Ok - I've remembered to call in.
*Thunderous applause and Standing ovations*

I've Had the holiday - but I've also Had coming back!
No Pleasing Me At All!

Work is Great, Friends are Great, Love Life Not Bad after being together for nearly 30 years.
Kids - yeah well....if they don't move, eventually We Will!

ME? Totally cheesed off and disgruntled over Any Number of issues that are not quite within my control and my head hurts from banging it against the wall!

Why? Well it Does feel better when I stop! lol

Sometimes FT is my sanity patch.
I like to write, have for years but used to keep it to myself.
So Nice to find the rapport here and Want to share!

Maybe this is my time to let out the Book that is said to live in each of Us!

How's the Rest of the World? :)


Julie

"Sailing the Whitsunday's - Part One" . (to be continued)

Now that I've set 'sail' I'll need to make regular postings to stay afloat!

You Think English is Easy???

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'


You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP

When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP .
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, or now my time is UP, so......... Time to shut UP!

 

ANZAC Day has always been a day of emotion for me -  from the time I was very small I can remember having Someone Going to war, Somewhere.

One cousin did not return from the Second World War, my Great Uncle fought in Egypt ( I have a scarab as a memento of him), another has fought in Korea and then Vietnam.

 

Still it seems, We are Fighting!

 

While ever we send the Best of us off to fight for the Rest of us, we should take some time to think of the shattered families and interrupted lives that follow our troops wherever they may be.

 

ANZAC Day is for the Fallen - those who left,  Never to Return.

It is also a meeting - for those who returned, who shared the mateship and hardship that war brings.

 

At Dawn's first light tomorrow,  as I stand in the silence at the Cenotaph and listen to the bugle play the last post in tribute, I will wish for a more pefect world for us all.

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep,
though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 

Quite a Few Changes over the past few months - new friends have come...some have gone again.
Life in a virtual world is no different to A Real Life.
We share our fun and pleasure with each others company, tease and have discussions about whatever takes our fancy that ten seconds.
However, life can be transient and so here are my wishes for my part of the world!


May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours!