Everyday worries - they sometimes play an annoying part in our lives, don't they, as this group of flat-sharers found out recently in Basingstoke, Hampshire, just down the road from where my light-to-moderate wife Lois and I have lived since January, for our sins (!).
And let's hope that the silent majority of the apartment's flat-sharers will finally pull themselves together and "rescue" that battered old Tesco "Mista Barista" from that skip and restore it to its rightful place on the kitchen worktop, and above all, STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT !!!!
"Don't worry - be happy!", as the man said! And the eldest of mine and Lois's 5 grandchildren, Josie (18) has been showing us the way in the last couple of weeks. Although anxiously awaiting her A-Level results this summer, she threw caution to the winds and joined her parents and siblings on a dream fortnight's holiday in faraway Mauritius.
our eldest granddaughter Josie (left) with her parents and siblings
picture this week during their dream holiday on Mauritius, now come to an end
The family - our daughter Josie, husband Edward, plus children Josie, Rosalind (17) and Isaac (15) - just yesterday just returned from their Indian Ocean idyll, to find out that Josie in fact got all the A-Level results she could have dreamed of, with 3 x A* and 1 x A grades, and now has a guaranteed place from September in her favoured university - Durham, all the way up there in the far north of England.
Bless her! All her hard work rewarded! And the news came Lois and me something to celebrate this morning on our daily walk, as we "trudged" briskly (!) through the mud and scrambled through the bushes, picking the odd blackberry along the way, as you do (!).
Whether Josie was secretly worrying about her upcoming A-Level results while on holiday in Mauritius, we can never know for sure, but it certainly didn't look like it from the pictures she sent back, which was nice!
our eldest granddaughter Josie (18), enjoying the delights of
faraway Mauritius on the shores of the Indian Ocean
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The moral - if one of YOUR flat-mates is slowly gentrifying YOUR apartment, don't worry about it!
Just lie back on your shiny new Darlings of Chelsea hand-crafted Lewisham sofa and enjoy it!
You know it makes sense!!!
Yes, worry can stop you doing the things you really want to do, like, for instance, conquering Europe, when it's at home (!), something I think most of us have dreamed of doing, at some point or other in our lives! Am I right? Or am I right !!!!
You may scoff, but this actually happened nearly 2000 years ago, according to tonight's fascinating documentary on the PBS America channel.
The Battle of Alesia, in 52BC in central France, a battle which Lois and I had never heard of, was actually a battle with a capital 'B', drawing comparisons with the whole of the Napoleonic Wars and the battles of World War I put together, in terms of the number of men involved on the two sides: the Romans, led by Julius Caesar, and the Gauls, led by charismatic Gallic leader Vercingetorix (crazy name, crazy guy!).
Back in 52BC Caesar and his Roman army had got Vercingetorix "holed up" in a hilltop fort on M. Auxois in central France and were preparing for a long siege. Vercingetorix hit back by getting a relief Gallic army to "besiege" Caesar's besiegers.
the battle of Alesia in central France in 52BC: in the middle can be seen
Gallic leader Vercintetorix's hilltop stronghold of Alesia; and around it,
the defensive walls of Julius Caesar's Roman army which was laying siege,
while being itself surrounded by the Gauls' relief army besieging the Romans
- what madness !!!
The Gallic leader now had Caesar and his army in a vice-like grip, sandwiched between the two Gallic forces, and he was poised to strike a decisive blow and annihilate them.
However, Vercingetorix was too worried to do take that final decisive step. He was unsettled by a lunar eclipse that had happened in the night, a phenomenon considered by many as "a bad omen" in those crazy, far-off days, and he decided to postpone his seemingly inevitable victory and "pencil it in" for later in the week, as you do (!).
Caesar, who wasn't worried about eclipses, took full advantage of Vercingetorix's inaction, and went on the attack. Eventually Vercingetorix surrendered to Caesar, and the rest is history.
surrenders to Julius Caesar (right) and throws himself on Caesar's mercy
Poor Vercingetorix !!!!
So don't let your worries stop YOU from following YOUR dream, be it conquering Europe, or just savouring a luxury cup of coffee. Make it happen !!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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