Sometimes life can be kind...

This is a purely self indulgent moaning blip so stop now if you like! I wrote it yesterday evening, decided not to post it at all but this morning, rather than leave a gap, I thought I might as well.

For a change, I am in exactly the right place at the right time. On Monday evening I was walking past the statue of the bull at the Bull Ring in Birmingham on the way to see Burt Bacharach at the Symphony Hall. Let's just say I am glad beyond belief that I was not walking past that very bull earlier this evening. Have you ever had one of those moments when you feel as if everything has stopped so suddenly that you can hear your own heart thudding and hear the whoosh and gurgle of the blood rushing through your veins? I thought I was going to pass out for a second and when that weird 'end of life' moment passed, I realised mom was yelling at me and I shut my laptop with a bang on someone else's picture for the day and assured mom I was fine and did not require an ambulance.

I could say that life was being cruel but I'd better look at it as fortunate. Usually, if I was down in England now while looking forward to a day off, you all know I'd be off to Stratford Upon Avon tomorrow. Relief washes over me! Thank goodness I'm not there!

Back to cheerier topics, I opened a brand new 2kg bag of mealworms this morning and dropped the lot all over the patio while flapping at an irate wasp! My birds and hedgehogs - of which there are now three living under the shed - will be having a party tonight.

The Referendum 'Yes' and 'No' beers at the Ayr Brewing Company's Glen Park hotel and The Twa Dogs pub in town are being featured until the big day itself so I have plenty time to sample them, even next trip if not this one.

Track? A marvellous version of a song made famous by Etta James and written by Ellington Jordan is performed here by Stan Webb's Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind