Month: Jun 2026

#1455 theoldmortuary ponders

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Tidewatching

I heard the term tidewatcher last week. I am a tidewatcher, for bobbing but on most occasions for no particular reason. Our dog, Hugo, was a canine tidewatcher. He had a very specific need. His one dog quest was to rescue seaweed from the sea and his patience was infinite. Lola has no such interest but she humours me.

Humouring me is her entire life experience today. There is a fair bit of admin to be done.

A day at the office.

None of it is interesting to a dog who values lifestyle over activity or admin. Things could be worse for her, I could be working in the actual office rather than her comfortable home. Dogs are not allowed at the tennis club.

Club admin is often about the things that shouldn’t happen and of course mitigation for all the things that should happen. Like Lola I am not hugely excited by admin but nobody’s  world goes round without admin. Which is why a walk to the tidal pool for a bit of tidewatching is time very well spent.

And when nearly all the admin is done there is always more tidewatching. Lola remains disinterested.

#1454 theoldmortuary ponders.

On By theoldmortuary.designIn Serendipity1 Comment

Go on a walk today and share a photo of something that catches your eye.

This is a prompt for a suggested blog today, from my blog hosts. Every blog I have ever written features a photo or photo’s of something that has caught my eye, accompanied by random thoughts and some minutiae of daily life.

What will catch my eye today. 1st of June 2026?

Let’s just see shall we?

Marilyn Monroe 100 years old today. Except she only got to live for 36 of her beautiful years.

How lucky am I to have lived 68 of my 100 years. Less beautiful, less troubled. Less dead!

Of all the Marilyn stuff I read today one was particularly troubling.

A businessman, Richard Poncher,bought the tomb above hers and demanded that his coffin was placed in his tomb upside down so that his body could gaze face to face with hers for eternity.  That is just weird, entitled and wrong.

The man’s wife had no qualms at a later date about trying to sell off the tomb and presumably her husband’s corpse  in order to make some extra cash.  There were no bidders. There are some strange people about. Mr and Mrs Poncher clearly deserved each other.

Today is a Monday, nearly always a Nana and Nona day care. It is a day of  Ferry spotting.

Cremyl Ferry at the Royal William Yard.

Hide and Seek.

And Dog walks.

So what caught my eye.

That a ferry travelling backwards actually produces a better photograph than when it goes forward.

Who could ever have guessed?