The eye is not a  camera taking shots
Our mind affects  the aspect we  perceive
And what it feels important it allots
Gives grace or  hatred ,causes us to grieve.

When we are afraid ,we see the worst
We see disgrace or ruin as our fate
As if our self  for horror has a thirst
So all the little details we collate

Yet when we  love we see before us joy
The flowers sing, the birds dance in  the air
We see no evil  nor with  hatred toy
All aspects of  our world appear more fair.

We see not what is there,we see our self
To learn ,we must employ our own mind's wealth

Is Boris Johnson going to go back to Turkey, land of his fathers?
Is “May” an English surname? Nuts,I say.
What about “Gove”,did they mean Hove or Grove both  of which are English? Maybe Grave or Wave?
Cameron is a Scottish name as in the song,”The Camerons are coming again,again”
Very vulgar people,they should be sent to the  Outer Zebedees.
Perhaps they spelled Camera wrong! Camera sounds Spanish to me.Don Camera.Where;s your hair-oh?

When you start considering who is a foreigner,I admit I am.My head is a Scandinavian longhead so like my siblings I find it hard to buy a hat.As we are not Jewish,as far as I know,we don’t need hats though I would like a wig for  Xmas.A lot of Irish people have Jewish blood because of the wrecks of the Spanish Armada.Many sailors were Sephardic Jews.No doubt they were looked after by the Irish, who were in fact Picts,Scot,Dots or Whatnots.I am sure mixing genes is a good idea.And what fun it can be for some folk.
Maybe some of us prefer sex without jeans and who am I to stand in my way?
The Selfish Jeans could be a good children’ story for adults.
The Selfish gene by Dawkins is a silly book as Selfishness requires consciousness and choice.But I  know it was for publicity.Should a professor descend to those depths?
I am flummoxed that someone like that is a professor.
Still, it’s a fair game.anyone in Britain could be a  professor if they worked hard enough.
Yet it would be hard to tun a country with 65 million professors and no binmen or women.
When you think about it, the refuse collectors are more important.We can live without Richard Dawkins unless we marry him but rubbish is a health threat.He is bad for me because his imagining all religion is fundamentalist irks me.
I can understand  where he is coming from  and what is wrong with self pleasuring?a woman stabbed her husband because he came into her bedroom while she was enjoying a bit of that.She had locked the door so he thought she had a man in there.
I would prefer a man’s company with no sex to sex by myself.Because friendship is more rich,But I don’t think it is wrong.Maybe if young people were taught about it they would stop joining ISIS and lie all day on their beds.Well,I don’t suppose it takes all day unless you are very old.If you die  in the attempt ,it is nice to go like that.BTW  older men are more likely do die having sex with another woman than with their wife!What does that tell us?
Not much really but don’t go to bed with someone with a bad heart unless you are married to them.

North Korea is acting weird
Donald Trump is to be feared
A bomb went off on a London tube
29 burned,hearts confused

But I only  care about love and fashion
Velvet and leather,they’re my passion
If someone drops a nuclear bomb
I’ll  be dressed with my usual aplomb.

I would have my lover by my side
I’d have held his arm if we’d been fried
I’d be dressed in   wool Fair Isle
On my face a cute little smile.

It takes your mind off politics
What is broken can’t be fixed
So spend your money on new clothes
That is how the economy grows

Though if the end is nigh,dear God,
The economy doesn’t care a sod.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54308/making-a-fist

I once had an email from a ghost.
I was eating a piece of white toast.
The message was clear.
It said,”I am not here”.
So I replied, “No need to boast.”

I had a text  from  the old one last year
After Xmas,I was full of black beer
It said ,Good4 U
I replied , &U2
Since then , I pretend I’m not here.

I had a letter from  the bank in my hand
When I slipped on a wide elastic band
It  catapulted me too
Regent’s Park Zoo
With the monkeys, what a fine plaice to land.

I forgot to keep my account book filled in
And I spent my last note on some gin
I like being tipsy
And meeting a gypsy
Or if not that one,I’ll make do with his twin.

Do you have a good sense of humour?

An eye for a storm

An ear for the wind?

Do you hear many underground rumblings

Do you often sail too close to the wind?

Do you ever read the stars ?

This is from the Independent newspaper.I wonder who they imagine reads it.Anyone  over 21 would look silly in it.If I were the editor I would not publish such an article although it is obvious to most of us you can wear tights and boots with a summer skirt when the weather turns chilly.It is not very original.

Quote:
“Something that you probably have in your warm weather wardrobe already, a skirt is a serious multitasking item. Not only do they look great paired with white tennis shoes or sandals but, come September, they promise to look equally as stylish with a chunky knit and some boots.

If you’re looking to pick up a new piece, we recommend this stylish khaki denim skirt with frayed hem detailing, which ticks all the boxes.”

Diagonal streams now  stripe the windowpane
And in them, tiny insects drown and die.
Unexpected ,sudden rain  has come.
Those escape who have  the wings to fly.

No angels were seen peering  at my  room
No doubt they have their  Sunday wings to press.
No  camera ,even with psychotic zoom,
Can catch an angel while she is undressed.

Now the rain has dried and all is sweet
I tend to houseplants standing by the door.
By good luck these houseplants never bleep.
Only in the real world do they flower.

Bleeps and pings are not a natural sound.
But to the artificial   we  will bound.

To be or not to be is ok.What concerns me is to light the fire or not.I had to wash my hair in the kitchen because I was expecting someone to come to the door.I couldn’t see some shampoo I had there so I used Persil Silk and Wool.I am sad my hair was damaged by untreated  low thyroid but really all I care about is how my  head feels.After a couple of days  my hair looks lank and  feels dismal.Still itb is very short so I can wash it quickly.I am meant to have it cut soon but as the weather gets colder I miss the long hait I used to have.
I wonder whether to dye it brown as  men take you more seriously then.But what or whom would they be taking seriously? For what? Perhaps bottle green is better.
It’s like varnishing your nails/Once the hair or nails grow the  roots are showing in the natural colour.Mine might be blonde or it might be white.Like Helen Mirren’s.But she will have a good hairdresser.
I once went into Toni and Guy.The lady leaned over the counter and whispered.
It’s £.45
I know,I said.I wonder what I was wearing or whether my husband was ill and I looked grey.Anyway I didn’t like the music.They put stuff on your hair.I don’t like it.Maybe I will get the scissors and cut it off like a man I used to know [ not Biblically ].It’s easier for men although I could take to wearing a hat or scarf or some Muslim headgear.As my neighbour remarked:

You would not have got cancer if you were wearing the veil,as it were.

And I do think the clothes they wear are very sensible if you live in a hot climate with sand blowing about.Which it is getting like here.But it’s dirt not sand
I made a  list
1 Put socks on
2 Put lightweight padded coat on
3 Put heating on.
4 Get out the fleece sleeping bag liner… and get inside it.
5 Put feet in some hot water.

I found an imitation fur scarf thing and I have got that on.I feel warmer.I need a fur anklet set.

Did you know that a full bladder makes your blood pressure rise? I expect it’s the strain of not wetting yourself.Wish we were animals so we  could just do it anywhere we liked.
And excitement makes  BP go up.It seems lying in a bath all day and peeing into the water might cure your high blood pressure, but what is the point if you can’t lead a normal life?
It’s like my handbag.What with GTN, aspirin and  kleenex.Keys,purse, 3 mobile phones,camera and  lipstick,mobile phone charger,tape measure,scissors and nail  file I  can hardly lift it up.And luckily I can’t put  mascara on owing to my vision,so  that cuts it down a bit.At least now we can leave the photo album at home.
Anyway going back to BP , don’t drink much.You see blood is mainly water and  a full  bladder is bad for BP… so don’t drink.You can lick your lips but that’s it.And the cure for most other ills is death.
Strange isn’t it? Would they let you go on the NHS? My husband died in A and E so  he was not registered as being in the hospital A and E is like Purgatory.
It’ s neither heaven nor hell but maybe a bit like both of them.I wish they made better tea.And gave  wives food when they were with a dying husband.Mind you, they gave him a good meal one hour before he died.If it had not been fish /i would have eaten it myself.
It’s the eyes on dead fish I don’t like.And they lie there so vulnerable with no legs to run away and no eye lids either.And their skin is very thin.Why God made them like that is hard for me to guess.Not to mention  why the Holocaust, the British Empire, Donald Trump and sago pudding with no jam and   ball point pens.It’s a funny world, isn’t it ?

Did you see that coats with very long sleeves are in fashion?I mean,like 18 inches too long!And then Victoria Beckham wa wearing a coat massively too big and I thought, “what luck.”
You see I bought a coat online and it is enormous.I was going to send it back but I see  I must wear it.The problem is I live in a pretty ordinary area where people won;t know about trends.So they will think I am crackers!
Unless I wear it with beige or light pink leggings and a crop top… and leave the oat undone.Otherwise I might be searched by the police in case someone from Europe is hiding inside it trying to get into  some place forbidden except to  Brits!
Let’s hope they don’t do some of the things we read about.I mean I am quite big but my sexual organs are not large enough to hide even a thin model who   is seeking asylum.If this goes on I’ll be in the asylum.It shows us how sinful  we really are, wearing over sized coats while people are having to listen to Mr Trump  and follow his tweets.
I mean,I could hardly believe all these politicians tweeting at 3 am.Why are they not with beautiful creatures like cats and dogs.Sharing their bed…I]Or even a teddy bear.It makes you think.Well I’d like to think but my mind is blank
We used to look up to some political leaders  but now Mrs Netanyahu is being tried for  not making the right sort of cake  for her husband.It’s very important, you know.A man needs cake every day otherwise he’ll go blind.Thinks…. is this the answer? Lack of cake.I know you can buy them but you don’t get to lick the bowl.I don’t know where I’d be if I hadn’t licked the bowl on Saturdays
I must be losing weight,my watch is too loose.It’s not trendy to wear a watch but when you keep your phone up your knicker leg  a watch seems a good idea.Where can you buy those knickers with pockets? They were really handy.I used to love threading elastic round the legs  with a safety pin.And to think if it were now I’d be on my IPad watching  Open University lectures on You Tube.
I am puzzled about how people afford iPads.Maybe my pension is smaller tham I imagined.Would you pay £700 for an iPhone? You could have bought a house for that when I was young.
It’s chick pea curry tonight.With pasta not rice.I am so contrary,I have fried bread every day and  ~I even buy it ready fried with mashed potato in the Supermarket.That makes me blink