itchy feet

Ever been lucky enough to take a holiday around the world, and not had to dish out a penny? 12 countries, 3 continents, good company and the holiday album delivered to your doorstep? No?
Has this started to sound like a lame Holiday package commercial yet? No? I'll go on then. Fancy a swim with turtles of the Great Barrier Reef, a desire to scale a glacier in New Zealand or to tour the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat... ahem! don't know where that is?


Well, if you're thinking no man is so lucky, or no tourist company is foolish enough to spend this kind of bread; you're right. No MAN is so lucky! But, (*drum beats*), a garden gnome in England was. Stolen from outside his house this little 10 incher seemed like an avid traveller to some random fella walking by the gnome's home, a little garden. Off went Murphy (that's what the family fondly called him) on a world tour, while the family imagined him to be stolen. Thinking of this being nothing more than a prank the family went on about their life only to find him back in the garden 11 months later with a note and a package. Once unwrapped it revealed a leather-bound photo album containing 48 pictures of the gnome Barrington's (now named fondly by his travel companions) trip around the globe along with a note putting his impromptu world tour down to 'itchy feet'.

Now, the reason I write this blog is that... well, apart from the fact that I fell in love with Murphy aka Barrington; its great to know that there no dearth in the existence of fools who would take garden gnomes for a holiday. This is the kinda world I would like to live in any day!

For more on the story and some fabulous holiday pictures check out http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043552/Gnome-Stolen-garden-elf-returned-7-month-adventure-world.html

Take your inanimate possessions for a holiday today, and if you don't own em, steal em!!

For the Flippant

I hate making decisions.

It always has to be white or black, right or wrong and so on. It is not funny the amount of times I have let a one rupee coin decide my fate, or in smaller circumstances, my day at least. I do it not cause I believe there is some higher power busy deciding silly "yeses & no's" for me; I do it cause it's so easy. If something goes wrong you completely blame your fate, and if everything’s hunky-dory, well of course you take the credit.

What I don’t understand is what will happen to future generations, when the coin goes obsolete. How will this bunch of indecisive people ever get anything done? The only solution I can think of is a virtual flip. Imagine a software that allows you to flip a coin virtually, with the same arbitrary results as a real coin flip. Or maybe an invention like a snow ball, only with a coin inside and a button on the outside that triggers it.
Heck, maybe I thought too much about it. I still have all the coins in the world I can flip, the future generations I am sure will figure something out eh?