5. Friday fill-in:
I could learn to like not having to work to eat.
[Brought to you courtesy of Friday Fiver]
Nuclear Sunrise #1
Nuclear Sunrise #1, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This morning’s cold December sunrise, reworked artistically in Photoshop.
Quote: Atheists & Conscience
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It’s a little easier if you’ve got a god to forgive you.[Ian McEwan; Sunday New York Times Magazine;
02 December 2007]
Sunrise with Crow
Sunrise with Crow, originally uploaded by kcm76.
Taken early this December morning through the study window.
Crab Apple Star
Autumn is here, with all its glorious colours!
Excessive DUST?!
Absolutely brilliant — so much so it is stretching my credulity neurons.
As @j-sin syas: I’ve lived in the UK long enough to know that this is the only country where “leaves on the track” stop our trains but this seemed a new level of sillyness. Was the dust “high in fat or low in fat” I wonder?
Our Cats – Happy Furry Friday
As it’s furry Friday I thought I ought to upload pictures of our current two cats. So here they are: Harry above; Sally below …
They are now about nine. And no, Harry and Sally weren’t our choices of names; they’re rescues which we acquired some 8 years ago when they were about a year old; they’d been dumped on the doorstep of our local Blue Cross centre (in Hammersmith, London) with Sally heavily pregnant; the staff chose their names. Sally’s six kittens were spoken for almost before they were born, but no-one wanted these two really lovely friendly young adults. Harry greeted us for the first time by rolling on his back and demanding attention; he’d obviosuly said to Sally “It’s alright dear, you look after the kids and I’ll do the PR stuff”! The staff at Blue Cross were so glad we wanted them that they wouldn’t even let us see any other cats!
Rauf the Taxi
One of my friendly local cab drivers. Totally unposed; he had no idea I was going to take it when he next turned towards me. Luckily we were sitting in stationary traffic at the time!