Just Wondering

For those of you who are bilingual, what is your native language and is it the one you basically use?

Do you ever wish you were bilingual?

What language would you learn if you could have immediate and total comprehension of another language?

Yep

Short of Funds

Getting really short with money due to the lack of work in my area of mystery shopping, plus having bills to pay, as well as miscalculating what funds I had already, and hence if you can help out please send via PayPal donations to jazzbodave@outlook.com

Even if it is just ten pounds it will be appreciated.

Post Midnight Classical

A new one to me but his music is gnarly and wonderful -

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphony No. 7

version by Metzmacher, Bamberger Symphoniker

Good Morning

Friday Frolics

This was the penultimate day of visits for the month. Another fairly sunny day on the whole as well, I did three covert shops in Ashford and the town of Tenterden. Just one charity shop whilst the other two were non-purchase visits.

Arrived home just after five. I had a coffee outside my flat soaking the last rays of the sun and Mary walks by with a load of books for me. Seven in total. I will sort these out tomorrow.

It is time to relax and listen to some music.

Flushed

Book 48 - Genki Kawamura "If Cats Disappeared From The World"

Genki Kawamura "If Cats Disappeared From The World" (Picador)





What would you do if you suddenly were told by your doctor that you were going to die soon, very soon? You have spent most of your adult life delivering mail in a small town in Japan, when out of the blue, or more likely, out of the darkness you are told that you will soon be dead. Many of us would be devastated and likely to faint, pardon the expression, dead away as our postman does.

After regaining consciousness, we might try to think up a bucket list of things that we want to do before the end. But what if you awoke to see a stranger in your house. A stranger who looked just like you. Well maybe not just like you, because you would never be caught, here it comes again, dead in a loud, brightly colored Hawaiian shirt that could light up the darkest night. To top it off this neon copy of you tells you he is the Devil and he might just have a plan to keep you from dying. Well at least from dying today. It seems if you are willing to exchange one extra day of your life for making one thing in the world disappear forever, you can make it through another day. Seems like a no-brainer. An extra day of life to cross out some meaningless thing from the world as though it never existed. There must be hundreds, no thousands of things in this world that we could do without. Oh, I forgot to mention, the Devil gets to decide what goes. You just have to agree. It starts simple enough. What would a world be without chocolate? A lot thinner perhaps? A bit less tasty? Surely not a bad choice for another day of life? Then where’s the harm in a world without movies, or phones, or clocks? These are all inanimate objects, but what about a world without, say, cats? Where do you draw the line? Our postman learns a lot about the value of his life and what matters in this world of ours. A very thought-provoking tale told in a light easy to digest manner.

Book 48 - Genki Kawamura "If Cats Disappeared From The World"

What would you do if you suddenly were told by your doctor that you were going to die soon, very soon? You have spent most of your adult life delivering mail in a small town in Japan, when out of the blue, or more likely, out of the darkness you are told that you will soon be dead. Many of us would be devastated and likely to faint, pardon the expression, dead away as our postman does.

After regaining consciousness, we might try to think up a bucket list of things that we want to do before the end. But what if you awoke to see a stranger in your house. A stranger who looked just like you. Well maybe not just like you, because you would never be caught, here it comes again, dead in a loud, brightly colored Hawaiian shirt that could light up the darkest night. To top it off this neon copy of you tells you he is the Devil and he might just have a plan to keep you from dying. Well at least from dying today. It seems if you are willing to exchange one extra day of your life for making one thing in the world disappear forever, you can make it through another day. Seems like a no-brainer. An extra day of life to cross out some meaningless thing from the world as though it never existed. There must be hundreds, no thousands of things in this world that we could do without. Oh, I forgot to mention, the Devil gets to decide what goes. You just have to agree. It starts simple enough. What would a world be without chocolate? A lot thinner perhaps? A bit less tasty? Surely not a bad choice for another day of life? Then where’s the harm in a world without movies, or phones, or clocks? These are all inanimate objects, but what about a world without, say, cats? Where do you draw the line? Our postman learns a lot about the value of his life and what matters in this world of ours. A very thought-provoking tale told in a light easy to digest manner.

The Seven Books From No.27

These are the seven books Mary gave me to sort out, keep or sell. A mixed bag indeed.







The cinema and the curious words hardback are definite keepers though!

The Friday Five

1. How closely do you think good manners are related to income and social status?

2. Can the idea of good manners inhibit people's natural sense of fun and inhibition?

3. Do people have more manners now or in earlier times?

4. Do you say "hi" to people even if they are strangers? Why? Why not?

5. Do you listen to other's people conversations on the street?

Good Night