May the bouncing ball of happiness be with you!
I am going to echo the comments of several others and wish everyone a very happy new year, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and I will post a more detailed update later... I hope.
In the meantime, I thought I might share this poem with you all - I found it while I was going through all my children's poetry books looking for appropriate material to take to Russia with me, and it made me laugh.
The trouble with geraniums
The trouble with geraniums
is that they're much too red!
The trouble with my toast is that
it's far too full of bread.
The trouble with a diamond
is that it's much too bright.
The same applies to fish and stars
and the electric light.
The trouble with the stars I see
lies in the way they fly.
The trouble with myself is all
self-centred in the eye.
The trouble with my looking-glass
Is that it shows me, me:
there's trouble in all sorts of things
where it should never be.
Mervyn Peake
In the meantime, I thought I might share this poem with you all - I found it while I was going through all my children's poetry books looking for appropriate material to take to Russia with me, and it made me laugh.
The trouble with geraniums
The trouble with geraniums
is that they're much too red!
The trouble with my toast is that
it's far too full of bread.
The trouble with a diamond
is that it's much too bright.
The same applies to fish and stars
and the electric light.
The trouble with the stars I see
lies in the way they fly.
The trouble with myself is all
self-centred in the eye.
The trouble with my looking-glass
Is that it shows me, me:
there's trouble in all sorts of things
where it should never be.
Mervyn Peake