Grown a Beard
Sometimes during your daily round I’ll bet you too suddenly find an odd memory popping up that seems unrelated to whatever you are doing at the time….. I had one today that puzzled me for ages!
I was carving a few slices off the cold turkey for a quick lunch before my 3 year old grandson descended on me when my mind wandered off onto angles of slice (off the turkey breast). I suddenly remembered the angles of attack a seagull once made when diving at one of my sisters on a Cornish beach (Mawgan Porth).
It was determined to peck her and despite my hurling a volley of pebbles from the stream it had at least 4 attempts from some distance out before I finally hit it and it rapidly left the scene. She was scared stiff, having been attacked by birds before (our gander for one), but we never understood why this seagull should have taken such an immediate and aggressive dislike to her.
My curiosity today however was, why would that memory flash back to me? It happened about 50 years ago!
Later in the day it came to me, whilst finding videos of steam trains clearing snow (Youtube is great news for Grandpas trying to entertain 3 year-olds). I remembered having thrown turkey slices in the air from the deck of our liner when we landed in Liverpool on New Year’s Day in 58 – to feed circling seagulls!! Strange memory, so darned old!!
Straight from that experience we caught a train down to Herefordshire where we were to live with our grandmother for a while.
So there is logic in the sequence of some odd memories, even if we don’t always recognise it at the time. Do you have an example you’d care to add in a comment? I’d like to prove that I’m not the only one whose mind works this way!!
I find that odd snippets of Internet Marketing pop up like this too, and today I determined to keep a small diary for 2011 where I can quickly note down ideas, a memory or two, and inspirations like these so that I can make sense of them and act on them appropriately when I have time to stop and concentrate.
Making use of pages in this Blog is one of these ideas (I’ve already filled a couple of pages of this NEXT year’s diary!!).
It occurred to me that Blog Posting is often not a suitable pattern for a logical sequence of articles and that unless you often use a “Sticky” Plug-In to keep a post at the top you will maybe lose an effect you needed to maintain for longer than one post life…..
So, when I can fit it in, I will be changing the layout here to one more suited to my aims.
Meanwhile, got to get some shut-eye, it’s back to my Day-Job in the morning and it’s already 1.30 am.
In my next post though, I’ll do more than reminisce and intend to tell you more of my plans for 2011 and how they can benefit you.
“Thanks for the Memory” – and for listening, have a relaxing but festive week.
