glovergerl

Title: Where on earth can one see a single red ball on a snowy branch, for heaven's sake.
Author: bluegerl
Category. Them two again.
Rating... erm.
Thanks my lads. Snow fight follows, and buttered crumpets for tea, provided by sighing girlfriends.


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What a SUPER Birthday I had. Being me, I wasn't expecting much, if anything... birthdays have in the past, always been lost in Christmases. So my birthdays these days with LJ and Friends are becoming a different thing altogether ... whooooeeee.!!!

Well. I must get the brain in order.

Firstly, my LJ cards... Such a variety and super ones from , moth2fic , moonlustie (and how NICE of you to appear, I/we've missed you lately!)  From silvan_lady, gattodoro (drool dribble dribbles, teehee) calico_pye, cairistiona7 , doylebaby (and dear A.. I have your card too!) ,nverland, justjo2u, lindahoyland and margaret_r!!!

Emails from my Batty chum raven22372 aka Dagmar, and from dear rubyelf
and some super new ecards from j_flattermann, vjezkova, gattodoro, moth2fic.

I'm only STARTING on all this lot. What a wonderful busy day I had... still haven't been and commented on some of the cards...I WILL!    Innaminnit!

And then of course I had the stories. Oh such lovely stories - from silvan_lady with a Happy Ever After one knows ! slash_cave Just SOOOOOOO funny, I still hurt from laughing... and noalinnea - Vigbean...ahhhh drips and drools and ahhh. and from afra_schatz and the Profs at the Uni. who make me want to teach something there! Philosophy of Life?

And I mustn't forget a brown box that was SPOSED to be for Christmas, but I thought I'd peek and then close it again for that day...but it was FULL of little goodies.!  So I picked out a couple or two.... and the Orkney Tablet just COULD NOT BE PUT BACK! Not had that for a hundred years!! and ooohh my, its so good.(Made me think of very wicked things to do with a certain flat tum...its all smoooth, and melty - SILV!!)  I also ate the ears of the chocolate personage. I am NORTY.

It was a bloody marvellous birthday... seriously. Andrew came with a beautifully artistic arrangements of coloured foliage picked that morning from his garden and then took me out to lunch... long and nattery and rather boozy... teehee.

AND I checked out my bank balance... just checking!   (with a slightly twitchy feeling....) and found that the Pension Dept had PAID MY PENSION in at a pretty good rate of exchange too!


I MEAN  -- What can be better than a birthday like I had, in the warm clear blue sky-d Springlike sunshine. With all this to be so grateful for. Ye gods, I am - I feel wonderful!


(and if I've left anyone off the list... PLEASE don't be upset - I've just so MANY... and I may have missed someone... so tell me  and I'll add you on of course, with grovelling apols.   Oh my, its been a busy day ... )

LOVE YOU ALL ....  you're so kind to this old biddy... and you make me so very HAPPY !!!!

Thank you Vee for the lovely Snowmobile!  Tis ever so pretty, and the first page is Boromir and the rest of the Lotr family going for a swim! hahahahahahaha

I just couldn't resist this one!   Its the only funny in my life today so far.......

What ARE all those strange herioglygifiks up in the top row?... NOW I HAVE TO SORT THEM OUT.... and my server has just gone berserker with all change everything in my email connection, and I can't find anything, and my little red hearts have all gone black and white ghastly emoticons and they have decided WHAT I WANT IN MY MAILBOX and NOT WHAT I WANT !!!and I HATE THE BLOODY WORLD RIGHT NOW !!!

If I could drink I'd be swimming in Vin Rouge I can tell you!!!  I HATE DECEMBER ONE so far, and I bet the sodding car won't start as well.   Tis a BAAAAAAD DAY folks.

