Saturday; Satire; My stinging pen.

The Observer;

Many countries in Europe are in the dregs thanks to the wonderful world of banks and Euro thugs living on high heels and powdered wigs on Government's purse in the beautiful city  of  Strasburg or whatever first class ticket they are riding on.

Spain is one of the countries with high unemployment and a dire outlook on prosperity for the people.  While they are sitting idle and supping on a plate of watery soup, they are still supporting a bunch of free wheelers in the palace.

The idea is to auction the “Royalty” off on ebay as they are the property of the Spanish people. Unfortunately they have no merits and no skills apart from spending money from the public purse, so this will be not easy.   It will be a snag to sell those  royal puppets on a string because nobody wants them!

Any idea to prop them up for a quick and easy sale,  would be appreciated, but please do not suggest a new outfit from Dior, that just won’t do.

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Wednesday; old...ish

Tune your brain and muscles everyday!

The Seven Ages of Man;   (As you like it) William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players,

They have their exits and entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school.

 And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth.

 And then the justice

In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd,

With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws, and modern instances,

And so he plays his part. 

The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,

His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide,

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,

Turning again towards childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound.

 Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.; 

  (As you like it) William Shakespeare

 If you can cope with this you coped with anything!

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Tuesday; seasons;

There is no season more beautiful then the next one...

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Monday; every...

Every living thing needs a little kindness;

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Sepia Saturday 121; Flight;

Qantas was founded in Winton, Queensland on 16 November 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. The airline's first aircraft was an Avro 504K. The airline flew internationally from May 1935, when it commenced service from Darwin to Singapore.

In June 1959 Qantas entered the jet age when the first Boeing 707–138 was delivered

QANTAS = "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service"

In 1920 Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd had its headquarters in Winton, Queensland. In 1921 the head office moved to Longreach, Queensland. In 1930 the head office moved to Brisbane.

Here I have to include a story about early flights. A Family living in the outback, the father was manager of a  property, send  two  of the older girls, starting school, with a Quantas plane to boarding school. The cockpit was open, at the back was sort of an enclosure, but the windows had no glass. The children had to be bundled up in warm clothes and blankets, as it must have been freezing up there. Everybody came to the airport to say goodbye and brought presents for the girls to take with them.

Later the father flew with a Quantas plane to by bulls in Victoria. On his homeward flight the plane came down and he lost his life. The mother with her 5 small children could not manage the big property and moved to Brisbane. At the time she did not have the money to go to her husband's  funeral, far away,  as he was buried in Tambo where the plane crashed.

1920		Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd is formed on 16 November with headquarters in Winton, Queensland.
1921		Headquarters move to Longreach, Queensland.
1922		The first scheduled Qantas mail and passenger flight operates from Charleville to Cloncurry, Queensland.
1924		S M Bruce flies Qantas, becoming the first Australian Prime Minister to use an aircraft for official travel.
1926		Qantas begins building its own aircraft in Longreach.
1927		Qantas takes on its first apprentice.
1928		The Flying Doctor Service is launched, using Qantas aircraft.
1929		The outback network extends to Brisbane.
1930		Qantas establishes its headquarters in Brisbane. 2012 Next generation flying with the arrival of the first of our B787 fleet. 2020 Centenary of Qantas. Quantas through the years   if you would like to read more up to 2012 Our Pilot Bill  says; 'If it ain't Boeing, I'm not going'

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Thursday; ouch;

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Salvia   ©Ts

Wednesday; c'est la vie;

Life's Tragedy

It may be misery not to sing at all, 

And to go silent through the brimming day; 

It may be misery never to be loved, 

But deeper grieves than these beset the way.

To sing the perfect song, 

And by a half-tone lost the key, 

There the potent sorrow, there the grief, 

The pale, sad staring of Life's Tragedy.

To have come near to the perfect love, 

Not the hot passion of untempered youth, 

But that which lies aside its vanity, 

And gives, for thy trusting worship, truth.

This, this indeed is to be accursed, 

For if we mortals love, or if we sing, 

We count our joys not by what we have, 

But by what kept us from that perfect thing. 

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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