viola's people watching blog
My first dip into the sea was a very long time ago, in a different country and what seems to me a different lifetime. I was in Standard One and the nuns took us on a trip to the seaside, to a place called Morib. They might as well have […]
Both of us, my Saturday night friend and I whipped out our phones and captured the scene. The horizon was a smouldering red and the crescent moon and Venus hung like jewels in the evening sky. In a few minutes, the night rustled up a wind and the celestial bodies […]
This is a wonderful line from Beatrix Potter in The Tale Of Johnny Town Mouse. Annie and I used to read it together and break out in ripples of laughter. In that single line the whole picture unfolds, so succinctly, describing the presence of a cat in the house. I […]
Just the other day we were sitting in front of the TV watching some serial, when they interrupted the programme with an announcement, which went something like this…` Silver Alert! An elderly man has gone missing. Anyone who knows his whereabouts please contact….’ His photo and details flashed in front […]