Cows - The Truth.

Recently in the last year I’ve noticed a strange lure, if you will call it that….to cows.
I’ve bought slippers, numerous pyjamas, a mug set, cow teddies for the car, a hot water bottle, and ornaments for the house, I even nicknamed the dog, Moo Moo. This is not a love that some weird randy guy has for sheep or goats. The only explanation I can give is after years of repressed anger for our farmer’s friends, I’ve unknown to myself giving up and expressed much more of a gentle, kinder nature to them.
The story goes back to when I was 10 years old. It was just your typical Sunday afternoon picking blackberries, daffodils’, snowdrops or wild mushrooms. Being the season that it was we decided on that day to pick mushrooms. I happily went along with my sisters, brother, cousin, aunt and uncle on that day.
On arrival at one of our local farmer’s fields, I noticed a strange, hefty figure lurking at the bottom of the field, no other than a bull. His eyes were fixated on me, sensing my fear, how vulnerable I was. Both he and I knew that he could easily throw me around like some cheap rag doll. I froze, my limbs locked. The rest of the group had walked on, totally unaware of the potential danger and like any stupid person I ran. Running NEVER helps the situation, we all know it only makes it worst. Fortunately my uncle heard my tears of fear and of course the fact that a mammoth of a bull was running for me. He grabbed me, flung me back over the gate and out of harms way.
Understandably, it’s obvious to say why I never ‘felt the love’ but as they say “times a healer” and after 12 years I’ve let the past be the past and have welcomed cows into my lives once again.

Virtual Communities – A perfect place to escape from reality.

At what stage in our lives did social interaction become so 3D?
I decided to do some investigation into our virtual communities (on the internet, no surprises there!), to discover why people are no longer ‘doing lunch’ or going for that good old cup of coffee and a chin wag.
There are so many virtual communities both educational and social I have discovered and to begin listing them all would be pointless. What I found most interesting is that once we enter the ‘virtual’ we no longer exist as human beings anymore….we are now known as avatars - online a movable three-dimensional image used to represent somebody in cyberspace.
I think that people forget that definition and find it difficult to distinguish themselves between fantasy and the real world. Are people so fed up and bored with their monotonous lives that they only way to escape the daily drudgery is online? Or has the majority of society so obsessed in being a new and improved you?
Personally I can see the attraction and thrill, if you will in being someone else, getting out there meeting new people, being more boisterous and over the top than I usually would but at the end of the day I still remember who I am, and its not 34GG Candice necking Tequilas at the bar!
To finish up I came across a site when doing a little bit of research and found it both very funny and interesting for internet addiction recovery. It makes me feel cruel for finding humour when lives have been shattered by such an addiction but have a look all the same at the link below and please don’t be one of those people it’s just not worth it.
INTERNET ADDICTION