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Hi to everybody...a little bit of news I heard tonight...
LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dead at Age 102
By Dylan Tweney EmailApril 29, 2008 | 6:55:29
Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died Tuesday. He was 102.

Hofmann reportedly died of a heart attack at his home in Basel, Switzerland.

Hofmann's most famous discovery happened on April 16, 1943. He was researching the synthesis of a lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Intrigued by the effect it had on his perception, Hofmann decided further exploration was warranted. Three days later, on April 19, he ingested 250 micrograms of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid trip. That day became known among LSD fans as "bicycle day" because Hofmann began experiencing the drug's intense effects on his bicycle trip home from the lab.

In his autobiography, LSD, My Problem Child, Hofmann remembered his discovery this way:

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."

The experience led Hofmann to begin experimenting with other hallucinogens and he became an advocate of their use, in both the arenas of psychoanalysis and personal growth. He was critical of LSD's casual use by the counterculture during the '60s, accusing rank amateurs of hijacking the drug he still refers to as "medicine for the soul" without understanding either its positive or negative effects.

In a celebration of Hofmann's 100th birthday in 2006, Hofmann told the crowd of well-wishers -- which included 2,000 researchers, scientists, artists and historians -- that "LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation."

Hofmann was also the first scientist to synthesize psilocybin, the active ingredient in psilocybin mushrooms, in 1958.

I shouldn't be laughing but I am...what a wonderful advertisement for LSD...I really hope I live to a ripe old age and have all my marbles about me...does change you and it's one thing I've never ever regretted taking...keeps your mind young...
Hope you have a restful night, sweet dreams and great big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...slept right through last night...woke up to black clouds and came down for breakfast then got dressed and decided to go out for the paper...stepped outside and it began to rain again...turned round and went back indoors and let hubby go for it...HLOL...no way was I going to plough through that...now it's trying to sunshine...darned weather...
No plans for today other than playing my new Myst game...I love the graphics on it and have arrived at the next level where the books come into it...still need help with the walk through but it's fascinating still for me...very new to this type of game...
Must have a practice on my keyboard as well, and would love to have a game on the Wii sometime but my shoulder is still giving me problems...hmmm...age is a bugger...the Wii Fitness has still to arrive that we ordered four days ago...so annoying that hubby could have got it on the day it came out from Tescos...still never mind...it will arrive eventually I hope...nine to ten days they said so will be on to them if it hasn't reached us by then...
So, that's it for now...life is so exciting isn't it...HLOL...but I feel so much better now I've stopped trying to do what is healthy for me allegedly... I hope you have a good day, that it stops raining on you, and send great big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...I've just sat here playing mini-golf after watching half of the Spanish film and deciding I'd had enough tv for tonight and the sound outside was horrendous...absolutely bucketing with rain and wind...and it's still doing it...seems to be our lot to have constant rain now with the changing climate...no wonder I like Blade Runner...it rained all the time in that film set in the future in somewhere like Los Angeles - maybe an omen of things to come?? Hmmm...that's a future to look forward to then...same forecast for tomorrow as well...luvverly...hope it doesn't pour on us in London on the weekend of the 10th/11th May...we were hoping from Thursday of that week to have three or four days in Exmouth as a nice change of scenery...won't go if it's like this...
Saw Battlestar Galactica...all sorts of soul searching and suffering going on in it...LOL...won't spoil it so won't say anything else...
Had a very long chin wag with our son tonight who rang while I was on the comp earlier this evening...he had a bad day and just wanted to talk to somebody out of work...
So, that's it...hubby's just rang...and I was able to tell him off for not switching his mobile on yet again!! I'd been trying to phone him all evening about something and kept getting leave a message..which of course he'd never find...
Nothing else left but to wish you all a restful night, sweet dreams and send big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...I've had a much, much calmer day today...in fact, I don't think I've sworn all day!! Believe me that's a first for a very long time...I'd reached the stage of probably swearing more than I was actually talking if that makes sense...HLOL...hmmm...strange how such a simple thing as a cigarette can drive away a deep depression so quickly...you'd be forgiven for saying maybe I wasn't as depressed as I thought I was, but I know myself, and I was...when I start talking about wanting to die because I'd got nothing to live for anymore, I know I've reached a bad place...when you start considering your husband would be happy if you weren't there anymore and would get over you very quickly, you're in trouble...and when your usual unstoppable creativity had vanished completely, the feeling of being a waste of time and space is overpowering...I have no idea why nicotine is necessary to my well being but it is...
My worst moments in my life have all been when I'd been obliged to give it up for a while...After my operations on my spine, I'd been off cigs for nearly two years, and came home in agony...I had painkillers but they did little or nothing to ease the pain, which was truly excruciating as I learned to walk again with the rod in my back, and for the scars to heal...about four weeks of becoming convinced I couldn't deal with the pain because it was continuous morning, noon and night, and having very little sleep either, and our son didn't deal at all with my pain...If anything he just shut me out and that nearly killed me...but he had problems of his own at the time, and I hadn't the energy or strength to help him...I had a cigarette and from then on I made rapid progress...Admittedly, it took nearly a year to be fully healed and a further six months to reach where I am now because so much older than the usual young ones operated on for this condition and solution...but, without the cigarettes, I doubt very much whether I would be here today because the pain was driving me mad...cigarettes eased it greatly...
This is not a justification for starting again...I'm simply telling you what effect smoking has on me, and why I've used cigarettes to keep me sane, and, believe it or not, healthy considering what I have wrong with me, and have had done to me over the years...
So, my friends, I really hope from now on, there'll be a lot less gloom and doom from me and more positive posts coming...HLOL...my apologies for bending your ears these last few months, but also thank you for your support and for trying to cheer me up as well...it has all been very, very appreciated...sorry it didn't work, but now I feel as if I'm back in the driving seat again, and it feels good...so have a good evening, and great bigs hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...had a good night and woke up to black clouds everywhere, but, by the time we'd got up, had breakfast and were dressed, the sun was trying to shine through and walked to the paper shop in a windy, partially sunny but chilly morning...accompanied half way there by Whisky who was waiting for us when we returned, leaping out of a garden mewing and greeting us enthusiastically...lovely little cat...
Have had my two morning ciggies now and feel one hundred per cent better today...just cannot explain the difference and it's not psychological either...it boosts my mood and gives me back my joie de vivre, which I had all but lost completely.
Now, I'm going to recover from this last year of gloom and doom and the blues and start living again...HLOL...
Hope you have a good day, that the sun is shining on you wherever you are, and great big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...I do know what I'm suffering from...no cigarettes...from eighteen onwards I smoked and I had to give it up while I was having operations, and it was something that just reduced any tension in me quickly and efficiently and I also rarely caught viruses and never caught colds...since I've given it up, I've had two or three lots of really bad viruses/flu bugs and I've got the beginnings or actually got an ulcer...and what's more I'm getting angry with everything and that's not me...my creativity has dried up, which it did before when I stopped smoking and I think I'm depressed to the point of seeing no point of wasting my time living...no, I'm not thinking of suicide...just stating I can't see the point of living if I've stopped being able to enjoy life...my doctor used to tell me to keep smoking, the well woman clinic told me to keep smoking and I've decided my life is of such poor quality now I'm giving up and starting again...had enough of being a martyr...it smells and it's a rotten habit but there we go, it keeps me from sinking into a pit and that's not doing me or my hubby any good. I refuse to take tranquilisers for depression as they really don't do any good...and that's it...tonight, I've just had enough of being down...and so very angry with everything...I barely recognize myself now...hubby's just walking round to buy me a packet and I will see whether I feel any better after smoking for a few days...
In the meantime, hope you have a good evening, and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...got up early this morning as we had to go into Poole shopping and for my eye test at 11.20...at 7.30, we were both woken by a torrential downpour and wind outside...hoping really that it wasn't going to be like that all day, we went back to sleep for an hour and discovered that there was blue sky trying to come through...
We had breakfast and were ready to leave the house by 9.25 for the 9.36 or 9.49 bus...realised as soon as we got outside, yesterday's pleasant warmth had gone today and there was a really chilly wind so it was back to warm coats, hats and gloves...the bus arrived on time!! Good grief, a miracle...and we got into town, did all the shopping and hubby decided he might as well go home because there was forty minutes to wait before my eye appointment was due. I arrived there and had all my details taken prior to the appointment, which was useful and also had a three minute hearing test in which I discovered that I do have some loss of hearing but not much, and that a further full test wasn't really necessary...then I sat down to wait for my actual eye test...now, I've a problem with anything to do with medical things and waiting...once the minute ticks past the appointment time, I shoot into hyper-drive. My emotions become completely erratic and a sort of uncontrollable impatience makes me want to burst into tears as every moment passes past the time given me...Unlike other people in surgeries or opticians, I can't sit there waiting patiently...I point out when my appointment was and ask how late they're running if I'm still sitting there five minutes after it...I was told this morning that I was next in so I calmed down and tried to distract myself while I waited to be called...then the optician came out and called somebody else and I was back to hysterics internally again...I asked again...I thought I was next I said, so the woman checks and says I am but perhaps the optician had to see the other person because from a previous check up...hmmm...now I was ten minutes past my appointment...not much you say, and it's isn't, but hubby wasn't there and this happens every time I go to medical things alone and they're late in calling me in...then suddenly there's another optician calling me and I'm in...check up takes quarter of an hour, my eyes are excellent...no change in reading glasses, and minor change in left eye for tv glasses but nothing serious...and I'm off out of there like a bullet from a gun heading for the bus station with ten minutes to get the 11.55 bus home and I made it...my stomach was hurting really badly by then because I had an early breakfast and needed food again....now all's well again because I've had my lunch, but took half an hour to take the pain away...really do think I've got a damned ulcer now...so frustrating, but could have been because I got stressed out at the opticians as well...bodies are something else! They react to stimuli we don't even know we're giving out and then start doing nasty things over which we have equally no control...what we need to do is control our darned minds then maybe our bodies wouldn't feel the need to start hurting or harming us....
So, my friends, that's my morning...not an entirely bad one but I messed up my stomach and gave myself unnecessary physical pain because I couldn't control my damned emotional response to being kept waiting in the opticians...what a stupid woman I am....
Have a good rest of the day and I hope the sun is shining on you, in the meantime, great big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody....tonight, there's a Ron Perlman film on called The Last Winter...it got five stars in the TV and Sat Times so that's the top rating...it's on sci-fi channel if anybody is interested and starts at 9.50 until 11.50...I thought I'd already posted about it but must have put it in a comment somewhere because I can't find it anywhere now....LOL...
So, have a good rest of the evening, and have a restful night, sweet dreams and big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...talking of disappearing friends as La_spice has been...I suddenly realised we haven't heard much from Ranfuchs recently...hope he's okay or on his travels...big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody....woke up to pouring rain after a good night's sleep...seemed to have got back to a pattern of only one brief wake up in the night and don't even have to get up sometimes and back straight to sleep until nine or later...it's a relief to be able to sleep properly again...the day improved after I gave hubby his Sunday morning massage and we'd had breakfast and got dressed....went for the paper in warm partially sunny and cloudy weather...was very pleasant after the promised rain all day by the forecasters...but would be nice if the darned weather didn't improve each week just as everybody has to go back to perishing work!!
Hubby's done the weekly wash for us and tonight we're having a squid dish - will decide whether to make it Chinese or Spanish paella when I go down to cook it...LOL...
Now, I've just finished playing my new game of Myst URU...and I have the same darned problem I get with every game involving keys and left and right...I cannot remember my left from my right if you stamped it across my forehead with indelible ink!! It just will not stick...as a consequence my avatar whirls around like a dancing dervish as I press every key going to get her to point in the right direction...as I'm a total beginner of this type of game, I decided to cheat because I couldn't even get started and found a walkthrough...I'm using that until I can get used to manipulating my avatar..believe me, that's not easy for me with my inability to deal with direction...she's fallen into the damned cleft so many times because I've walked her over the edge instead of all a path she should be dead, but of course she isn't because she's not real...HLOL...hmmm...anyway...hubby's started playing the mini-golf as well and he's enjoying that...and so do I as a short interlude when I'm bored...
So, my friends, tomorrow is another shopping day and my eye test, which is about as exciting as watching paint dry but there we go, life's on hold at the moment for me...will wait for the Wii Fitness to arrive at any point in the next nine days...It has yoga on it, so might try that to pass the time and get fit... Alternatively, I'll mess up my other shoulder then I won't be able to do anything strenuous at all...
In the meantime, have a good weekend, hope the sun is shining for you, just cloudy and warm here now...and I send big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody....here's wishing Franpal a wonderful day...Happy Birthday to you and may this year bring you great joy and happiness....

