Geriatric OE

The weekly musing of a couple of Kiwis on their geriatric OE in The UK






Friday, 21 December 2012

How unbelivable is htat ...



 Well the doom and gloom merchants, forever on the lookout for a gullible audience, have got it wrong again. No surprises there. And the world didn’t end today. Trying to recover from the lunacy some are saying, ‘Oh no we really didn’t mean that it was the end of the world, just the end of an age, an era of thinking’ 

Oh come on, did you really think that just because the calendar of some ancient civilisation ended on this day that we would cease to exist. 

You’ll be telling me next that you believe in fairies? Well one of my daughters believes in the laundry fairy who occasionally visits to fold up that pile of washing.

In past times, man thought that the world ended at the visible horizon, that you could actually sail off the edge of the world. Then on laces on the map where the map makes ran out of known geography they wrote ‘here be dragons’

Then it was thought that if you went fast in a motorised vehicle some unimaginable would fate would befall you.

Then within the last a couple of youngster convinced the world that  there really were fairies at the bottom of their garden. The Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917.

Can you see where I am going with this train of thought, I hope you are.

If it sounds too good ,or too amazing to be true, then it probably is.

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