Wednesday 7 March 2012

Swings & Roundabouts

Today started in the most miserable of fashions.

Outside the sky was sullen and heavy, rain hunching the shoulders of those unfortunate enough to be in Mother Nature's company. Inside things were equally leaden, the unhappiness of loved ones like dark clouds.

I left the house feeling unsettled and adrift, a rain-slicked world doing little to assuage my mood.

Later, I saw a Chinese guy on a fold-up bike cycling in the rain at 2mph holding a pink umbrella. With a frilly edge.

This afternoon we are on a holiday booking spree and I am going out to have pizza this evening. I am under strict instruction that the real world is off limits for tonight, so discussion will be limited to dinosaur swans and unicorns riding ponies. Unfortunately the juggling dwarves are already booked elsewhere.

Maybe the world ain't so bad after all.

NDC

4 comments:

  1. Hope you have a great evening...hope all is well with loved ones too x

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  2. Unicorns riding ponies? Inconceivable!

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  3. Anyone with a frilly umbrella makes the world a better place. And nights booking holidays are worth waiting for !

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  4. Libby - I'm now fully of the opinion that pizza should be available on the NHS. The world is a better place today.

    3T - I know. In my day I'd have been happy with a monkey riding a pig.

    ALW - It was quite impressive. Maybe Lance Armstrong could have learnt a thing or two about wet weather riding.

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