Another Friday. The other day a client asked me how long I
had worked there. My reply was about eighteen months, getting closer to twenty.
And The man has worked where he does for two years tomorrow.
This evening I think the muse has left me as I have no idea what
to write.
Pretty warm here today and the prospect for the weekend is
good. Still very warm when we got home so nothing better than to take a couple
of cool ones down to the back garden to refresh ourselves after being cooped up
in the hot train and then the bus on the way home.
And very nice it was too. A couple of Becks a packet of
peanuts and thou beside me. What more could you ask for. I caught sight of a
young looking fox down at the bottom of the garden before it saw me and took
flight into the shrubbery.
That reminds me of a saying something about fairies at the
bottom of the garden. Perhaps the origin of this is the Cottingly fairies
The Cottingly Fairies appear in a series
of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young
cousins who lived in Cottingly near Bradford d in England. In 1917, when the
first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10.
The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used
them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the
Christmas 1920 edition of a magazine Public
reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, but others believed
they had been faked.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is
beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it
too?
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
There may be fairies at the bottom of
the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can'tprove that there aren't
any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? Richard Dawkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNz7Gx5miBU
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