Cats just love to get into tight spaces, under, in, between or stuck down the back of the sofa :~))
This video clip shows one defending it's space
And maybe we want to get down the back of the cat :~))
cat week ..... nr 5
Cats just love to get into tight spaces, under, in, between or stuck down the back of the sofa :~))
cat week ..... nr 4
There are various names for a collection of cats :
CLOWDER
POUNCE
CLUTTER
KINDLE, LITTER OR INTRIGUE (for kittens)
cat week ..... nr 3
There
is a new rage going round.. painted cats...There is a book about it with marvelous pictures such as these here.
cat week ..... nr 2
Cats seem to like hanging out in the tree tops. Small cats, big cats, abstract cats all seem to be doing in..
to get away from predators.
But is can be used to human advantage in a ruse..
The modern domestic cat that has to often live indoors, misses trees a lot, so clever designers have thought up ways of keeping them happy:
natural looking climbing frames for the purist or high design for the yuppies
there are more unusual animals that roost in trees.....
cat week ..... nr 1
Cats can be scary or really sweet :~))
I'll be looking into interesting cat facts for the rest of the week....
friends.....
I was not in top form yesterday and found it hard to get on with things at work. I felt like the wilted flower on the left, no amount of coffee bucked me up.The term that best describes this is :
lack·a·dai·si·cal
Some people use lackadaisical as a synonym for “lazy,” but that’s not quite what the word means. Lazy implies the deliberate avoidance of work in order to spare oneself effort. Lackadaisical implies lack of purpose. The lazy person has a purpose. The lackadaisical person is content to let things happen.The adjective lackadaisical derives ultimately from the word lack in the Middle English sense of “loss, failure, reproach, shame.” When people were overcome by the sadness, unfairness, or futility of life, they would put the back of their hands to their foreheads and exclaim “Ah, lack!” Then “Ah, lack” became the word alack. Then came the expression “Alack the day!”
On a day, alack the day!
Love, whose month was ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair,
Playing in the wanton air…
Shakespeare, “Love’s Perjuries”
“Alack the day” contracted to the interjection lackaday.
Lack-a-day became lack-a-daisy:
The whimsical adjective lackadaisical derives from the exclamation lackadaisy.
cornucopia
I recently heard the word cornucopia used in the BBC soap East Enders as 'a cornucopia of things in an antiques shop'... It's one of those words that if you say it a few times it becomes something really wierd :~))
cornucopia (in Latin also cornu copiae) or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, nuts, other edibles, or wealth in some form.
cornucopia (in Latin also cornu copiae) or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, nuts, other edibles, or wealth in some form.In America it's become synonymous with Thanksgiving and is often used as a centre piece for the table.
pumpkins...
Why is it that the whole of western Europe seems to have taken up the American tradition of placing pumpkins on their doorsteps ?
We never used to, we had harvest festivals with all sorts of local produce, but I don't recall pumpkins being among them.
Throughout Ireland and Britain, there is a long tradition of carving lanterns from vegetables, particularly the turnip, swede or mangelwurzel. (shown on the right)
The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the larger native pumpkin, which are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips.
I have tried to making pumpkin pie but it turned out a disgusting taste...
living will.....
A living Will is a statement expressing your views on how you would or would not like to be treated if you are unable to make decisions about your treatment yourself at the relevant time in the future. Odf course you can always have it tattoed on your chest.......... :~))
Mine will only become affective if I stop asking for wine, chocolate, Eastenders, chocolate, Jaffa Cakes, chocolate, wine, chocolate, chocolate....
The Living Will Society (South Africa)
cage rattling....
forgotten vegtables..
The mangelwurzel has a history in England of being used for sport (mangold hurling), for celebration, for animal fodder and for the brewing of a potent alcoholic beverage.
The manglewurzel also had a role in the cult TV kids show as Wurzel Gummidge's head, where it could often be heard to say things like "go boil your head."
Proud mangelwurzel growers showing their entry's for a garden show.
Video featuring mangelwurzels in the lead role !
my favorite science fiction films....
I'm not into Ape Planet or little green men form other worlds - it has to be 'science' 'fiction' !
One of the very first televised sci-fi programmas was Quatermass. It was a very low budget show sent out live by the BBC. I was very young when it was broadcast and used to watch it from behind the settee so that I could hide it was too scary !!!
Then great thing about science fistion is that it often comes true in time. Men on the Moon, rockets to Mars, genetic enginering etc......
Then great thing about science fistion is that it often comes true in time. Men on the Moon, rockets to Mars, genetic enginering etc......
Soylent Green : A 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green".
GATTACA : Ethan Hawke plays Vincent Freeman, a man wishing to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut, but whose genes were deemed too inferior for the job. The film asks hard questions about issues of DNA and genetic information: how do genes make the person? Which is stronger – genetic code or the human spirit? The film came out in 1997, when genetic engineering was in full swing and the human chromosome was being frenziedly mapped out. Nearly 15 years later, do we view things differently? 
K-PAX : is as an adult drama of self-discovery, blessed by the talents of costars Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey. Bridges plays Manhattan psychiatrist Mark Powell, who thinks he's seen it all until he's assigned to analyze Prot (Spacey), a psychiatric patient who claims to be from a distant planet called K-PAX. Powell is convinced that Prot is "a convincing delusional," but his cynicism turns to open-minded fascination as Prot's case reveals a combination of otherworldly insight and all-too-human trauma, prompting an earthbound explanation for Prot's allegedly alien origins. This curiously engrossing drama allows Spacey to create a provocative and humorously eccentric enigma, while Bridges superbly conveys his character's compassionate empathy. Their finely shaded performances raise K-PAX above the forced ambiguity of its ending, which is both thought-provoking and open to ones own interpretation.
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