Dear Erp:
The weather has deteriorated here and is now like winter. We had hardly any summer. It has rained heavily the past three days and the termperature is cool but I don't mind. I am a cold weather person.
I have had a problem lately with fatigue which is why I haven't been doing much - I have been either sleeping or resting the better part of twelve hours out of every twenty four. It annoys me. I hate growing old. I went to the doctor and complained but the man has so many genuinely sick people I didn't get much sympathy. It is my heart you see, working too hard now. Childhood illnesses (including rheumatic fever) are creeping back up on me. 'Live with it', he said, 'rest all you want. There is nothing else to be done.' The fatigue is not there all the time, but one day in the future it will be. Just now it is several days on, several days off.
I am wearing out Erp. I just hope I don't outlast my brain.
Did I tell you that my daughter in Australia is expecting another baby? There will be 14 months between Asher and number five. I hope her leg holds up.
About the reading group - I wouldn't mind discussion about a good book, but I really can't be bothered with the male preoccupation with immortality. Ninety nine per cent of them aren't worth it - even if it does exist in the after life. As for living for 200 or more years, I couldn't think of anything worse, unless one could stop ageing. Surely then would begin the battle with boredom. And just think - mothers would be here as well. They are here far too long as it is!
I still haven't got around to putting my photo on the blog - the mere thought of even attempting it the past few days has been enough to send me somewhere warm and soft for a nap.
Have you heard the furore about the film '300'? I got the two books, one is a comic book and one is called 300 the Art of the Film sent to me a couple of months ago to review. I tossed off the review and said they were suitable for 12 - 18 year old males (of the more bloodthirsty type) now I read everywhere how sensitive feelings are being hurt. Is there anything nowadays that doesn't offend somebody? Then it is a three day wonder and something else takes its place. Everybody everywhere is being offended about something all the time it seems.
I have the dentist on Friday.
Some snippets you may enjoy:
Reverend William Spooner. Warden of New College, Oxford University, 1903 - 1924.
His habitual transposition of sounds - metaphasis - made him famous in his own lifetime and gave the world the word - spoonerism.
He was an albino.
Among the more famous utterances attributed to him:
'Which of us has not felt in his heart, a half warmed fish?'
To a delinquent undergraduate:
'You have hissed my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. You will leave Oxford on the next town drain.'
PALINDROMES:
The Greeks often put on fountains:
Nispon animimata mi monan opsin - wash the sin as well as the face.
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I'll send you the URL of the book discussion. Just jump in if you feel like it. I don't plan to have much to say because the subject doesn't interest me much either.
Fatigue and ennui. As Maurice Chevalier said, it beats the opposite option. My daughter and granddaughter were here all week and are going back up north tomorrow (weather permitting).
We've had perfect weather. Sunny and between 70 and 80 F.
How did you enjoy your daughter and her boy friend. Anyone serious?
Five kids for your other daughter. Amazing.
Keep in touch when you feel up to it.
Checking my new picture.
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