tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13298434256866860212024-02-08T18:30:22.938+01:00Welcome to the Anglo Swiss WorldI no longer post in Blogger. If you wish to read my posts, please visit the following links:
https://angloswiss-chronicles.com/,
http://angloswiss-cat-chronicles.com/,
https://www.facebook.com/angloswiss/Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2879125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-28900269559858139492016-01-19T20:01:00.000+01:002016-01-19T20:01:20.412+01:00My Blogs on Blogger<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blogs shown here are just a backup and repost from my site on WordPress. I also show them on Facebook in my own community. For this reason I have now decided no longer to repost on Blogger. It takes time and work and I prefer to apply the work in WordPress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not exacly know who is reading my posts in Blogger as the Blogger system is not suitable for a social connection to other bloggers which is also a reason why I am no longer continuing my daily reblog. If you still wish to see my blogs you can follow the following links</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WordPress: <a href="http://angloswiss-chronicles.com/"> Angloswiss Chronicles</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and: <a href="http://angloswiss-cat-chronicles.com/">Angloswiss Cat Chronicles</a> </span><br />
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Thanking you all for following - Angloswiss</span>Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-25784209166299835402016-01-19T17:15:00.003+01:002016-01-19T17:15:52.865+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Can't Stand me<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What do you find more unbearable: watching a video of yourself, or listening to a recording of your voice? Why?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a silly question. I know I am a modest feline, keep myself to myself and rarely brag about how good I am or how clever I am. I have so many talents there would not be enough scope in this blog to mention all. Mrs. Human is full of praise how I help her in my home with eating the tuna fish she gives me, although only twice a week, but you cannot have everything I suppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am also very good at using my recycling tray and always remind Mrs. Human to empty it when necessary. Did I tell you that I am an expert at defending my territory? Unfortunately it might happen that I am busy sleeping when one of my feline friends decide to invade my private sphere, but Mrs. Human is watching for me if necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I found a wonderful new sleeping place. It was a cupboard full of human clothes and the door was open. I mean what would you do, as a feline. You jump in and make yourself comfortable. There was a small commotion when Mr. Human almost closed the cupboard door on me, but I reminded her to leave the door open and put a label on the door saying “do not close, Tabby seeping place” which worked quite well. I was left in peace until I noticed that Mrs. Human was preparing for her golden oldie midday sleep. I decided to accompany her as sleeping on a human bed is an improvement on a cupboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Mrs. Human took my photo in the cupboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs. Human said to apologise (a word which does not exist in Meow) for the dark photo. It seems the cupboard has no human light and I told her to keep it that way. Who needs light, we felines can see in the dark.</span></div>
Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-71678931627816886652016-01-19T16:30:00.000+01:002016-01-19T16:30:07.258+01:00Daily Prompt: Can't Stand Me<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t mind myself really. Since I arrived on that memorable day on 6th December 1946 I have been living with myself, watch myself grow, listened to my own voice every day. There have been times when due to a throat infection that I had lost may voice and remain silent for a while, but I survived. There were even some that found being voiceless was an improvement on my general appearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am never unbearable, just a little annoying from time to time when I get a daily prompt that absolutely does not inspire me in any way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have often seen myself in a mirror in the bathroom when improving my general perfect appearance with a tweak here and there. Of course there is alway room for improvement, but my general appearance is OK. Unfortunately I have not yet been discovered by the film or television industry, but it is never too late.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that’s all for today. I wanted to impress you all with a video from my iPhone but unfortunately that does not work and in any case it would spoil the picture you all have of me from my blogs. However before I go just a self portrait</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-28404584556141453542016-01-18T16:19:00.003+01:002016-01-18T16:19:41.703+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Reason to believe in felines<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>In Reason to Believe, Bruce Springsteen sings, “At the end of every hard-earned day / people find some reason to believe.” What’s your reason to believe?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human, what’s that white stuff outside in my territory?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That’s snow Tabby.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What’s snow?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It’s frozen water that comes down from the sky.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I thought frozen water was what is in my bowl outside in the morning. That is transparent, but that white stuff is not transparent”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It varies according to how cold it is I suppose.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You suppose? You are supposed to explain everything to me, but “suppose” in a human word when the human does not know why.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Things are not always so easy to explain.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That’s is because the human brain has not yet achieved the level of the feline brain. I will have to ask Bastet the reason for the difference between snow and frozen water, she will know.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But she is not here.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Believe what you want Mrs. Human, she is always here. All I have to do is to programme my whiskers and I am already on the receiving end of her wisdom.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I thought whiskers had another purpose.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes Mrs. Human, just think. Do not forget we felines were gods and….”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I know Tabby. Why do you not know the difference between frozen water and snow in that case?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Because we felines had not yet invented snow when we were gods. That came later when the Norwegian cats appeared on the scene. My ancestors originated in the old country, where the pharaohs lived and Bastet was top of the hit parade and not some guy called Bruce Springsteen that I have never heard of. We even had a guy called Ra, the sun king who died every day, only to be reborn the next morning. Bastet was Ra’s groupie. By the way did you know it was punished with the death sentence if you touched a hair on our feline bodies?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, I did not Tabby. In that case what do I get for serving a dish of tuna fish.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Satisfaction that you have chosen the right meal for your feline.”</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-18383343548169809832016-01-18T15:51:00.002+01:002016-01-18T15:51:29.238+01:00Daily Prompt: Reason to believe<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>In Reason to Believe, Bruce Springsteen sings, “At the end of every hard-earned day / people find some reason to believe.” What’s your reason to believe?