WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - WEDNESDAY's HODGEPODGE

Happy dog, Charlie eating ice .....



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1. "The cure for anything is salt water-tears, sweat, or the sea." (Isak Dinesan) Would you agree? Of the three, which has 'cured' you most recently ?
 Definitively the sea !  It contains salt like in tears and sweat but I prefer to swim, then to cry and sweat !

2. What's something you can't eat without salt? Do you normally salt your food a lot, a little, or not at all?
I eat everything with salt, I am rather a salty girl than a sweet one !

3. Sands of time, bury your head in the sand, built on sand, or draw a line in the sand...which sandy phrase could best be applied to something in your life right now?
I never bury my head in the sand, or built something on sand, sands of time, doesn't fit either so I think right now I draw a line in the sand ! Once I have an opinion or a decision on something, I don't change my mind.

4. A favorite book, movie, or song with an island setting or theme?
Island in The Sun



I love this song, it reminds me of my youth, although at that time I didn't understand all words. My English wasn't good enough.

5. Yesterday-did you run your day or did it run you? How so?
 I ran my day without ruffle or excitement

6. You're on an island holiday. Will I most likely find you parked in a beach chair, shopping in town, on the back of a jet ski, or snorkeling off the back of a catamaran?
Parked in a beach chair in the shade with a book for sure !

7. What do you think we humans most take for granted?
That's a very difficult question ! Some humans take everything for granted others nothing,  Honestly I don't know, I think I personally take everything for granted !

8. Insert your own random thought here.
I am repeating myself each week ! I want spring, warm weather and to be able to go out !!

From this side of the pond

BELGIUM NATIONAL DAY

"Tiny" pictures are here

Today is national day in Belgium. A kind of independence day too. Wikipedia says :

The 1830 Belgian Revolution led to the establishment of an independent, Catholic and neutral Belgium under a provisional government and a national congress. Since the installation of Leopold I as king in 1831, Belgium has been a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy.

So people are hanging flags at their windows, not very much apparently flags are not so liked. A big parade takes place in front of our king, together with the queen (not THE QUEEN) and the whole family. Of course the government is also represented. The city park is prepared to receive people afterwards with shows and games and in the evening fireworks are taking place in the whole country.

Politicians make a lot of (bla,bla) speaches which nobody listens to. But yesterday evening out of the TV screen spoke our king Albert II.

As you can see he didn't wear a crown and royal outfit as THE QUEEN uses to do but only a (not so) nicely cutted suit. He smiled fatherly to us and first thanked the doctors and nurses who had taken care of him when he had broken his hip and the whole medical staff in his country.

Then he told us to learn each others language to better understand the other's culture, referring to the constant quarrels between french and flemish speaking people. I was a little doubtful about the culture since I had travelled with this flemish group, but you should never generalize.

He gave some other fatherly advices and ended his speach with good wishes for a happy national day also in behalf of the queen (not THE QUEEN) and his whole family. Then appeared the castle where he lives and the usual head of the speaker replaced him on the screen.

Today the big parade takes place in front of the king, and his family and of course the governement. And as on each 21 July it will rain. The belgians call it affectionately "the national shower". It doesn't happen very often that it doesn't rain this day.

So we all can watch wet soldiers, wet firemen, wet horses, in short a wet parade.

But nevertheless people enjoy that day and very important : it's a day off !