Thursday Thoughts

Isn't this graphic pretty (courtesy of The Tag Lounge)  and so appropriate for Autumn.

I had to delete all my alerts yesterday. I hate doing that but I could hardly move.  Whether I slept awkwardly or twisted myself I do not know but yesterday I could not even turn due muscle pain in my upper back. It is normally my lower back I get trouble with so this was something different.  Oh the joys of getting old!  It is somewhat better today but very stiff so I am not going to push things and I am going to limit my computer time. I will catch up with you all when I can.

Hope some of you are able to use the soup recipes in the previous posting and that you enjoy them.

So what did I do yesterday? Well I rested mostly but I did get to see some television.  I have not watched nearly so much since I got involved with journals.  On Channel 5 there was a documentary about James Dean and what happened on the day he died.  The first thing that shocked me was when they said it was fifty years ago.  Fifty years! Does not seem possible, I remember when it happened, reading about it in the newspaper and how shocked everyone was that this very talented young man was no more.  I was too young then to have seen Rebel Without A Cause although I have seen it many times since, but he was already an icon to young people the world over due to all the publicity he received.  Questions have been asked ever since as to what really happened, was he speeding, was he actually at the wheel of the car at the time or was it the German mechanic?  Well, with modern technology, they were able to reconstruct exactly what happened that day.  The conclusions were that the drivers of both cars were well over the speed limit and that there was no doubt that James Dean was the driver at the time.  Had he been going 20 m.p.h. slower, he would have avoided the accident entirely.  It was a very interesting programme although it was repetitive in parts and could have been done in a shorter length of time.

How strange that so many of the actors involved in Rebel WithoutA Cause died untimely deaths. Dean himself in the crash, Natalie Wood who drowned in circumstances that have never completely been explained, Sal Mineo who was murdered outside his home and Nick Adams who died of a drug overdose that is presumed to have been suicide.  They certainly seem to have been a doomed generation.

On a completely different note I watched "How Clean Is Your House".  Oh dear, had me wondering if these sorts of programmes are set-ups in any way,  whether when they "apply" to the t.v. company people are told to ensure that their homes stay as dirty as possible until filming commences or even make them dirtier.  I really do not know.  All that puzzles me is why would people want to display their homes on t.v. when they are infested with cockroaches, have toilets that have not been cleaned in years, cookers so thick with grease that you cannot see where to put the pans?  Surely these people realise that all their neighbours, friends, family and work colleagues will be able to view.  I would be ashamed. Yes, my house does get untidy because it is lived in.  But it does not get filthy, it is not a health hazard.  The woman featured last night had 17lbs of fat removed from her cooker and her kitchen!  Her reason "I do not do cookers"!  This from a woman with four children. Well, it looked as though she never did anything else either.  What amazes me is the way they stand there watching whilst Kim and Aggie and helpers set about cleaning up.  They stand goggle-eyed as though they had never seen soap and water, never seen a vacuum or a duster,  never knew you could actually clean anything.  Of course, they always promise to keep their houses perfect from now on.  I wonder whether they actually do once the cameras have left for good.

Mike took the winter duvet down to the launderette and put it in the big washer. So, no more cold nights!  It will be going back on the bed today.  The launderette is very close to the river so, of course, he took a few shots and I will share one with you today.  I like the way he caught the seagull in flight even though he did not notice at the time.

Anyway, I am going off now to get Mike to rub my back and just relax.  Wonder if I will find anything decent to watch on the t.v. today?  I will catch up with you all when I can.

Have a good day everyone.