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March 02, 2006
Little Murk Riding Hood
You know Shakespeare’s Sonnet number 130, the one that begins;
‘My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun,
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red...’
Well after all these years, it is as if I’ve finally got the joke. I reckon that when the Bard wrote my favourite sonnet he had just been experimenting with Dylon Cold Dyes. If he means ‘The colour a lilac sheet becomes when immersed in ‘Coral’ dye solution is far more red than her lips’ red’ then I’d think about getting the woman some iron supplements, her lips are certainly far from red.
Imagine the colour of your dish water after you’ve just caught up with a whole day’s worth of washing up and then at the last moment you pricked your finger on that empty can of cat food lurking at the bottom. Say you lost about three drops of blood into the murky depths. Now we are getting close to the colour of Little Red Riding Hood’s Cloak today.
Oh and I forgot to wear gloves and coming to think of it my hands are far more red than her cloak's red.
But it was a cloak with a hood and everything else she wore was red, (just in case they didn’t get the message) and she was happy which is the main thing.
I didn’t stop all day and did manage to complete all of yesterday’s tasks (but none of the second list) and I skidded into bed around 12:30am. Today brings a whole new list of its own but thankfully not quite as long.
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In other news; Just a Minute and The News Quiz will not quite be the same without Linda Smith.
Posted by purple elephant at March 2, 2006 05:10 PM