The World is Chocka with Wonderous Things

Or should that be `chocka of`, seeing as chocka is shorthand for chock full? It is one of those problems much like `comprises` or `comprised of`, though slightly less annoying than the apparent trend for `fed up with` as`fed up of`. Still, the world has produced for me two wonders in a night (last night) being
1) a moon with spectral coloured rings - a whitish inner glow surrounded by growing bands of orange, navy, green and red. A moon corona and possibly halo too. I don`t believe this is something I`ve ever seen before... Then I came inside to watch Iain Stewart (Prof.) on tv, and was struck dumb with awe by the sight him striding across
2) a living rubber tree bridge! A thing so entirely beautiful it made me want to applaud, in that weird way humans do when unable to express adequate er, awe. (This is something I was party to at the solar eclipse in August `99 - when the sun reappeared, everyone clapped and hooted, as if at a cosmic gig). This bridge is in league with the local villagers, who wrap emerging roots round each other to strengthen the structure. Click on the post title above for a link to a root bridges blog, if you missed Iain Stewart`s programme or havent been to Northeast India lately.

Finally, Casper the Cat * who departed this world a few short weeks ago, has become so famous he has his own Facebook page or fan club or both, plus sacks of fan mail (or rather `sad to hear you are dead` mail) from around the world, and now he`s got a posthumous book deal . As you read this, he`s being ghost (!)written and sketched into a series of stories about his travels - but will they be set in Plymouth haha? It`ll be a cartoon series next, for sure. Shame he`s not around to enjoy all the glory. Ah well, fame would have made him intolerable, and before you know it he`d have been cruising up and down Alma Rd in the back of a pink stretch limo.

*That`s Casper, fluffy black`n`white feline of First bus non-paying passenger fame, mentioned in a previous blog. Pay attention!