Not Like a Rolling Stone

This was as far as I managed to escape from my office all day. About 2 steps outside the door.

The paving isn't all like this, it's only mossy in one patch, which is to the side of the door so no-one walks on it, but I thought it made rather a pretty pattern.

I'm afraid that's about as interesting as it got all day. Can't be living the life of Riley every day can we?

There's a thought. Although the origin of that phrase (about Riley) is unclear, did you know that the first known mention of it in print was in the Connecticut newspaper The Hartford Courant, December 1911 - in a piece headed 'Bullet Ends Life of Famous Wild Cow':

The famous wild cow of Cromwell is no more. After "living the life of Riley" for over a year, successfully evading the pitchforks and the bullets of the farmers, whose fields she ravaged in all four seasons.


Well there you go - at least I've learnt something today. Hopefully, so have you now.