Povey Prattle

"They" being my two older sisters Maureen and Jean, and their husbands Bern and John. These family members will travel from Bristol U.K. to Tampa FL on 1st November.  Their flight into Tampa arrives late in the evening, so they will spend Sunday night at the Tampa Airport Marriott. I'll meet them there on Monday morning, then drive them to their temporary home away from home in a condo which I have rented on Crescent Beach, Siesta Key. (Crescent Arms). I took possession of the condo today, and stocked it with comestible and beverages.  I arrived with six bags of food and a * "zimmer"  which my sister Jean might find useful. Silly me, I had anticipated two or three trips from my car to the condo with the bags of food etc.  I'd not reckoned with the fact that the condo. association would provide carts for renters and residents. Thus I had but one journey up, and one down.  (The condo I am renting is on the sixth floor). When I entered the condo I had...

"They" say that if you have a concern about public policy you should write to your Senators and Representatives in Congress. I had a concern about the needs of the World Food Program and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. So, on Sept. 16th I wrote ( a letter, not an e-mail)  to our two Florida Senators, Nelson (D), Rubio (R);  and to our Sarasota area Congressman, Buchanan  (R). As of today (Oct 29th)  I have not heard so much as a peep from any one of these scoundrels. Maybe I need to be one of their donors in order to secure a response. (Here's my letter). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3901 Glen Oaks Drive East, Sarasota, FL 34232 retiredpove@comcast.net    941 330 4948 16 th September 2015 Dear    , As we know, the refugee crisis in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, and in western European countries such as ...

All "lifted" from a Tumblr page which originated in France.

Soon after I moved from Cambridge MA., to Sarasota FL.  I bought a new to me (i.e. pre-owned) car. It lacked one thing: a Boston Red Sox bumper sticker. My Cambridge friends, James and Kristen Nerich mailed me a shiny new one. Alas, over the years it became faded and tattered, just like the Sox themselves. Out it went this morning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than ten years ago I bought and wore  a  brand new blue shirt. One of the St. James's Cambridge parishioners saw it and said, "Michael, you look very good in blue". That's all I needed to hear.   So over the years I have majored in blue shirts . I had a favourite.  I bought it at "Goodwill", a charity store in SRQ/. I wore it and I washed it. I washed it and I  wore it, I wore it and washed it until it was way past its best.  The colour was faded, and the collar was frayed....

Funny and silly.  (In Massachusetts it would be a "blinka")