SMILE - SMILE AND LOVE

DAY TWENTY-ONE: Thursday 21st January 2021:

Good Morning.  I want to make a suggestion. I propose the BBC gather together all of its garbage and broadcast everything in a dedicated BULLSHIT channel. Given this will be 99% of its overall content it could close down all other areas of its operation and scrap the rip off licence fee !

Yesterday we saw horrible figures with ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY deaths in the past 24 hours. THIRTY-EIGHT TOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND NINE more cases ! The Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation droned on and on and on all day about some silly event in America. As if we are interested. What this country is interested in is the way the virus is rampaging through OUR country.

BAN THE BBC !  Cancel its licence fee and make all staff redundant.

For those who today have their hearts ripped apart by the loss of a loved one here is SMILE OF THE DAY.

Love is putting a piece of your soul into someone else’s care, and being responsible for an equal share of theirs. This is soulmate love.

Yesterday and the day before I was complaining about an old biddy and her atrocious behaviour in Morrissons Supermarket. Yesterday I went to the Post Office to send some of our SMILE quiz sheets to a school, a hospital and a care home.  There I found another old biddie with her face mask pulled down exposing her nose. I am going to be emotive now as I say every time you see a person behaving like this you are looking at a potential killer.

If you stab a person with a knife that is a crime carrying a prison sentence. If you carry a knife that is also an offence which is punishable with a prison sentence. If you have china virus and fail to wear a mask properly that equates to stabbing someone with a knife. If you do not have the virus and fail to wear a mask properly that equates to carrying a knife. AM I NOT RIGHT !

OK, let me calm my anger and look at what was happing ON THIS DAY:

21st January 1968: Battle Of Khe Sanh, one of the most controversial battle in the Vietnam War begins.

21st January 1981 Production of the iconic DeLorian sports car begins.

Wikipedia lists almost two hundred people who were born on 21st January but I’ve not heard of a single one of them !

21st January 1950: George Orwell, born 1903, died. What a special write he was – he IS !

GEEK OF THE WEEK:  Here’s a SMILE for you. If Google, Microsoft and Facebook got together to co-design a passenger aircraft would anyone be stupid enough to trust flying on it.

Now I have to confess a failure. Yesterday I targeted myself to write 10,000 words. I failed !  I actually penned 5,992 bringing my total since 1st January to 219,418. Today I will try to equal that total.

I am working like crazy re-editing my poetry anthology to meet Amazon’s copyright criteria.  I really got into it and have added a lot more poems. Today I am going to add this from Rudyard Kipling:

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

 

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on !’

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son !

I think that is a bit special.

Earlier in the week when shopping at Morrissons I saw a homeless rough-sleeper outside in the rain. Now living in a cashless society I had no money to give him so I went back today via a cash machine. His bedding, his clothes were soaked. What a beautiful man ! What he said to me was so loving and kind. I think it may be the same man, JOHN, who I used to visit in the summer but if it is he has aged. He said today that he felt an old man and was having difficulty moving about. WHERE IS LOVE !

I had a special 4am moment today. I am working on quiz sheets for a local care home posing questions from the 1930’s through 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s !  As I was waking this morning I had an idea to list 25 to 30 events, at the bott om of the list will be a list of dates. The challenge will then be to match the dates to the events. Coming to my laptop I brainstormed the following:

1.    When was Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ?

2.    On which day did man first step on the moon ?

3.    When was President John F Kennedy assassinated ?

4.    On what date did The Titanic sink ?

5.    When did Elvis Presley die ?

6.    When was Princess Dianna killed in a car crash ?

7.    When in World War Two was D Day ?

8.    When was Concorde’s first flight ?

9.    On which day was John Lennon murdered ?

10. When did The United Kingdom officially leave The European Union ?

11. When was the death penalty abolished in Britain ?

12. When did King Edward VIII abdicate ?

13. When was the dog licence abolished ?

14. When was the school leaving age raised to 16 years ?

15. When was decimal currency introduced into the UK ?

16. When was the age of majority reduced to 18 years ?

17. When did Margaret Thatcher leave office as Prime  Minister ?

18. When was Prince Charles invested as Prince of Wales ?

19. When was the Tomb Of The Unknown Warrior consecrated ?

20. When was the internet invented ?

21. When was the first mobile phone call made in Great Britain ?

I hope this little bit of fun when it is finished will make lots of people SMILE.

Five thousand, nine hundred and ninety-two words written yesterday, how many have I so far written on today’s page ?  Let me check.

1,264. Better sign off and start writing.

Speak again tomorrow.

Dave

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