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not really care what Bruce Springsteen sings and these prompts are going from bad to worse. Are we now on a trip to becoming something special? At the end of a day, which are no longer hard earned because I no longer earn anything, I go to bed to wake up the next day. I must be a lost cause as I do not bother with working out what I believe, I am too busy living life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning I believed in the fact that the Swiss do look after their roads after a night of -5°C temperatures where everything would have been frozen, were it not for the men in the salt spraying vehicles that ensure that we can still drive a car without skidding and sliding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believed in the fact that deliveries were made to the supermarket containing fresh vegetables and fruit as we'll as other items for feeding the masses to ensure that we will survive. This has nothing to do with Bruce Springsteen and a money making song which I have never heard of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also believe that Mr. Swiss dropped a plastic bag containing a bottle of red wine when we arrived home from the supermarket which broke. There was a broken bottle in the bag swimming in a sea of wine. Luckily it was a cheaper wine, with the purpose for cooking and not drinking. However, wine is wine and thanks to my trained housewife instincts there was a mop ready to be used to wipe up the red stains on the floor. Also we have a stone floor (which was probably the reason for the bottle breaking) and so there was no great wine deluge. It was wiped away at once. Luckily I was frying today, so did not need the wine which will be replaced on the next shopping safari. I now believe that it was lucky that the wine bottle was in a plastic bag on its own, meaning that the damage was kept under control. Just a matter of 5 Swiss Francs, although money is money of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have now cancelled two paragraphs of what I wrote as it was getting political and if I want a political platform I will become a candidate for the next swiss elections. As no-one will probably vote for me, although it might become a reason to believe, I have given up this idea. I have just released I can write rubbish on this prompt, because it is a rubbish prompt. Mr. Swiss has now left me on my own, but as I did not really listen to him about where he was going, I do not know where he is. It must have been some sort of heavy job as he has taken No. 1 son with him, and No. 1 son is useful for heavy work. No. 1 son is at home this week because his company have short hours, due to the economic situation, the strong Swiss franc and the fact they have nothing to do. It can only get better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, keep believing in new prompts to give us a reason to believe. I give up, no inspiration, but I only believe in I, me and myself and the Swiss supermarket.</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-45494833699454290162016-01-17T16:16:00.002+01:002016-01-17T16:16:37.835+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Feline Learning Style<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What’s your learning style? Do you prefer learning in a group and in an interactive setting? Or one-on-one? Do you retain information best through lectures, or visuals, or simply by reading books?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Can you still do it Tabby?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Do what?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Climb your special organised feline steps to reach the top of the cupboard where you like to rest with a view over your complete Kingdom.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Of course I can, don’t ask silly questions.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Then why don’t you climb up the ladder.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t want to.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I think you have forgotten how to do it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hissss, shhhhh, not so loud, the others might read it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Tabby it is a fact, you no longer use your steps.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t feel like it, any feline can climb steps, but not every feline can take a jump from the desk to the top of the cupboard like I can.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But it is much easier to go up the steps, one after the other: no stress and just take your time.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human felines do not take their time, there is no point.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why rush?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It is a matter of feline nature. We might have a dog on our paws, perhaps another feline, or there might be only one portion of mouse or bird, and first come first served.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But Tabby you are now at home and there are no other felines here. You only get healthy vitamin pellets of perhaps a portion of tuna fish at home, so why rush. No-one is going to take it away from you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human this is developing into one of these conversations from a human point of view. You are applying the words of Dale Carnegie “When dealing with people you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion”.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Which would be translated in the higher level of feline logic?”</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-10951546799325507542016-01-17T15:50:00.002+01:002016-01-17T15:50:55.918+01:00Daily Prompt: Learning Style<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have a computer, why learn? If a cyber golden oldie forgets, she has the possibility of her iPad, computer and even iPhone, if she has one and don’t we all? Otherwise we would not be writing our daily prompt, although it is becoming possible to even write your contribution just by phone if your have small dainty fingers to be able to tap on the integrated keyboard. I do not, so I prefer comfort on a chair with a computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The question is do we learn anything? Life today has become easier for those of us whose memory fades quicker, especially if you are approaching the age of forgetfulness. Mrs. Angloswiss and Mr. Swiss are having a discussion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Do you remember Fred Smith? They are showing one of his films this evening on the TV.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Swiss disappears and returns with his iPad in his hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, he died in 2013 apparently, had a heart attack.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is Mr. Swiss now the memory man, does he remember everything about Fred Smith? Of course not, where there is a Wikipedia there is a way. I do tend to annoy him from time to time when one of my favourite golden oldie songs are being played on the radio and I begin to sing along, word for word perfectly. Just enter the name of the song into your iPad and google supplies you with the title of the song complete with lyrics. Perfect, I can now sing along in a duet with the correct words. Today they played “Imagine” by John Lennon and I must say I never realised what perfect words the song contains. I am not sure if my rendering of the song as a duet with John Lennon was a perfect match. Mr. Swiss just mentioned afterwards that John Lennon was the poet of the duo Paul McCarthy and John Lennon, and I found it to be true - thanks to Google. There was a comment afterwards that my rendering of the song together with John Lennon was a little out of tune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are some things that the computer cannot supply and that is our local tax form and how to do it. The form is on the computer and Mr. Swiss has been completing it for many years. 2-3 years ago I decided I should be able to do it as well. One day I might be confronted with the problem of submitting our financial details to the local government on my own and so we both sat down at the computer together for 5-10 minutes. I know that was not enough time to learn how to do it, but there was a problem. I learn with the “learning by doing” system and Mr. Swiss can already do it and wants to show me how good he is at it. That system does not work, leading to various disagreements. We came to the conclusion that if circumstance ever arise that I was left to do the job on my own, I could give it to an office that is equipped for the task. It would cost something, but at least not my nervous condition. In the worse case I always have son No. 2, although he lives on the other side of Switzerland and has his own tax problems to deal with. I come to the conclusion that Switzerland is a country of accountants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also came to my mind that I have now lost touch with how the television functions. I can switch it on and off, but what lays in between are about 80-90 various channels in various languages and a DVD recorder which is not my sort of thing. I can operate an Apple computer, a windows computer with all the newest bells and whistles, but a TV - not really. Mr. Swiss does it perfectly. He even records the programme in the background, you do not even see the programme, but he makes it appear on the TV screen a few minutes or hours after it is finished. It is all organised. The programme begins on the hour and we begin watching 5 minutes later but it is all there. The wonders of modern science and Mr. Swiss of coure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now I have an appointment with my feline Tabby, who wants to write her contribution to today’s prompt.</span></div>
Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-45980659017457874162016-01-16T16:08:00.002+01:002016-01-16T16:08:27.042+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Feline B+<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It is quite obvious. I am having one of my famous washes. The overture is to make the paw wet and the next movement is to swipe it in careful movements over my face.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You make it sound like a concert.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It is, having a wash is not just a quick stand under the big tongue you have in your bathroom, for a feline it is to be executed with care, a study in washing and we have many movements. It begins with the side parts of the face and of course around the mouth, that is the most important part.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why Tabby.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You clean you teeth first of all don’t you? It is a similar study for us felines, but we have a reason. If I have been eating the famous tuna movement, it will definitely be noticed by other feline musicians and they will try to intervene on my washing syphony, searching for the lost tuna. It is better to remove that part of the concerto as soon as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then go into the lower keys of the rhythm, taking care to arrive at the essence of the music in a discrete way. There are parts of the feline washing symphony that are not to be seen by all, especially the tom cats amongst us. A lady likes to have her quiet symphonic movements to herself.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And then?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We now arrive at the grand finale, after a few bites in between the claws to make an impact on the listeners and progress to the dance sequence. I turn three times on the same spot, sink gracefully to a comfortable place, close my eyes, keeping one ear open for any sound intervals that may occur and perform the sleep concerto, which may last an hour or two, depending on whether I feel the need to create a diversion now and again. Yes, we feline have a feeling for our musical moments.”</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-51495353767032396532016-01-16T15:36:00.001+01:002016-01-16T15:36:17.814+01:00Daily Prompt: B+<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What new album or week-end? The one I recorded a week ago, or the one that I started to record this morning, 6-7 hours ago. I think we should define this prompt a little more exactly, it has begun where the needle has stuck. OK, we now have CD’s and iPod stuff so there are no more needles to stick in a groove, just recordings that go bad in between, but in the spirit of the daily prompt promoted by promoters that do not even read what the prompt is about, but just do a copy paste somewhere in Silicon Valley, I will do my best to define the first tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a slow start to the album which was entitled “How to thaw out old ideas”. The tracks were cold, the same old thing. They were encrusted in a frozen atmosphere due to outside conditions and only began to melt when Mrs. Angloswiss did a warmed up version of a cup of tea together with a slice of bread and cottage cheese, covered with a cranberry topping. It was then that some life came into the album, although there was still a lack of enthusiasm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seemed that one of her main players, son No. 1, had decided to leave the completion of the album for a day in Zürich. Naturally Mrs. Angloswiss carried on regardless, knowing that the tracks on the album would exist without No. 1 son, as No. 1 son preferred another style of music, more into the thawed out movements from the sixties. We are now in the 21st century and music tastes are different. The first scratch on the new album was on the horizon. There was a stop to production as son No. 1 was occupying the shower and Mrs. Angloswiss wished to continue production by cleaning the room. She discovered an alternative track and move down to the sound of the toothbrush. This was a short interval, but there was still a blockage on continuing production of the new album as the shower was still occupied. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs. Angloswiss decided on a space interval on the track and moved to the kitchen to re-record the arrangements by dealing with the feline food bowls, as a time filler. In the meanwhile she could continue with her original rhythm as the shower had been vacated and sounds of rushing water and the rubbing of a mop on the tiles could be heard, rhythmical and definite. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next track was a mixture building up to a crescendo of success. The atmosphere changed constantly, in the living room, the corridor and the various bedrooms which allowed some variations on the theme. It was then that the sound assistant left for a musical pause to the nearby town and the album was now set in a calm background, although only half way through, almost a diminuendo. The only soloist was now Mrs. Angloswiss, but even she was too busy to form a melody as the vacuum cleaner had been removed and it was time for another shower interval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our leading performer had now completed the main theme of the symphony and moved to the computer to organise the background music to a “Picture This” theme on Blogger. Eventually the grand finale was reached by the preparation of lunch. It was a three part sonata comprising of pasta, vegetable with a strong broccoli flavour, its favoured soloist being the lamb chops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was now a pause after the main course and a long interval during which the album was left during a two hour golden oldie rest by its creator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Tabby what is that noise?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Nothing Mrs. Human. I met Butch, the feline from over the path and he had some interesting news to tell me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But I did not understand. It sounded like you were having an argument.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We were having a scientific discussion about the development of a tenth life and our feline burger delivery. Butch speaks Meowchong dialect, which is not the same as my dialect.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What dialect do you speak Tabby?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Macmeow of course, developing from the pharaoh days when we were worshipped as gods.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And meowchong is not from the gods.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh no, everyone knows that the original Tabby dialect is Macmeow. Even the famous MacDonald bird burger inventor spoke Macmeow. That’s where he got the name for his chain food emporium. By the way I heard he is opening a branch in our local supermarket.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But our local supermarket does not allow MacDonald bird burgers produced by felines. I have never seen the restaurant.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You wouldn’t. It is only open and visible for those with the nine lives. Actually Butch and I were discussing the order we placed on our pawpads. They also have a courier service. If a feline arrives at the door wearing a white hat with the inscription “Have a big Birdmac for your dinner” he will be bringing our order.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I didn’t know that felines eat bird sandwiched in a bun.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We don’t. It is garnished with catnip and packed in a crispy ………”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Tabby, I don’t want to know. Just keep it for yourself.”</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-3140164787017901332016-01-15T15:57:00.001+01:002016-01-15T15:57:11.032+01:00Daily Prompt: Morphing<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Language evolves. The meaning of a word can shift over time as we use it differently — think of “cool,” “heavy,” or even “literally.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Today, give a word an evolutionary push: give a common word a new meaning, explain it to us, and use it in the title of your post.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the actual birth of the word “Fleisch Bruffeli” you must return to the year 1969, that memorable year when Mrs. Angloswiss and Mr. Swiss said “yes” in a registry office with two witnesses and the unforgettable Beda Baumgartner in is pin striped suit that was the marriage registrar at the time. No beating about the bush, it was a quick and painless step but a big one for the Angloswiss/Swiss family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course we spent a time getting to know each other, which included food. One day I decided to make sausage rolls for the evening meal, a memory of England. Unfortunately english sausages were not available in Switzerland, but being and inventive type I created the next best thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the fleisch bruffeli was born, although it was not as easy as it looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is not an original fleisch bruffeli, it developed over the years into its constant form. The first attempt really did look like a smaller sausage roll, but as mentioned there were no small neat irish pork sausages available in the Swiss supermarket. I purchased mincemeat, and already the original taste was altered, because it was beef mincemeat. I was not keen on minced pork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I fried the meat with onions, a crushed clove of garlic and spiced it up with what I found to be appropriate: some paprika for the hot taste, salt and pepper and anything that I happened to find in the cupboard and of course some red wine. There are no rules when your cooking gifts are to be adapted. I had a pack of pastry, just plain pastry, and cut it into stripes. I then placed the mince in a line on the stripes, folded the pastry after coating the edge with the white of an egg to make it stick together. The next process was to coat the pastry with the remainder of the egg, beaten together with the yolk to give it a nice brown shiny surface. It was then baked in the oven for 30-40 minutes and the first Angloswiss sausage rolls Swiss style were born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Needless to say they were a successs. My food is almost always a success under the threat that I would refuse to cook again if it was not praised. At last there was something new on the table. My step children were also enthralled by this creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About a month later it was again time to cook something completely different. You cannot live on Rösti and Bratwurst every day and Mr. Swiss made the suggestion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why don’t you make those fleisch bruffelis again. They were quite good.