Wouldn't it be luvverly

If we could have the occasional week of Sundays? I say "occasional", because if you have to many good days,  you won't enjoy them. Believe you me, if you don't know it already..
To translate a wise word of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:"Nothing is harder to put up with, than a row of good days."
That's perhaps why our work-weeks are so short as well as our holidays. So we enjoy them more.
So let's enjoy to the full what we've got.
And to my thinking, it should be, what WE like. Not what people say we are supposed to like.
Like going out every weekend. If you like it, then do it. It is YOUR weekend. But if you don't and just do it, because people say: You are young, every young person goes out every Weekend, then think again. WHY would you have to go out, if you don't want to. Maybe there is a book you wish to finish or a sock to need, a DVD to watch again or just a stupid old video-game to play.
It is your life and your decision. Just as you have the right to decide to go out every day of the week if you wish and can handle it or are willing to handle the consequences. But it stays in your responsibilty.

Whatever, I have been reading - and still am - a book by Dan Kieran, called: The idle traveller and it is great fun. It also made me think over my traveling plans to Great Britain this year. I will not take the plane, I will take the ferry from Rotterdam to Hull and from there the bus (National Express) to Gargrave. This way, I see a lot more and have more of the traveling.

Back from London I will take the Eurostar and and Express from Brussels. So, heaps of travelling fun ahead.

Reading the book, I found references to Paul Theroux. So I looked him up on the internet and his sons Louis and Marcel as well and found an ad about Ferry-Traveling. I will also find books by Paul Theroux to read. I also downloaded a book by Stefan Zweig (his last one), of whom I had never read anything, but I knew he wrote "Die Schachnovelle".
Anyway, the book I downloaded is called: The world of yesterday. He was born in 1881 in Vienna as a not practicing Jew in a good family. The jewish part never bothered him, until Hitler came on and forced him to live is home country. Mr. Zweig knew a lot of famous people personally, like Rilke and Rodin or von Hoffmannsthal. Well, famous in the germanspeaking world mostly. It is a very interesting book and I haven't even reached 1912 yet. Get it as an audiobook. It might be tedious to read... :-) My audiobook is read by a man from Vienna. So one has the illusion to have it read by Stefan Zweig.

Well, I started with a quote from a Musical, that made Julie Andrews famous and going from there, the clip I don't own this week is from a show she did with Carol Burnett. And Carol Burnett did the same song with another lady that I admire, Maggie Smith. So I will put up both clips, not owning either, just so you have some comparison... :-)

Well, I won't put up the Maggie Smith version, because I can't there is a technical glitch here, as there is so often. So you just have to look that one up by yourself.

By the way, I do admire Carol Burnett as well, I just do not know as much about her, since she was not so famous here in Germany, that even I got to know her talent. The first time, I ever saw her was as Miss Hannigan in Annie. So you can see, that was very late in her career and from all I can gather, it was a widespread career!

So, there was no slight intended by me.

 This week Doris Day had her 90th Birthday and from all I can find out, she had it for the third time in a row. She isn't really given a chance to say anything about it, but it seems weird to me. I always read, that she was born in 1922 and not 1924. Ah well, the twenty years between 90 and 95 are the best years of a woman for sure. And I am not punning on Miss Day here!
She is a lovely and talented lady who did what I proposed in the beginning of this post. She ended her career and started doing, what she likes most: working with and for animals. Mostly dogs I think, but I don't think, that she would just stand by to let any other animal be maltreated.

So: enjoy this Sunday to your hearts content!!