Tattoos.......................Just had a full stop for my Radiotherapy. ONE FULL STOP only!
Piercings.................... Just ears. (and a quantity of surgeries!)
Marriages.................... Two, one catastrophe and the second a miserable mistake.
Divorces......................Two... I got sensible.
Children..................... Wanted badly but ....
Surgeries.....................Can't count them all now..... never bloody ending!
Shot a gun................... Yes, many times - quite a good shot. (Only for the pot!)
Quit a job....................Ohhh yes, and twice I LOVED DOING IT... Hooray for me!
Flown on a plane..............yes - boring - like sitting on a bus.
100+miles in a car........... Yes Very very often, and even in a rally car and a Formula One BRM
Hit a deer....................Yes, but not a lotta damage
Gone zip lining...............EH... wozzat? Edited, googled, and OF COURSE I HAVE. A ravine in the sugar lands of northern Queensland. Used me belt that should have been holding up me pants!
Cried over someone............Yes - for goodness sake, of COURSE....!!!!
Fell in love..................Many times, but all unrequited!
Skipped school........ No surprisingly, but it was wartime, and so it was all broken up anyway.
Watched someone give birth....Delivered many many babies.
Watched someone die...........yes - part of my job as a nurse.
Been to Canada................yes - loved Toronto and living almost underground there.
Ridden in an ambulance........yes - with me rather too often, and with patients.
Been to Hawaii............... yes...
Been to Europe................Yes - live there. Good Place.
Been to Washington D.C........Nope
Visited Florida...............Nope
Visited Mexico................Nope
Visited Las Vegas.............Nope
Sang karaoke..................Hell yes, just for the dare.Total disaster cos I got the giggles.
Had a pet(s)..................No. A working gundog, horses, and a python in my wardrobe in Ozland.
Been sledding on big hill.....yes - on a tin tray!
Been downhill skiing..........not exactly 'skiing'... managed to get to the bottom okay.
Rode on a motorcycle....... ..Very fast, many times, wind in hair,a nd LOVE Harleys.
Rode a horse..................Yes - had four.
Stayed in a hospital......... yes - DO NOT ASK ME ABOUT HOSPITALS...LIVED ALL THIS YEAR in SEVERAL
Donated blood.................Yes,
Driven a stick shift..........yes - can't manage an automatic... hate the braking.
Rode in the back of a police car...Yes... after snogging with the boyfriend patrolman!!

The Hand.

It lies beneath the surface of the lake,
Still as a waking dream, so naked; pale
As a drowned fish, or a lover's handkerchief,
Disdainful tossed, or merely accidentally lost.
Those fingers lie half-open, silent, still,
Without a movement, wish or will.
Merely there, where secret currents slide
At leisure, intentless, along the sides
Of padded thumb, the white cold wrist.

The water, pale as stolen whisky, moves
Over the hand, it brings a gift
A dessicated damaged partial leaf to nest
Into the curve of padded palm.
The fingers lie, accepting this sad leaf
For which it had not pressed,
Nor had it begged. It lies, -alone - quite calm.

Once it may have gripped, or curled in fury tight,
Now it seems to supplicate, or does it offer help?
Outstretched, unmoved, except by shadowed light,
It may have wished to stroke, or lift a yoke,
But this hand knows it will not - cannot tell.
As it is lost, weak and white, a lifeless shell.
A single empty hand, outstretched it seems,
Having relinquished a thousand golden dreams.


Epilogue.

The bough beneath my arm cries out, 'Enough'.
I my knees and toes will have to slough
off the sucking mud at lakeside's edge,
Apologise to that sagging broken sedge,
And, creaking, straighten up my back
And let my rigid arms go slack.

The dusk air is growing mighty chill,
And clouds above are boding ill.
I must away to home, and fire and heat.
And warm myself, especially my feet.
And thrust this pair of frozen hands
In water, steaming in great copper pans.

The Golden Braid of life.

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Title: The dinosaur Bike.
Author: bluegerl
Category Vigbean as ever.
Memories are made of this.




