"In the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is [truly] as perennial as the grass", something to live for.

Yep, it sure is. When I think that this time last year I was living a completely different life, and now I have a wonderful man... yep, it sure is.... and it hits you when you are least expecting it !!

A

Unsure about the marry bit, hard to break away when new opportunities arise 

My two male students told me they don't like clinging women. I think all women (most) are clinging kind because they want to create a union.

Maybe relationships are like buses-wrong number comes at the wrong time or (like public transport in sussex
last week) changes direction on a whim. The great thing, as Alex Comfort observed back in the 70s, is to know
your own mind, and likewise a2. He (there was also a mysterious She writing in this tract )also suggested, amidst the radicalism of the 60s, that partners could reaparatively 'parent' each other (this is an idea brought across from co-counselling I guess, best used sparingly?)
and quoted Blake:
(whom) cleaves to themselves a joy/ doth the winged life destroy
(whom) catches joy as it flies/lives in eternitie's sunrise.

I'll get me coat.

It occurs to me that my melancholic take on matters conjugal (perhaps brought on by the sturm und drang of
Fernando's Hideaway in Bognor) may have put a ritardando on  waffling proceedings.  I will
shut up for a bit in the hope that waffling resumes as abnormal after the tea interval (tea at Fernando's  has peculiar properties, I told them, easy on the Sanatogen Compadre but ...). I would just humbly mumble at this
point that I wonder if another screenplay might be in the offing? I think There's something very Camellistically pregnant about this fermata....(?)

Not funny?  Hmm thought not.  Ok try these :-

These were taken from a newspaper article about the travel industry, and the
complaints made by tourists:

"No one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."

"We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."

"It is your duty as tour operators to advise us of noisy or unruly guests
before we travel."

"I was bitten by a mosquito - no one said they could bite."

"We booked an excursion to the water park but no one told us we had to bring
our swimming costumes and towels."

"The brochure stated : 'No hairdressers at the accommodation'. We're trainee
hairdressers, will we be ok staying here?"

"We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure
shows the sand as yellow but it was white."

"I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends'
three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller."

"It took us nine hours to fly to Jamaica from England - it only took the
Americans three hours."

"There were too many Spanish people. The receptionist spoke Spanish. The
food is Spanish. Too many foreigners."

"My fianci and I booked a twin-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for
the fact I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put
us in the rooms that we booked."

And finally...here's what some school children wrote about the sea:

"If you are surrounded by sea you are an Island. If you don't have sea all
round you, you are in continent. (Wayne age 7)

"When ships had sails, they used to use the trade winds to cross the ocean.
Sometimes, when the wind didn't blow, the sailors would whistle to make the
wind come. My brother said they would be better off eating beans. (William
age 7)
"I' m not going to write about the sea. My baby brother is always screaming
and being sick, my Dad keeps shouting at my Mum, and my big sister has just
got pregnant, so I can't think what to write. (Amy age 6)

"Some fish are dangerous. Jellyfish can sting. Electric eels can give you a
shock. They have to live in caves under the sea where I think they have to
plug themselves into chargers. (Christopher age 7)

"My uncle goes out in his boat with pots, and comes back with crabs."
(Millie age 6)