Yes, Friends, has YOUR 'squeeze' already planned YOUR Valentine's experience?
Most of them have, according to what I read this morning in the local Onion News for East Hampshire! Here's just one example - thumb your way through to page 94 !!!!
my wife Lois and me - a recent picture
Our own Valentine's is pretty much planned already - we bring forward our weekly shower to today, to leave tomorrow clear. And we have our Valentine's lunch reservation already booked for tomorrow at 12 noon sharp, so that it won't "cut into" statutory afternoon nap-time, and that's our present to each other.
And this morning, I work on my home-made Valentine's Day card to Lois. No surprise that my card is very much "mud-themed" this year, with all the "squelching" that's been going on lately with us as a couple, both in our daily walks, and just, well, generally-like !!!!
That information about my card is top secret, by the way, till 7:30am tomorrow morning, when I bring Lois her first cup of tea in bed, and reveal my this-year's "masterpiece" (!). And health warning - don't try to "penetrate" the "redacted" text on the front of it, by the way, whether with special Superman-style glasses or whatever: this particular "editing" exercise has been carried out by my friends in the White House, who are becoming very experienced at it !!!! Only joking, by the way - I haven't really got any friends in the White House!!! [You don't say! - Ed]
flashback to this morning: a plainly exhausted-looking me
proudly showcasing my this-year's home-made Valentine's Day card
You wouldn't believe it from looking at us, but we've actually managed to "bring about" the existence of 5 lovely grandchildren, - indirectly !!!!! = by bringing two daughters into the world, back in the 1970's, daughters who themselves have had children - that's-what the word "grandchildren" means, incidentally, in case you didn't know (!!!!).
And this morning, I'm delighted to see, on my phone, as part of my daily GooglePics feed, memories of pictures taken on today's date, February 13th, throughout the decades, which is nice! Including these two "doozies", one from February 13th 2013 and one from February 13th 2014, if you want "chapter and verse"!!!
(left) flashback to this day in 2013: Lois dancing with our eldest grandchild, little
Josie (7), in Copenhagen during our son-in-law Edward's 6 year stint in the city,
and (right), in 2014, our daughter Sarah, laughing her head off at the antics of her
twin daughters at the family's home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Awww!! Happy days !!!!!
That "little Josie" is now a first-year maths student at Durham, with her younger sister Rosalind getting offers from the likes of Durham, Bath and UCL London making up her university choice for this coming September, and younger brother Isaac thinking about where to study for his Mandarin Chinese degree, if you please (!).
And those twins "romping" with mum Sarah in that playpen (see picture above!) are now 12-year-olds living in Perth, Australia, and they've just started "big school" - a private grammar school in the city's northern suburbs would you believe!!! It's all totally mad!
(left) "little Josie", now 19, seen rightmost in this photo of the family on a skiing trip to Sweden,
and (right) our twin grandchildren Jessica and Lily in their new "grammar school"
uniforms, seen here in the garden of the family's home in Perth, Australia
Once more, it's just busy busy busy!!!! [You lazy bastards! - Ed]
Poor bitterns !!!!!!
Despite his reputation, however, at one point during the King's visit to Holyrood, all the ladies present queued up enthusiastically to get a royal kiss from him. And the King "got through" an astonishing 457 of them, in just one hour. Surely something for the Guinness Book of Records (?).
The shiny-new "merlin birdsong app" on my phone even tells us today that it's hearing a so-called "Eurasian bittern", whatever that is when it's at home! Apparently, it's officially Britain's noisiest bird, according to Google, and its cry "sounds like a foghorn", so presumably the app has made a genuine "ident" (?).
But your views welcome - postcards only !!!!!
some pictures of bitterns, which I find later today, when I "google" the bird
Lois and I don't actually see the bird this morning, despite the fact that it's quite a big bird, but later, when Lois looks it up in her "bird book", she says it's a bird that likes to "skulk", so a bit like us haha!!! So fair enough, we didn't see it, but it was probably watching us, which is a bit unnerving !!!!
us on our walk through the mud (!) this morning , on Old Man Lowsley's Farm, listening out
for a bittern, officially the UK's noisiest bird, according to Google and Lois's "bird book" (!)
What a crazy world we live in !!!!! The Guardian newspaper said the following in a thoughtful editorial a few years ago:
21:00 We go to bed on a fascinating Channel 5 programme about Scottish palace, Holyrood House, in Edinburgh.
Lois and I didn't know that George IV had made a historic visit to Holyrood in 1822, a visit dubbed "The King's Jaunt", because it was chiefly a bit of a publicity stunt to advertise the palace's historic role in the story of the Scottish monarchy. And it was also the first visit to the palace by a British monarch since 1651, so nearly 200 years.
George, quite early on in his reign, had come to be looked on as something of a joke in Britain generally. This was the golden age of the satirical cartoon, and George was a regular victim of them, we're told.
For publicity purposes, writer and historian Sir Walter Scott, who was stage-managing the visit, had persuaded the King to wear a Scottish Highland kilt.
The kilt that the King chose to wear, however, is said to have divided opinion amongst the Scottish ladies who had been invited to the King's reception.
What a crazy world they lived in, back in those far-off times !!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!
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