Drifting through life

from I shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett: "Every family, even up in the mountains, kept at least one pig to act as garbage can in the summer and as pork, bacon, ham and sausages during the rest of the year. The pig was important." from The Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett: "Nanny stood up and tried to look haughty, which is hard to do when you have a face like a happy apple." Today's Thoughts: Australia Post , our national mail service, has been in the news here lately.  They're losing money. Due to a lot of internet shopping and emailing etc, they've declared a failing of the business.  People aren't sending as many letters and cards to each other via 'snail mail' as they used to. They're losing money! Australia Post that is, not the general population.  So they've come up with a plan.  Increase the cost of a stamp to $1 and reduce services.  I can see how increasing the cost of a stamp might bring in more...

Welcome back to Whimsical Wednesday! The day for your googled giggle that gets you over the hump that is Wednesday and sliding down into the weekend. Truth in Advertising. How very unusual!

I've just spent a half hour going through my comments pages and deleting the spam comments. They're easy to recognise. I scroll through each page of comments looking at the names of commenters, when I see a name I don't recognise, I'll glance at that comment. If it's genuine, I'll leave it; if it's spam I tick the check box, then scroll up again and mark it as spam. After I've done about ten pages, I open up the spam folder and delete those comments. When I first began doing this a few years ago, I removed about 100 or so spam comments. It's gradually reduced over time and for a while there weren't any at all. But they're beginning to do the rounds again and today I deleted 15 spam comments from the first seven comment pages.  Once you've deleted a particular name as spam, any further comments by that person don't make it to the public comments section of future posts, although they may still show up on the private comments pag...

Musical Monday I was introduced to Musical Monday by Delores who copied the meme from another site. I think it’s a fun way to show off some of the music we like and brighten up our Mondays at the same time.  I’ll be finding my clips on you tube , so will simply credit that site since there are often so many versions of everything and I wouldn’t want to accidentally credit the wrong artist. Today’s clip is: Dan Hill   Sometimes When We Touch and the lyrics: so you can sing along :)

Welcome back to Sunday Selections! This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs. The rules are very simple:- 1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title 2. link back to me, River , somewhere in your post 3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted. 4. hop on over to Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.   Andrew often joins in too. I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week we're travelling back in time to March 2011, visiting the Fisherman's Wharf Market. These photos were taken with my old Canon Powershot, my first digital camera and have remained untouched. No blog name, no resizing; they are just as I took them. this little pink and gold dish intrigued me; a dip in the middle, ...

On Wednesdays , assorted people have been taking monthly turns at putting up a selection of six (or twelve) words which is called “Words for Wednesday”. We have taken over this meme from Delores, who had been having computer problems. This month the meme continues here , at Elephant’s Child, with words and images supplied by Sue. Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.      Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.    What we do with those prompts is up to us:   a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.   We would really like it if as many people as possible joined in with this fun meme. If you are posting on your own blog - let us know, in our comments section, so that we can come along and read your masterpiece. I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a...