Isn't it strange the things we think about during the dark sleepless hours in the middle of the night. Thought I would share some of mine...
1. Flies - when a fly is walking across the ceiling how exactly did it get there. Does a fly do a upsidedown flip in flight and land on the ceiling becaues if it does I have never seen it or does it land close to ceiling and walk or does it land on a light fitting and walk.
2. Why is it that shoe repair shops also cut keys. I am struggling with the connection between the two unless it relates to the equipment used.
3. Why do I not see baby pigeons. I see lots of birds feeding their young but never pigeons. Bearing in mind there are thousands of them where are the babies.
There are many more but I won't bore you. What do you ponder during those sleepless hours.
Lol Maggers, we could make a book of them, I've had some weird ones too, of course when I need them the fog drops. I tell Dan when he gets up, he either laughs or shakes his head and walks off smiling muttering "strange woman, 24yrs I've been listening to this, mad quite mad" or words to that effect lol
Flies are powerful air force: i beileve they land upside down indeed.
They are avery old species they adapt to everything and anything.
Yep: the shoerepairs and keycutters share equipments and I also think it's marketing: if you go there to cut a key you then remember you need your shoes repaired (and vice versa) 2 in 1 sort of thing.
I can garantee pigeons do feed their young. I watched a funny scene the other day as I was feeding some street pigeons. They all came as they always do cooing and jumping on top of each other disputing food. One was smaller almost white and still peeping. This one didn't know hoe to pick the food from the ground and kept running aroung stealing food from the others beaks. The others tolerated it with a kind of paternal atittude.
Keys and shoes for me couldn't be further from each other but perhaps my fibro brain works differently. I know my musings keep my work colleagues amused!
I have podered before now on why people say count sheep to get to sleep. tried that didnt work. also cats by me make so much noise I think why are they making so much noise. funny what goes through our minds in many sleepless nights. gentle hugs take care x
I wonder if there's something in that, my strange pond earrings keep people amused (had to leave that "pond earrings" lololol) now that's weird, why would auto correct think that!!
I loved reading those, thank you Maggers. Reminds me of children forever asking 'why is the sky blue mummy' lol.
why does bread with butter and jam always land jam side down if dropped?
here's one specifically for those of us with hand pain/issues: why are kitchen items for the disabled (ie bottle top grips etc) always packaged in sealed packs that require the strength of samson and scissors and two working hands to open???
Why are water butt spigots (taps) always so low down on the butt that it's impossible to get a watering can under it to fill?
exactly my thoughts also why is everything geared to right handed people. Ever tried removing a new toothbrush from its packaging? I end up using a tin opener!
Now that I have finally stopped laughing I will try and write a sensible post.
I loathe flies but will now look at them with new respect, fancy being able to land upside down and what's more stick to the surface with out gravity exerting its full force.
Pigeons remind me of an amazing sight I saw last year in Paris, where an old man was feeding hundreds of pigeons of all different sizes some of them probably young ones. The memorable aspect of this was he was dressed in a grey coat that seemed to float in the wind so he resembled the birds with outstretched wings, in flight.
A vaguely related discussion I was having with my better half yesterday, was, 'How do birds fly so effortlessly in formation and how do they navigate, especially when some migrate thousands of kilometres from one hemisphere to the other'?
When I have a sleepless time in the night, which is quite often of course, I listen to talking books on my IPod, somehow they put me back to sleep, mostly. The more softer and dolcet the tones of the reader, the more soporific they are.
😂 well Maggers I can't answer the first two questions for you BUT I do know the answer to pigeons. For some strange reason they mature much faster than other birds and get their full feathers sooner. As we rarely get to see where pigeons nest, we don't see them fledge. That said as soon as they are old enough to leave the nest to fly they're pretty much on their own,which means even young pigeons look like their counterparts just a little smaller and somehow tidier looking.
I have no idea where I picked up that little nugget or why it has stuck when I can't even remember my children's names someday.
Speaking of children and pigeons, I remember when my oldest (now26) was around 3 and we were shopping on our local market watching a whole group of pigeons feeding on seed thrown out by the pet stall holder. After a few minutes an all white pigeon(?) waddled from around the corner, at which point my daughter jumped up and down, laughing as she shouted "look mummy, a naked pigeon!". Much to the amusement of surrounding shoppers. I have never been able to look at or think of these birds in quite the same way.
Out of the mouth of babes - our kids certainly keep us entertained.
My son when about 3 was misbehaving. I said to him please behave because every time you are naughty you give mummy another grey hair. Quick as a wink he said "well you must have been really mean to Grandma" My mum has had silver hair since she was 30!
Ramblings from early hours this morning - constant pain/tingling/burning in hands and wrists - I could chop them off, mmmm the meat cleaver would do it, but if I chop the right one off first how will I do the left one (this is purely fantasy I wasn't thinking of doing it) I could hold the cleaver in my teeth and drop it but that would result in a bruise at best .... This went on for hours I think. We do think odd things through the night.
hope everyone is well today, weather still good but there's a storm coming!
Ha ha! That reminds me of a story an anaesthetist told me, if I can remember it properly. He had a prosthetic leg, and the story went along the lines of his wife threatening to hide the prosthetic leg so he couldn't get out of bed, and him threatening to hide her contact lenses, without which her sight was very limited, so then she wouldn't be able to find his leg OR her contact lenses and he wouldn't be able to move, and it went on and on, but I can't remember it properly. xx
Lol, our son in law is an anaesthetist it is the type of thing I could imagine him doing. You've just reminded me that one of our pain consultants is responsible for Mr Bean, the writer of Mr Bean went to University with this consultant and the consultant behaved oddly hence Mr Bean! Problem I have now is I can't remember which one it is, could be one of two. I really don't want to be treated by Mr Bean!!
You made me smile at 3.51am as I too have these thoughts!
I can confirm I have seen baby pigeons, the mother and father decided to make my balcony at the time their nesting ground and they had one lil pigeon, I named Piguina!
I like to think my ponderings are slightly better than the odd dreams I have when I do eventually sleep but sadlly my brain is to addled with medications, fog and weirdeness for me to confirm this :-)
How wonderful to have it confirmed I am not the only person to have such strange thoughts. I too have had some very strange dreams particularly when on medication which is why I no longer take prescription meds just supplements along with hypnotherapy. Long may I be able to manage on them.
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