Smile for Today ~

"Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it!"

~Unknown

"I don't want a flu jab.  I like getting flu.  It gives me something else to complain about."

~ David Letterman

"I was born in 1962.  True.  And the room next to me was 1963."

~ Joan Rivers

~Quotations from: Old Geezer Wit, Richard Benson, Summersdale Publishers Ltd., 2006.

 



Gizmo

Faye Farrance, volunteer and friend of the bookshop, is recovering well in West Haldimand Hospital, Hagersville.  Her wee dog, Gizmo, is missing her and wondering where her mother is.

 

Faye thanks everyone for their good wishes, kindnesses and support.  We are not sure when Faye will be getting home ~ Get well quickly, Faye.

 

Update:  Faye returned home in time for Christmas.  She welcomes visits, email, phone calls and can be contacted on Facebook:  Faye O'Handley Farrance.  Speedy recovery Faye.

 

 



"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.  Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of content.  The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery should, like the sun, come natural to him"

~ John Keats (1795 - 1821) Letter to John Taylor, Feb. 27. 1818

"If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all."

~ Letter to To Benjamin Bailey, March 13, 1818


Source:  THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS

[There are those who would disagree with Keats pronouncement!]