Grumpy Old Man

By Maurice1948

Moon over the chimney pots

Another frosty night, maybe slightly less so than yesterday. Mostly inside this morning catching up on photos, poems and other odds and ends. I must write something for the Creative Writing u3a Group which meets again on the Island of Kerrera on Tuesday. 

After lunch I walked down town to Screwfix, to collect a reel of door/window seal I'd ordered and to exercise the joints. Chilly, but a wonderfully blue sky and though I took several sea and mountain pictures, my Blip today is looking the other way, catching the moon just before it disappeared behind a tree.

A book came in the post for me today - 'The London Nobody Knows', by Geoffrey Fletcher. Originally published in 1962, this is a Penguin paperback from 1965. For a book that's almost 60 years old it's in excellent condition and has probably hardly been read, though its somewhat faded state suggests that it's been stuck on a bookshelf all that time!  I also received a poetry book recently; 'Nadja - The Complete poems', a 2020 reprint of all her poems. Most of them were originally published in the early 1920s.

My extra today is a label from a bottle of moisturising shampoo which I picked up yesterday. Imagine being in the bathroom for two weeks!

Quote of the day: 'Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.' —Mark Twain.

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