Further adventures in Surreality

The Bulgarian Boy-Babe sent me a picture in his motorbike leathers.

What is it with these Eastern European lads?
Positively oedipal!

Today, my tea bags are telling me:
'A relaxed mind is a creative mind'
and:
'Let your heart guide you'.
The tea bags never lie.

There was me thinking, when his car broke down...
'What awful thing is going to happen to ED?'
But I never anticipated anything QUITE that BAD!
OK, now I'm ready for an interview with Leonard Cohen...

Having worked every day since I got back from Paris a fortnight ago (apart from Sat afternoon when I went to a birthday party), I'm feeling pretty shell shocked.
My shoulders feel like they'll never loosen up again (any good masseurs out there?) and my brain is somewhere on another planet.
But... if I stop now... (and there's still more I could be doing/need to do)... what WILL I do instead?
I guess I could go and get the hoover out...

Talking to the lady from the writers group (and some1else's comments) yesterday reminded me of this, a short story that I wrote...
If anyone would like to read it, it's here:
http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/Eagle-Flight.107861
Comments welcomed

La Spice and I got into a conversation with Going Somewhere a little while back about poetry, when we both admitted that we like writing poetry, but aren't that keen on reading it...
But when cooking dinner today, I listened (for the first time in ages) to 'Poetry Please' on Radio 4.
And realised that, although I'm not too interested in READING poetry, I quite like listening to it being read.
Interesting! (maybe)

Well, third time lucky?
Don't ask...
Suzee will recognise the reference (in title), at least...
nothing (of course) to do with Hubby...
with whom I had a minor altercation about the timing of dinner.
It's just - he has such a judgemental way of clearing his throat..
OK. I admit that's REALLY petty ...
But it grates. When you've lived with it for 30 years.
Bl**dy men, eh???

McDonalds was never like this!!!

I'm in love...

Perfection on a (plastic) plate!

Mmmmmm yummy scrummy

You're my BEST MATE!
Of COURSE you are

I moved this poem somewhere else:
http://www.authspot.com/Poetry/Communication-Breakdown.129836

Thought I'd already posted this, but I couldn't find it anywhere

Miko and the Starlings

Through glass she watches
Whiskers alert, body rigid,
Tail gently flicking.
Starlings squabble over breadcrumbs,
Unaware.
If the glass could dissolve,
She would be among them,
Yet, well fed, she has no need.
Feathers on a ball would do as well.
No malice in her gaze, just eagerness and life.
Frustrated by the glass between.
So death may be as casual as a cat.
We peck and flutter,
Secure in our ignorance,
No thought of danger here
But who can say the time
When the glass might break?

© Melinda Belynda 2007

The Buddha, Obelix and.... Mr Bean????

A sample of the delights on offer during my trip to Paris.

What do you do when you’ve met someone you really like and want to see again, but - as they say on Facebook – ‘it’s complicated’? And you don’t know what they’re thinking or feeling, so you don’t know whether that’s what they want or not. And how would it be if you suggested something, and it’s not what they want, and then they have to find ways of turning you down? But maybe they’re feeling the same too, and they don’t want to say anything for the same reasons. So nobody ends up saying anything. The end of a beautiful friendship.

Created this on Youtube as 'private'
I want to see if I can blog/Facebook it even so.
Also, I really need to find out how to edit it, given that I decided to change the orientation half way through... durrrr!!!!

... that interesting men tell me that I'm too conventional, and not outrageous enough...
... but then hastily add that, of course, they don't want me to be outrageous with THEM?

I heard about this on the Today programme the other morning:
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/index.php?section=places:events:dawnchorusday
When I was lying awake just after 4, I remembered about it, so went out in my dressing gown with camera and recorded the following. I wish I knew how to edit some clever visuals into it, because obviously it's just black with occasional dancing lights.

I got back my final writing assignment from my tutor today. The one I posted the opening to a couple of months ago, not that anyone gave me any reactions.
The final paragraph (of her assessment) reads thus:
'... you don't say whether this is a short story or the beginning of a longer piece. Although it does stand alone, I feel there is potential to enlarge it and develop it. The theme is engaging, the parallels between the lives of the two women thought provoking and I could quite imagine it expanded to novel length.'
Great. As if I'm not struggling enough with the novel I'm already working on.

I got an email from Facebook telling me about friends of my friends who share my 'strengths and weaknesses'.
The strengths, 'funniest' and 'kindest' I was quite happy with, but the weaknesses appear to be 'most desired', 'most kissable', 'most dateable'.
so, not only is it telling me I'm undesirable, but it's putting me in touch with lots of other undesirable people, presumably on the grounds that we'll have lots in common.
I really needed to know that