Yesterday the temperature in Bournemouth was hotter than anywhere else in Britain and today is warmer still. We have had a very cold Spring. The apple blossom was late and the camellias and magnolias are still blooming. The daffodils were also late and tulips are still in flower.
I was just in the garden and what was noticeable was the smell of lilac and Mexican Orange. Scents have returned and Spring has properly arrived.
Last week we had the decorators in, painting the back of the house and they followed the roofers who seem finally to have cured the leak in our bedroom ceiling. We have a couple of weeks with the house to ourselves before the decorators return to paint the front and sides and then in July most of the inside.
For the last couple of weeks I have been having colicky abdominal pains. Of course, I immediately thought I was relapsing, but things seem to have settled now, so I guess it was just nerves. I am due another CT scan on June 21st.
Alfred Hitchcock made 53 films and I have just updated my collection so that I now have 48 of them. Very probably the remaining 5 are not worth having, but if they are I am sure that I will only find them in rare collections that are quite expensive and mean duplicating those that I have. I remember having the same problem with Haydn symphonies when I was collecting them. My DVD collection currently stands at 1233 movies. I have pretty well all that I want, though I still have to convert some VHS films to the DVD format. Shall I then transfer to Blue-Ray? I don't think so.
Among the other things that I have been doing is writing a Christian version of "Love changes everything" Here it is:
Love,
Love changes everything:
Treasures truth and
Scorns the lie;
Love,
Love changes everything:
How you live and
How you die.
Love
Was born of sacrifice
On a cross
That bought my freedom.
Yes, Love,
Love changes everything:
Now I tremble
At your Name.
Nothing in the
World will ever
Be the same.
Love,
Love is my everything:
Love is patient;
Love is kind.
Love,
Love changes everything:
All self seeking
Left behind.
Love
Has turned my world around,
And that world
Will last for ever.
Yes, Love
Love changes everything:
Never boasting,
Does not blame.
Nothing in this
World will ever
Be the same.
Love
Is never proud or rude,
Always trusting,
Hope secures.
Love,
Love doesn’t keep a score,
And through thick or thin
Love endures.
Love
Is God’s great gift to me;
God is Love
And He has spoken.
Yes, Love,
Love changes everything:
By His Spirit
Love proclaim.
Nothing in this
World will ever
Be the same.
I would be interested in your comments on this item in the news:-
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
Wow! And I thought I had a large collection with about 300 films.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the chances you'll watch them all?
I have a library of about 1000 books. Perhaps if I lived to 100, I could read them all.
Richard
ReplyDeleteAs usual the press have hyped this item. What they have done is taken a bacterial cell and replaced the bacterial DNA with DNA cosing for certain instructions to require the cell to make certain products. This is a development of what has been going one for at least a decade. Fuss about nothing! It is not about creating life, but taking an existing cell and engineering it to make whatever the designer has in mind. We have known what every gene does in these Bacteria for some time.
It is not the same as creating life.