DJ360 6,730 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 To continue the unpleasantness of this week. I have recently been in contact (out of the blue) with a couple of former High Pavement pupils of my vintage. This prompted me to look back over emails. I found one from an old classmate who I'd last seen when we both attended the 'Last Rites' of the High Pavement site on Bestwood Estate.. before it was demolished. Bob and I hadn't seen each other since 1965.. but we enjoyed walking the corridors of the old school.. standing out on the playing fields on a balmy evening and taking a last look at that tremendous view back over towards the city... I found an old email address for him from 2006..and decided to see how he was doing... His wife replied this morning... to tell me he passed away in 2018 from Pancreatic Cancer. I was 'gutted'. We are all in the firing line.. and should not waste a moment. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 A message to everyone.... Life is fragile... don’t waste time and energy on things that are relatively unimportant. (But now, there is the problem of deciding on what is unimportant! We’ll each have our own thoughts on this) 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 As the Buddhists say, only three things matter: How gently you lived. How much you loved. How gracefully you let go of those things which were not meant for you. In addition: take care what you give out as it will come back to you! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 You can't take it with you. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever - Mahatma Ghandhi Live Long and Prosper - Ishmael Spock of Star Trek Last but not least DJ360's tag line "The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things" - Lewis Carroll 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,149 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Enjoy every day the best way you can. Fill each waking moment. Then at the end of the day if you meet your maker, you can say "Well, had a bloody good day today !" Enjoy every day as if it were your last. One day it will be. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 What a note of good cheer to brighten our morning. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 41 minutes ago, jonab said: You can't take it with you. If you make a big enough pile you can hide behind it! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, philmayfield said: If you make a big enough pile you can hide behind it! ... but the grim reaper will still find you! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 49 YEARS AGO TODAY.................i was working for ABGibsons of Daybrook..........at about 5pm i got back to their office in Moxley West Midlands........where a note was on my desk,,,saying..............''Wife had 3 children in Ward one of Nottingham City Hospital''' Not quite accurate but close,,,he was very premature and weighed in at 2lb 2oz,,,today he lives in Newcastle OZ and weighs considerably more,,, Also on this day in 2003 i suffered a Heart Attack whilst hiking in the hills of Staffordshire,,,lucky for me they found me and took me to Hospital in Stoke-on - Trent,,where i stayed for a week................twas the same hospital where a few months afore Adam Faith died following his heart attack.... think i'll stop in today..... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 The bottom line is......we should all just sit back and be grateful we're still able to post messages here The time to get worried is when you can't do it. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full person? All that matters is that the glass is refillable. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 3 hours ago, jonab said: You can't take it with you. I certainly can't.... I haven't got it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,149 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Is there any good news at all? I've just got back from Lewes Victoria, where I went for a Echocardiogram. The very nice young lady found I have got a heart after all. Just about to tuck in to a salad lunch , so that's my day sorted! Enjoy your day everybody. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 On another tack... The above is a pic of the very common 'Garden Cross Spider'. (Araneus Diadematus) I remember as a kid I'd often come across these while out blackberrying in the fields. I didn't get too close to them.. which turns out to have been wise because I've since learned they can bite if you mess with them. I recall one day seeing a huge Bumble Bee caught in a web and battling with a Garden Cross Spider. It was fascinating to watch in a macabre sort of way, but my friends called me away so I don't know who won. Fast forward to now. There are two or three of these spiders camped out in some of our container grown plants. One in particular is huge and it seems that every day I see it wrapping up some fly or somesuch that it has caught. It's certainly not going hungry. So.. this morning when I spotted it wrestling with a bee in its web.. I felt very sorry for the bee. And we need all the bees we can get. On closer inspection I could see that the bee was still very much alive and was pushing the spider away with its legs. So.. time for an executive decision.... I took a cane and used it to pull both bee and spider out of the web. The bee managed to extricate itself and flew away..seemingly none the worse. I shook the spider off the cane back in the general area of its now ruined web. No worries.. it will doubtless have the web re-spun in an hour or so. My good deed for the day. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 2 hours ago, denshaw said: Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full person? If the glass is either half full or half empty it is probably too big a glass Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,149 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 1 hour ago, DJ360 said: My good deed for the day It will remember you forever now Col. Just you beware when doing your gardening. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 @DJ360 well done for freeing the bee. A friend of mine did the same recently but she managed it without completely breaking the web, then she started to feel so sorry for having deprived the spider of his lunch, she swatted a fly and put it in the web! Is a bee’s life more important than a fly’s life? How do we judge such things? I reckon the only reason for a fly’s existence is to provide food for spiders, or perhaps so they can lay eggs which hatch into maggots and in so doing eat dead things..... or perhaps provide bait for fishing. Food webs get a bit complicated so I’ll shut up now... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 @Beekay why have you decided to go all italic? Just wondering... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,149 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Am I not supposed to then Margie? It's because I just like the style, that's all, no other reason. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Rebel!! You'll be choosing your own font size and colour next.... 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,149 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 At least I don't Starve spiders by stealing their catch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 He won't starve. He's too big and a very successful web builder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 I’m even BOLDER than you BK! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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