Went to Spotlight the other day. Got some embroidery silk to re-string my mala counters:
But that’s just for the sake of a picture. We also got a make-up mirror – one of those with a magnifying side and a plain side, with a light for the face. Amongst the instructions was:
It’s a couple of months since my 60th bash, but you might find this amusing all the same.
We had (dark) red and (ivory) white flying balloons at the party. There was some helium left. So after everyone had gone, we tried a few things out. That sad old song “Skibbereen” seems particularly moving when performed with a lungful of helium.
And my housekeeping tip this week is: when the garbage has been collected, you bring in the empty bin, open the lid and are knocked back by the stench – it is a sign that it could do with cleaning out!
As to health – if you go to the Fish Market at and eat fried prawn dimsum that were warm behind the counter rather than being cooked to order – don’t be surprised if the world gets more and more unpleasant as the afternoon goes by and you end up with your oesophagus working in reverse. I learnt this yesterday.
This isn’t the interesting, focussed blog you might have been looking for…
"Pica Pica" is, as I'm sure you knew, the name for the common magpie. It's no more than a collection of bits and pieces I wanted to make available for friends and family. I have other blogs for dharma related material (at DangZang), and a small one for translation at my work site.
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