Just to say...

Happy Easter to y'all !!

It's not easy to keep in touch with everyone. And I know, I have been a really lousy correspondent and blogspot friend, but I do think of you all and I hope that wherever you are, you had a jolly good bunny time. I just got done with my third load of chocolate casualties...we were down to swim suits at some point...Love A.
PS Yorkshire is beautiful!!

Spring Escape

It'll be a week of hiking through the North Yorkshire Dales for us. Let's hope the news of Spring has reached that far...

Move over Guys !

A recent University of Cambridge study found that there seems to be a positive correlation between steroids, more specifically testosterone, and factors that contributed to the financial crash.

The researcher, Dr Coates, observed what he called a state of mania among traders, characterized by heightened risk taking attitude, increased confidence and reaction speed.

In other words, what he witnessed was a sort of feeding frenzy. And we all know the mess that was left behind. To avoid future bubbles, he prescribed an increase in the number of women and older men working the floor.

Well, there and preferably in other places, where hormones get in the way of rational thinking, I would think.

Too Easy

It’s pretty convenient to shove someone, and all the little idiosynchracies they come equipped with, into a box, lid shut and case closed.

We do it all the time. It does make life seem a lot tidier, when we can neatly label the boxes and store them in some dark corner of our memory without ever opening the lid
again.

Susan is really sweet but an airhead. The best thing about Cathy is her cooking. Miles can talk miles without listening for a second. Nick is obsessive, Mag a crowd pleaser, Lucy a prima donna.

Even if it’s all true, which it usually isn’t, and even if for a moment it gives us the feeling that we’ve got it all figured out, which of course we haven’t, and even if it would make life a whole lot easier, which ... Yeah, you got it ... it doesn’t. Even if all the ifs seemed reasonably real. It’s not a good idea.

And yet, if you insist on going ahead anyway, at least have the decency to punch some breathing holes into the box...or even better, remove the lid from time to time to have another look.

Life would be boring, if we had it all figured out. Freezing all the variables around us and buying a dog is not the solution.