Happy Left Over Sweets Day.

 November 1st. is Left Over Sweets Day, not to be confused with Boxing Day, though it is similar. As we all know, November 1st. follows October 31st., Halloween. Shelley seemed to get excited about Halloween and did preparation for it - buying sweets and chocolate and a couple of silly masks for us to wear.

Not one of the actual masks,
just to give you the idea.

Only two boys, two of our nearest neighbours, showed up together. No one else came, so we now have lots of sugary treats left over. I think Shelley intends to give them to the neighbours. I don't know why we just can't keep them. Sort of makes a mockery of Left Over Sweets Day.

Giving away all our sweets to neighbours is kind of like praying for souls in Purgatory. I mean it's not really our fault that those souls are in Purgatory, just like it's not really our fault if neighbours are short of chocolates. 

Robert tells us, in his latest blog post, "Evidently All Souls Day, and Christmas Eve, are two opportunities to help our loved ones, or others, move on from Purgatory to Heaven. The story goes that God doesn't allow prayers to work for souls who didn't themselves pray for others in purgatory, except on these two days. I'm not sure if I really believe this but it's worth doing just in case!" (I fixed up a bit of grammar)

It's worth doing just in case? So, Robert is only helping these poor souls in order to help himself. God will be impressed by that!

"No, I'm not!"

Nothing much to report on the practice front. I've been a bit off colour lately, but I did do 30 minutes on both instruments yesterday. Hey, it all counts. I also played my guitar for a while.

My older brother has written a suite of tunes and he wants me to play double bass when he performs them at his Wellington Hospital gig. Some of them are slightly tricky, so I need to put in some quality time on those. Daryl will be playing clarinet. It's good to have something to practise for.

What can I say about Peter's latest attempt at an interesting post? It's named 'KEEPING AN EYE ON THINGS' and features this photo.

"Cor! Look at those knockers." Jesus says about Mary Magdalene. I can see a guy going to Purgatory for that statement! Robert better get praying. "Dear God, any chance of keeping Peter out of Purgatory?"

He talks about going to the tip and says that the other posts he read are 'pretty pathetic'. I guess he can claim to be an expert on pathetic blog posts. God (Robert's god) knows he has written enough himself.

If there is someone who deserves to go to Purgatory, it is Peter.

Well, there you go.

Today? Maybe Peter will make another trip to the tip and Robert will clean the Freemasons' hall, not for money but for love.

Ciao tutti.