Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

I had always thought it was fish the herons were catching ... but it's not ... it's CRABS!

Random Fact from The Nutters Club NZ

If you smile, even if you’re in a sad mood, it will immediately improve your mood. The simple action of thinking about smiling and using the muscles is enough to trigger happy chemicals in the brain.

Thank you Nutters Club!

Gav and I walked to the view site at midnight last night. Yes -  it’s an odd time of the day ... or should that be night ... for me to be out on a ramble but the hound didn’t mind. I needed some feel-good endorphins and rambling does that for me. There are other things that do that too, but I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for exercising that option.

Storm clouds gathering overhead on this morning's ramble

I’ve not walked up there at midnight before. It’s a completely different feeling .... eerily spooky!

I think I might do it again!

The hound of course wanted to detour to the beach and was a tad confused when we turned up Cliff Road instead of crossing it. Swilling sea-water of a wet hound and rubbing her dry with a towel at half past midnight ISN’T my idea of fun though.

The sea is inky black and the tide’s full. It looks menacing and for once, I’m glad I’m not walking next to the waves. I can almost SEE the tentacles reaching out to ensnare me. Yes  .... I have way TOO vivid an imagination!

.... and a most appropriate quote, courtesy of Dr. Seuss!

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living: It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope.”

Don’t you just love it!

It’s fascinating walking past people’s houses after midnight and seeing how many of them are still up and watching TV. Well, they look as if they’re watching TV as the TV’s visible and it’s on but for all I know, they could be sleeping. That’s what happens in my house. Switching on the TV seems to automatically close the eyelids of a certain member of this family ... no names mentioned.

The sun was out this afternoon so we walked down to Kohi Beach ... it was chilly!

The expression ‘You snooze, you loose’ took on new meaning the other day. We’d been watching a movie on TV and eating CHOCOLATE .... the edible kind .... YUM! A certain family member had fallen asleep with the last piece of chocolate perched on their knee! One lemming quietly reaches out, grabs the prize .... and EATS it! I think it was even yummier because it wasn’t meant to be his!

Crop Circles in the rocks!

But back to my midnight ramble and the sights you see. The residents of Cliff Road quite obviously don’t realise their interiors are so well lit up at night-time. The majority don’t close their curtains or blinds and you can see every aspect of whichever room is lit up .... and the antics and state of dress/undress of any and all occupants of those rooms. We won’t dwell on that though.

I’m curious. Why are there so many fishing boats out at midnight? What is the draw? Do the fish REALLY bite better in the middle of the night when the sun’s in bed? How do they know where the fish are biting when there aren’t any birds to guide them? 

So many questions and for once, Google,  that ‘purveyor of all information inane’, HASN’T been able to provide me with a satisfactory answer!