A, you reminded me of TS Eliot's "The Naming of Cats":
When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
I don't think it's a surprise to many that not a few Europeans rather dislike us. To them, unfortunately, we're simply "perfidious". Plenty believe De Gaulle was wise in vetoing our entry! Very upsetting.
I know what you mean but, shockingly, some of us can be stupidly provoking.
A little while back, I heard on the radio some Brit, living in Portugal, say that he was delighted Britain was getting out of Europe. He was, no way, returning to Blighty, though, and felt utterly "safe" where he was because he was in a community of Brits and all were enjoying the magnificent weather and the much better life there.
As to fearing that the EU might not want the British to remain in any EU country, he, cock-assuredly, convinced himself and announced to all listeners, "These people needs us. We don't need Europe" (!!)
I think I heard him too, on Radio 4. He sounded very old and had no intellectual understanding of the EU. Like many people of his age, his Britishness was merely emotional.
I think I also heard a Duchman, living in Britain, say that getting out was the right thing to do, for, as he understood it, the EU allows in all sorts of people and his country's flooded with Moslems.
He felt absolutely safe in England because he'd lived here for 20 years and owned his own house!
I had never heard of the latter as a qualification of any kind!
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I love them too and I agree the photograph is lovely. Clever cat, camouflaged himself perfectly. Who knnows what he's waiting for?
He's certainly beautiful but I hope there's a bell round his neck!
I wonder if he's thinking of moving to a more...promising spot!
I don't think so; his eyes don't look murderous to me!
Perhaps, but he looks ready to act; he's not in a...contemplative mood!
A, you reminded me of TS Eliot's "The Naming of Cats":
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
Oh dear!
I don't think it's a surprise to many that not a few Europeans rather dislike us. To them, unfortunately, we're simply "perfidious". Plenty believe De Gaulle was wise in vetoing our entry! Very upsetting.
I know what you mean but, shockingly, some of us can be stupidly provoking.
A little while back, I heard on the radio some Brit, living in Portugal, say that he was delighted Britain was getting out of Europe. He was, no way, returning to Blighty, though, and felt utterly "safe" where he was because he was in a community of Brits and all were enjoying the magnificent weather and the much better life there.
As to fearing that the EU might not want the British to remain in any EU country, he, cock-assuredly, convinced himself and announced to all listeners, "These people needs us. We don't need Europe" (!!)
Ignorant?
Arrogant?
Stupid?
All three and more??
I think I heard him too, on Radio 4. He sounded very old and had no intellectual understanding of the EU. Like many people of his age, his Britishness was merely emotional.
I think I also heard a Duchman, living in Britain, say that getting out was the right thing to do, for, as he understood it, the EU allows in all sorts of people and his country's flooded with Moslems.
He felt absolutely safe in England because he'd lived here for 20 years and owned his own house!
I had never heard of the latter as a qualification of any kind!