Oh I do love to be beside the seaside...

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka 

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; 

there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Victor Hugo

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, 

the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean;

 if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. 

More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Drew Barrymore

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Impromptu

Packed in a hurry

Audiobook on the drive down - The Fry Chronicles

Gin & Tonics at Sunset

Midnight stroll in the moonlight

Holding hands with your soul mate

Big (mahoosive) bowls of pasta

Sand in my shoes

Life is wonderful

Restless....

I woke up this morning around quarter to five...

... the wind was howling and the rain pelting down so hard 

that I was sure my chickens would be floating around in their run

(can chickens swim???))

I had to get up and move

The storm rendered me grateful for a gas hob

Here in the hills we lose power during storms regularly

Tree branches (and often trees themselves) crash to the ground

... taking power lines down with graceful ease

Then heroes - volunteering heroes - come out from the safety

of their homes to assist in the clean up that ensues

This would be one of those stormy days for sure

I wondered where Spring had disappeared to

Why was she so shy this year?

We need the rain and I'm a Winter loving gal

Yet ... today I felt...

 I would like to see the sunshine at least once....

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Winter Blues Reversed....

global warming has cooked things up a bit

changing tides, glaciers, hibernations... the whole shebang

thermostats all around the world are confused

the almond tree has blossomed

the poplar is following suit

native freesias have carpeted the nearby parklands

i’m scoffing pretentious soy chai lattes

in a desperate bid to hold onto cosy affairs

i wear “the onesie” in protest, but usually have to strip

halfway through the evening because I’m overheating

I have run out of period dramas to watch

and pod casts to listen to - i have books (of course)

but they’re not cosy reads - need to find a cosy read

(something set in Russia I think)

I didn’t knit enough

i didn’t sort enough

I didn’t have many picnics

(none to be accurate)

I wrote in my journal though

and I made lots of things

oh dear .... I’m rambling

It’s a spectacular day outside

I’m not exaggerating 

20 degrees - sunny and the bluest of skies

I know i should be out there enjoying it

I know I should be excited about the prospect of spring

it’s just that winter flew by all too quickly

and I don’t feel like I got money’s worth 

winter blues reversed

rare but real 

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