A life less digital

Tag: womble

  • You ungrateful cow

    That’s a big ungrateful “Moo” from me

    Would you like a whinge with your excellent coffee today? I would. It’s almost a reflex:

    “No sugar thanks. (The man on the bus smelt like old sausages.) Full fat milk please. (I hate filling in forms.) Just a regular size coffee today. (Charity muggers are taking over the streets.)”

    I am making an extra special effort to find some things that make me smile, and that I can be grateful for.

     Culturally-sensitive Wombles

    I got this dark-furred Womble from McDonalds many years ago. It made me laugh. [I love the Wombles, but why are there so few girl Wombles? Can’t find any mention of asexual reproduction of their species on the Web. ]

    Dark fur Womble toy
    Now if only they made an Asian Womble too…

    Defrosting the freezer

    I love the triumphant feeling of hacking off a Really Big piece of ice from my frosted up freezer. Such a satisfying sharp crack as it breaks off.

    Freezer ice chunk
    Champion ice chunk from my freezer.

    Beautiful words

    The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.  Here’s one of the bits I love in this poem:

    “For I have know them all already, known them all-

    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

    I know the voices dying with a dying fall

    Beneath the music from a farther room.

    So how should I presume?”

    I found a weird old 1999 Hypertext (old skool WWW-speak) version here http://www.usask.ca/english/prufrock/index.html. Click on the first link under the ‘Contents’ heading. Or there is a celebrity version with Anthony Hopkins reading it on YouTube.

    My sticker collection

    I found my old sticker collection! I hoarded these stickers for years, and am gradually, grudgingly passing them on to my daughter. My mum-self is so pleased to see how excited she is by them. My childhood-self years still thinks they are too precious to actually stick to anything…

    Sticker collection in box
    I used to love that Knitting Ring too.
    ice cream sticker picture
    How my old stickers have a new life now.

    And here’s one I wrote earlier…

    Pretty things offscreen. The more of my time that is sucked up by websites, email, television and mobile phones, the more I appreciate solid physical beauty.  Here are some pictures of pretty things I have seen offscreen…

    Pictures of words. Someone has poured concrete in to my sinus cavities (I have a cold). This is a lazy ‘picture post’ today.  I am too tired to write many words, so here are some pictures of words that have made me smile …