Nuns And Monks

Nuns wear long habits made of rough, scratchy linen. This is one of the reasons they always look so uncomfortable and don’t smile much. The reason nuns wear long habits is because their legs are too short to reach the ground? If you ever see a tall nun she may be a fake. Tall women aren’t allowed to be nuns because it takes too much material to make their habits. There are exceptions to this however. For instance, if a nun has ordered too much material to make her habit and doesn’t want the Mother Superior to find out, she will make her habit longer than normal, therefore she needs to be taller to fit it. Her legs will still not reach the ground, but they will take less time not to.

You may be wondering how I know so much about nun’s legs and their habits? Well, I used to go out with a girl who knew a girl whose sister went to a convent school and she told me she had been told by the girl she knew, that her sister told her she had never seen a nun’s feet. But to be honest with you most of what I know has been garnered from years of never seeing a nun’s feet myself. In fact, even though it is more likely, I haven’t even seen a nun’s foot let alone both feet.

Monks wear long habits too, but their legs reach the ground. I know this because I visited a monastery once and noticed the monks wore sandals and why would they do that if their feet didn’t reach the ground?

Monks habits are also made from rough, scratchy linen. Why, in that case you may be asking yourself do monks look so happy and smile a lot? I think it might be that monks can wear expensive silk underwear under their habit whereas nun’s underwear is made from the same material as their habits. This might seem unfair but when you think about it nobody forced them to become nuns.

Plastic Pollution.

I was just watching something on television about plastic polluting the oceans. You would not believe the amount of plastic there is in the sea. Or maybe if you saw this programme, especially if it was David Attenborough presenting it you would. I couldn’t watch all of it. Too depressing. We have ruined the sea. Us Human beans.

Creations litter-bugs I call us. If you analysed that fish you ate for dinner yesterday you would find you had eaten plastic. If you analysed that plastic bottle you drank from yesterday, yep you drank plastic. Go to any beach anywhere in the world no matter how remote and you will find it full of plastic. Some beaches are so full of plastic rubbish that they are almost impossible to walk on.

It’s not only the oceans of course. Take a walk in the countryside and you will find plastic. Loads of it. In the fields. In the rivers and streams. Even in the trees. Yes, we have turned Earth into a gigantic garbage dump.

Having almost completed the ruination of our beautiful Earth we have now turned to space exploration. A relatively new thing for mankind but, and here I go again, you would not believe the amount of rubbish, a lot of it plastic, there is floating around in space. Stuff we have sent up there and then when its usefulness has expired we have simply discarded. I believe that one solution put forward to deal with space rubbish is to send up spacecraft equipped to clean it up. Effectively, space rubbish trucks. Well, I hope they do a better job than the ones on Earth!

When I go for a walk and pick up someone else’s litter I am aware of just what a feeble gesture this is but what should I do, leave it there so that finally in a thousand years’ time it may have disappeared?

I don’t want to be all doom and gloom, but I cannot just ignore what is happening. There are many of us who care about the health of our planet but sadly there are many more who do not. The plastic is a problem but mainly it is those who insist on using it in their everyday lives who have made it worse.

Correct me if I am wrong but surely not so long ago there was no such thing as plastic? I remember paper bags and glass bottles. Where did it all go so badly wrong? Why? Humans that’s why. I hang my head and plead guilty to my part in it.

Trains And Tubes.

I went to London recently from my home in the countryside. I was attending a meeting to discuss legal stuff about my childhood tribulations. I wish I could tell you about it but I am sworn to confidentiality. I can say that things are moving forward despite disgusting attempts to blacken those of us who went off the rails after we left 'care'.

This little video is just me chatting about my day.