Just Pondering

Okay, Grim Reaper, you've had your fun.  Isn't the bloody sack full, now that you've added Keith Emerson (which I guess makes them Lake & Palmer now)?  It appears Keith might have taken his own life.  If so, how sad.  But anyway, you robe-wearing and scythe-toting fuck, please top taking our musicians! 

I have just been having a bit of a listen to ELP's  'Fanfare For The Common Man', but it's very hard to not think of the Channel 9 Sports Team.   I defy anybody of a certain age to not associate that tune with Channel 9's sporting coverage.

Speaking of being of a certain age, today I found myself remember a more spry time when Mr Bingells and I were in our mid-twenties, strolling hand-in-hand around The Rocks in Sydney, checking out that fantastic candle shop (Mr Bingells loves ornamental candles).  Today, we were in our new vehicle, purchased from my father's estate, and Mr Bingells was fiddling around with my new phone, in which he has installed my old SIM card.  He squinted and handed it over, saying, 'I can't read that without my glasses.'  My reply was, 'Well, don't look at me to help you, I haven't got my glasses, either!'

I'm going to have to learn how to add things like GIFs and photographs to this blog of mine.  I'm not an overly savvy tech type.  My blogging is for my writing, but I would like to occasionally add pictures to my posts.  I wanted to add one of me in the hotel celebrating my 50th birthday.

We stayed in a local plush motel last Friday night, which was nice.  I had won a voucher for a story I wrote.  It's kind of like being paid for your writing, and it felt mighty fine.  The meal was a seven course degustation, and being a gluttonous wretch, I ate too much.  I also ate Mr Bingells' two oysters and scallop, because he loathes oysters and scallops.  It surprises me I did not roll back to the room, which had a king sized bed.  It was nice to sprawl out and touch nobody, given Mr Bingells is a gangly over-six-footer.  I do love to stay in these places, although I have misgivings about the wasted packaging on individual little toiletries.  Surely it would be better to put the lotions, body wash, and shampoos into dispensers on the wall, and save on the packaging?  I expressed these misgivings to Mr Bingells as I stuffed the complimentary toiletries into my bag, thus denying the motel the opportunity to be environmentally friendly and recycle those goodies for the next guest.