A story, Drama and and press 0 to return to the menu!

I received this e-mail from my good friend Francis this morning, so I thought I would share it with you all.

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pot s had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the endof the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked potarrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with thewoman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitterfailure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself,because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on yourside of the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.

For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house." Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them. SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great dayand remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path! And send this to any or all of your crackpot friendswith in 5 minutes and see what happens! Don't forget the Crackpot that sent it to you.

Thanks Francis, lovely start to the day.

How is the blog coming along? I keep telling Francis he needs to get a blog sorted, so he could keep us up to date of his and Margaret's adventures in Turkey! I know they both read my blog so I am hoping this will be the encouragement he needs. Margaret too, Adventures of her many cats........people would love it Margaret! My friend Gill, has finally got her blog sorted, so do read it.....now she has it sorted we will look forward in reading about life in Australia! Yesterday's Drama! Temporary Traffic Lights! Don't you just love 'em? Elsie decided it was time to go out for a walk! I had the eyeball treatment, then she sat and stared at her lead for a while before moving to the back door, sitting firmly by the door and not budging an inch when I tried to take out some rubbish.....well she did move slightly, only to turn and face the lead again! So.......off we went. As we approached the temporary lights it became clear we would be there for a while. The light were situated in quite by far the most ridiculous spot in the road. Ofcourse I had a bus in front of my car and from the left came a stream of building wagons from a local housing development...you know the type....luxury appartments!!! LOL! The bus driver decided it was "Let's give the right of way to any construction wagon day!" so we waited..... and waited. When every building construction wagon in the entire North East of Britain had passed, he decided in all his wisdom it was indeed time to take note of what a green light and pay attention to the stream of traffic behind him! We moved! Hallelujah we moved! Well, when I say moved we edged forwards very slightly to the Red Light! Aarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! But we had moved! Eventually we were granted a green light and turned left.....still following the bus. Ofcourse the traffic in the other lane was congested, due to the temporary traffic lights so any hope of overtaking the bus was a no no! Needless to say, so I will as I am in full rant mode now.....there are several bus stops on the stretch of road I was travelling on....well travelling isn't the appropriate word! Anyhow, some very thoughtful people had decided to do us all a favour and park on double yellow lines.......on both sides of the road so the bus had to pull out, only the cars on the other side of the road couldn't really move anywhere because of the parked cars on the double yellow lines! Another delay........bus reversing...Argh!!!!! fortunately I had anticipated this and was not too close......... Eventually we arrived at the beach! Elsie sprung from the car and we were off...along the beach! Tide was coming in fast and it was starting to get dark so we weren't going to hang around. Suddenly a chap out with his dog started waving... he came over, carrying his little dog and looking at Elsie telling me there was a seal pup on the beach! I could see the pup who was obviously wanting to go out with the sea. What were we to do? I could see the efforts the little fighter was making but fearing for it's survival I decided to call the RSPCA! Now the mobile phone I am using is a temporary one, and is not user friendly!( hopefully my new one arrives today) so I had fun trying to get through to the RSPCA! Eventually I did. Now imagine the situation..... we're on the beach,wind howling, tide coming in, it's getting dark, Elsie taking great interest in the man's little dog and a seal pup wanting to go home! So I called the RSPCA....to be greeted with an automated response! I could barely hear...press 1, 2 or 3? what was that? 0 to return to main menu! hmmmmm This was the main number for reporting cruelty or animals in distress! Heaven help 'em! Try again......Press what? Return to main menu! I could barely hear...press 1, 2 or 3? what was that? 0 to return to main menu! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh! Meanwhile Elsie decided to run after a dog further along the beach, the man dropped his dog and the phone lost it's signal! Arggghhhhhhhhhhhhh! Elsie comes running back after I howled out her name, Man picks dog up in panic......BUT THE SEAL SWIMS AWAY! HURRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! A happy ending! So back to today..... waiting for delivery of my new mobile phone! I am going to do something I do not normally do and read the instruction manual. I need to work out how to use the camera and upload images onto the computer! A bit of housework and cooking....then settling down to do some nice arty stuff! Snow is forecast so I made sure we have sufficient supplies in. Plans for the rest of the week...... make progress with new website, hopefully will be able to share soon! Wednesday is homework day as I am attending an event in conjunction with Jon's business and need to do some preparation! Thursday is the event itself, but Gary will be there and I have some goodies for him! Friday is Day Trip with Enid, so weather permitting I will be taking you round Northallerton! and we may even have a coffee here mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Saturday is hopefully the day Jon has his helicopter flight! Needleess to say we will be photographing the whole event, so fingers crossed for good weather! Sunday? Possibly a Bike Adventure but we will have to see what work commitments are in store and what the weather is like.... so a busy week! Have a good day! Catch up later! Dx