Another quick cuppa!!
I hope you’ve all had a good week and feeling refreshed 🤗
Help yourself to a wafer roll and lets get started ☕️
Gave Points for Creativity
This has to be the most amusing paper bag I’ve received in a shop for a long time. Seems a shame to put it in the recycling! By the way, it was a card/gift shop, not a cheese shop!!
Gave Points for Entrepreneurial effort
A homeless man was going round tring to sell a hand full of greetings cards outside a busy station. I didn’t really have any cash to hand at the time but crikey, this was a new and quirky alternative to run of the mill begging. I wasn’t expecting him to try and sell me something lol, fabulous! I wonder where he got his stock from – hopefully a kind donation. 💷 📈
Spotted
Outside a bookshop – this blind date approach to buying books 🤔
There were more inside the shop too. Not sure about this, I like a bit more info than just a few buzzwords before I buy. Has anyone tried one of these?
Watched 🎞
A movie called ‘2047 Virtual Reality’ which ended on a note suggesting – given the choice between living in the real world or a virtual world, it makes no difference because the brain reacts to, and receives each one in exactly the same way. A virtual world can be just as much a real world if you choose it.
In the film, the norm was to live in a virtual world – transporting Avatar/Matrix style from a device in your ‘real world’ home. People wanted to stay there and got angry at an attempt to forcibly bring the ‘logged in’ back to the real world.
AI/virtual reality etc – all mind boggling stuff 🧐
Observed
A man kicking his electric bike to make it work!! Crumbs. A bit like photocopiers then 😆
Irritated by
Youtube. If I’m playing videos please don’t stop every now and again to ask me if I would like you to continue playing. Logically, if I clicked ‘PLAY’ and I haven’t pressed pause or exited then guess what – YES!! 😣
Plus, delivery people who leave the gate wide open.
Painted
A great antidote to irritations – a bit of peaceful painting.
A quick blast from the past. My tour bus and driver during a service break – India.
I’d just had a go on a giant swing nearby 😊 while waiting to hear more interesting insights from the guide when we set off again. It was a very hot day, beautiful sunshine, more of the usual fast traffic and sadly, I think this was our last rest stop before heading back to Delhi to fly home the next day.
I’ve found that while painting some of the most seemingly insignificant photographs, they’ve flooded my mind with memories during the process, which is often more enjoyable than the actual finished painting.
Came across
Popcorn for dogs!!
White Cheddar Cheese popcorn for humans!! Never seen this flavour before 🤔
I opted for a bag of the caramel kind – for humans!
Munched
On a different day to the popcorn munching….another Chicken Katsu Curry while waiting for the train. Always yum.
Overheard
Woman speaking on the train within earshot: ” …….she’s mad as a box of frogs, she’s asking me if she can wear her heels to the cemetery because she doesn’t go anywhere without her heels”
It’s the ‘mad as a box of frogs’ bit – love that!!
We’ll have another quick cuppa soon, take care 🙏 💫
Another delightful “quick cuppa” full of little observations, surprises and plenty of chuckles! ☕️😄 I particularly enjoyed the “mad as a box of frogs” expression—I may have to borrow that one!
What a fun post! I love the box of frogs, the blind date with a book, and the doggie’s popcorn!
Love the randomness of your ‘quick cuppa’ post. Regarding the blind date with a book idea–I personally wouldn’t purchase a book in that way, but I MIGHT borrow a book from the library (our local public library occasionally promotes books in this way). Love your painting too.
Thank you 💐 and I’m with you on the library books, at least you’re not paying for a book you barely know anything about.
Our empty Debenhams is being transformed into a more creative approach to d0epartment stores. You can’t buy any clothes for yourself, but there is a dog boutique with everything you couldn’t even imagine for your dog, beer etc so bound to have pop corn for dogs.
Crikey, well yes, dog popcorn make a lot of sense from that angle 🙃 whatever next!
Nice post
There was a story by Arthur C Clarke titled “The Lion Of Comarre.” There was one part which described people resting on dream slabs, which they preferred over living “a real life.” Nice posting, Cherryl.
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Mad as a box of frogs is one of my go to sayings! Not that I can remember when I first heard it, but I knew exactly what they meant, so I’ve made it a permanent addition to my vocabulary.
Not sure about the book blind date either. I used to belong to a book club where we took it in turns to select the book, so it was a bit like this I guess. It worked really well for a while, then some of the members began to only read their own choices and no-one else’s, so I gave up with the club.
Yes book club choices are a bit like a blind date, though it’s a shame other people not keeping to the plan.
Our local used bookstore has done blind date with a book before. Now they’re doing it again specifically with banned books. The cover info tells why the book was banned. Pretty cool idea!
I’d be up for this one for banned books, sounds intriguing ✨
Oh, these are all so good! Yes, to mystery books!
Thank you, and those books are definitely a fun idea 📚🤗
I’m going to use “mad as a box of frogs” today somehow. Love that! Also love the creative cheese bag. Fun post.
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I love a good pun and that bad had lots Gouda ones! I wonder if the popcorn for dogs would be as appealing to our two cats. And lovely painting as always, Cherryl!
Ha ha, very ‘Gouda’ 😉 👌 nice!!
Well there’s a thought, maybe a popcorn treat for the cats is in order
Thanks Ab 🔆
Mad as a box of frogs! Ha love it! 😊
Love all these snippets Cheryl. “Mad as a box of frogs” really resonates, given that I’m currently living amongst a few of the green critters. Fun! Thanks for sharing your random happenings, very entertaining. Hope you have a great week ahead. 🙂
Aww, I hope they’re not too much trouble 🐸
Thanks Miriam, and have a lovely week ahead too 🙏🔆
No trouble at all 🐸🐸 Thanks Cherryl. 😊
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Glad to see you posting Cherryl. I was just thinking about your blog the other day. I love seeing these random things.
What caught my eye was the cheese popcorn. You haven’t seen it before? Or just not the ‘dog version’? Coming from Chicago, there is a company called Garrett’s that makes the most wonderful cheese popcorn I have ever had! I miss it. My friend sends me some on occasion, but as you can imagine, it isn’t prudent really to ship popcorn to another country. HA! I haven’t seen much of it here in Canada – certainly not of the quality of Garretts. Nothing will probably be better than that in my eyes. Thanks for bringing up that memory.
Have a wonderful week! 🙂
Thanks Sheila 🤗 ✨
I may be out of touch lol, but never seen or heard of cheese popcorn before – just the predictable flavours (sweet/salty types)…..probably because I don’t really go looking for it, but it’s out there, but maybe more of a gourmet flavour 🍿
Have a great week too 💫