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Welcome to, Monday Yellow my friends:

What do you think I saw to-day when I arose at dawn?
Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn!
Bobbing here, and bowing there, gossiping away,
And how I wished that you were there to see the merry play!

But you were snug abed, my boy, blankets to your chin,
Nor dreamed of dancing birds without or sunbeams dancing in.
Grey Thrush, he piped the tune for them...
I peeped out through the glass
Between the window curtains, and I saw them on the grass -

Merry little fairy folk, dancing up and down,
Blue bonnet, yellow skirt, cloaks of grey and brown,
Underneath the wattle-tree, silver in the dawn,
Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn.

Art: Gotigersjf - Autumnal Yellow
Words: C Micheal James Dennis - The Dawn Dance

It's another Red Thursday, just give me one more work day and you can have your weekend! - Alejandrov creates something stylish to entertain our eyes:

If you've roamed my links you'll know, I follow several creative thinking/organisation sites. One of them is unpredictably named PigPog.

In the below link to the author's blog, he goes on to describe all the qualities in his long term partner and as to why they make such a fantastic team. It really is quite lovely.

He chooses to conclude his article with, I would guess, quite an uncommon ending. If you have a moment please take a look:

PigPog: Our Tenth Anniversary

In closing: The reaction caused is not the exact words I would like to hear in such circumstances - but are obviously quite sincere.

It's no time for hesitation, it's Monday Yellow:

whisper of yellow globes
gleaming on lamp-posts that sway
like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog

and let your breath be moist against me
like bright beads on yellow globes

telephone the power-house
that the main wires are insulate

(her words play softly up and down
dewy corridors of billboards)

then with your tongue remove the tape
and press your lips to mine
till they are incandescent

Art: Sahrizvi - Golden PowerScape
Words: Jean Toomer - Her Lips Are Copper Wire

Let me pour you a glass of the unexpected, like your temprement, just let it breathe and it'll be ready for the weekend.

Today is a Red Thursday, produced by Tonton Yoyo, served by myself, your humble and ever attentive waiter:

Here is your Monday medicine, take it with a smile, it's Monday Yellow:

I was standing behind you waiting to be noticed.

When you moved back into me you were startled.

Red on blue is different from red on yellow.

There you are standing naked next to me.

You must have read my mind.

Did you kiss me good morning?

Blue on red is different from blue on yellow.

Art: AwfulSara - Photog in the Flowers
Words: Robert M Wilson - Primary Colors

Hello again my friends, it's a Red Thursday:



Owned by: Gianni D.

Eyewitnesses at the scene reported the Kittens were both very cute:



Taken by: Roes

I am required, for one reason or another, to send a frequent amount of international mail. I drive to my local Post Office, my item carefully packaged beneath my arm, and an element of trust is exchanged between myself and the pleasant cashier.

"Now there definitely aren't any bank notes in this package are there sir?" he questions with one eyebrow sharply raised.

"No, no, today it is just drugs" I explain, with the prerequisite chitter-chatter that occupies my life.

I am not one to criticize Royal Mail, they very rarely let me down. I just thought I ought to share a simple nugget of information I have abstracted:

1) A package sent by Royal Mail Airmail from Warwick, England to the United States, weighing 400g, costs £4.22.

2) That same package, traveling from Warwick, England to the United States, weighing 400g, can be sent by Royal Mail Airsure at a higher priority with an additional cost of £4, equaling a simple total of £8.22.

3) Royal Mail state that the package sent by the, more expensive, Airsure service "typically" arrives in the United States one day earlier than their International Recorded Delivery service, thus explaining the premium charge.

4) The International Recorded Delivery service estimates to arrive in the United States (classified as "The Rest Of The World") within five working days. Therefore Airsure customers can expect their package to arrive within four working days.

5) Independant statistics, published by Unex, state that, over a nine month period, packages sent by Airmail did the above stated journey, from Warwick, England to the United States, in three days.

So, you pay an extra £4 for the peace of mind that your package will arrive in the United States in four working days. Or you can save that money and know that, statistically, your Airmail package is going to arrive in three days anyway.

Of course at night I could soothe myself to sleep believing that a sticker on my package reading "Royal Mail Airsure: Priority Mail" may mean something to the receiving North Philadelphia postal worker, but lets be honest for a moment - it isn't.

If we were a band we'd be the Happy Mondays, it's Monday Yellow, cheer up my friend:

Thin mist, dense clouds, a grief-stricken day;
auspicious incense burns in the gold animal.
Once again, it is the joyous mid-autumn festival,
but a midnight chill touches my jade pillow and silk bed-screen.

I drink wine by the eastern fence in the yellow dusk.
Now a dark fragrance fills my sleeves and makes me spin.
The bamboo blinds sway in the west wind.
And I am even thinner than a yellow flower.

Art: Auntie K - Keep The Windows Open
Words: Li Ching Chao - Tz'u No. 18

As a Mac user, I am always on the lookout for good ideas, here is a great one.

The next time someone steals your Mac Powerbook/Mac Book Pro/Mac Mini etc. instead of sobbing silently into your cornflakes you can dive online and report it with the following app, it really sounds a fantastic idea:



Undercover: Bad News For Thieves

Hello again. You're looking very well, Thursdays obviously agree with you.

Today is not only another chance to discard two thirds of the primary colour palette (Red Thursday), it's also the conclusion of my trio of angelics. Faithful or utterly soulless, here is one angel that likely visited you over the, now-distant, festive period:



"For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone." Psalm 91:11-12

Art owned by: Catherine Jamieson