Monday, February 01, 2016

The effects of time


A study...



in...


concentration.



She'll be 3 next month.



Where does the time go?

Blogger is being peculiar, as happens from time to time. My previous post turned out a bit funny-looking.

Thank you for your new-grandchild congratulations. I can't quite believe that Son, our youngest, is old enough to be a father. However, he'll be nearly 32 when he becomes one, in July/August, so I suppose I'm wrong. How time flies. (This seems to be the highly-unoriginal theme of this post.) 

And Terry Wogan has died, which feels equally unlikely. I fear that David Bowie meant little to me personally - his music never really penetrated my consciousness and probably wasn't my sort of thing - and I'm sure Alan Rickman was splendid but his face was only vaguely familiar to me from "Sense and Sensibility". But Terry Wogan!  That's very sad. On the other hand, I suppose that having a wonderful time till you're 77 and dying before you get dottled (a fine Scottish (I think) word which means confused) is no bad thing really.

I shall now stop musing and start practising the piano. I'm sure that I'll get a lot better at my piece before my lesson tomorrow morning. You think?

8 comments:

  1. Agree about DB, but he did push the boundaries which made it interesting. Alan Rickman, rember him years ago in a Barchester thing, he was dreadful, in the best sense, a creepy smarmy curate. But our Tel, a big gap now is left. Glad it was quick and relatively private too.

    Goodness, get away, three years?

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  2. I did mean to offer congratulations on the news of you newest grandchild to come, but it slipped my mind. Time does fly. When I first started reading your blog your grandson was a baby, now he is so grown-up and busy with his cars and your granddaughter is 3, time does indeed fly.

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  3. I must have missed your new grandchild news - congratulations! Your Little L is growing, she looks like a very contented child.

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  4. Too many actors and musicians are dying and they aren't THAT OLD. I was/am a fan of David B. and Alan Rickman(mainly from Harry Potter). Congrats on the new grandchild in the works. I am hoping for a couple some day. It's not looking promising.

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  5. I love the concentration. And many congratulations to all concerned with the newcomer.

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  6. Anonymous7:06 pm

    I wish that I could concentrate so well! 3, really? Goodness, how that time has flown.

    Very sad about 'our Tel' he will be greatly missed.

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  7. Anonymous7:07 pm

    I forgot to say how much I like your new header.

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  8. Tempus fugits, alright. (Three? Really?) The news about Bowie knocked me for six, I must say. His music is the background to many of my memories. And Alan Rickman was a favourite of mine, too. Hope the piano practice paid dividends.

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