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Fleisch what?” I exclaimed, thinking this was a new Swiss German word I had not yet encountered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Fleisch bruffeli, you know that mincemeat in pastry”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and so the fleisch bruffeli was born in the Angloswiss household. Today I am writing about it, and for the first time in my 47 years of marital life I asked Mr. Swiss where the word “bruffeli” arose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No idea” was the answer. “just a moment, Uncle Otti and his family would use the word for broken teeth - a broffle” and so the word Fleisch Bruffle was born thanks to the imaginative Swiss German spoken by Uncle Otti who was the brother of my Swiss mother-in-law and so the word could often be heard in the Mr. Swiss family (she had many brothers and sisters).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the years the fleisch bruffeli appeared on the Angloswiss table in various forms, but today it is generally large a layer of pastry (which might even be the flaky sort) covered with the magical mincemeat mixture and completed with a final slice of pastry. It is much quicker and more convenient. After the cooking it is cut in family sized pieces. It may look different to a small roll of pastry with filling, but it tastes just the same. Over the last 47 years my cooking talent has developed.</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-35703706333542628722016-01-14T17:13:00.001+01:002016-01-14T17:13:11.210+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Ripped from the Feline Headlines<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Write about something that happened over the weekend as though it’s the top story on your local paper.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why are you looking so angry Tabby.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I am not looking angry Mrs. Human, just expressing my displeasure at a newspaper report. It says that all feline territorial rights are to be ruled over. There have been too many complaints from the humans about feline disputes and the noise made. From now on the territory belongs to all.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But that is much better Tabby. I am sure you felines will sort it out and will have a much better understanding. You could perhaps even from groups and join in activities like taking walks together. I am sure life will not be so hectic with all those stupid territorial disputes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human if your neighbour decided to collect the apples from your apple tree in the garden would you be happy about it?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Of course not, it is my apple tree. He can plant his own.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Exactly, and so are territorial rights established. If Roschti walks through my territory and decides to leave a mark, we have a feline discussion and the feline with the loudest voice and longest claws usually wins. Although it might be that one of the felines manages to run faster than the other which also solves any problems of confrontation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You mean when you run away.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Just to avoid a dispute Mrs. Human. It lays in the nature of the feline race that we establish our territory. If there are no territorial rights, there is nothing for a feline to discuss and feline life is boring. We could just as well share the mice we catch or the birds.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That would be a good idea. If you catch a mouse you could divide it between yourself and the other felines. Then no-one would feel left out or starve.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes of course Mrs. Human. The next time you go to the supermarket and buy a chicken, you could perhaps give a leg and a wing to the lady upstairs.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But then we would not have enough for ourselves.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, of course, Mrs. Human. So please do not try to tell me how to live my feline life and I will not tell you how to deal with other humans. By the way I just read on my iPad that a human journalist that suggested abolishing feline rights has been delivered into the hospital for treatment on various scratches from felines. I think the idea has been abolished.”</span></div>
Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-17085801625122155682016-01-14T16:37:00.000+01:002016-01-14T16:37:13.368+01:00Daily Prompt: Ripped Into the Headlines<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Write about something that happened over the weekend as though it’s the top story on your local paper.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes. another international crisis is happening before our very noses, but there is a rescue on the horizon. The Cheese central shop in Neuendorf is looking for a buyer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing is worst than change. This was also discovered by the customers of the local bank in Härkingen and Neuendorf when the banks were closed at the end of last year. The two buildings are to be sold, but there is a further problem.The cheese shop is included in the building in Neuendorf. The company running the cheese shop might buy the building, If they do the Neuendorf population can buy cheese as always. A swiss village without a cheese shop is like a desert without sand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the last cheese producer left the village in 2002 there were still 12 milk producers remaining so they were worried. Where can we go with the milk when the cheese shop closes? Although there is still a problem. The milk quantity is decreasing. 600 Liters are required in a 2 day rhythm. If this does not happen then the cooling system will shut down and you cannot make cheese from bad milk (perhaps gorgonzola?). A place to collect the milk in the village could be organised which would maintain the milk quantities. The village is thinking about it. The lady that owns the cheese shop is now unsure. what will actually happen to her shop. The bank building may be bought, but do the new owners want to continue with cheese sales, meaning that the production must also be continued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first cheese company in Neuendorf was grounded in 1854 by 20 farmers, the cheese production was in a cellar.The Neuendorf famers often had arguments about the price of the milk examination system,. You cannot make cheese out of any milk in Switzerland, it must be approved. In 1875 a cheese manufacturing building was built in the Allmend Street but this was not the solution to the cheese making problem. There were three other farmers who decided to do their own cheese known as the “dirty ones” and eventually they also bought the original building. Eventually the problems were solved and 1977 was a record year for the cheese manufacture. They were also making yogurt and various sorts of milk, and selling it with success. How this production will be continued is still an open question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so another episode of excitement in the Swiss countryside is being dealt with. I must admit that personally I think I once visited a restaurant in Neuendorf, but do not remember seeing the diary or even the bank that has now been closed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Believe me, this was the most exciting story I read in the local newspaper today. Otherwise five people died in our Kanton and had their obituaries displayed, but no-one that I knew. The fish that disappeared from the River Birs between the towns of Delsberg and Roches have appeared again, but no-one really knows where they went in the meanwhile. We Swiss should have a better control over our fish population. Another headline to be a concern of the world press. I wonder if the New York Times reported it.</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-59008110762081196152016-01-13T16:48:00.000+01:002016-01-13T16:48:19.600+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Now you see me<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You have a secret superpower: the ability to appear and disappear at will. When and where will you use this new superpower? Tell us a story.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Tabby, where are you, Tabby?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Don’t shout Mrs. Human, it hurts my sensitive feline ears.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Where are you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I am in that nice room you have where you get the big lick from that thing called the shower.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You mean the bathroom.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Bathroom does not exist in meow Mrs. Human. Just that place with those nice solid tiled walls where I can have a quiet meditation all to myself. As they say “When the humans are away the felines will play”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That is not the place for a feline.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Everywhere is for a feline Mrs. Human, and it is nice and warm here on the carpet: even the floor is nice and warm.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Wouldn’t you rather go and play outside?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Play? I beg your pardon. I do not play anywhere, I concentrate on the purpose of a feline life an at the moment I have no interest is going outside, it is windy which will spoil my furstyle.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But you cannot stay here, you are in the way.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If you are referring to that human recycling tray, it does not bother me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But it bothers me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But you have a second recycling tray in that place you call shower.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Perhaps you could go and find a nice place in the shower, so that I could occupy the bathroom.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t feel like it Mrs. Human. I am more comfortable here, and just close the door a little when you go, otherwise it gets draughty. I really don’t want to catch a feline cold.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes of course Tabby, if you need anything just give me a meow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The door.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Sorry”</span></div>
Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-46434234847727497232016-01-13T16:18:00.002+01:002016-01-13T16:18:23.629+01:00Daily Prompt: Now you see me<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You have a secret superpower: the ability to appear and disappear at will. When and where will you use this new superpower? Tell us a story.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Who are you? No don’t tell me, another one of those guys from WordPress.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How did you guess Mrs. Angloswiss?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Fairly obvious, when you walk around in a WordPress t-shirt. I could not imagine anyone else has one. I have been waiting for mine for a few years. What about a prompt: The day I received my WordPress t-shirt.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We are working on it. No, todays prompt is a gift from the organisation, you get a superpower and can appear and disappear at will.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Well that’s just fine, couldn’t be better. I was just preparing to clean the kitchen, already put everything on the table, so I suggested you can begin to clean while I disappear.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That’s not quite the idea. We thought you could use this power to see things you could not otherwise see and make experiences in life that you will never forget.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I did all this on 3rd December 2013, remember?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I know we repeat our prompts now and again, but that is for the newbies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I am not a newbie, I am 69 years old so let’s make the most of it. The cleaning cloths are next to the sink, there is a ladder to reach the high places and use my special biological cleaning liquid. It shouldn’t take more than half an hour. I do it regularly every week.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But………..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No buts, it is now time for me to disappear at will. I won’t be far, just sitting in the living room reading a book or playing with my iPad. I might even be writing today’s daily prompt, starring WordPress Mr. Cleaner, but don’t disappear whilst you are doing the work. It is my day to disappear. And don’t forget to clean the floors when you are finished.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“All you have to do is swallow this liquid and you are invisible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I am not swallowing any liquids, especially those from wordPress. I might turn into a grid and we all know what happens then. I will be just another brick in the wall. I will be invisible enough in the living room. Rest assured I will not interrupt whilst you are working and no resting on the job making cups of tea and eating biscuits. You can do all that when you get back to your office.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But I will get my t-shirt dirty.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You only have one t-shirt?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I have to pay for them if they get dirty.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“OK, I will lend you an apron.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But it is an apron with a slogan from one of our rival organisations.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And? At least they sent me an apron. I am still waiting for my WordPress t-shirt.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An hour later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Angloswiss I am finished.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Ok, let’s have a look. There are some stains on the chrome steel surface next to the sink. Polish them away and there is some dust on the top ledge next to the door.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“At once Mrs. Angloswiss. How’s that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It will do, and don’t forget, the next time you repeat this prompt let me know before hand so that I can organise the bathroom for you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes Mrs. Angloswiss, goodbye and have a nice day.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I quite enjoyed that prompt, they should do them more often and look, he has forgotten his WordPress t-shirt. He must have take it off when he put the apron on. I hope it is size XXL.</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-4181446645533976342016-01-12T16:54:00.003+01:002016-01-12T16:54:48.327+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: If I could turn back my whiskers<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If you could return to the past to relive a part of your life, either to experience the wonderful bits again, or to do something over, which part of you life would you return to? Why?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Let’s go back to last Sunday Mrs. Human.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Well, that is not very imaginative. You can return to your kitten days together with your brothers and sisters, or even to your first walk alone in the garden. What was so special about last Sunday?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I got tuna fish of course. It’s your own fault I am not very imaginative Mrs. Human, if I got tuna fish every day I would not have to dwell on my memories.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But you are always fed regularly Tabby. I think we have had this conversation before.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Of course we have. There is not a lot of fun in a feline life at the wim of a human.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“An there is not a lot of fun for a human waiting on a feline all day.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Don’t overdo it Mrs. Human. It is not all day, In between I allow you to go shopping and now and again you can read a book or watch the TV, as long it fits in with my timetable.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, exactly.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I cannot have you neglecting my recycling tray or filling my bowls with food and water, just because of some sort of human pasttime. I even notice you concentrate on your computer instead of giving me a tummy tickle or a head stroke. You should get your priorities sorted Mrs. Human.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh, sorry Tabby, in future I will organise my time table to suit your needs.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I should think so, and don’t forget to include an extra dish of tuna during the week.I think Friday would suit me, it would break the monotony of waiting from Sunday to Wednesday.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But Tabby…….”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No buts Mrs. Human. A wise human once said “feeding my felines is not like feeding myself. it matters more”.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t think they were the exact words Tabby.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Exact does not exist in Meow Mrs. Human.”</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-71964721216034372732016-01-12T16:25:00.003+01:002016-01-12T16:25:51.898+01:00Daily Prompt: If I could turn back time<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you could return to the past to relive a part of your life, either to experience the wonderful bits again, or to do something over, which part of you life would you return to? Why?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there I was relaxing in Arabian style somewhere in Marrakesh, Morocco 25 years younger, 1990 aged 44 more or less. Oh yes I was the Queen of the Arabian nights, at least I thought so. Shall I return to those days, enjoying the ability to wear something that would accentuate the figure that I still had, going places and doing things that I now only have in my dreams.?