Tuesday 28 May 2013

The Ups and Downs of Life, and the Capacity of the Brain

As you know over the last few days I have done this and that and also moved stuff here and there, all very good but it appears I have tweaked my back now and so it is rather sore and so I cant do triple somersaults on the high wire while riding a unicycle and juggling burning torches. As it happens I could not do them before but my brain would tell me that I could very easily if I so chose to do so, brains are like that always convinced that the body they are attached to is better than it is. In fact I think it would not be unreadable to say the greatest cause of accidents today is brains thinking beyond the capability of the body.

Even I have fallen fowl of this in the past by moving a washing machine/drier single handed into a cellar and then realizing once it was over the first step that just maybe it was rather heavy to move on your own down a steep set of steps. However as I was on my own at the time my brain had to convince my body that it was possible, and so no harm was done once the builders invisibly mended the hole in the wall.


What a rotten day it has been today just like last summer with rain and wind and flooded roads, there is nothing quite like a British summer they are more fickle that the ficklest fickle thing you could think of. . . . . . . . . Talking of which.





The Ghost Writer was in his office today and it appears news is starting to emerge of what will be happening now that all the funding for the office he works in has gone. It appears the office might well go although he says he will almost certainly be told he has to move all the IT stuff (there is loads of it) to another office already full of stuff, It is strange that no stuff comes along for ages and then all of a sudden there is stuff everywhere but not necessarily in the right place. He also has a back problem now and the prospect of moving mountains of IT equipment let alone rewire it all up is something he is not looking forward too. But it also appears that his work colleagues who do other non IT stuff are loosing loads of working hours so things are going to be a bit tough for some of them, not what you want when the weather is so rotten, or someone accidentally drops a washing machine through your wall.

Ooooooo yes the cat is feeling better but he has been out in the rain



And finally here on the blog I must add a big thank you to The Woven Tale Press A-Z Special Edition folk for using a letter from my own A to Z, it is good to be included as one of the twenty six posts out of all the hundreds they could have picked particularly when I am a rather grumpy sole. So why not have a little peek it looks rather good although the drawing on the letter V is rubbish .. . .. . .. . . … . Just click on the pic.



12 comments:

  1. Congrats on being included in the Woven Press book.

    Yvonne.

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    1. It was a bit of a shock, what with my slightly polite middle class rebellious outlook on the world and slightly off beat and badly spelt blog

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  2. I know that the Ghost Writer often complained about being in his grey office but I can't help but feel sad, that it may no longer be in existence. These are tough times indeed.

    Well done and congratulations for having one of your posts included in the A-Z special edition of the Woven Tale Press. Let's hope the a very famous director is paying attention. :)

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    1. Yes it will be sad for the Ghost Writer the small group in that office have been there nearly ten years and know each other well. On the bright side the other office is just as grey but much darker as it has almost no windows.

      As for the famous film director two old saying come to mind

      'It is a tangled (woven) web we weave'

      and the second less known one

      'The seagull that lives on the fat of the chip shop lives longer than the seagull who pits his wits against the ocean.

      But of course those seagulls outside the chip shop are damn annoying ......'

      I overheard that very nice Steven Spielberg say that to his friends when they were getting a takeaway and I just happen to be outside waving a manuscript at him. They threw a few battered cod at me before they ran off but I prefer a bit more salt and vinegar.

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  3. I am veRy glad you have become (more) famous. I was thinking maybe neXt time you could make a giant mess by creating an appliance shaped hole in the floor, lower it down by block and tackle, then instaLL a window to view the appliance. If you don't want a window in the floor, you could put a large flat screen teleBision with plexiglass protection then hook a closed circuit camera that looks downward as if there was a hole in the floor then display the output on the screen of the teleBision.

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    1. I rather like the idea with the television you could stand almost anywhere with that idea. if you had a whole room of underfloor television you could fly across the world. . . . . . Well Cool.

      I am not entirely sure I am more famous that I was which, was not famous. But I will not let being not famous change my life.

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    2. Have you signed any autographs for adoring fans yet? If not, or if there have been no requests, then I would suggest writing a name on any fan that is by a door. You could write on the fan "Rob was here!". Oh, by fan I mean the kind of machinery that circulates the atmosphere. Writing on people would be acceptable too, especiaLLy if the person doesn't know. They would wake up and look in the mirror and see "Rob was here!" on their forehead and in their state of confusion think they had been robbed, which, in a different kind of way they had been Robbed. I must go now, my soup buzzer is caLLing from the kitchen, final steps to a glorious mixture.

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    3. I could eat a fan and I would be a Fan-tum . . . . . HAH HAHAHH HAH AH HAH HA HAHHAH HA HAH HAH AH HA HAH AH HAH HAHAh ha hah

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  4. Well done on your inclusion! If anyone deserves such a thing, it's me! Then you. Congratulations all the same :)

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    1. I quite agree Mr Addman, but and it is quite a large but, as in BUT . . . . I think the key point is that you needed to have done the A to Z 2013 first.

      Other than that small-ish point I would have recommended your excellent blog myself fallen on my own sword and limped off into the sunset. Oooooooo no hang on, the sun has apparently vanished again.

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  5. Hello Rob,

    Where do I begin? At the beginning? That would be different. I found moving my washing machine a most agitating experience.

    And to have you made note of in that amazing alphabet challenge is a wonder to behold. Perhaps I should click on the pic...

    For a brief moment, I thought the top photo was the back of somebody's head on a table.

    Be well and open up an umbrella shop. You will become super rich!

    Cheerio, good sir.

    Gary

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    1. Ooooo you just missed my response to your blog tag by a cats whisker or say three quarters on an hour which in the great scheme of things is I'm sure just a cats whisker.

      But it does mean the universe is more complex than I thought as time appears to be cat based. It also explains the old saying . . . .Time waits for no man. . . . . as cats just get up and wander off when ever they fancy.

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