The sizzling sunset that night turned into a sauteed sunrise the next day.

Surf was just right for my liking and the boards behaved bravely.

Out further, the four deck yacht displayed largely, and some completely naked, bodies to the sympathetic dolphins.

The intensity of reflections from simmering morning sun through upright sky-burning lighting made everything seem new and full of promise.

A promise one could keep.

There should be no others.

We created Really Awesome Delivery (R.A.D.) a few years ago.

It still works.

It is what it says.

Everyone can do it.

Or, take the course!

Drab neon and fluorescent subtleties greet the visitor.

We are all visitors some say.

Even living in a house originally built by a great grandfather does not mean you have set root in a place.

No, that takes centuries.

So longevity needs to grow by leaps and bounds to enable one family to be a fixture.

And this could be a good thing.

Consider a slow ponder – followed by doing something else!

The notebook cover showed images of a town surounded by hills.

There was no snow and yet the mountains had a whitish sheen, a sort of assumed alabaster.

Smoke spiralled from many of the chimneys of the houses, the pottery and the blacksmith.

A big sign shouted “Bank of Sideways – Loans you never regret”.

A gate secured the only road in.

A tavern and a string discotheque (acoustic only) seemed the only places where sounds of life being lived seeped beyond their walls into the street.

Notably, everyone smiled, even at strangers.

It was a long time ago, some said 100 years or more.

The author was walking from one village to another when she met a dog.

The dog stayed with her and deterred two thieves, an attacker and a conman.

She did not know how many times the dog saved here from bad events.

The dog remained a friend and guardian for many years, outliving her by a few.