Relatively speaking.

That’s not solid enough!

This is it. 

Make it so.

That’s better and much more solid.

Hard surfaces can be kinder than soft ones if  you are starting to build a wall.

Purple, green and the sky.

One above,the other lying in its usual position. Nothing to arouse suspicion.

The tiger leaped, the river wept and the wind gave an enthusiastic blow.

Sending people ahead of you may make you feel good and make them see it flow.

There’s a fund of chocolate fruit in front of you and the proceeds last forever.

Yours, to find out why!

In the bar there was an ancient car parked to one side of the long zinc counter. The car was converted into a seating booth.

The patrons were a mixed crowd and few ever used the car as their place to sit.

When the successful Formula 1 racing driver Flip Corner came in one night with his entourage, everyone suggested he sit in the car. He did not. Nor did any of his entourage.

But this particular night a historian, who as historians go was famous, accompanied by his girlfriend and her brother’s brother in law, visited the bar and decided the car was just the thing.

The car was historic and the historian had the keys to it.

Deciding what is worth doing oneself because it adds to our life, can be a subtle game.

It seems OK to get laundry done, letters mailed – if you still do that at all, meals cooked and other such things, by someone else. If you are busy then the other things seems more important and perhaps they are.

But throwing out the experience with the bath water can be done all too easily. Meaning, what seems like an irksome task may actually be an emotional nutrient in disguise.

Many in the past, have chopped their own firewood, which helped to scatter annoyance and wayward thoughts to the wind, yet many now would buy pre-chopped timber…ready logs. You lose the beneficial part of doing a task.

Just goes to show, it could be worth learning to drive a stick shift manual transmission car and steer and maneuver it yourself, before self-driving automatic transmission pods become the only game in town!

A mirror image of the houses and the steep, craggy cliff was reflected in the lake.

Nobody knew how the lake came to be there. There were stories of “before the lake….”, told as if a forbidden secret were being revealed.

In the summer people from the town came and rented houses at the edge of the lake for huge sums. Some local people moved out of their lakeside cabins to benefit from this healthy market for holiday accommodation.

The light, for it was so special, so different to that found anywhere else, was considered to be the main draw.

The children just saw water and splashing and swimming opportunities….that was enough.