It soon became obvious that the many minis seen in town today must be more than a coincidence!
Typically I had left my camera at home, but fortunately I did remember to bring my mobile phone (cellphone).
(A maxi mini?)
Linking to Straight Out of the Camera Sunday.
I never know what I’ll find when I go into town on a Saturday. This week I found a demonstration of crossfit training going on in the park. Personally I find it strenuous enough just to hold the camera steady for a short video:
- How about you guys? Sure you don’t want to try?
(Yes, I heard her ask them!)
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“Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.”
~ Mel Brooks ~
Hmm… I think I’ll stick with…
“Cogito ergo sum / I think, therefore I am.”
~ René Descartes ~
Going into town, one never knows what one might come across!
The library was having some kind of drive for children’s books.
The last two are unknown to me, but the others I recognize:
Pettson and Findus is a series of children’s books by Swedish author and illustrator of children’s books Sven Nordqvist. The books feature an old farmer (Pettson) and his cat (Findus) who live in a small ramshackle farmhouse in the countryside.
Mamma Moo and the Crow by Jujja and Thomas Wieslander, illustrated by Sven Nordqvist.
Ï’m not really very bold when it comes to taking photos of strangers in the street… But sometimes I just can’t resist!
So I used the “shooting from the hip” method we practiced recently in the Friday My Town Shoot Out Challenge (which I take part in from my other blog).
If I had been a more daring reporter (or a very close personal friend), I would gone up to him and asked how long it takes him to do his hair in the morning…?
In my last Booking-Through-Thursday post, Allowed To Peek, I quoted from Moominland Winter by Tove Jansson. It came to mind for me again today, for a different reason.
In that book, Moomin wakes up in the middle of the winter and can’t go back to sleep (Moomins are usually in hibernation from November to April). With the rest of the family still snoozing away, Moomin feels very lonely. He goes out into the empty kitchen. There he suddenly becomes aware of a pair of eyes staring at him from under the sink…
This morning, sitting at the breakfast table,
I suddenly became aware of a glint of blue under the fridge…
I thought it must be a clip for plastic bags that I’d dropped.
So I found some kitchen tool with a long handle
and bent down to poke “it” out…
Imagine my surprise when I found a pair of eyes staring at me!
Especially since it was a pair of eyes I had never seen before!
On second thought he reminds me of someone…
He must have been hiding under the fridge ever since I moved in (2 years 8 months ago). Probably longer! (A young family lived here before me.)
What on earth made him suddenly come out now? Have I not been leaving enough cookie crumbs on the floor for him???
Spooky… until I remembered that I made a half-hearted attempt last week to stick the vacuum cleaner under there. Even my extra thin tube didn’t get in properly though, so I gave it up. The suction must have been enough to draw him half way out anyway.
Now I wondered what else might be under there! So I had to figure out how to remove the grid, without actually lying down on the floor. (Not too sure I’d be able to get up again without injuring myself if I did that!) I managed to solve it sitting on a low footstool. Phew. No more “monsters”... ;) Just a bit of dust.
Now the cookie monster is sitting on the freezer.
There might be some cake left in there… or not…
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PS. Scroll down for today’s weather report.
