Aren't pockets useful!
And, dear Reader, I'm not trying to be nosey, but do you have any pockets on you as you read these words? I know I do, as I write the actual words myself. However, if you've bought any new garments in the last 20 years you may find that they don't have any pockets - so-called "smart" fashion designers have "phased them out", on the grounds that they somehow "spoil the line" of the garment. What a madness that is, isn't it!
I bought a pair of so-called "modern" pyjamas last year, in Grayshott, Surrey, while we were house-sitting for our daughter Alison and family.
MY EXCLUSIVE REVIEW (headline only): ONE STAR ONLY - NOT ONE POCKET IN SIGHT!
flashback to July 2023: I buy a pair of modern, pocketless,
so-called pyjamas in Grayshott, Surrey, while Lois and I
are staying at our daughter Alison's house in Headley.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
Crazy, because, especially for recovering hippo-holics like me, pockets are a godsend, let me tell you. I had a shiny new hip installed nearly 4 weeks ago at Redditch Hospital, and for the first 6 weeks of my new hip, when going up and down stairs, I'm advised to carry a stick in one hand and hold onto the hand-rail with the other. So how do you carry a monster bag of crisps with you as well, for example? I think I should be told, don't you?
My temporary "fix" for this problem is this: in the early morning at least, I always wear a pair of my so-called "unfashionable" old-style pyjamas. My blue pair has 3 pockets just in the jacket which is nice.
When you first see me, you think I've just got just one item of cutlery in my top pocket, and then your glance drifts downwards, and you realise I'm actually carrying a full set - knife, fork and spoon. Like so.....
at first glance I appear to be carrying just one
item of cutlery, in the top pocket of my pyjama jacket...
...but when your glance drifts downwards, you realise
that I'm actually carrying a full set - knife, fork and spoon -
in my blue pyjama jacket's generous 3 pockets.
So there you are, Bob's your uncle, and I'm ready, with knife, fork and spoon, for a full English breakfast of bacon, egg, toast and marmalade etc, without any fuss or delay. Perfect result isn't it.
And that's not all you can do with your pockets. If the conditions are right, and it's safe to do so, parents can even carry children in their pockets, apparently, just like kangaroos do.
I was very interested, and quite pleased, to read in our local Onion News that the current "fashion" for millennial parents to have just one big baby, rather than 2 or 3 average-size offspring, is now being challenged by a newer, competing trend, which is to having several tiny offspring able to be carried around by parents much more easily, in guess-what - their pockets of course!!
This was the recent Onion News article - but be sure to read it to the end: the sting is in the tail !!!!
Which of these 2 trends will win out in the end with today's millennials? It'll be interesting to see, to put it mildly!
19:00 Having large numbers of tiny children happens a lot in the animal world, doesn't it, as Lois and me are reminded this evening when watching Countryfile, a TV series highlighting issues and developments in the rural areas of the UK, wiht the focus tonight on England's smallest county Rutland, which holds the country's largest man-made lake, Rutland Water.
And if you don't like creepy-crawlies, look away now, I should!
We hear on tonight's programme, that with climate change, researchers have documented that the incidence of ticks is increasing tremendously, and the tick season is getting longer. Ticks are a problem for cattle as well as pets, and so are a risk to UK food production, potentially making us more dependent on imported food.
Yikes!!! Thousands of horrid little baby ticks, just from one mother tick.
And ticks aren't the only things that are reproducing like crazy in Rutland Water. These little guys (see below), the lesser waterboatmen (micronecta scholtzi), although only about an inch long, are also busy propagating themselves, and, what's more, they don't bother to be discreet, or to keep quiet about it, like most species tend to do. The more noise the better, apparently.
Lois confirms what I've always suspected, that in the human species such a phenomenon - the sound of a passing freight train from an "interested" male - would tend to be a "turn-off" for most females, but it obviously has the opposite effect with the waterboat-women.
But what a madness it all is !!!!
21:00 To get some sanity back in our brains, we wind down for bed with this week's edition of Bettany Hughes new series on Treasures of the World. Tonight she's in Bulgaria.
Lois and I are always so touched when Bettany is travelling in some far-off country, and a local woman or two are obviously delighted to recognise Bettany from her TV documentaries and become very excited to see her in person. And it's nice to see Bettany always responding by giving her fans a little hug.
Bettany's programmes must be being shown all over the world, that's for sure, and even in Bulgaria, as we see tonight.
presenter Bettany Hughes, here being recognised by one of her
army of fans, here in a remote little town in Bulgaria.
Tonight Bettany is enthusiastic as ever, sifting through some of Bulgaria's archaeological relics, which testify to the area's unique position as the crossroads of many cultures, from Europe through to Asia and on to Egypt and North Africa.
Bulgaria is also the place where the world's oldest worked gold has been found, at Varna, where we see a cemetery, only excavated in recent decades, and originating from the age when the earliest farming was also being developed. And we see the astonishing intricacy of early gold artefacts associated with an unknown great king who lived, died and was buried here, around 6,500 years ago.
This civilisation, which flourished for some centuries before being destroyed, probably by earthquakes, nourished a strong belief in the afterlife, so all the graves are packed with stuff people thought their dead relatives would need in the next world: jewellery, weaponry, some other interesting aids, and all that kind of malarkey, like this collection, that was buried with this unknown great king, artefacts all made of gold, and all more or less wrapped around the appropriate parts of his body, as he would have been laid in his grave.
So, jewellery, armour etc for the next world, but also a contraceptive device. And it's interesting that the issue of birth control in the afterlife hasn't really been given enough attention in the past, as I'm sure you'll agree.
I imagine, however, that childcare facilities etc in the afterlife would be at a premium, so fair enough, perhaps, to continue to "take precautions", even when you're dead !
I wonder..... !!!!
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!
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