… you’re always sort of nervous to get emails from people you want to get emails from …
— Alyssa Mastromonaco, in ‘Who thought this was a good idea?’
Category: quote
Might get better in a couple of hours
The weather, or me?
—Source forgotten, or maybe it was just my head
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
Believing in the impossible…
The Queen said to Alice, “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
—Ashley Eckstein, quoting ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in her Morning Routine
Traveller..
Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.
– Malika Favre
Lazy vs Early
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
—Robert Heinlein
I wish you courage…
I wish you courage
I wish you rushing blood
A heart that beats too hard
Feelings that make everything too hard
Love that gets out of control
The most intense adventures
I hope you find your way out
I hope you’re the kind of person
Who gets a happy ending
—Fredrik Backman, in ‘Us against you’
The pursuit of happiness
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
—Nick Offerman
Welcome to the UK…
They were initially bemused by the complexity of bus timetables, bin collections and—most of all—by the changeable weather. “In our country, when it’s summer, it’s summer,” says Ziead Alsaouah, Mr Batak’s son-in-law.
—The Economist | After the exodus
I had a very similar reaction to the weather when I moved here 8 years ago.
North India, where I spent the first 24 years of my life, has a very predictable weather. When it’s summer, it’s hot and dry for months on end. When it’s the rain season, it’s raining almost every day for a month. And when winter arrives, it’s bitterly cold, mostly dry, and frequently foggy (recently smoggy) for months on end.
Contrast that to the weather here on the island – it’s common to have at least two seasons in a day. Three’s not uncommon either. We had two months of constant dry, warm summers this year, and it’s already caused a mild panic. If we get a week of snow in the winter, news bulletins are full of ‘snowcalypse’ references.
It’s unsettling, at least initially, for people coming from places with stable, ‘continental’ weather patterns. Where culture, life, traditions, activities are based on the season, what do we do when the seasons just aren’t anymore?
Mama mía!
Colin Firth was once asked what he would like to hear from God upon arriving in heaven. “I personally thought you were very good in ‘Mamma Mia!’”
Saw the new, second one last night, and enjoyed it just like the first one, and the play.
They should screen these in open lots, so people can dance along to the songs. I sure wanted to 🙂