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took a look at what I wrote the last time on this prompt and things do not change much really. No thank you, I do not want to relive any part of my life, especially not the part about bringing up four children, going to work daily and fitting in household, cooking, cleaning, washing and ironing in the few precious moments I had to spare. Of course, not having my aches and pains when I was younger was an advantage, but that was just physical. I no longer want to relive the psychological side of it all: planning, multi tasking and definitely not the financial side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a family you had to keep everyone happy. New clothes for the kids when the old ones got too small or the jeans wore through. And then they grew up and wanted everything that all the others had. Of course we survived, mummy and daddy were working for the benefits and in between we even managed a holiday in Marrakesh: yes and no. My husband’s company did an annual excursion to treat the reps and we were included, so it was all covered by the company. Marrakesh was something I would never had want to miss. My one and only trip to a country in North Africa: landing in Casablanca and changing planes to Marrakesh, somewhere near the Atlas mountains. My first impression of Morocco was a ridden group of soldiers on camels dressed in their oriental uniform each a Rudolph Valentino lookalike. OK, not quite, but it was something I will never forget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a big disadvantage to this reliving the past thing, you do not think the same. You do not have the life’s experiences that you have at the age of 69: not that I am wisdom in person but things that happen in life do tend to leave their impression on you. Today when I creep out of bed in the morning I have to think about it. How to do it that I can actually stand on my two legs and walk to the kitchen. It is not easy and I often think “why didn’t anyone tell me about this when I was younger”, but perhaps it is better so. the little surprises in life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I see the younger generation today, I think of myself at that time. I have my regrets. I did not have an iPhone to play with whilst waiting for the local train. Computers were still in the DOS IBM stage where you perhaps play some music and do things that you did not really understand at least I didn’t until the first Commodore arrived, but even then it was reserved for my son and I was just watching in the wings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every stage of life has its fun side and mine today is taking photos with my digital camera, writing my prompts on my computer(s), yes I have two. You cannot take it with you, so why not, where there is an Apple (not to eat) there is a Window, so I have the best of both worlds. In the days gone bye my money was spent on the others, today I spend it on myself, if there is enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I am not going anywhere daily prompt, I am content where I am, and please don’t repeat this one again, otherwise I will have to think about how it was with my ancestors in the days of mammoths and learning how to light a fire. I suppose even they had their fun days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Look Ug, it’s burning”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How did you do that Og?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Just rubbed two sticks together.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mummy can I have two sticks as well.”</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-3568149554039521912016-01-11T16:38:00.000+01:002016-01-11T16:38:29.043+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Feline Idols<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What is that for a silly question Mrs. Human. I am feline and we felines do not idolise. The word “idolise”……”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human do not finish my sentences. How did you know I was going to say that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Because it appears to me that the meow language has a very limited vocabulary and many words do not exist, or is it a matter of convenience not to include them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Our language is developing all the time, and the dictionary is still being written. I will send an enquiry to Bastet if she wants to include the word “idolise” in our language, but there is not a great chance of it happening. All felines idolise the following: Bastet, tuna fish, catnip, birds, mice and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri,_le_Chat_Noir">Henri Le Chat Noir</a>, generally in that order.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, he appeals to my philosophical nature. A fulfilment of my transcendential meditation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What about Garfield?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human he is not real. Sorry to spoil your dreams, but he is a cartoon figure and has absolutely no way of becoming an idol. He was only produced to satisfy the humans and make them laugh. Being a feline is not a matter of laughter, we are one of the oldest races on this planet and were……”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“worshipped as Gods? But I think you were also burnt at the stake with the witches in the middle ages.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Do not complete my sentences and yes, we were misunderstood. Just because we turned the milk sour using our magic powers we were condemned, and it was all a matter of science. In the middle ages they did not have a fridge. So having explained the intelligence and necessity of the presence of a feline in the human household I will now retire to bed. Do not disturb me for next 8 hours, I may be dreaming of one of my idols, probably a nice big fat mouse.”</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-73773097292453901322016-01-11T16:00:00.003+01:002016-01-11T16:00:49.641+01:00Daily Prompt: Teenage Idols<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are prompt you can bring twice and the second time around you can write it from a different angle and that can be fun. Teen Age Idols do not change, they remain, because after two years writing on this subject, you definitely cannot have a new idol so read <a href="http://angloswiss-chronicles.com/2014/04/24/daily-prompt-teen-age-idols-of-the-swinging-sixties/">this</a> if you still want to know all about Mrs. Angloswiss idols.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a grim dark sky, but you see all my idols are now dead, gone to the great idol happy hunting grounds. I am 69 years old, the same age as David Bowie who passed away today (and was not one of my idols), so it is not such an uplifting subject. I had my idols, but they are memories of a younger past when I was a teenager in the swinging sixties of London. My memories of this time are now fleeting and today I have no actual idols.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps as you grow older you realise that it is such a false world we live in, that everything is controlled in the name of profits and turnover and above all publicity. How many of those idols from earlier lived a genuine life. Their appearances and ideas were all planned to please the fans, steered by clever journalists and photographers who always happened to be in the right place at the right time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I may watch a TV programme and read a book to satisfy my hero worshipping. We all like to escape from the realities of life some time and these are my hideaways. I am not such a TV person, but like a good film. I do not go out of my way to watch an idol, although I might be interested in one of those revived documentary films about how it was with those we followed in the years that have passed. This evening we are confronted with an hour of David Bowie on our TV. I will not be joining in, although it might be running in the background. I prefer to read. Even authors have their days counted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am now reading gradually through the Terry Pratchett novels a sort of science fiction and there are about 24 based on the planet known as Discworld travelling though the universe by a giant turtle called A’Tuin with 4 elephants on its back supporting the flat disc world. There seem to be 46 books in this series, although he wrote on other subjects as well, and I have just finished No 4. I do not read the same author continuously, that would be boring. Unfortunately this author passed on last year suffering from Alzheimer. Again everything is transient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day my blogs will also no longer be written daily, not that I put myself on the level of being an idol, definitely not. I am tempted to stop writing these daily prompts, but why should I? Just because they repeat themselves, I see no reason to desert the daily prompt pages and those of us that meet here. Where there is a will there is a way.</span></div>