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and with grateful thanks to Fairy Liquid... here is the Youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvh020A7sxo&feature=youtu.be

Title: One towel, shared......
Author: bluegerl
Category Vigbean as always and ever.
I love me boys... and I'd like to think this summer they got away and went pool swimming... without the crowd!




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Title: Apprehension.
Author: bluegerl
Category Vigbean as ever.
And I've never seen Bean swimming but the once - does anyone know more times?



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Yesterday... as I was so busy doing nothing! After Thursday.... about which more one day perhaps next week, I was SUPPOSED to be thinking - Ahhhh Friday, ALL for ME!!!

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I do hope you all had such a super day... I can't get over mine... they're pretty marvellous all the time now. Even when the pc crashes, I can go and see my lovely Gay Alexi lad. and he smiles an puts it all right.

Oh happy days.....

Another shorty for Hwango... it is his prompt. And for wordsinthebrain prompt fill.

Title: Old fables are sometimes true.
Author bluegerl
Prompt fill - DOUBLE
Author's note.... she passed again, teasing..... The Muse I mean.... (she's pretending to be a tiny black midgey insect that I cannot catch ...)


( Just daft! read on if you wish.... Hardly Sarthe or Neitsch )

Title: It’s time they stopped drinking at their age.
Author bluegerl
Category. The usual Vigbeans.

I loves me men... I hope they don't mind me messing with their private lives!



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Tis only a shorty but oh my..... I just love this guy!






I've not done a Youtube vid post so I hope it works.......

Title: Impulse purchase.
Author: bluegerl
Words: 478
Prompt fill: THe wreck of an old building.

Authors advice... Seize your chances while you may. Luck may not come another day!(and this is a rough thrown together piece... I HAD TO GET WRITING AGAIN!)






He tapped on the partition between himself and Roger.

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Folks... this is a short notice to say I shall be in HELL this week. Getting me NEW HIP PUT IN! YAY ME! I have prepared for it this time with PC and plenty of DVDs and cds and good books and FOOD!!! Fruit and biccies and nibbles and .... ahhh I can lie on my back for the stipulated three days. (which is bloody HELL literally if you are not warned and prepared!) and while I'm prone I can perch pc on tum and watch Elementary, Marvel, SPY things and romances...aaahhh and play my music when I'm reading - Stieg Larsson the Girl series! while I leave both arms out for the robots to come and drink my blood like vampires (only not as pretty! Right old bats they are - and totally insensitve!) Them I shall ignore this time, and demand my 'potty' as often as I WANT TO!!! hahah.

So.. no wifi.. no tv. no contact with Real nice Summery world... just solitary and get it over with stuff. THEN I shall be up and running! Home and free of crutches. YAY. How long I shall be absent is in the lap of ... some kind and understanding person who says you can go HOME and have the nurses come and do the dressings there, not stay in hospital any more!

If you want to help... put the mockers on the bloody Clinic 'nurses'... and turn them into nice kind gentle efficient ones... please! (hahah. some hope)

LOVE YOU ALL... and all of you BE GOOD... heh heh heh, and BE GOOD AT IT.. and GET AT IT... and look after yourselves.

See yer... Lizzie the Peg Leg but thank GOD I don't have three!

Found by Google Alert... Sean Bean - natch I had to find out!

http://moviepilot.com/posts/3899505

and to make this Bean Daily Legal... here's a piccy of the boy who got the job.

Faretheewell, Avril.

The owl cries 'Who?
Lonely on his branching pew
Where the songs of nightingales have polished the arches of
the towering cathedral trees.
The young curled bracken whispers a sigh
as unicorns tread softly by.
On the bank the windflowers sleep
as April passes, in quiet peace.

I think this may be of interest to Beany's Football fans -our lad is taking up training!


http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/celebs/saturday-finally-comes-for-actor-sean-bean-as-he-steps-into-bramall-lane-dugout-for-charity-match-1-7880319

To make this post legal (we DO have to have piccies of our Boy!!!) here is proof our lad is a Blades fan!

