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Miscellaneous Collection by Gretchen Bernet-Ward

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward


♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you have not committed”
– Anthony Powell, English novelist.

I love the homey words and clean, familiar lines of Rachael Flynn’s artwork. She lives on a cattle and sheep farm in a locality called Piambong which is about 25km north-west of Mudgee, NSW, Australia. Her calendar (above) features rural farm life with a quirky theme and seasonal recipe each month.
Website http://www.redtractor.com.au/
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♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward
Platitudes, rather hippy dippy and old hat, short sugar-coated sentences designed to bolster the ‘feels’ of a younger generation. Look again. Each line creates an emotion, a memory jog, that tingle of happiness to the down-surge of sadness. Regret is there, the wince for things done wrong, then the smile for laughing out loud when you get it right. Basic universal rules for living.
♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward


THIS GLOOMY LITTLE QUOTATION WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF MY COMPUTER SCREEN ON JANUARY 2018 COURTESY OF FIREFOX:
“The nearest star is 4.25 light-years from Earth which is why most wishes take at least 9 years to come true.”
IT WON’T STOP ME!
♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

When I was a kid we used to say “Pinch and punch for the first of the month” and I don’t know why. A lot of our practical jokes involved physical actions which resulted in the receiver going “Ow, ouch” and glaring fiercely while rubbing their arm.
This beautiful calendar art was created by Sue Zipkin, produced by Hopper Studios, and I will be sad to see it go. However, its final words are encouraging “Embrace Change”. How many of us will actually do that next year?
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

♦ What if my dog only brings back the ball because he thinks I like throwing it?
♦ Your future self is watching you right now through memories.
♦ If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?
♦ Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or the C?
♦ Do twins ever realise that one of them is unplanned?
♦ Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn’t it be called double V?
♦ Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and it just takes 75-100 years to fully work.
♦ Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty.
♦ The word “swims” upside-down is still “swims”.
♦ One hundred years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.
♦ The doctors who told Stephen Hawking he had two years to live in 1953 are probably dead.
♦ If you replace “W” with “T” in “What, Where and When” you get the answer to each of them.
♦ Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it.
♦ If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than there were before.
♦ Please note I am only the purveyor of these words of weirdly wiseness.
♦ When 22/2/2022 falls on Tuesday, we’ll just call it “2’s Day”.
♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward