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Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-43070691310130998502016-01-10T17:01:00.001+01:002016-01-10T17:01:20.995+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Modern Feline Families<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Who are you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I am your great great grandfather, Killer.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But you are in the eternal corn chambers I thought.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, today is my WordPress ascension day. I can pay you a visit. So let’s go.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Where do you want to go.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Kill some food for dinner of course.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No need Killer, we have it all packed nicely in plastic bags and Mrs. Human fills our bowl. Sometimes as a treat I get tuna fish.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Sorry I don’t quite understand. Do felines meow with a different choice of meows today? Food in a plastic bag? I don’t know what plastic is. Can you eat it, does it breathe and move?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, of course not, it is what they do with it in the shop where Mrs. Human buys the food. It is easier to transport.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Just a moment Tabby junior, is that the food you are talking about. All small pieces, and brown. Looks like my recycling matter. No thank you, so we are now going to get some real food, just follow me. I can feel them squirming already, Wait a moment.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What are you doing with your paw in that hole in the ground.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Getting lunch, or have do the mice also arrive in plastic bags.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, they still live here, but they are difficult to catch.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Not for Killer my girl, so take this one and here is another, a whole family. And now for desert.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Desert?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, a nice tender portion of bird of course. Do you prefer wing or a leg?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If you ask, then a wing would be find, more meat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So I think that would be enough, crows have plenty of meat on their bones.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But you just caught a crow with no problem.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They don’t call me Killer for nothing Tabby girl. In our days we didn’t play around, it was a matter of survival and we did it all without plastic bags and recycling similar food. My time is now up, nice to meet you Tabby girl and don’t forget, keep it in the family. They didn’t call me Killer for nothing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Who was that big black feline Tabby, he was vey big.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh, just one of my ancestors Mrs. Human.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But what are all those bones doing laying around.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“He just called in for a meal I think, although I am not sure. Anyhow he shared it with me. Mrs. Human, Mrs. Human. I think she has fainted.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Dinner is ready, but wait a moment who are you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We are today’s WordPress contribution to dinner. Don’t you recognise us, it’s your great grandmother Emily and great grandfather Jason.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But I never even met you, you died at the beginning of the 20th century. Dead people do not eat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, that’s the problem, we don’t get food where we are now, don’t need it, but for a day our digestive system has been renewed. We are hungry. By the way we hope you don’t mind but there will be a few others arriving.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Huh, but I only cooked for me, Mr. Swiss and my son, although I probably have enough for you both. Who else is coming?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh, just the family. We were so closely knit in those days.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Did you invite all your children Emily?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, they should be arriving any time now. We couldn’t impose on you too much and judging by the size of this place, they wouldn’t have room.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But great grandma Emily, you had 16 children.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh yes, they believed in big families in those days. Of course the twins died when they were still babies, so just a bottle of warm milk will do for them and perhaps some sort of soft food. They never got all their teeth. Here they are.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, I can see that, all of the sons and two daughters, my grandmother and a baby daughter..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, that’s Isabel, she died when she was two years old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Is that dinner?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I was just preparing it, afraid it is just cooked beef with vegetables today.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No problem. All local produce of course. A cow from the farmer and the vegetables from your garden?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Not exactly grandfather Jason, we buy it all in the supermarket.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“In what?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Supermarket. It’s like a big shop where everything is on shelves and you can choose what you need. All nicely packed and hygenic. I don’t know where the cow originated, but it is probably a cow from our country. The vegetables are also from our area.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Just a moment, you mean you did not know the cow before it arrived in your cooking pot and the vegetables did not come from your garden.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No great grandmother, things are not done like that today.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Well I don’t know. What do you think Jason, is that food safe?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Let’s ask the others. They have just arrived.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hello Emily, Jason, we arrived, although the guy that was organising the journey said we would have to share wings, so it was an cramped flight. Any nappies for the twins here great niece, they didn’t need them where we were residing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Just a moment I will have a look. Yes I have a few disposable nappies in a plastic bag.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But that is paper.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They are special, you can throw them away after they have been used.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You throw away the babies as well.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, just the nappies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Strange customs. So let’s eat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I will have to stretch the food a little as we are so many.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No problem, where we come from they fed a few thousand with a couple of fish and a few slices of bread.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You mean that the story was true.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What story is she talking about Jason?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No idea. That cow is a bit tough, not like our Betsy. She was a lovely tender piece of meat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So Jason, no good talking about the old times, they do things differently today.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Well thanks for the meal, it wasn’t too bad just didn’t have the good old rich flavours that we had down in the country.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I have some mango ice cream as a desert. Hello, they have all gone. Perhaps they don’t like mangos or didn’t grow it on the farm. Things were done differently in the Sussex countryside I suppose.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Mrs. Human, my supply tuna fish is running low.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I know Tabby, but it seems there is a shortage at the moment. They only expect a delivery at the end of next week. On the other hand things are looking good with the dry vitamin pellets, they have a special offer at half price. Look Tabby I bought two full bags for you, so there will be no danger of running out of your food.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That is not the point Mrs. Human. I don’t care if your cupboard is so full of vitamin pellets that when I open the door they are spilling out. It is the tuna fish that give me a cause in my feline life. Without tuna fish my nine lives are not worth living.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It is not that bad Tabby. You always have a full bowl of food.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It depends on what is in the bowl and definitely not some sort of chemical pellet that has an undefinable content.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But the pellets are good for you Tabby, they give you a nice shiny coat of fur and you remain fit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That is not the point. As the famous feline computer inventor William 10 lives Gates said “Tuna fish and Vitamin pellets need each other very badly. Yes we should argue about some things but it’s not a tuna fish versus vitamin pellet thing, it’s tuna fish all the way.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t quite get that Tabby.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You don’t have too, just make sure you replenish my supply of tuna fish as soon as possible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Of all the awful possibilities, what’s the worst possible thing that could happen to you today? Now, what about the best?