Great big hugs to you and loads of love....XXXX

Hi to everybody...heard hubby come in at 6.05 having slept through from 12.40 with my shoulder hurting again even though I'd put Deep Heat on it again last night...it's because I can only sleep on my right side or my back so all the pressure is on the pulled shoulder...anyway, finally fell off to sleep again and woke up at 9.15 to a lovely sunny day, but with my stomach hurting this time...Damn, I'm fed up with all these disconnected aches and pains. Took one of my pills and made tea for hubby and me then had breakfast and it's gone now, thank goodness....
Yesterday at 4.30, I ordered a PC game recommended by GoingSomewhere called Myst URU, at least I think that's the game HLOL...anyway, I was amazed to find it being delivered this morning at 9.30! That's excellent service all round...haven't opened it yet, but it does look beautiful...also ordered the latest of the series and that's still on its way...
Hubby's gone now to pick up his prescriptions from the chemist and the papers from our newsagents, which we've just found out is now for sale on the Net...less than a year the new owner has had it and run it into the ground...I think it's the third shop locally she's done it too so seems like a bloody expensive hobby and lethal for the people relying on corner shops...hmmm...it's a heck of a long walk - a mile at least to get the papers each day from the nearest other shop, so hoping somebody responsible buys it off her...
So, my friends, hubby's just got back and we're going at some point today to Lidl's for a quick local shop...then on Monday, I've got to go into Poole because it's my eye test time again and also do a proper shop...have a good weekend and hope the sun shines for you all and big hugs to one and all in the meantime...

Hi to everybody...have had an evening relaxing in front of the box and watched Heroes and Boston Legal, which I recorded yesterday...and then watched Moonlight and Dirty, sexy money, both of which I like very much, even the last one is OK mainly because the acting by Peter Krause and Donald Sutherland is very good...'Moonlight' is based again on the formula of 'Blood Ties', which has now finished, with a human female attached to both a human and a vampire...HLOL...how can I write that and not feel stupid, but I don't because we're creatures who love stories and can accept almost anything that comes from our imaginations providing they're wrapped in a tale....Boston Legal included a case where a teacher got fired for hugging a weeping child and the case was lost as she had done it three times and had been warned that a third would mean dismissal in a school with a no hugging or touching policy for fear of being sued!! Utter insanity...but there we go...a large part of the Western world in particular is definitely having a form of a breakdown and the sane can only look on aghast at what is happening and realise they can't stop the damage being done because it has been incorporated into the law now, and has the backing of the state behind it...so you can behave insanely legally now...great!!
Heroes was a bit disjointed as we suddenly seem to be in the middle of a story that didn't happen in the last series...like people are being killed off and new characters appearing, and a mysterious person appears and kills Hiro's father, and Nathan's and Peter's mother is being threatened too, and nine others have also died??? Who are they and where did they come from? Hmmm...still it's up and running so will stay with it...
And, now I've played my golf game and come in -1 so well pleased with that but it was the beginner's game so nothing to boast about...HLOL...now, it's time for bed, have a restful night, my friends, sweet dreams and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...here's wishing Nationalsuperstar a very, very Happy Birthday...Have a wonderful day, sweet thing, and may this year bring you all that you wish for yourself...

Great big hugs and loads of love to you...XXXX

Hi to everybody...here's another take on males and their sex drive by Mark Gungor...
Wish it went on for a bit longer because very funny and very accurate...

Great big hugs, and have a good rest of the day....

Hi to everybody...got up really late today...it's trying to sunshine but not very successfully. I'm still not dressed but showed hubby this video sent to me by Trev...and thought it well worth sharing with everybody here because uncomfortably true...HLOL...

That's it, my lovely friends, have a good day and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...got up really late today after lying in bed listening to Melvyn Bragg's In our Time on materialism...very interesting but frustrating because limited in time...slept very well again but got woken up by my darned shoulder...apparently loads of people are getting pulled shoulders and tennis elbow from the Wii...HLOL...just shows how many of us aren't used to vigorous exercise...and it's definitely vigorous...now we have Wii Fitness and the board on its way to us...my birthday present from our son... Had to wait until it came out and it's really really hard to find...due out tomorrow and already most of the stocks online have sold out...
Just for a change...I thought I'd share a letter in the Independent with you because I think it speaks for most of us here...
A bus ride back to sanity?

Sir: A company has started running a bus service in Nottingham, using a red double-decker vehicle with a conductor.

Is this the first step back to a time when we saw police on the beat, Sunday postal collections, waitress service, porters at railway stations, good manners, good education, actual industries, park-keepers, television programmes worth watching and turn-ups on trousers? A time when political correctness meant knowing that blue stood for Conservative and red for Labour, and health and safety meant using common sense

Are the three red buses that travel from Nottingham city centre to Arnold the first small step in reversing the ridiculous state of affairs in which we find ourselves today?

Colin Bower

Have a good day, and guess what...the blue sky is peeping through the cloud and the promised sun later looks like it might arrive... In the meantime, big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...nearly there I think...am now getting email notifications again after changing my address so let's hope that issue is resolved, and nothing else pops up...do have an odd hiccup, whenever I click on a post to read it on my friends' posts and then hit back, it now goes to BCUK news every time instead of back to friends' posts but that's a minor thing...
Have had a restful day today...have been playing my Mini Golf and it's relaxing because nothing is trying to kill me on the green...HLOL...got really fed up trying to get past things that were trying to kill me in other games...mainly because they damned well did...
Had a practice on my keyboard...tinkered in my garden...and had a brief sunbathe before the clouds hid the sun so came in...it came out again but not quite warm enough to stay out there for any length of time, but trying to heat up...sincerely hope Seattle's weather isn't on it's way here...it usually arrives about a week or two later here...it had ten inches of snow suddenly after some nice warm weather!! That would put the cold snap arriving just when we're off for our blog meet...LOL...great! Cross fingers all you lovely people heading that way, including us, that that particular nasty surprise bypasses us...
That's it for now, have a restful night, sweet dreams and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...slept right through last night...first night for ages...woke up at 7.20 and went back to sleep again until 8.40 then put the radio on to hear that Hilary Clinton won Pennsylvania in this bitter battle between Obama and her...isn't politics great! Nice to know that Iran will be obliterated by both of them if it nuked Israel! My question is...would it ever? What country would be stupid enough to nuke Israel and not realise it would be instantly vaporised? Plus of course the rest of the world with it, because that would trigger an all out confrontation...bloody hell...these damned people...and Israel is spreading the suggestion that Iran intends to do that because they definitely want its nuclear facilities flattened to the ground...I must try to remain calm in the face of these frigging lunatics who would quite happily see the end of humankind because God's on their damned side!!
Calm, Jenny, calm..peace...think good thoughts....hello, my friends, I hope you've got sunshine like we have though a bit cloudy now after a more or less clear sky when I woke up.... Hmmm...no such thing as stress eh...HLOL...got myself a new calm game to play with no little nasties trying to kill me all the time...Mini Golf gold...and it's really good fun...that's it for now, my friends, hope your blogs will work again okay soon...mine still isn't and that you'll have a good, stress free day, and great big hugs to one and all in the meantime...

Hi to everybody....today is Moonwoman's birthday...so here's wishing you, dear Moonwoman, a very, very Happy Birthday...I hope you have a great day and may all you wish for yourself this year come true...

Big hugs to you and loads of love....XXXX

Hi to everybody...I know what's happening now...from my new site I can send out a personal invite to anybody via their email address...unfortunately I don't have all my friends email addresses...if anybody would like to read my new blog please can they send me via my messages here, their email address and I'll send them an invite...
Great big hugs to all of you...really don't want to lose touch with you all if can't come back...still no email notification so have no idea who's commented anywhere...

Hi to everybody....haven't completely abandoned BCUK because have loads of friends here I really value, but have set up a new blog site...here it is and would love you to visit...
http://truepathfinder.sampasite.com
Great big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...hmmm...woke up to pouring rain and it's foul outside so glad we decided to have yesterday out while it was nice...had a heck of a storm early evening so didn't miss out on rain, thunder and lightning yesterday...just didn't do it all over us..
Have decided like La_Spice, Mrs F, Wendlane and probably a few others not on my list of friends to stop blogging until BCUK gets its act together...all we can do now is post blogs but don't get any email notifications so technically we're now cut off from all our friends...AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail won't accept BCUK's mail apparently, which is a huge obstacle I would have thought to hosting a blog site...
So, just one more piece of news before I go...my tests all came through clear from the docs, so my bad stomach is definitely just stress related and BCUK isn't helping it at all now...LOL...
Have a good day and however long it takes before they repair the mess they're in because I won't be around to see it...great big hugs to one and all in the meantime...
PS Preview of comments is working again...LOL...so now I'll wait until email notification is working too...

Hi to everybody...late today because haven't been in for very long...enough to have a coffee and sit and read the Sunday papers then checked my mail...hubby and I had a really big set too last night...well, he did and I kept my mouth shut until 1.30 in the morning when I got out of bed unable to sleep because so angry with him and demanded to know what his huge temper tantrum was all about...usually after such a rare outburst, before we go to bed, we clear the air, but last night, he stomped off slammed the door and went to bed leaving me to get angry all over again...he'd had it about nine and I went up and surfed the Net for a while until he'd calmed down and thought he would but he didn't. Apparently, he was angry with me for being angry that I'd recorded three films for us to watch last night, or one of them anyway...and all three turned out to be seriously bad unfortunately and I was bloody annoyed...he translated my anger as directed at him??? How the hell he thought that I have no idea, but he often thinks that when I'm annoyed about something, I'm expecting him to be able to do something about it??? What! Where does that ego of men come from? I'm just sounding off...I know all too well he can't do anything about it and how could he possibly do anything about three bad films?
Anyway, to bring this saga to an end...we hadn't resolved it at 1.30 and I finally fell asleep at 2.30 and got up at nine...made myself a cup of tea instead of one for both of us and decided not to speak until he did...hmmm...not very adult but there we go...anyway...he came down and gave a sort of grudging apology for last night saying he had no idea why he got so mad, and suggested we go down to the sea today as the sun was trying to shine...
And, after I had a bubble bath and my coconut oil massage from him, that's just what we did. Actually, we did make it to the beach but not for long as there was a very chill wind blowing and the sea was pretty rough too, but walked for about twenty minutes then came back to the city centre and went to Delices de Champs, the lovely French cafe, and had a breakfast baguette and coffee each made up of bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes in a baguette with crisps and it was gorgeous...so different from the rotten bap we had in the English cafe in Poole the week before and for the same price!! Then we did a bit of food shopping and came home...so all in all, it was a very pleasant day out and not a cross word passed our lips...HLOL...hmmm...can't keep arguments going...but did tell him off this morning as we promised each other that we'd never let each other go to bed quarrelling in case anything happened to either of us in the night, and the last things we said to one another were unpleasant...he apologised genuinely for that...
So, my friends, I hope you're having a good weekend, the weather is being kind to you and here it has clouded over and is even spitting with rain so we definitely were lucky this morning...big hugs to you all in the meantime....

Hi to everybody...lazy, lazy morning this morning...woke up to pouring rain, overladen clouds and high wind at 8.30 and turned over and went back to sleep until nearly 10 then decided it was time to get up, so came downstairs to make a cup of tea for both of us and the phone goes. It's our son, who has just decided to take a much needed week off and, apart from putting his back out two days ago, has just started a sore throat passed on by his friends at work who has been coughing and with one too, so it looks like he's going to have a few days of his week ill...what a rotten piece of luck...mind you, the weather is lousy too and the forecast bad for the next few days so probably won't miss out on much...he says he's had more colds and so have the people around him this year and last than they have in their entire lives...it's one after another and they take vit supplements and eat fairly well too...I think we're all reacting to the stress in the world now and the terrible, or rather erratic, weather for the last sixteen months...
I had a nightmare and a strange dream last night...my first real nightmare for years, which I won't bore you with But did notice that it didn't translate into terror for me, more as an observer watching some really nasty things...hmmm...strange...think I'm a bit removed from the world at the moment as I try to sort out where my life is going from now on...definitely described as limboland until I find something concrete to do instead of blogging, practising my keyboard and playing games on the comp every day...oh, and eating three times a day...LOL...I need a creative thing to do now instead of painting, pottery and writing...what's left indeed?
That's it, my friends, hubby's just getting dressed to go for the paper in the rain, and I'm yet to get dressed...told you it was a lazy day... Have a good weekend, and hope the sun is shining for you wherever you are and big hugs to one and all....

Hi, Carol...here's the flyer for the latest exhibition...most exhibits are similar to this in style...

I've no idea how to paint like this...Big hugs...