The last few days have been completely cloud-covered in Sheffield - we haven't seen the Sun in ages. But this morning, we have a bit of blue sky* and there's a large yellow object in it!!!! I thought I'd snap a few views of the trees I can see from my office! Here they are:
*Mentioning blue sky reminds me of a time I was working in a lab in Paris (CNET, Bagneux). Work was going quite well but all the staff I was working with went home at 5pm (a bell actually sounded to mark the end of the day!) so the evenings were lonely affairs, walking the streets of Paris** and building up courage to go into Parisien restaurants on my own. Anyhow, in one such restaurant, I was halfway through my horse-steak (and I'm not joking*** - it was delicious and must have come from good stock, very Shergar-esque) and my relatively fed-up mood was lifted when I saw the words on a sign above an archway in the room, saying "Il y a toujours des choses qui font apparaitre les ciels bleu!" If you speak some French, then don't read the next sentence and work it out for yourselves, but for non-French-speaking people, it means "There are always things to make the skies look blue". I think this is a great expression to help keep our peckers up when we're feeling low. Aww!! Isn't that Richardson bloke a big softie?
**Did you know that the famous song "Streets of London" written by Ralph McTell (released in 1974) was actually written while he was in Paris? Si, es verdad!!!
***I have eaten a rather large range of the animal kingdom in my time, probably more than most. Horse is on the list as mentioned above, so is dog (Beijing, 1996), octopus (Japan several times), various Mongolian creatures (China and Taiwan 1996 and 1997), Atom Bomb Soup (Japan - our host, the boss on Sony in Yokohama, called it that, not us), sea urchin (the worst thing I have ever experienced, Japan) and probably cat although I can't be certain.
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