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The worst possible thing is receiving a warmed up prompt from 2nd May 2014 which is so unimaginative and boring that you do not know what to write. The best would be to receive a new prompt with a good idea that would prompt you to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even the view from my window is uninspiring: a dull day, rain and everything bare. Yes, it suits the daily prompt. How am I supposed to compose a prize winning piece of blog with no inspiration? Nothing is happening. There is a guy walking around outside wearing a black cloak with a scythe in his hand and he just walked passed the door. He looked in my direction and shook his head “wrong house” he muttered through his skeletal teeth. I suppose every day has a silver lining and that is probably the best thing that will happen today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just realised what a dull and boring life I live with no inspiration: even the daily prompt is an unreliable option. Of course I can think positive I have two computers, but there again nothing to write because the daily prompt has only a boring idea of what to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the other hand I could tell you about a very good book I have just finished reading “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline. I was pleasantly surprised and got the idea of the book from a forum site I belong to where it is currently a choice of discussion. Did anyone here play games, mainly in the 1980’s? This book brings back memories of Arcade games: classics like Pac Man, Donkey Kong etc. as well as Dungeons and Dragons being played on Commodore and Atari computers amongst others. I remember Boulder Dash, Koronis Rift, Wizzball and of course Tetris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The inventor of the game has died without heirs to his vast fortune and the player that finds the hidden egg in his Oasis game wins it all. The players in the game only appear on the screen in their avatar form. They get to know each other, but do not know each other in real life until ….. I don't want to spoil the book, but read it, it is good. Ernest Cline did an excellent research job on the details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got my game education from my youngest son who played them all with his colleagues, he was a child in the eighties and a lot in this book brought memories back of the games he would play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems Steven Spielberg is preparing the film, probably being released only in 2017, and I will definitely be watching it. I enjoyed the book very much, which I never thought I would. There was a lot of nostalgia in its pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that is all I have to write today having such a boring, lazy prompt.</span></div>
Pat Gerber-Relfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00309477888996997341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1329843425686686021.post-55442942310215149092016-01-08T16:29:00.000+01:002016-01-08T16:29:07.566+01:00Daily Feline Prompt: Keeping Up with the Persian cats<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes Tabby, Bastet said I could take five and visit the old country to see how things are. Mrs. Human treating you with the required respect?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh yes Nera, no problem, although I am working on the tuna fish meal to increase it to three times a week instead of twice.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Good idea, we don’t get tuna fish in the Eternal Corn Chambers, but there are 50 different ways to prepare mice.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“By the way Nera I like your portal to our world. A diamond studied cat flap. What do you think the chances are of me having one?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, I have been given this door as recognition as I have now spent my first year in the Eternal corn Chambers with my 10th life. I am not sure if you can have one with just nine lives, although when I look at the list, you have lost a couple of lives on the way.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But you did as well Nera so how comes you now have a tenth life?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That comes with the transition to the next world. It is all thrown in as a special offer. 10 Lives, mice three times daily and of course cat nip when you need it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, the main disadvantage is that you don’t have to hunt for it. It is all there for the takings.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But that is the dream of every feline.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I know, but you can’t have everything, and my paws do miss the thrill of the chase. I have to go now Tabby, Bastet is calling, she needs help with Fluffy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How is Fluffy?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh very well, he just does not have the knack with flying yet, but Bastet say she might give him a couple of wings to help. He is still only a beginner up here and only has the gold cat flap at the moment. It is only the special ones that get it in diamonds. Now I really have to go, so bye Tabby, and one day you will have your tenth life, but at the moment it seems to me that you do not need it. You have a few more blogs to pen in the meanwhile.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Bye Nera, give my best purrs to Fluffy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last time I wrote this repeated prompt I was 67 years old, 2 years younger and it is amazing the amount of common sense you can gather in two years. When I last wrote I told everyone I was satisfied and my only wish was a cleaning lady for the bathroom. Since I have decided luxury is not one of the things necessary in daily life and this is really a stupid, silly idea for a prompt - OK my opinion. Perhaps if I was 30-40 years younger I might have other ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems that our supermarket now wants to keep up with the Jones’s, but unfortunately it means that their staff will now have to work two hours longer on Saturday. Up to now the supermarket closed its doors at 4.o’clock p.m. on Saturday so that everyone could go home and begin their week-end. Now it has been decided, for the sake of more turnover, and perhaps even for more happier customers, that they will extend their working time 2 hours. Today I saw these two guys walking around in the hall of the supermarket to make sure everyone knows they have two hours more shopping time on Saturday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am glad that Mr. Swiss does my shopping on Saturday morning and that I do not have to visit this temple of shopping trials on Saturday and I ask myself why I should be glad for a two hour extra shopping opportunity at the beginning of my week-end. There seem to be no limits to doing what the others do. My step-daughter lives in Zürich and has a boutique. Her working hours are until 8 o’clock in the evening on Saturday, but Zürich is a large town which exists on this principle. Our local supermarket is not in an area that has to cope with a vast population, but I suppose we have to keep up with the others. Personally I find this a little ridiculous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not know the exact conditions in the States, as most of you are situated in that big country over the pond, but at the moment we have a big problem in Europe with refugees. People that come from countries where there is a civil war, where terrorists are ruling and killing the people that do not fit into their ideas, and where a father no longer knows how to keep his wife and children safe from the daily oppressions. It is a question of existence and so these people leave their countries, leave their homes and escape for a better life to Europe which has the reputation of being safer. They are not rich people, have never known luxury, and the only luxury they now try to afford is a safe journey to the land of prosperity, be it Germany, Switzerland, England, France, Italy, Greece etc. etc. and they travel at risk. So they board a boat not suitable for carrying so many passengers to make a safe journey and if they are lucky they arrive in the country of prosperity. Many die on the way, especially the babies and children. Eventually, with luck, some of these refugees reach a border to a “safe” European country, only to find that there is almost no more room “at the inn” and they are left in Winter conditions, standing at the border dressed in inadequate clothing and just wanting a roof over their heads and a meal for the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These European countries are overwhelmed, they try to do their best, but some of these countries do not have the facilities for their own people. Not all European countries swim in luxury. It hurts to see the children holding their parents hands and hoping for a better life standing in the damp colder weather. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So please don’t ask me to name a luxury I want, because my life is luxury. I am secure in my life. I have a sickness insurance, I have a choice of supermarkets for my food and my electricity and water supplies are secure. Sorry, WordPress, but the picture I paint is a world where there are people that find that luxury is a bowl of soup, or a warm bed and I do not find this a suitable subject for a prompt under the present conditions.</span></div>
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