w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Today's lyric:

"Each part was played though the play was not shown
Everyone came but they all sat alone

The dawn opened the play, waking the day
Causing a silent hooray
The dawn will break another day."

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: "The endless enigma (part II)"
From the album: "Trilogy"

From a low on Friday evening when we had our worst suspicions confirmed that Mrs.D's dad has got lung cancer (but considering he's smoked for 60+ years, the prognosis is not too bad) the three days flashed by at 90 miles an hour.

Saturday was spent dolling up the house for Mrs.D's dinner party guests. Her new boss and I sloped off to the pub before the dessert course and spent a very pleasant hour in the beer garden, before their 2 a.m. departure led to Number One Daughter and me rifling the cd's 'til 4 a.m.

Sunday was spent mowing and flower tub re-siting ready for the next dinner guests, with freshly-oiled garden table and chairs dragged from their over-wintering corner of the garage to enable us to sit outside for the first time in many a month. Red wine 'a plein air' - can't beat it.

And finally, Monday down to the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, where we haven't been since we went with S. and her first husband, and here we were again with S. and her second beau, plus her two rapidly-maturing sons. Then a flying visit to the outlaws to get the lowdown on the cancer-curing options they have to 'look forward' to (because both partners go through it when this sort of thing happens.)

So kids - even if you only smoke 'socially' - pack it in now. Life's tough enough -stack the odds in your favour where you can, eh?

Right, I'm off for a de-toxing glass of water. The first of many today, suspect...