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The lighthouse at East Prawle, Devon

In this blogposting…

* A Remedy for the Blues
* Pictures of England
Enjoy!

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A REMEDY FOR THE BLUES
Kev recently sent me an email….

‘Ian - I have just come across an excellent remedy for being ‘down in the dumps’ – be really childish!
 
- Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today.
- Grow a milk moustache.  (Difficult and messy if you already have a real one)
- Have a staring contest with your cat.
- Kiss a frog just in case.
- Make a face the next time somebody tells you ‘no’.
- Ask ‘Why?’ a lot.
- Believe in fairy tales.
- Ask someone to read you a story.
- Wear your favourite shirt with your favourite trousers even if they don't match.
- Do a cartwheel.
- Hide your vegetables under your napkin.
- Make a ‘slurpy’ sound with your straw when you get to the bottom of a milkshake.
- Sit really still for as long as the dog (or cat) is asleep in your lap.
- Find some pretty stones and save them.
- Stick your head out of the car window and moo if you see a cow.
- Walk barefoot in wet grass.
- Giggle at nude statues in a museum.
- Make clever screeching noises every time you turn.
- Count the colours in a rainbow.
- Fuss a little, then take a nap.
- Take a running jump over a big puddle.
- Giggle a lot for no real reason.
- Do that tap-someone-on-the-shoulder-while-you-stand-on-their-opposite-side-and-they-turn-around-and-no-one's-there thing.
- Enjoy your all-time favourite sweets. (Forget you've heard of calories!)
- Throw something and when it lands make a cool exploding bomb noise.
- Squish some mud between your toes.
- Buy yourself a helium balloon.
- Put an orange slice in your mouth, peel side out, and smile at people.

Be a kid again…’

You don’t have to try them all; just a few of them.  If you do, you’ll find they work.

Thanks Kev.

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PICTURES OF ENGLAND
Hildie sent me these lovely aerial photographs of England the other day. 

It does no harm to remind ourselves, once in a while, that we live in a beautiful country.  Throughout its long and fiery history - and despite despoliation through the industrial revolution, motorways, globalisation and urban blight - England has remained a staggeringly verdant and scenic country in all its many guises.

 The pier and seafront at Brighton

 A field of flax in Buckinghamshire

Elegant suburbia:  South London

 Longleat maze - the largest in Britain

 Stonehenge

 Buckingham Palace

 

 Trafalgar Square

 The Angel of the North

The big dipper at Southend-on-Sea

 Glastonbury Tor

 

 And a picture from Scotland - the viaduct at Glenfinnan

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