Life's A Picnic

Global Warming

My good friend Kit suggests that Global warming may be a hyped up load of old bollocks. Well, he didn't say exactly those words but that was what he was implying when we had a chat about it. He thinks the fact that we all like FAT too much will have a lot to do with it.This meaning we get a lot of fat in our diet from meat and a heck of a lot from milk and cheese. We love it!

However, all this milk and cheese comes from...

Picnic Philosophy on Planning

Planning Regulations

I am talking of the buildings variety. The subject doesn't tickle me, quite frankly, it winds me up. Par example. My little cottage faces the road and opposite me is a row of houses and a marine engineers. They, all have river views. Last year when embarking on a complete house renevation here I applied to have a dormer window to the front of the house, you see there is a dip in level of the building opposite, which means the room I write from has great river views. But! I wasn't allowed a dormer window as it would face the road. The houses opposite however, have balconies, conservatories all within view of the river. How are they allowed to do this...

Please Love My Dog!

I was walking my dog along the railway track by the river this morning and was thinking. We are a crazy race are we not?!

Us dog lovers LOVE our dogs. We LOVE them, hugely. We, would do almost anything for them. After all, they offer us so much pleasure, undivided attention and unconditional love.

HOWEVER!! Doggy 'do', dog turd, dog 'shit' prevents the people that don't own OUR dogs from loving them. You know what I'm saying here??

I walked past several of the above nasties on my walk and it made me just as angry as the non dog owners would have been walking along that path.

OWNERS... get a bag, a shovel or something and CLEAN IT UP! Please.

It's funny, because for some amazing reason my dog is a Lady. She only ever craps in the bushes, unless she has been on the baked beans..ha ha. She does!! She sort of finds a quiet spot, turns her back and gets on with the job, so to speak. Invariably, I pass and admire my clever dog for being so polite and if she catches me looking (you know what I mean, obviously not 'looking', she sort of looks embarrassed)!!

We don't all have clever dogs, or maybe we do. One man in the village, his dog always craps on the railway bridge. Maybe the dogs just having a laugh.

Good Deed Done

Since I've started writing this blog, I have been thinking heck of a lot. I think 'heck of a lot' anyway, but now.. thinking even more! Part of that is this... I want to earn quite a bit more dosh, lolly, pounds, dollars and for some funny reason I think that'll help me achieve want I want. More about all that later.

But for now. Well. I have learnt that you, or 'one', can make an instant decision on something and change your life dramatically. It can be done in an instant. Now, the trouble with me is that I was one of life's incredible procrastinators. Even there, on typing, I had to stop and think about that sentence! I have, for it seems a lifetime been thinking about the good deeds that I would like to do. I have, honest. However, I have been so busy working, trying and procrastinating that... well...I have never committed. Never actually pulled any of it off.

So. Here goes. You get to bear witness of an instant change. Exciting huh?!

So what do I want to do as a good deed?

My wonderful Dad aged only 54 died of a brain tumor when I was just 20. I loved him to bits. It probably took the best part of the next 12 years to mourn my loss. But. What have I done to give something back in terms of the big 'C' in general?? Answer: sweet diddley squat, thats what . And, and I know I'm not meant to start a sentence with 'and' but I feel it suits... and.. every frigging marathon that comes up, I think about what I haven't done, I think about what I could have raised. I think about offering a few pennies from each person that comes on my Picnic Boat to a cancer charity, but then I change my mind, because really, I am not in a position to do that yet.

However..