PERTH BULL SALES - STIRLING - SCOTLAND

I've been in Stirling ( Scotland ) most of the day at the world famous Perth Bull sales !!

Sounds bizarre having the Perth sales in Stirling and it is .. but it's too long a story to begin to explain now!

Today began at 04.00 and it's presently approaching 22.15 so it's time to hit the hay with 3 days of filming beginning at 08.00 tomorrow. Not bulls!! Key players in a national executive board group .. another long story ....

A cold miserable drive home this evening brought to mind these words which cheered me up ... nothing to do with bulls ... just snug and warm!!

Ah yes tomorrow's a new day!!

Camomile Tea ?

Outside the sky is light with stars; ?
There's a hollow roaring from the sea. ?
And, alas! for the little almond flowers, ?
The wind is shaking the almond tree. ??

How little I thought, a year ago,
In the horrible cottage upon the Lee ?
That he and I should be sitting so ?
And sipping a cup of camomile tea. ??

Light as feathers the witches fly, ?
The horn of the moon is plain to see;
By a firefly under a jonquil flower ?
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. ??

We might be fifty, we might be five, ?
So snug, so compact, so wise are we! ?
Under the kitchen-table leg ?
My knee is pressing against his knee. ??

Our shutters are shut, the fire is low, ?
The tap is dripping peacefully; ?
The saucepan shadows on the wall ?
Are black and round and plain to see.

Katherine Mansfield