I have to share this semi-spam email title I had in yesterday. I say semi-spam as it’s from a site I looked at once, though I don’t remember joining a mailing list, but they send me their daily dose of ‘how to be healthy’ and so on. It’s all very useful, it’s just a bit, well, oddly worded:
“Top 3 killers of women (and how to prevent them), 10 was to sustainably shower.”
I imagine there are some nasty people in places like the USA who are out there now looking for women to kill, but I didn’t know there was a top list. I suppose we could also have a bad taste top ten chart with suitable songs, such as Tammy Wynette singing the classic ‘Stabbed by your man’ and opening with the line, ‘Sometimes it’s hard to kill a woman.’ We could have Frank Sinatra singing, ‘The lady is a corpse.’ Or how about that all-time ‘Oklahoma!’ favourite ‘I’m just a girl who can’t say argh!’ Gretchen Wilson’s well known ‘Redneck Woman’ needs no alteration, assuming strangulation was the MO.
Enough bad taste, it’s more interesting to wonder what the preventatives were. ‘And how to prevent them.’ By which I assume they mean how to prevent the killers, not the women. ‘Top 3 Women and how to prevent them…’ is how you might read the line, and the mind then boggles.
And as for a sustainably showering, and other split infinitives and bad uses of adverbs, well, the mind kind of boggles at that too. I find it quite easy to sustain a shower thank you, I don’t need a newsletter to tell me how to stay under the water for a few minutes. Which is all I do do. Quickly get wet, tap off, get soaped, tap on, wash off, water off. As little water usage as possible.
Mind you, now that we have a sustainable sterna, filled by rain water for free, I may start sustain in the shower for longer. And while I am there I might sing ‘Stabbed by your man’ and hold long notes, perhaps that the kind of sustain they were thinking of?
Anyway, enough of all that nonsense the really exciting news of today is that Neil planted some plants yesterday and we now have six marigolds, thanks to Chris and Jeanette, and a thyme from Jean, plus a night scented Jasmine from Jenni, a Basil called Terri, the vine is growing nicely and Yianna’s yucca has also been re-potted into something less restricting for it. I’ve presented some rather dull images here so you can keep an eye on progress.
Best go off now and find a way ‘to sustainably shower’ those plants to keep them being killed off like so many women as the weather hots up.
