Today - which is considered to be the most depressing one in the English calendar - I leave the house for reasons of work for the first time since last year.
I have noticed recently that when I am lying in bed half asleep, I often forget to breathe. Maybe I am practicing for the big event.
When I first began driving cars, I would concentrate so hard that I would forget to breathe for quite long periods of time. That probably isn't very good for concentration if kept up too long.
I used to be able to hold my breath for a very long time (in relation to holding your breath). I would have made a good pearl-fisher if only I had learned to swim.
A friend of mine had a medical check-up recently, and they told him that he has abnormally large lungs. He is around 40 years old and is a general builder. He works at weekends blowing up balloons for children's parties.
Actually, I made the very last bit up but everything else is true. Happy Monday.
I have just learnt that it's Plough Monday, so the tradition must have started to put a bit of a spark into the Most Depressing Day.
ReplyDeleteThere's a pearl fishing town on the edge of the desert in remote NW Australia called Broome (where we winter holidayed for some years) that has an old cemetery for the Japanese pearl divers who died working there. Swimming was an optional skill in the Olden Days as the diving suit weighed a tonne and you basically walked on the sea floor, so I guess the biggest issue was just to be brave. Lots of sharks and cyclones gave the whole career a certain je ne sais quoi!
Ok, you've convinced me. I will never be a pearl fisher.
DeleteGhosts, forgetting to breathe. What next, Wizards and Harry Potter in your bedroom?
ReplyDeleteHermione would be acceptable.
DeleteHere in Berlin the day does everything to fulfil your description - the sky is leaden (though a bit yellow - we fear that colour), and the people on our two airports are on strike, so one cannot think of flying away :-)
ReplyDeleteNothing breath-taking today; so we can follow your example and try to hold it ourselves.
Same here. Same all over Europe I think.
DeleteAh ha! I knew you made up some of your stories! Are you as good at lying face to face?
ReplyDeleteYou know that I am not.
DeleteThe two words should never go together in same sentence.
ReplyDeleteIt was a famous pop group once...
DeleteI'm feeling rather sad today.....too sad........perhaps it is a depressing day
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DeleteJohn, he means it in the nicest possible way, I'm sure.
DeleteI do indeed. I just have a big mouth, that's all.
DeleteSecond thoughts, delete it as being a little insensitive.
DeleteHappy Monday aka my father's birthday.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday your dad.
DeleteFreezing rain here and loss of power for a bit. Yup, it's depressing.
ReplyDeleteWe're waiting for a freeze-up.
DeleteI see there was good reason not to add my comment yesterday.
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