Day: December 9, 2018

How to protect yourself during winter

dsc00149dsc00150Age UK’s advice to pensioners | How to protect yourself during winter

  • Have a flu vaccination every year – the new vaccine introduced this year for people 65+ has an agent which helps boost the immune system and helps fight illnesses.
  • There is also a pneumonia vaccine – find out if you’re eligible when you have your flu jab.
  • Keep your hands clean – good hand hygiene helps stop infections spreading.
  • Keep simple cold and sore throat remedies in your medicine cabinet to treat minor illnesses when they strike. Your local pharmacist can give advice on treatments.
  • Wrap up when you go outside in the cold – use multiple layers and keep hands, feet and face warm and covered with scarves, gloves and thick socks.
  • Eat well – make sure you eat at least one hot meal every day, hot drinks throughout the day to keep up energy levels.
  • Keep warm to stay well – your living room temperature to 21 degrees and your bedroom temperature to 18 degrees and take particular care if you are going from a warm environment into the cold.
  • Keep moving – try not to sit still for more than one hour at a time even if you just move your arms and legs. If you can stay active, not only will it keep you fit and healthy, it will also generate heat to keep you warmer.

Just war, they said,it’s coming like a blast

Anything to declare, they  bluntly asked
Gold or silver, drugs stuffed up your ass?
Just war, the shadow answered,humans risk.

Do you believe a  just war can exist?
You’ll find that out when you have let me pass
Anything  else,  they bluntly, coldly, asked

No, nothing, you can search me if you must.
My declaration,  reason has surpassed
More wars, the figure ranted, what's the risk?

I declare the world is  done and bust
Though Jesus died and  we’ve just been to Mass
What did that do for Hitler,the guards asked?

What we choose has always unknown risks
As if we  live enclosed in walls of glass
Bombs, the figures chanted, they’re your task.

Shall we let these strange, black figures pass?
War is coming, guns and poison gas
Anything to declare,  the guards  just asked?
A war, they said, it's coming like a blast

Our little black cat

 

 

 

 

I saw a black cat walk sideways.

I saw a black cat play ball.

I saw a black cat walk on my bed.

I said, black cat,don’t fall.

 

I saw a light in your window

I saw a light in your hall.

I saw a you go out and then come back.

I  thought,why don’t you call?

 

The doctor   looked at my body

The doctor looked at my head

The doctor looked  through my eyes again.

I said,I’m still not dead.

 

The cat is called Miss Willow

She lives next door to me

She never bites or scratches me.

She does  that to a tree.

 

O little black cat,please dance

O little black please play

O little black cat I do love you.

But I don’t like to say.

 

If we don’t tell our loved ones

If we don’t tell our friends

If we don’t show our feelings

What signals do we send?

Restoration of West Bank Churches

photo of gray concrete castle
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white concrete building
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ancient antique arch architecture
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/09/qaser-al-yahud-mission-to-restore-faith-halo-trust-west-bank-landmines-restoration-churches

 

“Don’t always look at the past,” he says, with sudden firmness. “Look at the present. Where you see a plant flowering, that should be enough.” Halo must raise more money if it is to complete its work at Qasr al-Yahud next year. It’s his conviction that this will be forthcoming. These green shoots must be watered and He, or someone, will provide.””

Advent flight

The ducks swim in the gaps between the ice
Cold blooded , yet kept warm  by  fluffy down
The river looks uncertain in this light

The sky hangs like a curtain of snow white
The sun,  precocious, shines and then it frowns
The ducks swim in the gaps between the ice

Ah, think of Morecambe  Bay in sunshine bright
Across the sea the Pikes stand out so proud
My river looks uncertain in this light

Britain’s mountains  fierce attract like vice
Like alcohol or sex or low cut gown
Unknowing ducks swim on despite thick ice

Thanks  to God for hearing and for sight
The mystery is the Love which was disowned
My river looks  so cold  as comes twilight

 

Here  is Bethlehem, the little town
Where Christ was born and grew to be cut down
The ducks swim by, the  swans  walk on the ice
Look up and see the geese in Advent flight

 

 

Eternal pests

dachshund dog wearing a red sweater
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My husband wanted to be  the eternal pest so he died
Near restful daughters they   laid him
God bless our Hopes

Is sex wrong  for me after death [ mine]?
Ask Him!
Requiex Cat in Parquet
The Word is my effort
What do you mean, you live in a tent.That’s my frock!
I  just spent an hour moving books off my bed.I wondered where all those Nicholas Freelings had gone>It’s been a miracle I managed to get in myself.