The colour of my dreams

This poem was written by Peter Dixon, an old friend from the time I was involved in early years education. He's a senior lecturer in education and also taught in elementary school. His focus is on creativity, which he considers essential in any field of study. Sometimes parents tell him that their children are not going to be artists, so why waste time on all the mucky painting and modelling? He replies that without art, the brain is not functioning to its full potential and the result is often a mediocre doctor, engineer, lawyer, you name it. Not everybody is "good" at art, but it's a shame not to exercise the creative part of the brain! I hope you enjoy his poem.

THE COLOUR OF MY DREAMS

On the virtues of multi-talented pigs...

Pallottine requested a post about the uses of a pig and I'm happy to oblige. The poor man must be fed up with fashion, embroidery and other not quite unisex posts! Here we go:

A football is a ball inflated with air that is used to play one of the various sports known as football.

The first balls were made of natural materials, such as an inflated pig bladder, later put inside a leather cover, which has given rise to the United States slang-term "pigskin".

Modern footballs have never been anywhere near a pig:

The oldest football still in existence, which is thought to have been made circa 1550, was discovered in the roof of Stirling Castle, Scotland, in 1981.The ball is made of leather (possibly from a deer) and a pig's bladder. It has a diameter of between 14–16 cm (5.5–6.3 in), weighs 125 g (4.4 oz) and is currently on display at the Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling.

Today there's an important game: Ohio State Buckeyes v Oregon Ducks.

May the best team win, it's all I can say on the subject...

The piggies may have a few things to say, though.

Not all pigs are earmarked for big sporting events. Some will have a different fate:

Football and fashion are not necessarily the first things that springs to mind. When I was little, I may have thought of characters like these:

These days, my approach to pigs is purely gastronomic and I wear the appropriate apparel to deal with the activity:

I think that apart from vegetarians (and pigs),  both football fans and sports avoiders would enjoy these:

I'll let a clever pig have the last word on the subject:

Armchair gardening for the failed landscape artist

How about that, eh? Yes, TW, I'm talking to you. Tee hee...

I posted these as a joke, because I'm not sure I like them. They look a bit messy to me.

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This is a kind of PS on yesterday's post. Doesn't this look like a pixel needlepoint?

Delicate beauty

Looking at these pretty pieces of delicate embroidery can be very soothing.

Doctor! Doctor!

GrannyJ sent us this joke and while looking for pictures to illustrate it, I found some funny cartoons, so I decided to do a doctor post with the whole lot. Thank you for the joke, GJ.

I NEARLY BECAME A DOCTOR…..

When I was young, I decided I wanted to be a doctor so I took the entrance exam to go to Medical School.

One of the questions asked us to rearrange the letters PNEIS into the name of an important human body part which is most useful when erect.

Those who answered spine are doctors today. 

The rest of us are just sending jokes via email.

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