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Friday 1 February 2013

Lazy days


I don't feel like doing anything today, I think I'll just chill out, stay in my bed, and let the world pass me by.

Yup! I reckon I'll just mellow, think my own thoughts, do a spot of daydreaming perhaps, maybe a snooze or two.

Inactivity is such a wonderful thing, the key to longevity, a necessity, and a praiseworthy trait.

That's settled it then, today I am doing nothing! No-o-o-thing!!

A bit like yesterday really.

And the day before.

It's not too bad being an oyster, the hours are good, and I don't have too many pressures.

Right then, time to get down to some serious loafing...

If I could just manage to spit out this annoying piece of grit...


©2013 Stephen. J. Green.

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    1. Hi Laura, thanks for the smiley, it hit the spot then? :-)

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  2. Oooh he'd better watch out all the loafing about could see him ending up in a net!

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    1. Hehe! I don't think this particular oyster can see any further than his next lazy afternoon. :-)

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  3. btw Steve I just thought you'd like to know I always tweet your stories for you! ^_^

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    1. Aw, thanks Helen, that's really kind of you. I don't participate in Twitter myself, and it's heartwarming to know that someone is out there tweeting for me, Thanks very much. :-)

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    1. Haha!! I hope it gave you a giggle Catherine. :-)

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  5. I love loafing when I can convince myself to do it. I've also been in those places where the bit of grit somehow produces as much stress as an hour on the job would have. I can ruin almost anything for myself.

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    1. I think the bit of grit may certainly ruin this particular oyster's day of rest. :-)

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  6. Leaving pearl jokes tactfully aside; what could be the ultimate source of your sybaritic hero’s worst nightmare, I wonder: a lemon tree?

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    1. Not sure AB... Maybe TWO pieces of grit? :-)

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  7. here's mud in your eye Steve! Loved the payoff to this

    marc nash

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    1. Thanks Marc. Another silly story this week, but I do enjoying myself writing these. :-)

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  8. Well I wasn't expecting that! At the oyster mention I thought you'd be going down the route of, Oh sh*t, I'm being eaten

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    1. Y'know how it goes with oysters Maria, there they are drifting off into the third snooze of the day, them BLAM!! They wake up on a restaurant table. :-)

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  9. The best response I can think of is: Amen! :)
    Fun story Steve.

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    1. Thanks Deanna, I hope it gave you a giggle or two. :-)

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  10. I wish my loafing were as productive! :-) Cute story!

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  11. I'd go for a proper oyster loaf over a string of pearls any day. Put the grits on the side with a cold mug of beer.

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    1. Hiya Harry, it's good to hear from you, I hope things are good with you. :-)

      I've never actually eaten oyster, (Probably didn't like to wake them up) The cold mug of beer sounds good though. :-)

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  12. Prior to the oyster part I thought this had been written by one of my students...

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    1. Heheh! It reminds me of one or two people I know myself too Icy. :-)

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  13. Ah, how I do enjoy doing nothing, and how undervalued 'tis, at least in the US. Always that pressure to do something, from within or without.

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    1. Hi Richard, I think it's probably not a good thing to have too much time on our hands with nothing to do, but it is nice to have a little now and then, isn't it? :-)

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  14. This made me smile. Damn grit! :)

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    1. Heheh!! You just know that it's going to ruin his chilling out time, don't you? :-)

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  15. Every day is like Sunday... if an oyster is your world. Or something like that :-).

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    1. Hiya Katherine, I think in the oyster world Sundays may be double-chillout days. :-)

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  16. I feel like an oyster sometimes... :-D

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    1. Me too Cindy, I do tend to be a bit of a bedhead on weekends. :-)

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