canny granny

I was looking for an inspirational quote to get me down on my knees in my ‘garden’. Hoping for something to make me leap up, trowel in hand and gleam in eye.

Instead I found, in the maze of my hard drive, this snippet that I can’t remember collecting, much less who said it.

We create agility in our minds by stretching mentally. . . try taking a different way home from work ..

Well I’m always on the qui vive for anything that slows down my inevitable slide into the hellish pit of mindless old age, so I thought I’d give it a try.

This morning saw me walking a different way to the butcher shop, and I found a whole new supermarket had sprung up overnight. My Goodness!

What a lot of bamboo bowls. Bolts of coloured cloth on the footpath, windows full of ducks and aisles and aisles of strange exotic vegetables. Not that I look at vegetables much, nor should you, they’re very over-rated.

For a moment I thought I had inhaled some secondary smoke from my colourful Next-Doors, a happy young couple who are prone to kaftans, beads and chronic bronchitis.

Just when I’ve learned to distinguish between cappuchino, capocollo and a kreatopita, I have to grapple with a congee and a chua. Quite enough mental stretching for one day.

I had to have a little sherry to recover

Tags: inspiration, shopping

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