Every year the Consumer Price Index calculates the cost of the 12 Days of Christmas.

Once upon a time, in a village far away, there lived six blind men.

One day the villagers were very excited, and when they asked what was happening they told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today!"

This is a bee.

She is a happy bee.

She is happy being a bee.

She buzzes when she’s happy.

For Zom

With the first day of spring, when the awakening earth puts on its garment of green, and the warm, fragrant air fans our faces and fills our lungs and appears even to penetrate to our hearts, we experience a vague, undefined longing for freedom, for happiness, a desire to run, to wander aimlessly, to breathe in the spring. The previous winter having been unusually severe, this spring feeling was like a form of intoxication in May, as if there were an overabundant supply of sap.

One morning on waking I saw from my window the blue sky glowing in the sun above the neighbouring houses. The canaries hanging in the windows were singing loudly, and so were the servants on every floor; a cheerful noise rose up from the streets, and I went out, my spirits as bright as the day, to go—I did not exactly know where. Everybody I met seemed to be smiling; an air of happiness appeared to pervade everything in the warm light of returning spring. One might almost have said that a breeze of love was blowing through the city, and the sight of the young women whom I saw in the streets in their morning toilets, in the depths of whose eyes there lurked a hidden tenderness, and who walked with languid grace, filled my heart with agitation.

For Monday's reading session. Allegedly penned by John Cleese, but research shows that it is a reworking of an old joke. That said, it's still funny:- To the citizens of the United States of America, in light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby […]

  “Procrastination is my sin.It brings me naught but sorrow.I know that I should stop it.In fact, I will – tomorrow!” Gloria Pitzer   to procrastinate -  verb to  delay or postpone an action; put off doing something.