mistakes are part of life, they teach us through experience. but if we let them get on our way too much, they will invade us and make us regret.
Regret is the most useless emotion in the world, and we should guard against it. No good dwelling on the past.
Past masters at navel-gazing, that's us. Good advice from Clary as usual- but why did Frank Sinatra rhyme "exemption" with "mention" in "My Way"? Or was it Paul Anka?
Anka is a name that's a blast from the past. Likewise Bobby Darin who adorned my wall when I was about 12 but my friends referred to as Bobby Drain.
Drain your glasses, gentlemen, and let's have another! Landlord, a flagon of your best porter for my guests!
Guests in this youth hostel have to pay over the odds for the internet. However, the rooms themselves are cheap.
Cheap is fine if quality is not sacrificed. I usually go for the more expensive item, thinking it will be better, but I fear frequently this is illusory.
illusory is something that is unreal or merely imagined.
Like me speaking english fluently!
Fluently spoken english is paradoxically most frequently to be found in Ireland, that mystical isle of blarney and good will, and bad will too, but thank God mostly good.
Good will is all around at this time of year but also quite a lot of aggression from stores trying to sell you stuff. I visited a large mall and bought lots of things so hopefully won't have to do much more shopping.
Shopping goes with sex, does it not? As a phrase which has crept into the language, sex 'n' shopping, I mean. Although in my case, regrettably not; shopping 'n' penury, more like.
Like it or not, i won't give in, so shut up.
"Shut up shop" is what our football commentators say when the are describing the actions of a team which is defending resolutely. "They got the goal early doors then they shut up shop" is a typical utterance; bizarre i'n't it.
It is, but then so much of our revered language is bizarre. Even the word bizarre is somehow weird.
Weird too- it always looks rong to me, as if I'd spelt it wrongly. Amazing what rubbish you can come up with when you have just come back from the pub.
Pub talk can be illuminating and instructive. But it usually isn't.
isn't that just the cutest thing you ever did saw? ^_^
Saw plenty of logs this winter, all you people in the northern US and Canada, it's going to be a particularly long hard winter. Or so they say.
thieves are stealing sanitary sewers iron cast covers in France
[Hey Francis, this game works as follows: Start your post with the last word of the previous post, and write two sentences, or thereabouts.
Cast iron sanitary sewer covers theft? A fairly common problem here too. They break them up with a sledgehammer and sell them to a metals dealer as scrap. And leave a big hole for unwary peds to fall into.]
Going from "Say"
Say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, anything at all? Or do you have to switch your reading light on? I do.
