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Women's Cricket World Cup Joy ...

Woohoo - go laidees !!!!

ICC Women's World Cup final, North Sydney Oval:

England 167-6 (46.1 overs) beat New Zealand 166 (47.2 overs) by four wickets.

"There are 100,000 stars in our galaxy and 1,000 million galaxies.

I am sure cricket must be being played elsewhere"

- Sir Patrick Moore gets to the heart of the alien life issue -

love is love ...

Keepers at a bird sanctuary in West Sussex hoped that the last remaining female Blue Duck in the country - called Cherry - might mate with either of the drakes, Ben or Jerry. But neither male duck appeared interested and are now inseparable at the Arundel Wetland Centre, leaving Cherry to her own devices. Centre warden Paul Stevens said he was disappointed that efforts to produce new Blue Duck offspring had failed but said the two male birds made "a lovely couple". "They stay together all the time, parading up and down their enclosure and whistling to each other as a male might do with a female he wants to mate with," he said. "People who visit the centre think they're a fantastic couple, without really coming around to the idea that they are two males. "They both have very big personalities and people come from all over the country to come and see them. Cherry doesn't seem bothered by it, she's just happy to keep herself to herself." Blue ducks originate from New Zealand but there were thought to be just three birds in the UK. Keepers initially introduced Ben to Cherry, but neither seemed keen. They then brought Jerry down from a sanctuary in London. Mr Stevens said: "Cherry showed some interest in him. She displayed typical mating behaviour - she approached him and called to him, she even looked like she was nesting. "We thought it was great and it was all going to happen but nothing ever did." Mr Stevens said the male ducks were then placed in the same enclosure: "To our surprise the two males really took to each other and it was obvious that they really liked each other. "It would have been nice to get a last clutch of eggs from Cherry but Ben and Jerry do make a lovely couple."

Story by Caroline Gammel

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4962394/Blue-Ducks-likely-to-die-out-in-UK-after-male-birds-get-together.html

at the point of change ...

In the spirit of Sesame Street today is brought to you by the phrase ‘keep it real’ and the word ‘process’. Where I’m at right now is dealing with the fears within. My fears are having a party in my head and in my body. My true self is watching my fears sing from the hilltops, charging through the lanes and essentially pressing all my anxiety buttons in the only way they know how. What does this all mean? Well it means sometimes it hard to breathe, or to focus and concentrate on the simplest of tasks. It means that I get lost in conversations and exhausted by my own thoughts super fast. It means that I am having to keep it real in the best way I can so as to hang onto the railings of my life. And the words process, process, process come up time and time again. It’s like I’ve swallowed something huge and it now needs to be digested, digested, digested !!! I don't need to take anything new on board for a longtime; no ideas, no people, no places, no sounds, no nothing.

Trees Entwined

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin -