Head Over Heels
The weather has been playing tricks on us again. It’s cast a grey blanket over things like a slow dirge. Ever notice how people seem to be caught as if in slow-mo on a grey day? Grey days certainly have an odd effect on people. Or maybe just me!
Grey days make me feel sluggish; make me feel like I’m dragging my feet. I have a conversation with myself that goes something like this, “so what’s the go? Why the long face?” The fly in the ointment is I’m just horsing around, that’s why the long face! And finding it hard to get from a steady canter to a full on gallop. It happens.
Sometimes I think the best thing to do when a Thursday looks like this one is to stay in and read a scintillating book that totally consumes you so you rarely look up (which reminds me, look out for Sam and Jenny Bailey’s “Head Over Heels” – it’s truly inspiring. It is “a true Australian love story that was the subject of one of Australian Story’s highest rated shows ever.
It goes something like this, at the age of nineteen, a young farmer, Sam Bailey, became a quadriplegic after a freak car accident. After years of struggle, he learned how to resume his life as a farmer, running a sheep and cattle property in northwest New South Wales. Then he met and fell in love with Jenny Black, an ABC Rural journalist, proposed to her on air, and the rest is history. Jenny tells Sam’s story in his own laconic, wry style. By turns [it is] romantic, funny and moving, it affirms the strength of iron-willed determination and the power of love.”
Alternatively, if you’re so fidgety you need to get out. Go drink some coffee in a favourite spot. And if (unlike me) you can read, drink great coffee and not want to people watch then I’d take my book as well.
Down at the Lilypond (a new favourite cafe) in down town Waipukurau, they have a middle room that’s utiliarian to the hilt but where the service is friendly and warm like a grandma hug and where there are more delicious morsels than you can poke a stick at. I always maintain there are more than a few ways to skin a grey day; these are just two of them.
