Raindrops.

As I was takimg Maggie the wonder dog for her and my morning constitutional I noticed these lovely raindrops on my neighbour's lawn. I suppose lawn is a tad incorrect. Perhaps meadow would be more apropriate. However, my neighbour, Alison is a woman of the cloth. She told me rather quitely that she is a verger in the C of E. Although I seldom trouble the scorer as it were, I am a fully paid up member of the lapsed Catholic society. I tkink that the possible reason for this is that before my minor heart operation,I read an article that said, that people who had a belief in "something", statistically, had a better chance of survival after a major procedure, and so I thought, why not? The rain today was of the Peter Kay variety, or as they say in Ireland, "It's a soft day." Peter Kay, for the uninitiated is a comic from Bolton whose succinct observations of life, often lead me to guffaw in a most emberassing manner to my family. Peter would say, "That it's the sort of rain that would wet you through." O.K. overstating the obvious, but I think I know what he means. I f we lived near the sea, and were from the North East, we might call it fret. Anyway by the by, job wise, it has not been that successful so the raindrops reminded me of a few of the Bards words. I wish that prospective employers would take heed of them.


The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven,
Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blessed.
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
It is mightiest in the mightiest,
It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
An attribute to awe and majesty.
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself.
And earthly power dost the become likest God's,
Where mercy seasons justice.
Therefore Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice we all must see salvation,
We all do pray for mercy
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
I have spoke thus much to mittgate the justice of thy plea,
Which if thou dost follow,
This strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentance gainst the merchant there.