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The accident.

The blood beating solid in my ears,
is squeeging through the pipes
that carry it around.
The pressure in there sounds immense
but when a pipe is cut, it only seeps
as if the body, injured, softly weeps.
The knife, which caused the sudden pain
lies dropped, but laughing all the same.
The eyes of sliced potatoes watch
helpless, waiting, by the plate.

Lunch may have to be a little late
Until I am, or my hand, is restored!

One fine day

One fine day, with such a sky!
Of a blue unnameable,
It was merely - formidable!
It was to be a day - so ordinary
Doing all the simple dull every-day
chores like shopping, cleaning floors.
But there I was, quick - out of doors!

Just driving slowly between tall trees -
OH, were there ever such trees as these?
Decorated from top to toe
With vibrant green, each branch aglow!

The hedges are filling out with such green
now, with my new eyes I've never seen
They look like padded safety walls
all filled and fat, full of bird calls.

The spotted cows up to their knees
In buttercup'd golden waving seas.
Some marguerites are standing tall
Oh, my favourite flowers of all.

What a day of simple utter JOY
I've had, been smiled at by a little boy
of reddest cheeks and brightest grin
wearing a hat that had had a rabbit in.

I wanted to just fold him in
my arms and love him all to bits
But his mother would have had fits.
So put my car into the brushes wash

She'd been covered with the splosh
of strimmed green grass and pollen fine
So now she gloriously dust-free shines.
And I've just had a marvellous meal
with the first strawberries - almost unreal!

Oh, WHAT a day, it's been so GOOD.
Its put me in a Happy Poetry mood!

The Long Weekend Holiday.


Holidays begin. They start with hope,
and sparkling thoughts of joy.
Of lazy days, of greeting friends
Of eating in the garden or on sands.

But by the time the car is backed
out from the driveway, hugely packed
with all necessities for one weekend,
The feeling has dispersed somewhat.

The weather's turned away from hot,
to freezing cold with rain as well
Sunday with the in-laws will be hell.
It could be much more peaceful here.
Away from crazy roads, our silence near.

A conference is called, 'Do you all
REALLY think you'll have a ball
At Grandmamma's, with all her moans,
And having lunch at Aunty Joan's?'

Eyes look around, in questioning,
Would the others be accepting?
Decisions all arrive in a chorus concert.
'OH yes, let's all stay here, it wouldn't hurt
In fact it would be best of all!'

Childrens' feet scamper down the hall,
They help unload the car, and all disperse
to their own exciting universe.

An EconomIc Minister.


Emmanuel of such bright blue eyes.
Came and spoke in tongues, his and our own.
He smiled, and on leaving, waved his goodbyes
in elegant and Gallic fashion, having sown
Bright seeds of doubt in our Minister's head.
His words shaped in diplomatic hues
Left little snippets of 'What was it he said?'
His audience had not shared his views
But with such gentle reasonings
From a tongue of silver, was swayed
toward a taste of gourmandise, with seasonings,
lightly jested, humour delicately displayed
By a Frenchman, young, and far too handsome
Who keeps his Italian shoes shone to a perfect glow.
Oh, Mr. Macron, how I enjoyed your gladsome
exhibition on Andrew Marr's BBC Sunday show.

Another Poet.

Three well-read books came today.
Sensibly wrapped in a plastic envelope,
(neatly safe from rain.)
My books came from a favourite bookseller
Each a penny's gain!
Sent from a town of neat-thatched houses, tourist traps.
Written by a man
Who died slowly, in sad pain,
the year when I was born.
(I think in the same way.)
He wrote so many books, plays and free verse,
And what was worse,
His country said he wasn't decent,
not safe to be read
Even in an adult bed.
He lived, peripatetic all his life, around the world.
But who has not
Secretly and with delight,
revelled in the pearled sighings, spyings,
electrifying dyings
in the love-burdened rawness
Of the life of D.H. Lawrence.

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